Last Saturday, the Tabor College football team pulled off one of the more entertaining comeback victories I’ve had the opportunity to cover. The Bluejays trailed by as many as 22 points late in the second quarter and found themselves down, 28-9, at halftime. Tabor came out of the locker room after intermission on a mission. The Blue­jay defense shutout visiting […]

Have you heard the hype that’s overtaken the Royals clubhouse? I’ll give you a hint: It involves a praying mantis. The Royals suffered through a 7-19 July—I was lucky enough to visit The K to witness one of those wins—but then Kansas City began to turn its season around about the same time a praying mantis appeared in the dugout. […]

Sometimes life lessons show up in the most interesting places. Each summer for the past five years, a group of friends and I have attended a Kansas City Royals game together. It’s become a tradition, and last week we went to our annual game at Kauffman Stadium. I won’t get into the specifics of the game. Suffice it to say, […]

What’s on your bucket list? I’ve recently added an item to mine: watching a game at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums. I’ve been a Kansas City Royals fan for awhile now—long before they won the World Series—but recently, I’ve grown to enjoy the game even more. Documenting the Tabor baseball team’s successes over the last few seasons has increased […]

JanaeColumnCleaning0233 If I’m being honest, during certain times of the sports season, my apartment and its upkeep are somewhat neglected as I enter survival mode to make it through the daily grind that is a sports editor’s schedule. I find myself washing dishes when I’m down to my last bowl and substituting quick wipe-downs for thorough cleaning. But last week, […]

Winthispitch4175 By this point in the spring sports season, I’ve covered nearly 70 Tabor College and Marion High School baseball games. There’s something fun about bringing my lawn chair, sunflower seeds and camera to the ballpark to cover a doubleheader. I enjoy hearing the crack of the ball on the bat, each player’s walkup song and the chatter from the […]

Coloring Easter eggs has been a tradition in our family for as long as I can remember. This was the first Easter in as long as I can remember that I did not color Easter eggs with family and friends. The tradition runs so deep that two years ago when I was unable to make the trip home, I joined […]

MaMa left behind a tradition of excellence in the kitchen. My grandma (my mom?s mother) made the best pies. Visits to my grandparents? farm were never complete without a homemade fruit-filled pastry waiting to delight my taste buds, an exclamation point to punctuate a delicious home-cooked meal. MaMa, as we knew her, knew how to do pies right, from the […]

If the Chiefs can?t be in the Super Bowl, Carolina will get my cheers come Sunday. The Carolina Pan?thers will face the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 this weekend and, as a football fan, I?m pretty excited. Not only is the Super Bowl a chance to watch some great football, it?s an excuse to gather with friends around good […]

Janae Rempel / Free Press<p>Here in Kansas, most of the roads I?ve driven are relatively flat, broken up occasionally by gently rolling hills. I?ve logged countless miles on the road in my three years as sports editor at the Free Press. Traveling to ball games, I spend a lot of time in the car, the road stretching endlessly in front […]