The 2021 football season is now a wrap and eight Kansas State High School Activities Association state champions are cleaning off space in their trophy cases, with six of them simply sliding last year’s championship trophy over to make space for yet another.
The fourth annual Kansas Pregame Winter Edition is now online with complete previews for basketball and wrestling in the state of Kansas.
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Check it out at this link: Kansas Pregame Winter Edition 2021, Volume 4
Look for more details regarding hard copy distribution at free sponsor locations next week.
Hosting the Prep Power Index (https://www.kansaspregame.com/content/prep-power-index) at KansasPregame.com this season was a fun experiment. For nearly 20 years Salina Journal sportswriter Tim Hostetter's formula attempted to measure the strength of every KSHSAA approved football team in Kansas while also assessing each team's strength of schedule.
Kansas Pregame returns to some normalcy this year with a winter cover shoot hosted at Kansas Wesleyan University’s Mabee Arena in Salina. While taking in-person group shots gave a more traditional Pregame cover shoot feel, mask usage and social distancing were still utilized to assure the safety of the athletes, parents and coaches in attendance.
The Prep Power Index is now updated with quarterfinal playoff results.
Find the rankings at this link (www.kansaspregame.com/content/prep-power-index) or choose a specific classification from the Prep Power Index drop down from the primary navigation bar below the website header.
The PPI ranks teams according to their PPI rating calculated using a number of factors. The PPI also includes the overall points for (PF) and points allowed (PA) and the strength of schedule rating and schedule rank.
For nearly 20 years, then Salina Journal sportswriter Tim Hostetter used his Prep Power Index to provide a computer based ranking of high school football teams in Kansas. This unique ranking system not only tries to establish who the top teams are in Kansas, but also considers a number of factors to determine each team's strength of schedule.
After relocating to Kansas City in 2020 Hostetter made the hard decision to take a break from the site and after a year off Kansas Pregame is picking up where Hostetter left off.
With hard copies available from Atchison to Elkhart, Bird City to Pittsburg, and most places in between, Kansas Pregame's comprehensive football season preview is out there for everyone from die-hard fans looking to hone in on the 2021 season to alums looking to keep track of the program.
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“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.
No, the answer is not more of Will Ferrell’s overdone cowbell in the sketch - though I’m a huge fan - the “two Tylenol and call me in the morning” for this fever is high school football.
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.
The Nex-Generation Roundup for Youth just finished its 10th year and has rapidly grown its reputation by continuously providing opportunities for young people across northwest and north central Kansas to gain hands-on experience in a variety of fields.
