College football officials get booed, yelled at, cursed. Delivering flowers to people in the hospital generally earns a better greeting.
Bill Lowe, who on Tuesday announced his retirement as MIAA director of football officials, thinks it’s a decent trade.
“You really make people happy when you deliver flowers,” Lowe said. “That’s right up my alley.”

Northwest Missouri Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry makes a big impact on the local effort to feed the hungry. But the organization is in danger of folding due to the health of its founder and driving force, area coordinator Steve Goben.

Football’s taken Chris Greisen all over the world ever since he left Maryville, Mo., after leading Northwest Missouri State to a national championship in 1998. And the game turns a national spotlight on the former Bearcat again next week as he and his Georgia Force teammates fight on in the AFL playoffs.

For much of his early career, lefthanders were to Rob Calloway what a plastic jug of vodka is to an alcoholic. Troublesome at best, dangerous at times.
Southpaws handed the St. Joseph boxer the majority of his seven losses — in 78 professional fights.
“It’s just different, man, adjusting to southpaws,” Calloway said. “We just don’t see many lefthanders. Everything is pretty much backwards.”

Missouri Western State University football player Roger Allen is a big man. But even at 6 foot, 4 inches and 315 pounds, Mr. Allen still found himself wondering if he measured up against some of the more massive examples of humanity collected by the Kansas City Chiefs.

Chiefs fans need to learn these names: Glenn Dorsey and Brandon Carr, Brandon Flowers and Brian Johnston, Branden Albert and Brad Cottam.

Missouri Western tried repeatedly over the last few years to convince the Kansas City Chiefs to hold their annual training camp at Spratt Stadium. The deal never got done.
But for a day, fans will get the chance to see what that would have been like.
The Chiefs will hold a practice on the St. Joseph campus starting at 11:30 a.m. today. Fans are welcome, but tickets are required — the free passes were available at St. Joseph McDonald’s locations.

No one painted Tyler Armstrong’s face with a red-and-gold arrowhead. He wore no Chiefs paraphernalia as he stood in the Hyde Elementary School gymnasium. “I’m not really a Chiefs fan,” Tyler said. “I guess I’m kind of a Green Bay fan.”

Savannah coach Erich Bodenhausen turned to his catcher, Lee McFadden, and asked if he should stick with pitcher Travis Partridge for the seventh inning of the Class 3 District 16 championship game.
“Coach just asked me if he still had it, if he was too tired,” McFadden said. “I knew how much (Partridge) wanted it, and that he’d do whatever he could to finish it. So I said yeah.”

Northwest Missouri State running back Xavier Omon got a lot of attention around Buffalo for a sixth-round draft pick this past weekend. And Northwest coach Mel Tjeerdsma said Wednesday that Omon has a great shot to make the Bills’ team.