Football

Bishop Miege and Mill Valley high schools, two Johnson County squads with long traditions of gridiron glory, are once again Kansas state football champions for 2022. Catch up quick: Both teams won state championship games on a rainy day this...

Three Johnson County schools took home Kansas state football titles on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, including a first-ever trophy for Blue Valley Northwest. The Huskies trounced three-time defending state champ Derby 41-21 Saturday in Emporia to take home the Class...

Johnson County is saying, "Run It Back," ahead of Sunday's AFC Championship Game. For the third year in a row, the Kansas City Chiefs will host the conference title game with a chance to advance to the Super Bowl. This...

A group of Shawnee Mission high school football players have been honored by league coaches as members of this year's All Sunflower League Football teams. First and Second team honorees from each Shawnee Mission School are: SM East P.J. Spencer, First...

Andy Maddox remembers tuning in to the first-ever night game at Michigan Stadium as a middle schooler back in 2011. The "Big House," as it's known, was rocking that September night as more than 100,000 fans watched quarterback Denard Robinson...

Following first-year head coach Fred Bourchard's unexpected resignation a week before the 2018-19 season formally gets under way today, Shawnee Mission East principal Scott Sherman announced Thursday that offensive coordinator Justin Hoover would be taking the helm of...

SM East will have its third head football coach in nine months after first year coach Fred Bouchard resigned Monday, just days before the 2018 season is set to begin. In a team meeting Monday, Bouchard told his Lancers team...

Fred Bouchard, a three-decade coaching veteran with five Missouri state titles to his credit, will be the next head football coach at Shawnee Mission East. After having his hiring approved by the board of education on Monday, Bouchard plans to make...

A Simone Award winning Johnson County native who piloted Blue Valley High to a state title as the Tigers' quarterback in 2006 is the next head coach of the Shawnee Mission North football team. The board of education on Monday...

SM East senior Milton Braasch is among the players vying for the top honor in Kansas City high school football. Organizers of the annual Thomas A. Simone Awards announced the ballots for this year's honors on Tuesday, and Braasch, a...

The most successful leader in program history has coached his last football game at SM East. Dustin Delaney, who arrived in Prairie Village in 2013 and immediately transformed a program that had been mired in something less than mediocrity for...

SM East showed off the versatility of its offensive attack Friday in a 42-17 drubbing of Olathe Northwest and former head coach Chip Sherman that secured the team a Regionals title for the year. The Lancers got off to a...