KC Sports Commission won’t hold annual awards banquet. Here’s how you can watch on TV
One of the final toasts for the Super Bowl-champion Chiefs will move from a banquet stage to a television audience.
The Kansas City Sports Awards, presented by Populous and the Kansas City Sports Commission, will be shown via an hour-long broadcast on KSHB (Ch. 41) June 12 at 7 p.m. It will air again on June 13 on KMCI (Ch. 38) at 7 p.m.
Three Chiefs — coach Andy Reid, general manager Brett Veach and star safety and team MVP Tyrann Mathieu — are among the award recipients this year.
Also honored will be Kansas City Roos senior Ericka Mattingly, the Western Athletic Conference player of the year who helped the Kangaroos to their first regular-season conference championship as a Division I program, and the Kansas City Police Department. The KCPD will be honored in large part for its handling of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade.
The banquet was scheduled for June 11 at the Marriott Downtown-Muehlebach Tower. The move was made because of public-gathering restrictions in Kansas City due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
“We will get to tell their stories visually to a wide audience,” said Sports Commission president Kathy Nelson.
The program also will feature a behind-the-scenes look at Chiefs’ February victory parade through downtown.
“We all miss sports,” Nelson said. “We’ll get through this, and sports will help us get through it.”
This story was originally published May 20, 2020 at 5:16 PM with the headline "KC Sports Commission won’t hold annual awards banquet. Here’s how you can watch on TV."