For sports teams, the best rivalries are geographic (Mizzou-KU) or have long histories of battling for championships and prestige (Lakers-Celtics). Unfortunately for Sporting Kansas City fans and marketers, the soccer club has neither. But that’s not going to stop the team from attempting to stoke a quasi-rivalry with the Chicago Fire into full-blown, old-fashioned fan hatred. The best way to…
Remember doodling on your shoes in school? How cool would it be to have your doodles mass-produced? Kansas City’s own Peggy Noland has that answer. She was recently tapped by Keds to crank out designs for their footwear in her signature, goofball style. A pair of those bad boys at right will set you back $80. The green feet and…
The incentive war between Kansas and Missouri — Kansas is winning — made it into the pages of The New York Times. Reporter and heir A.G. Sulzberger talks to the chief executive of AMC Entertainment, who sounds almost embarrassed by the fat offer to relocate the company’s headquarters from Missouri to Kansas. “In all candor, it’s unusual and a little…
Former WWE writer Chris Gough’s Metro Pro Wrestling is back Saturday night for another TV taping at the Turner Rec Center in Kansas City, Kansas. The indie wrestling promotion’s main attraction is a 15-man battle royal with the winner getting a shot at the Metro Pro TV Title. That’s just one of the scheduled matches. Also on the card, current…
The Royals’ season has people buzzing. Not too long ago, our city lived through a similar predicament: stinging from another KU NCAA Tournament loss — a loss to Syracuse in the finals — the region’s sports fans turned their desperate eyes to the Royals for temporary relief. The monstrously unheralded 2003 Kansas City Royals rattled off nine straight wins and,…
