Jayhawks (and fans) toast the natty, Royals contend with Midwest weather: KC Replay
It was party time in Lawrence last weekend as thousands turned out along Mass Street for a parade honoring the KU Jayhawks as NCAA basketball champions.
Elsewhere, the Royals played their first full week of the 2022 MLB season (minus a rainout in St. Louis), Sporting KC blew a 1-0 halftime lead for its fifth loss of the year and K-State’s football coach announced there would be no spring game for fans.
And that’s not all. Don’t believe us? Check out the weekly KC Replay recap!
A wild week for Royals
The Royals lost their I-70 Series opener on Tuesday in St. Louis against the Cardinals. And then the next day’s game at Busch Stadium, game two of the team’s quick two-game set, was washed away by bad weather (it will be made up next month).
The Royals then returned home and proceeded to open a four-game series against the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday night. Where there was no baseball thanks to the MLB lockout, there’s suddenly a lot of it, as long as the weather cooperates. But this being springtime in the Midwest, the weather doesn’t always oblige in such fashion.
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New coach, game date for MU
Mizzou made news on a couple of front this past week, with new hoops coach Dennis Gates adding another seemingly strong hire and the football team’s season opener moved from a Saturday to a Thursday.
Gates late in the week added former longtime Division I head coach and colleague Dickey Nutt to his basketball staff. Nutt, the former Southeast Missouri State and Arkansas State head coach, will join likewise newly hired associate head coach Charlton “C.Y.” Young by Gates’ side on the MU bench.
A final note for Tigers faithful, the football team’s Sept. 3 season opener at Faurot Field was moved up a couple of days to a prime-time Thursday night slot on Sept. 1. Same opponent, though: Louisiana Tech. It will be the first midweek game at Faurot since 2015.
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No spring football game for KSU
K-State football coach Chris Klieman made it official on Wednesday, saying the program won’t hold a spring game for fans this year. The reason: He said too many injuries have piled up within his program, so he and his staff have bigger fish to fry.
Practices in Manhattan were also closed to spectators this year. As KC Star and Wichita Eagle beat reporter Kellis Robinett wrote Wednesday, “The Wildcats will end the spring the way they started it, with a closed practice that focuses mostly on developing young and healthy players behind closed doors.”
“We want to make sure we can get everyone to August healthy,” Klieman said.
Sporting KC loses, but Comets win
Former Sporting KC player C.J. Sapong, who once serenaded USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo here, had no love for Sporting last weekend. His second-half goal helped make losers of host KC as Nashville roared back from a 1-0 halftime deficit to win 2-1 at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kan.
Too bad, too, because there was a bit of a Sporting reunion at CMP that night: members of the club’s 2013 MLS championship squad were in the house to take in their successors’ game against the team from Tennessee.
Also this past week, the indoor-soccer KC Comets won a thrilling quarterfinal playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks to advance to the MASL semifinals.
The KC Current were off until Friday evening, when they played host to the Houston Dash.
