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Labor Day, envisioned as a national tribute to America’s workers, has really come to mean one thing: “Get back to work. Summer’s over.” There’s a parade,…

We’ve heard the statistics: Over the next two days, some 44 million of us will pack ourselves into trains, planes, and automobiles for Thanksgiving—and…

It may sound strange, but people with Parkinson’s disease are stepping into boxing rings to help combat their symptoms. They aren’t throwing uppercuts for…

A loophole in Missouri's criminal code means most stealing cases are no longer felonies. On Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court reduced multiple felonies…

Saturday is the beginning of college football’s bowl season. Yep, season. Where there used to be just a handful of games—with names like Rose and Orange,…

Of all sporting events, perhaps none is more tangled up in dreams of glory and miracles and fellowship than the Olympic Games. For two weeks, the peoples…

We are on the verge of what every sports fan dreads worse than the agony of defeat: the occasional lull. The Winter Olympics, timed so perfectly to…

In just a few days the field of the NCAA basketball tournament will be set and March Madness will begin in earnest.In the latest installment of "A Fan's…

The late, great George Carlin had a classic bit on the differences between baseball and football. One’s a game, he explained. The other is, well, more…

No one would ever call Kansas City a hockey town. Oh, there’s plenty of ice, look around, but hardly any of it is indoors. Let’s just say this isn’t the…