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Friday Night Fever

“I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more (football)!” Much like Christopher Walken’s character in the legendary Saturday Night Live sketch “More Cowbell,” I’m in need of a treatment. A healing remedy of pads popping, fans screaming, linemen grunting and option QBs...well...optioning.
Kansas Pregame's 2021 Football Preview is now online. Hard copy deliveries begin late this week.

Dubbert Completes Internship

St. John’s Beloit-Tipton grad Lauryn Dubbert and a group of high school and college students from across northwest Kansas celebrated completion of the Nex-Generation Roundup for Youth internship program with graduation ceremonies earlier this week.
Nex-Generation Round-up for Youth director Jacque Beckman congratulates Lauryn Dubbert for her graduation from the program following a summer working for Kansas Pregame.

QBs spin it at SP Top Prospect

While Maize quarterback Avery Johnson - one of the country's top-ranked dual-threat QBs in the class of 2023 - was unable to make it out to Monday's Sharp Performance Top Prospect event at Salina's Graves Family Sports Complex at Kansas Wesleyan University, there were plenty of live arms on display.
Former NFL strength coach Russ Riederer addresses the athletes prior to Monday's Top Prospect event at KWU. (Photo by John Baetz)

Kansas NFF scholar-athletes announced

Thirteen Kansas high school senior football players have been selected by the Coach Bill Snyder Family/Sunflower Chapter of the National Football Foundation as 2020-2021 scholar-athletes.
Clockwise from top left: Dillon Boldt, Rhett Brown, Dakota Burritt, Samuel Butler, Wyatt Eberle, Doug Grider, Sawyer Stevens, Ty Sides, Landon O'Hare, Ethan Kremer, Seth Krehbiel, Gianni Piccini and Camden Kirmer.

Kansas Shrine Bowl in Hutchinson this weekend

The 48th annual Kansas Shrine Bowl is upon us, and after an event hamstrung by COVID in 2020, it is back in a big way with approximately 450 kids taking part in the festivities in one way or another.
Clockwise from top left: Maur Hill's Andrew Schwinn, West Franklin's Cameron Wise, Topeka Hayden's Desmond Purnell, Garden City's Trey Nuzum, Hays High's Gaven Haselhorst and Wichita Northwest's Julius Bolden are just six of 72 all-star football players from across Kansas participating in this weekend's Kansas Shrine Bowl in Hutchinson.

6-Man’s best take the field this weekend

Coming off an exciting 2020 6-Man football season that saw scorekeepers putting in overtime keeping up with high scoring bouts, the top 27 players from the 2020 season will gather for kickoff at 7:00 p.m.
The Kansas 6-Man All-Star football game is Saturday in Newton. Among those players participating are, clockwise from top left: Adan Granillo, Colton McCarty, Wade Rush, Drew Schields, Tyler Sabatka and Rojelio Loya. (All photos by Everett Royer, KSportsImages.com, except the Sabatka photo, taken by Darci Schields)
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