The Kansas City Star writes of the famous "Scout" statue that overlooks the downtown area of Kansas City.
The statue was dedicated in 1922 and the article writes of why the Scout is missing its quiver as well as other notes of the famous statue.
The short-lived hockey team for two years in the 1970s was named after the statue, but as I learned from the recent book by Troy Treasure on the Scouts- "Icing on the Plains"- Scouts was not intended to be the team's original name as the plan was to name the team the "Mohawks" as a way to honor Missouri and Kansas fans for the new franchise, but it was squashed by the Chicago Blackhawks for being too similar to their name.
The Athletic writes about the star pass rusher of the Chicago Bears, Khalil Mack, and his time with the Buffalo Bulls in the MAC days before being becoming an impact player in the NFL.
I've always enjoyed the stories of players from smaller schools that become massive professional stars and how they were overlooked by the power five schools.
I wondered how I wrote about Mack, his 2013 encounter with Ohio State and see how I evaluated Mack's future.
The Athletic with another note on the town that loves its high school football in Massillon, Ohio.
There is such a professional look to the Tigers, who have a television network, a stadium, scoreboard, etc that could easily house a Group of Five school and have their facilities immediately upgraded.
It's another great piece that looks at the good and occasional bad that comes with having so much local pride and interest in a high school program.
One more from The Athletic, as they take a look back at the 50th anniversary of the tragic Marshall football plane crash.
The author talks to Craig Greenlee, a player that could have been on the plane, had he not left the team after the previous season.
He tells more of the other lives affected, but a note that I found interesting came in the comments.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but the timeline does match as it's mentioned that in 1969 Ken Griffey Sr. was ready to commit to Marshall to play wide receiver for the Herd, but his girlfriend told him that she was pregnant (with Ken Jr.) and Griffey decided to make money with the Reds rather than go to college.
We wrap up with the news of a reappearance of an Earth rocket booster that took Surveyor 2 to the moon in 1966.
The booster dropped off the capsule and sped past the moon and into a solar orbit to occasionally return to Earth.
The booster's orbit around the sun made its orbit similar to that of Earth and to the astronomers, it began to fall into place that this was an Earth object, not a random asteroid as originally thought.
The booster was the second NASA relic to return to Earth after a Saturn V stage returned to Earth orbit in 2002.
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