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Yordano Ventura's Mom Threw Out The First Pitch For The Royals' Home Opener
The Royals played their first home game today since 25-year-old starting pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a January car crash in his native Dominican Republic....
Salvador Pérez Injured In WBC Home-Plate Collision
The Royals’ backup catcher crushed the Royals’ starting catcher in a play at the plate tonight. In the bottom of the ninth of the World Baseball Classic game in Mexico, Drew Butera, playing for Team Italy, collided with Salvador Pérez, guarding home for Team Venezuela, as he tried to score the winni...
Yordano Ventura's Toxicology Report Will Not Be Made Public
Three weeks ago, Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reported that the fate of the $20 million left on Yordano Ventura’s contract would depend on whether he was legally drunk when he died in a car crash last month. A clause in the Kansas City Royals pitcher’s contract noted that payment would be invalidated...
Man Who Fatally Shot Joe McKnight Indicted On Second-Degree Murder Charge
Ronald Gasser, the man who shot former NFL player Joe McKnight in a Louisiana traffic intersection, has been indicted by a grand jury on one count of second-degree murder. The indictment was announced today by the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office. ...
Report: The Fate Of Yordano Ventura's $20 Million Depends On Whether He Was Legally Drunk
It feels almost meaningless to discuss the money still remaining on the contract of Yordano Ventura, the 25-year-old Royals pitcher who was killed in a one-car crash early Sunday in his native Dominican Republic. But it’s obviously not meaningless to his family, which would be in line to receive the...
"Becoming Yordano"
Something worth revisiting after the death of Yordano Ventura this morning—the Kansas City Star’s 2015 series “Becoming Yordano,” which followed the pitcher home to the Dominican Republic and traced his background from his childhood small town to the Royals Academy in Santo Domingo....
Royals Pitcher Yordano Ventura Killed In Car Crash
Kansas City Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura died in a car crash today in his native Dominican Republic, according to several reports....
Travis Kelce Was Pissed
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has mostly avoided earning himself a reputation as a hothead or a malcontent, this despite his willingness to do things like throw a towel at an official and do jerkoff motions on the field (I don’t think you need me to tell you exactly how Kelce has avoided such labels...
Chris Conley Gets Blasted In The Head, Only Misses One Play
Chris Conley took a blow to the head from Steelers safety Sean Davis that left the Chiefs receiver dazed on the turf late in Kansas City’s playoff game tonight against Pittsburgh. In classic NFL concussion protocol fashion, Conley returned to the game after missing just one play:...
Chiefs-Steelers Playoff Game Pushed Back To Sunday Night Due To Ice Storm
The Chiefs-Steelers divisional round game this weekend has been pushed back from 1:05 p.m. EST to 8:20 p.m. EST, the normal time slot for Sunday night games, due to an incoming ice storm....
The Chiefs Just Outran The Broncos
There’s never a great way for a defending champion’s playoff hopes to die, but for the Denver Broncos, a 33-10 beatdown at the hands of the Kansas City Chiefs, who controlled the game from start to finish and were stunting late in the fourth quarter, is about as bad as it gets....
Fat Guy Touchdown Pass!
Tonight 346-pound defensive tackle Dontari Poe threw a touchdown pass to Demetrius Harris to seal a big win for the Chiefs over the Broncos. All those who witnessed it were so shocked at having seen NFL history, Kansas City was unable to successfully convert the try....
Once Again, It's Kevin Harlan's Live Radio Call Of An Idiot On The Field
Tonight’s national broadcast of the Broncos-Chiefs game featured an Idiot On The Field in Kansas City, and like most national games Kevin Harlan was calling play-by-play on Westwood One radio. Since his call of the Idiot in San Francisco earlier this season was one of the year’s best moments in spor...
Travis Kelce Trolled Marquette King Pretty Good
The most exciting moment of last night’s Chiefs win over the Raiders was when the Arrowhead chanted Tyreek Hill’s name as he prepared to return a punt, and he merely took it 78 yards back for the score....
Brawl At Chiefs Game Turns Into Fan Avalanche
We join this fight that happened at last night’s Raiders-Chiefs game in media res, just in time to see a few haymakers thrown and a some unfortunate combatants go tumbling over the seats:...
Falcons Lose After Blowing Lead On Point-After "Pick-Two"
After trailing the Chiefs for most of the second half, the Falcons finally took a 28-27 lead on a touchdown with less than five minutes left in the game. Atlanta chose to go for a bigger cushion by trying a two-point conversion. That turned out to be disastrous, as Kansas City’s Eric Berry interce...
Half The Chiefs Had No Idea They Won
I very much enjoy this photo, taken just as Cairo Santos banked in the 34-yard, game-winning field goal off the left upright, because no one’s really sure if it was good or not. The reactions run the gamut, from No. 76's Laurent Duvernay-Tardif’s two-fingered exultation, to Santos’s uncertainty, to ...
KC Wins In Overtime On Bank-Shot Field Goal As Time Expires
A Kansas City-Denver game that looked to be another primetime stinker proved a thriller in the end as the Chiefs won on Cairo Santos’s field goal that ricocheted off one upright and in as overtime expired....
The Chiefs Have Real Problems
Late last week I pitched an article about the Chiefs. Heading into Week 11, they had won five straight and were in line for the AFC’s No. 2 seed. But, I proposed to question, are the Chiefs actually any good? The response I got from an editor was to wait to see how the Chiefs did during Sunday’s hom...
Travis Kelce Ejected After Throwing Towel At Official
Travis Kelce hit the showers early today in Kansas City after earning a quick two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, the second for throwing his towel at an official....