Football
Six-player football to become KSHSAA-sanctioned championship
Chris Walden firmly believes six-player football has helped changed the athletic culture at Cheylin High School.
A stranger to the level when he took over as Cheylin coach in 2016, Walden has watched the Bird City-Cheylin community fully embrace the six-player game. [Read]
Pick Six Recap: East/SE
Check out the Pick Six game recaps from East/Southeast Kansas for Week Two. [Read]
Pick Six Recap: SCK
Check out the Pick Six game recaps from Southcentral Kansas for Week Two. [Read]
Pick Six Recap: NCK/NEK
Check out the Pick Six game recaps from Northcentral/NE Kansas for Week Two. [Read]
Football Rankings Week 2
The KSHSAA Covered rankings are compiled by the four-man staff of Brent Maycock, Scott Paske, Rick Peterson Jr. and Mac Moore. [Read]
Smith, Manhattan overcome adversity to reclaim Silver Trophy with 37-21 win over Junction City
MANHATTAN – Just before picking himself up off the field at the end of a 5-yard run, Vinny Smith repeatedly pounded the turf at Manhattan's Bishop Stadium in frustration. [Read]
Pick Six: Week 2's Top Games in SCK
Pick Six: Week 2's football games to watch in South Central Kansas [Read]
Pick Six: Week 2's Top Games in NCK
Pick Six: Week 2's football games to watch in North Central Kansas [Read]
Pick Six: Week 2's Top Games in the West
Pick Six: Week 2's football games to watch in Western Kansas [Read]
Pick Six: Week 2's Top Games in the East/SE
Pick Six: Week 2's football games to watch in East/Southeast Kansas [Read]
Pick Six: Top Games in NCK/NEK RECAPS
WEEK 1’S TOP GAMES IN NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST KANSAS: Game Recaps [Read]
Aquinas lowers boom in lightning-delayed game
Roeland Park — The lightning struck, but the Thunder did not roll for the reigning Class 4A state champion. In a game interrupted twice by the weather, St. Thomas Aquinas and its dominant ground attack proved too much for St. James Academy in a 28-7 win for the Saints Friday night at Bishop Miege High School. [Read]
25 Football Players in NCK/NEK
25 FOOTBALL PLAYERS TO WATCH IN NORTH CENTRAL/NORTHEAST KANSAS [Read]
Season Preview: 8 Player DII Football
Jesse Vincent hasn’t yet had the opportunity to see Hanover up close and personal as an opponent, but the Wheatland-Grinnell coach made a point to go witness the juggernaut as a spectator. [Read]
Season Preview: 6A Football
Wichita Northwest's Steve Martin enjoys analyzing statistics and searching for trends that help him as a football coach. [Read]
Season Preview: 5A Football
Wichita Northwest's Steve Martin enjoys analyzing statistics and searching for trends that help him as a football coach. [Read]
Season Preview: 4A Football
Arkansas City football coach Jon Wiemers holds the seven departed seniors from his 2020 team – the ones who led an improbable run to the Class 4A championship game – in high esteem. [Read]
Season Preview: 3A Football
Diplomas have long been distributed to a group of Andale football players who completed their high school careers in 2020 with 48 victories in 50 games, a 25-game winning streak and two consecutive Class 3A championships. [Read]
Season Preview: 2A Football
Torrey Horak had heard plenty from older brothers Thatcher and Tucker about winning a state football championship. But not necessarily in the way one might expect a younger brother would hear about it from his older siblings after each helped lead Rossville to state championships – Thatcher a senior on the Bulldawgs' 2014 Class 3A state title squad and Tucker a two-time All-State quarterback for the 2014 and 2015 title teams. [Read]
Season Preview: 1A Football
In coming up with a motto for his Olpe football team to take to heart this season, Eagle coach Chris Schmidt went simple.
"We started it in camp, and it was very simple: 'Be Better,'" Schmidt said. "We have to be better this year than we were last year. We cannot be complacent and we talk about that a lot. We have to push each other every day in getting better and not thinking we're OK. [Read]