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We’ve all heard them before. The folly of small sample sizes leading to big conclusions that only exist to break our he...
“Once More into the fray.”It was a line spoken in the vastly underrated movie ‘The Grey’ that came ou...
Positivity is filling the air here in Kansas City it seems. With the Chiefs retaining some of their more popular free agents ...
Like a PBR tallboy sports fan pessimism in Kansas City comes cheap and goes down easy. Wait, am I think of PBR or am I thinki...
Hope springs eternal. It’s a phrase we’ve all heard more times than we can remember, but none of us would be surp...
Kansas fans have been spoiled. It doesn’t take a genius to see that. Eight straight Big XII championships, all the Fina...
We heard it all during the post-game show. Ray Lewis talked about it in his post-game interview as did everybody else. &ldquo...
Ray Lewis. Saying the name will divide just about any room right down the middle. Some revere him, some revile him. His on-fi...
The Chiefs are staring down the barrelof the most important decision in this franchise's history. With the number one ove...
Everyone saw it. It was probably the game of the weekend. Down 27-7 to the Atlanta Falcons, the Seattle Seahawks were in dire...
The suspense was short lived. Andy Reid is the new head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. After my post last week implored Chi...
For the longest time when I was growing up Black Monday meant very little for Chiefs fans. Between 1989 and 1998 the Chiefs h...
Word came out last week that both Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel had been told by somebody in the Kansas City Chiefs organizat...
Sunday could go down as the most embarrassing loss in franchise history for the Kansas City Chiefs. It’s bad enough to ...
In a vacuum, this is quite possibly the best thing the Royals could have done. Last night, the Royals traded Wil Myers (teams...
As a blogger I have a luxury that full-time, salaried journalists don’t typically have. Namely, I don’t have to w...
The Chiefs are 1-10. They are the first team mathematically eliminated from the NFL playoffs and the “Chiefs in Novembe...
Just about as quickly as this season started it went from bad, to worse, to “we’re going to need dental records t...
I didn’t expect to feel any different today. Correction, I expected to feel a lot different in August. A possible victo...
Good news: This past weekend gave Chiefs fans the first of two consecutive weekends without a loss.The bad news: this loss ju...
I’m sitting in my driveway. It’s darker than usual after a Chiefs game. The first 3:00 game at Arrowhead in quite...
This post could spend time talking about how the 2012 Kansas State Wildcats beat one of the lesser Oklahoma teams of recent y...
All I found myself asking on Sunday was “how many more ways can I say that this is a joke?” It’s time for a...
The media hailstorm from this game will center around the cheering of Matt Cassel when he was down on the turf with an injury...
I woke up on Sunday with quite a few things to look forward to. Chief among them was the fact that our very own Chiefs were g...
So the Chiefs have won a game, are in second place in the division with San Diego coming to town and first place at stake. Al...
Well in a city where ‘worst case scenario’ is about as commonplace as Matthew McConaughey rom-com’s, the Ch...
I saw magic on Sunday. I saw a wide receiver who was a 2011 draft pick with a skill set we haven’t seen in Kansas City ...
A little while ago I wrote about how some narratives have gone awry with the Kansas City Chiefs. In that post I discussed how...
I left for vacation a mere 10 days ago. At that time the Chiefs were looking like legitimate playoff and possible Super Bowl ...
With Chiefs season inching ever closer by the second, the Royals seem to get more distant from the collective Kansas City spo...
Here’s the thing, it’s the preseason. Just as we would be defending the Chiefs with that mantra if they did poorl...
Every year when training camp rolls around, there are a few things that sports fans in Kansas City have come to expect. There...
Training camp has completed its first weekend and the notes and tidbits have started to pour out. In the early goings of trai...
It’s the annual rite of passage here in Kansas City. As spring turns into the sweltering heat of late July and the Roya...
Each day inches us closer and closer to that all important, all-exciting day that we call the “trade deadline.” I...
It’s no secret how much I love Kansas City. I was born here, have lived here all my life (outside of a brief stint in c...
With the All-Star roster announcements coming out over the weekend we finally saw something that was long overdue: Billy Butl...
Well, it’s June 18th and the Royals are still, technically, in the hunt. The team stands at 29-35, which is five games ...
After the Athletics left Kansas City in 1967 KC’s baseball future was uncertain. It wasn’t until Ewing Kauffman s...
When I was younger playing youth baseball, awards were given out at the end of every year. There were always trophies or plaq...
Looking back to 10 years ago, the Royals were behind the proverbial 8-ball in just about every category that allowed a small ...
Royals baseball history has more than its fair share of players who showed up to much fanfare and potential only to not live ...
The Royals came out this season touting something new and different that the fans could be proud of. With the All-Star game c...
In Pioli’s short tenure here in Kansas City he has seemed to be pretty consistent with his drafting strategy. As the dr...
With the Royals in the midst of a 10 game losing streak, Kansas City sports fans are granted a reprieve this Thursday with th...
Some Royals fans have already started to lose faith in this team at this point in the season. The Royals sit at 3-6 with the ...
Well, I’m going to get it out of the way and say that after opening weekend, we don’t know much more about the Ro...
More than any team in recent memory this Kansas team “feels” like it’s destined for a great ending to this ...
In many ways this might be one of the hardest teams to root for in Bill Self’s tenure. With the exception of Thomas Rob...
Survive and advance is a mantra you hear often repeated in March. With Kansas’ 63-60 victory over Purdue Sunday night, ...
Fans in Kansas City found themselves incredibly excited last week when word came down that the Chiefs were highly interested ...
I will start by asking everyone to keep in mind that I am not trying to say this will happen. I am asking that everyone indul...
A few years ago Nike, hoping to catch the Lebron James mania at its apex, came out with the slogan “We are all witnesse...
Well, the Big XII basketball season is 2/3 complete and suffices it to say this has been a season different than in years pas...
The bye week in between the Super Bowl always seemed completely arbitrary to me. After 20 weeks of grueling competition week ...
In the past 11 years the AFC has sent only 4 representatives to the Super Bowl. That’s right, for more than a decade no...
This past Sunday as the NFL playoffs continue to roll on without the Chiefs, Kent Babb wrote an interesting article about wha...
Originally, I wasn’t going to post about the Chiefs today. With the season over, the playoffs in full swing, and the de...
The Chiefs are coming into one of the most important off-seasons in franchise history. It’s a pivotal time for this org...
Looking forward seems to be a Kansas City sports pass-time. Really, that’s all that KC fans have been able to do. With ...
Winning 19-14 over the Green Bay Packers—and dominating the game, really—the Chiefs looked impressive on Sunday. ...
At this point I believe it’s safe to say that nobody has any clue how this is going to go. After the first two games of...
With the tough loss to the Steelers last night putting the Chiefs at 4-7 on the year, there is plenty of negativity to go aro...
This is not how it was all supposed to go down. When Scot Pioli came to the Chiefs in 2009 he was supposed to be creating &ld...
Buck O’Neil is a special man here in Kansas City. Simply saying the word “Buck” makes most people think of ...
Bill Parcells is a legend. Besides winning 2 Super Bowls he also tutored multiple Super Bowl winning coaches. Tom Coughlin, S...
Two months ago, after six games, seeing the Chiefs at 3-3 would not have been that much of a stretch. Yet the way the season ...
The day has come. No longer is the University of Missouri “exploring their options.” Reports from the New York Ti...
