Donovyn Fowler did not back down competing against the “top dogs” in the country.

After somewhat of a slow start, Team USA Basketball is looking like the USA Basketball of old.

Logan Jones has been an Arkansas Razorbacks fan her whole life.

One of the top 2020-21 prep basketball players in Southeast Kansas has found a home.

Dear Eli: I wasn’t really into sports but my kid wanted to play, and now she really loves it. Loves all the camaraderie, the friend group. I like seeing her work toward a goal and achieve it. But why does every sport have to be year round? Is there not a way to do sports without dedicating y…

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Just one week into training camp and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sees a potential new member of Kansas City’s Legion of Zoom in running back Jerick McKinnon.

Coming off a strong freshman season, South Dakota State’s Isaiah Davis has already racked up one accolade heading into this fall.

Case Sanderson isn’t using summer vacation to be a couch potato.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Odds weren’t in the St. Joseph Mustangs’ favor when it entered postseason play.

Caden Myers’ recruiting process went just the way he wanted — short and sweet.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers got Kansas City left-hander Danny Duffy in a trade Thursday as the World Series champions boosted their rotation for a playoff push.

The biggest takeaway from Landon Bebee’s breakout 2020 season was a difference in mentality.

In his closing remarks on Wednesday afternoon, Chris Dawson wanted to be sure to thank the community and people of Joplin.

It has been a welcome sight to see the emergence of Harrison Bader for the St. Louis Cardinals this month.

Just like his older sister, Jeremiah Jones is helping lay the foundation for an archery program.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In his first MIAA Football Media Day as the head coach of Missouri Southern, Atiba Bradley felt at home.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Pittsburg State was in the middle of the MIAA preseason football polls, announced Tuesday morning at the league’s Media Day in the Little Theater inside historic Municipal Auditorium.

SEDALIA, Mo. — The biggest blow of the game came from an unlikely source for the Sedalia Bombers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — What a difference a year makes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Southern football team has been picked to finish 10th in the MIAA as the conference released its preseason media and coaches poll on Tuesday during the Football Media Day inside the Little Theater at Municipal Auditorium.

Oklahoma and Texas universities announced they have formally requested membership into the Southeastern Conference in a joint statement Tuesday morning.

Webb City native Logan VanWey took to the MLB Draft League two months ago with a few goals in mind.

The Joplin Outlaws have speed to burn, and boy, were the jets fuming on the base paths.

The 2021 MIAA Football Media Day is slated for Tuesday morning at the Kansas City Convention Center’s Little Theater in Kansas City, Mo.

The Joplin Outlaws had been on the road long enough, and it showed in their performance on the field.

Dear Eli: I recently overheard my son’s travel-league baseball coach giving the team a pre-game pep talk. This speech started off fine, but then ventured into the “success-at-all-costs” sort of rhetoric that you see in sports movies. I was flabbergasted. Here was a full-grown man, shouting a…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In four previous plate appearances, Caleb Feuerstake did not hit the baseball out of the infield.

Most people live in one country their entire life.

If there’s any sport, you can bet Grace Bishop will be playing.

Adversity wouldn’t stop Mekhi Garrard from continuing his ascension as a three-sport standout at Webb City High School.

During the 2021-22 high school sports year, many teams registered firsts.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The fate of the two-seed comes down to the final game of the season.

McDonald County High School wrestler Samuel Murphy didn’t have much time for relaxation this summer.

SEDALIA, Mo. — Ethan Ellis delivered perhaps the biggest hit of the Joplin Outlaws’ season.

As a kid, the letters TD were in her alphabet.

The entire landscape of college football is now in question after a bombshell report Wednesday.

Carl Junction hurdler/sprinter Alanza Montez has been named the girls track and field athlete of the year by the Globe’s sports department.

SEDALIA, Mo. — In a pair of seven innings games, the Joplin Outlaws trounced the Sedalia Bombers before suffering a disappointing setback in game two.