Sports

The Fort Hays State women’s soccer team was ranked seventh in the 2022 MIAA Preseason Coaches Poll, released Friday (Aug. 12) by the league office.

With fall sports kicking off in the next few weeks, Hays High Volleyball is looking to defend their title as WAC champions in the 2022 season. Head Coach Shannon Funk is in her third year coaching the Indians, but has been coaching since she was 18.

Bill Russell’s No. 6 jersey is being retired across the NBA, a first for the league.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not play this weekend in the team’s first preseason game. Coach Kevin O’Connell confi rmed the diagnosis Friday at practice, where Cousins was absent for a second straight day.

Monday was the official start of a new season, with Tiger players and coaches eager to put last year’s 5-6 record in the rearview mirror. The Fort Hays State University football team held its first practice Monday morning at Lewis Field Stadium, with head coach Chris Brown pleased with what he saw from his squad, which numbers some 145 players.

Hays Larks manager Frank Leo admitted he wondered what might have been this summer. The Larks, who finished runner-up at the NBC World Series after a 12-1 loss to the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Foresters Saturday night in Wichita, played short-handed as the season wore on.

The Hays Larks fell behind early and could not catch up in a 12-1 loss to the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Foresters in Saturday night’s championship game of the 88th annual NBC World Series at Eck Stadium. Hays, in its sixth title game, was seeking its first championship. Santa Barbara won its thirdstraight crown and 10th overall.

AP Sports Writer Bob Boone waved to the Phillies crowd that accentuated the “Booooo” in his name in honor of the Gold Glove-winning catcher that caught the last out of the 1980 World Series. He was an All-Star, a defensive whiz in Philly, a revered member of that championship season who, along with late Tug McGraw — his arms stretched high to the sky, bounding on the turf — was swallowed up into a mass of burgundy pinstripes in an image that resonates here to this day.

Alabama was voted No. 1 in the preseason USA Today coaches’ poll released Monday, with Ohio State second and defending national champion Georgia third.