While the Royals’ rotation is much improved over recent seasons, one run isn’t often going to be enough. It was Ervin Santana who paid the price Saturday night for failing to pitch a shutout in a 2-1 loss to the Oakland A’s.
Welcome to Schumacher City. Population … as many as 1,000, depending on the time of day.
Wichita State athletic director Eric Sexton thinks bid standards that lump Hammons Field and Eck Stadium in the same category with smaller Missouri Valley Conference baseball fields aren’t really standards.
The Wichita Wingnuts rallied from an early, 3-0 deficit for a 4-3 win over the Kansas City T-Bones on Saturday night in Kansas City, Kan.
In the lake’s 50 year history, Jon Hawkinson has seen the highs and lows of Tuttle Creek Reservoir.
Ryan Hinson made an offer to Wingnuts manager Kevin Hooper to return to the team before Hinson knew for sure that he was ready to fulfill it.
The public comment period for future wildlife and habitat management plans for the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge has been extended to May 31, according to Mike Oldham, refuge manager.
Archery
Wichita State can’t control what’s happening in Carbondale, Ill., where its fate in the Missouri Valley Conference baseball race lies in the hands of Illinois State heading into the regular season’s final day.
One of the nation’s top pitchers on the hill with a four-run lead looked like a winning proposition for Oklahoma.
The veteran Wingnuts’ turn through the batting order was complete, and their younger players were going to decide Friday’s game against the Kansas City T-Bones.
Even after making a hurried engine change, Mike Edwards continued to monopolize the pole position in the NHRA’s Pro Stock division on Friday night.
Marmota monax
San Juan Capistrano has its dainty, graceful swallows, and Kearney, Neb., its famed migration of majestic sandhill cranes.
Former Kansas player Toben Opurum signed a contract with the Chiefs on Friday as an undrafted rookie. Opurum participated as a fullback on a trial basis in the Chiefs’ recent rookie camp, and that’s the position he will play for the Chiefs.
Former KU guard Ben McLemore spoke Thursday at the NBA Combine in Chicago about AAU coach Darius Cobb’s revelation that he accepted $10,000 in cash payments to steer McLemore toward Rodney Blackstock, a middleman with connections to agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.
Even though Jon Link was nearly flawless through the first four innings of his start for the Wingnuts on Thursday, it was no indicator of how he would pitch as the game continued.
Wichita State needed one like this. In fact, it could use two more feel-good games to prepare for the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
The Kansas State baseball team is on the verge of making history.
In Charlie Weis, fans of the Kansas football program see hope.
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