Great Bend United FC soccer club finishes season undefeated

The Great Bend United FC, a youth soccer club team, has been competing in nine-and-under and 10-and-under tournaments over the last few months.

GBMS hosts Salina South today at 4

The Great Bend Middle School football teams will be playing host to Salina South today to close the season.

Great Bend’s Nyle Reinert wins Pro Class at Kearney, Neb.

KEARNEY, Neb. - The NHRA West Central Division Summit Racing Series picked up the action for the Race of Champions this past weekend at Kearney Raceway Park in conjunction with the Division's National Open event. The event was postponed due to bad weather at Brainerd International Raceway back on Sept. 18.

National Ironkids Triathlon Championships

Images from Tuesday’s Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week at S.R.C.A. Drag Strip

Horsepower galore at S.R.C.A. Drag Strip

Nearly 1,200 National Hot Rod Association enthusiasts descended on Great Bend's Sunflower Rod Custom Association Drag Strip on Tuesday morning to enjoy a free session of racing.

Hod Rod Magazine Drag Week hits Great Bend

Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week comes to Great Bend this morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sunflower Rod Custom Association Drag Strip.

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Don Garnett recalls first seeing "The Little Jewel" back in 1951, when he was 12 and the car was still under construction.

1955: Back to where it all began

Great Bend's historic Sunflower Rod Custom Association Drag Strip - smack dab in America's heartland - is the birthplace of drag racing.

Quicksilver wins state crown

The Great Bend Quicksilver softball team traveled to the 12-and-under gold state tournament in Emporia on a winning streak that included six championships.

RICHARDS PERSEVERES

PITTSBURG - In NCAA Division-II athletics, two-sport athletes are few and far between.

Youth sign up set for Saturday at Walnut Bowl

DeleteThe Walnut Bowl youth sign up is set for Saturday from 1-3 p.m. Youth leagues offer bowlers a way to make new friends, learn sportsmanship, and proper bowling etiquette and technique. Kids bowl free during the sign up whether they join the league or not. The league bowls in three nine-week sessions with coaches available. Any child that bowls 54 games will receive a bowling ball drilled to fit free. Walnut Bowl also gives away ...

Area athletes to play at juco level

Gunner Phelan, former quarterback and point guard for Quivira Heights High School, will be playing basketball for Pratt Community College in the upcoming season.

COMING TOGETHER

CLAFLIN - With high school fall sports beginning practice tomorrow, Central Plains will begin its first season in existence.

CHIEF CONCERNS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman had an efficient first NFL preseason game.

End of an era

LARNED - The upcoming college football bowl season is the end of an era. Thank goodness, or Santa Claus or whomever!

GBMS wrestling team competes in Salina

The Great Bend Middle School wrestling team traveled to Salina on Saturday for three duals.

Basketball

LARNED - Put away the leftover turkey and put away the pigskin. It's Basketball Time!

Punt, Pass and Kick

Clothes make the man

LARNED - Mark Twain once penned, "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." Is that true for football players? Football teams?