by Bill Pollock | Oct 26, 2015 | Sports Features
When high school football moved to district play a few years ago, many people were grumpy to the idea. I questioned the reasoning behind it as well. What was the reason of having a regular season if everyone made the playoffs? Yet the move lined up football with...
by Bill Pollock | Sep 2, 2015 | Sports Features
Tim Rulo, the head football coach at Helias Catholic in Jefferson City, used video replays on the sidelines last season at South Callaway and took his team to the Show-Me Bowl. Blue Springs South head coach Greg Oder was beat a couple of times by teams using video...
by Bill Pollock | Aug 24, 2015 | Sports Features
The first weekend of high school football is in the books as the fall sports season opens up. During our weekly chat with Jason West of MSHSAA, he talks about eight-man football and how it is beginning to grow across the state. Watch our discussion, plus here’s...
by Bill Pollock | Aug 13, 2015 | Sports Features
MSHSAA recently held a summer athletic director’s meeting and the focus was based around three simple words “Why we play.” The reality is wins and losses are the goal, but the true purpose of high school sports is to prepare kids for life, according to MSHSAA...
by Bill Pollock | Jul 16, 2015 | Sports Features
“It’s fun hitting people,” says Helias High School sophomore Hudsen Lee as a sly smile comes across his face. Hudsen is standing next to me along the banks of Binder Lake in Jefferson City as he casts his fishing line into the water. He’s talking about his love for...
