EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of 20 biographies I will publish for this year’s Timed Event Championship, set for March 1-3 at the Lazy E Arena. The remaining 19 bios will be published over the next couple of weeks leading up to this year’s championship; this is how they will appear in the souvenir[...]

There are a number of ways to describe today: Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras Day, Shrove Tuesday and, for those from southwest Kansas, International Pancake Day. The latter comes from the annual event in which women race down the street flipping pancakes. It began more than 500 years ago in Olney, England, but in 1950, the[...]

The Super Bowl is sports’ biggest spectacle, and it has been that way for decades. Now in its 47th year, it proves each winter why the NFL is the biggest sports commodity in the land. But the Super Bowl reaches well beyond sports fanatics. Millions watch just for the halftime show, while millions more watch[...]