It’s easy to associate a quarterback with being a leader on the football field. They handle the ball on nearly every offensive play, and their performance, good or bad, h...
The 2025 high school football season featured many standout efforts on the defensive side of the ball. Some of those players graduated, but others are back to add to ...
A number of standout performances from seniors helped lift Union/A-C Valley's football team to a 10-2 effort in 2025, the best record in the 10-year history of the co-op ...
Potential can be a tricky word in sports.
It can refer to an athlete who seemingly has a high ceiling, but has not yet produced at a certain level of competition.
The pot...
Moniteau football was in dire need of confidence that was stripped from the Warriors after winning a combined four games between 2021-24.
Three wins last season resto...
Returning top scorers, assist aces, defenders and goalkeepers adept at short-circuiting opposing attacks.
Butler County's girls soccer scene features them all as teams pr...
There's good news and bad news surrounding Moniteau football's offensive line entering the 2026 season.
First, the negative: 6-foot-1, 245-pound senior tackle Braden Beac...
Losing talented players to graduation can hit a high school program hard, but coaches and players alike see them coming. They are expected departures.
Freeport girls socc...
TJ Wiley’s first season as Knoch’s head coach was, in his own words, “a recipe for disaster from the start.”
The Knights suffered through a 0-10 campaign last fall, just ...
As much as he may like to, Knoch quarterback Max Wiley knows he can't have a re-do on the 2025 season.
The team's 0-10 record and Wiley's no touchdowns and five intercept...
