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Some Prairie Fire runners to watch on Sunday

Oct. 8 at 7:44 a.m.

Tim Marshall

Students have racing head start

BY PAUL SUELLENTROP, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 8 at 7:44 a.m.

For the younger set, the Prairie Fire races started on their playgrounds during recess. After weeks of giving up soccer and swings, they are about to cross the finish line.

Stucky set for Olympic marathon trials tuneup

BY TAYLOR ELDRIDGE, Eagle correspondent | Oct. 8 at 7:44 a.m.

The purpose of a full year of training for Raquel Stucky all came down to six miles stretched out over the roads of Duluth, Minn., in June.

Sunday's Prairie Fire races expected to bring 4,000 runners

BY PAUL SUELLENTROP, The Wichita Eagle | Oct. 8 at 7:44 a.m.

After the runners finish their sports drink and begin to breath normally, it's time to talk.

LaFrentz leads way for HOF inductees

By Taylor Eldridge, Eagle correspondent | Oct. 3 at 9:34 a.m.

Every Sunday night of his senior year of high school, Raef LaFrentz could count on one thing — a phone call from Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams.

Heinkel a big part of Wichita State success

BY TAYLOR ELDRIDGE, Eagle correspondent | March 13 at 10:32 a.m.

It still pleases Don Heinkel when people from his current hometown, Birmingham, Ala., find out his heritage traces back to Wichita State.

Are the Royals officially on the clock now for baseball's longest postseason drought?

Sep. 28 at 9:18 a.m.

Are the Royals officially on the clock now for baseball's longest postseason drought?

Brazilian influence strong in American bull riding

BY JEFFREY LUTZ, The Wichita Eagle | Sep. 23 at 7:19 a.m.

One may believe bull riding is as American as apple pie, and that would be true. But in recent years it has become as Brazilian as beaches full of unashamed citizens, too.

Rick Stephens, a survivor of the 1970 Wichita State plane crash that killed 31 people, will begin a 550-mile bicycle trip to the site of the crash in Colorado on Saturday. Well-wishers are invited to send Stephens off at 7 a.m. at Cessna Stadium.

Jagr returns to NHL after three years away

Associated Press | Sep. 18 at 12:08 a.m.

VOORHEES, N.J. —When Jaromir Jagr left three years ago to play in Russia, he thought his NHL career was over.

Ottawa 1, Central Methodist 1

Sep. 18 at 8:16 a.m.

Ottawa 1, Central Methodist 1

Ottawa volleyball

Sep. 18 at 8:17 a.m.

Ottawa

John Brown 1, Friends 0

Sep. 18 at 8:17 a.m.

John Brown 1, Friends 0

Mayweather finally back in ring

By TIM DAHLBERG, Associated Press | Sep. 17 at 12:09 a.m.

LAS VEGAS — Victor Ortiz knocks people down, and he's done it every time he has stepped into the ring. He also goes down, twice in his last fight alone.