Three-sport star Bubba Starling, perhaps the most celebrated high school athlete in Kansas history, made a last-second decision Monday night to forgo football at Nebraska and play baseball for the Kansas City Royals.
NFL players ratified a new, 10-year collective bargaining agreement Thursday, hours after it was finalized, and two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press the contract allows the NFL to become the first major U.S. professional sports league to use blood testing for human growth hormone.
The St. Louis Cardinals solidified their rotation for the future Wednesday, signing left-hander Jaime Garcia to a four-year contract extension with club options for a fifth and sixth season.
St. Louis police are trying to pinpoint who ransacked dozens of vehicles parked in the city’s down-town during a weekend interleague game between the Cardinals and the Toronto Blue Jays.
Former Crowder and current Missouri State right-handed pitcher Dan Kickham, a 33rd round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers, has reached a contract agreement with the professional club.
Crowder “Ghostrider” Matt Sample still has some baseball left in him. And he will get the opportunity to let it out.
Clark Hunt — billionaire, son of privilege, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs — hoisted a heavy case of bottled water off the bed of a pickup and carried it toward a waiting pallet.
Adrian Beltre got a chance to atone for his baserunning mistake. Jarrod Dyson and Mike Aviles, whose blunders were much more humiliating, did not.
The Cardinals are looking for a fill-in starter at third base after David Freese broke a bone in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch.
Mike Aviles played his way to the Kansas City bench early in the season by going hitless in 18 consecutive at-bats.
The NFL has promised to give its teams guidance on what to do after another stinging rebuke from the same federal judge who lifted the lockout.
Seven weeks into the NFL lockout, players have an early triumph over the owners in court.
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered an immediate end to the lockout Monday, siding with the players in their bitter fight with the owners over how to divide the $9 billion business.
Ian Kennedy looks ready for his first opening-day start. Luke Hochevar says he is, too.
With three days off early next month, the Kansas City Royals plan to start the season with a four-man rotation and keep an extra position player for the first 13 games.
Kila Ka’aihue and Alcides Escobar hit two-run home runs and Alex Gordon doubled for his fourth straight game with an extra-base hit in Kansas City’s 5-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday night.
Ian Snell decided to retire at age 29 after the St. Louis Cardinals optioned him to the minors.
With the NFL on the brink of its first work stoppage in nearly a quarter of a century, Commissioner Roger Goodell and union head DeMaurice Smith met at a federal mediator’s office Friday, the day the league’s twice-extended labor contract was set to expire.
Use a 24-hour extension to get a longer reprieve. That appeared to be the approach for the NFL and the players' union Friday.
Bill Grigsby, the longtime announcer for the Kansas City Chiefs, has died. He was 89. Grigsby's daughter, Ann Handelman, told The Associated Press that her father died "peacefully" on Saturday. She said he "had an incredible life."
When Albert Pujols arrived for St. Louis Cardinals spring training Thursday morning, he pulled his black pickup truck into a parking spot reserved for owners.
