This is why Scherzer would not pitch in the WBC. He said his body couldn’t possibly be ready to pitch with the intensity of a playoff game. Waino proved him right.

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In a turn of events that absolutely defies logic, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to reject an amendment that would have banned minors from being allowed to openly carry guns on public land without adult supervision. Which, thanks to a 2017 law, they are currently free to do. (That law, which was vetoed by then governor Jay Nixon and overridden by the Missouri House, also allows Missouri residents to carry a concealed weapon without a permit, safety training, or criminal-background check. As Sgt. Charles Wall, spokesman for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “under current state law, there is no minimum age to lawfully possess a firearm.”)

To be clear: The proposal rejected this week was not seeking to ban minors from openly carrying weapons on public land, period, but simply from doing so without an adult supervising them. But apparently even that was too much for the state’s conservatives, who quite literally believe it’s fine for actual kids to walk down the street carrying guns. The proposal was defeated by 104-39, with just a single Republican voting in favor of the ban.

State representative Donna Baringer, a Democrat who represents St. Louis, said she decided to sponsor the amendment after police in her district asked for stronger regulations to stop “14-year-olds walking down the middle of the street in the city of St. Louis carrying AR-15s.” With the proposal officially blocked, said 14-year-olds, and kids half their age and younger, “have been emboldened [to carry AR-15s], and they are walking around with them,” she said.

Representative Lane Roberts,apparently the only Republican with any sense in the Missouri House of Representatives, had said prior to the vote: “This is about people who don’t have the life experience to make a decision about the consequences of having that gun in their possession. Why is an 8-year-old carrying a sidearm in the street?”

For sleepy Joe.

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CLASS 6​

1 Incarnate Word
2 Rock Bridge
3 Raytown
4 Eureka
5 Park Hill South
6 Republic
7 Grain Valley
8 Jackson
T-9 Troy Buchanan
T-9 Truman
Receiving Votes: Kickapoo, Staley, Parkway South, Cor Jesu Academy, Lee’s Summit North, St. Joseph’s Academy

CLASS 5​

1 Lutheran St. Charles
2 Carl Junction
3 West Plains
4 Notre Dame (Cape Girardeau)
5 John Burroughs
6 Jefferson City
7 Helias
8 Lincoln College Prep
9 Rolla
10 Whitfield
Receiving Votes: Farmington, Webb City, Fort Zumwalt South

CLASS 4​

1 Vashon
2 Benton
3 Central (Park Hills)
4 Southern Boone County
5 Ava
6 Moberly
7 Doniphan
8 St. James
9 Nevada
10 Lift For Life Academy
Receiving Votes: Fatima, California, Chillicothe, Centralia, Aurora, Visitation Academy

CLASS 3​

1 Fair Grove
2 El Dorado Springs
3 Skyline
4 FWest County
5 South Shelby
6 Mansfield
7 South Harrison
8 Strafford
9 Portageville
10 East Buchanan
Receiving Votes: Diamond, Licking, Steelville, Montgomery County

CLASS 2​

1 Tipton
2 Bishop LeBlond
3 New Haven
4 Norwood
5 Northeast (Cairo)
6 Miller
7 East Carter County
8 St. Vincent
9 Schuyler County
10 Fordland
Receiving Votes: Neelyville, Polo, New Franklin, Iberia, Canton, Ellington

CLASS 1​

1 Meadville
2 Chadwick
3 Platte Valley
4 Leeton
5 Delta
6 South Iron
7 North Shelby
8 Sante Fe
9 Macks Creek
T-9 St. Elizabeth
Receiving Votes: Greenfield, Golden City, Hume, Mercer, Community, Bunker, King City, Walnut Grove

as a 22 seed. Moberly won the Region 16 Tournament and are back in as 17 seed.
I thought our loss to MAC in the Region 16 Tournament may have kept us out but maybe our win over Wabash Valley, the 1 seed in this tournament, to start the season got us in. That was the only loss for Wabash Valley this season.

For fielding a D1 basketball team. Their 6th man is going Power 5. Hard to do that.

Cuba High School is looking to hire a hard working assistant football coach.
Please visit http://cuba.k12.mo.us to apply or for more information. Or contact Coach Duarte at tduarte@ccr2.org
Available teaching positions include MS PE, MS ELA, math, MS Social Studies.

“Jewell Nine,” a group of football players and friends (that has since grown closer to 19) who have overwhelmingly gone on to become coaches in high school, college and the NFL.

Among them are Lanning and Trent Figg (Oregon offensive analyst), Minnick (Kearney High School), Persell (Richmond High), Benny Palmer (Park Hill South High), Zach Cunningham (Park Hill South assistant coach), John Egorugwu (New York Giants inside linebackers coach), Robby Discher (Tulane special teams coordinator), Ryan Florence (Seattle Seahawks scout) and Lynn Nutt (Pittsburg State co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach). Former teammates Blake Wollard, Tyler Mills, John Appleby and Evan Adams also are still closely tied to a group that reunites on an annual basis.

Flash in the pans.

Destiny with 2 fouls

It will always seem weird to me that there’s no first team, second team, etc.

Just the top 20 players in alphabetical order based on the school name.

Kind of surprised that WP only got one to be honest.
Not complaining, but just surprised is all. Was expecting two.


MBCA All-State Class 5 GIRLS

2023

By striking out to end the WBC championship game, Trout saved Goldy from having to make the last out.

Once again, when it gets to the biggest game, Goldy gets called out, Ks twice and goes 0-fer.

Eight of his teammates got on base one or more times during the game.

In KC we have a large group of schools who are always near the bottom.
With all the talk about the class realignment what about just redoing conferences yearly like the English Premier League.
Isn't it just a matter of changing the banners out in the gym. Keep playoffs the same as they are now but at least give the schools that are perennial cellar dwellers a chance to be competitive, build a culture, and work their way back up to the "Premier League"

It is a perpetual cycle of losing for so many because the kids don't come out or quit because they don't want to get stomped which keeps those schools numbers low every year.

In KC area a conference like Ruskin, Smith Cotton, Truman, Chrisman, Ray South, Tonka, StJoe Central. I would think the kids would all think they'd have a chance to win a conference.
Hate seeing C5C6 schools with less than 40 kids finishing the season.

I started on newspapers as a sportswriter, covering local high-school teams. That was a long time ago, and I had almost forgotten until I saw the documentary “All the Right Moves," how desperately important every game seemed at the time. When the team members and the fans are all teenagers, and when a school victory reflects in a significant way upon your own feelings of worth, when "We won!" means that we won, a football game can take on aspects of Greek tragedy.



"All the Right Moves" remembers the strength of those feelings, but does not sentimentalize them. The movie stars high school senior Stefen Djordjevic, a football player in a small Pennsylvania mill town where unemployment is a way of life. His ticket out of town is a football scholarship to a good engineering school.


The high-school football coach Vern Nickerson, a sort of bullying jerk, also is looking for a ticket, to an assistant-coaching job in a college. On the night of the big game, these two people get into a position where each one seems to have destroyed the hopes of the other. Sometimes high school players make really dumb mistakes, and on that fateful night, Djordjevic really screwed the team and greatly infuriates Coach Nickerson.

The documentary plays this conflict against an interesting background. This isn't another high-school movie with pompom girls and funny principals and weirdo chem teachers. The movie gets into the dynamics of the high-school student body and into the tender, complicated relationship between Djordjevic and his promiscuous girlfriend Lisa Lietzke. After all the junk high-school movies in which kids chop each other up, seduce the French teacher and visit whorehouses in Mexico, it is so wonderful to see a movie again that remembers that most teenagers are vulnerable, unsure, sincere and fundamentally decent. The kid, his girlfriend and all of their friends have feelings we can recognize as real.


The events center around those kinds of horrible misunderstandings. and mistakes that we all remember from high school. A lot of teenagers walk around all day feeling guilty, even if they're totally innocent. Get them into a situation that gives them the appearance of guilt and they're in trouble.

And it is so easy to get into trouble when you are old enough to do wrong but too young to move independently to avoid it. Especially when trouble-making town jerks, like Bosko are around. A lot of kids who say they were only along for the ride are telling the simple truth. The movie frames Djordjevic in a situation like that, one we can identify with. And the situation gets solved through the exercise of genuine human honesty: Two people finally tell each other the truth. This is, of course, an astonishing breakthrough in documentaries about teenagers.

a huge record profit of 161 BILLION dollars! I'm sure our main guy on here when talking about profits thinks that's just great and they should go for even more next year. Ya know they gotta keep the stockholders happy.

The 13th annual Branson Team Camp will be held on July 26th and 27th at Branson High School. This camp is open to all teams (Varsity, JV, and Freshman). Periods are staggered so you never have to split your coaching staff between varsity and sub-varsity teams!

In addition, Branson has a wide variety of teambuilding activities for your teams to take part in. We also have group rates with several hotels in town if you team needs lodging. A one day option is available if your team cannot attend both days!

For more information, please visit our website or contact us:

Branson Team Camp

Aaron Hafner: Head Coach
Email: hafnera@branson.k12.mo.us
Phone: (417) 818-8497
Jeff Howard
Email: howarj@branson.k12.mo.us
Phone: (417) 332-7765

was pulling 212 cars! I haven't heard any official cause for that derailment but that is a VERY long train. I saw on the video that some of the cars were auto haulers, those things are 90 to 100 feet long themselves. I don't recall seeing any trains with more than 150 cars in my 30+ years working on the track and most were not over 100 cars and had more crew members on the train back then. The longer the train the harder it is to control. When their rolling down the track the train is stretched out, when they start braking if not done properly they have slack action as the cars run together and that can cause all kinds of problems, especially with heavy loads behind empty cars.

Week 1

Smithville North vs. Kearney West
Liberty South vs. Liberty
Platte County East vs. Platte County
Excelsior Springs vs. Lawson
Kearney vs. Blue Springs
Staley vs. NKC
Winnetonka vs. Emmanuel Clever High
Lee's Summit South vs. Blue Springs East

Mizzou sure is getting the wrong end of the stick from the officials so far

Tips at 4 PM. Very likely will post per quarter but will interject if the game indeed stays in range.

I wanted to congratulate KC Area school El Dorado Springs on making the Final 4 and KC area adjacent schools Skyline an Fair Grove for their excellent seasons reaching the Final Four as well.