This morning Sam Mellinger, the sports columnist for The Kansas City Star, turned his column into a travel guide to Kansas City for visitors coming here for the baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday, July 10th.   I don’t know Sam Mellinger and don’t know much about him, although we did engage in an email argument [...]

  I haven’t done a huge amount of research on this but out here in cyberspace there doesn’t appear to be anybody focusing on the men’s basketball program at my alma mater, the University of Missouri-Kansas City.   That’s kind of amazing, given that there are websites for just about any form of profession, perversion [...]

  Both of my sons came home for Christmas this year, the first time in four or five years that we have all been together at the holidays.  The younger one lives in the same metropolitan area; he was in Air Force basic training at Christmas last year.  His older brother, the King on this [...]

There are many different ways that an athlete knows when it is time to quit. When an offensive lineman spends most of his time apologizing to his quarterback for being sacked, it’s probably time to go. When you can’t get off your jump shot and you can’t beat anyone to the basket, it’s time. When [...]

   By: George Koppe My football career lasted one game, an Eighth grade flag football game in which I wore shoulder pads for the first and only time, played defensive end and tied with another player for pulling the most flags in the game.  It was a contest that pitted one St. Charles School Eighth grade home [...]

George Koppe Riggleman Resignation June 24, 2011 I’m 59 years old, an age when many American men are thinking long and hard about retirement.  Not me.  I like my job, I’ve been at it 20 years and I get paid more money in annual salary and bonus than I ever reasonably expected to earn.  I [...]