Sweet victory: The story of Jay Leeuwenburg
Tom Mueller, editor-in-chief
October 20, 2020
There’s a word people use to describe football players who eat candy or drink soda during games: retired. That wasn’t Jay Leeuwenburg. Before the nine NFL seasons, the unanimous All-American selection and even the inaugural snaps of his organized football career, Leeuwenburg, 1987 KHS graduate...
H Squared Podcast: Picks and the fix feat. Louis Dellorco
Henry Joiner and Henry Chappell
October 17, 2020
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Using their platform
Hayden Davidson, design editor
August 24, 2020
*Opinion In a post directed toward fellow athletes and artists, LeBron James tweeted on June 23: “We have incredible influence in our community. We need to use this moment to demand change. I gotta be honest…I struggle with what to demand because so damn much needs to change. But I’m sta...
Top 10 sports moments of the 2010s
Hayden Davidson and Benji Wilton
March 6, 2020
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From The Lou to the League
Hayden Davidson, sports writer
February 5, 2020
TKC had exclusive interviews with three of the best basketball talents to ever come out of St. Louis. Here are their journeys from local high schools to the national spotlight. Bradley Beal 2011 Chaminade College Preparatory School graduate College: University of Florida NBA career: 2012-pr...
From the Vault: Thank you, Kobe. Thank you, sports.
Hayden Davidson, sports writer
January 31, 2020
Note: This story was originally written by Ryan Davidson and published in the May 18, 2017 print issue of The Kirkwood Call. See the digital print version here. The date was April 13, 2013. I sat on Manchester, where Lindbergh becomes Kirkwood Road, when an alert popped up on my phone. Kobe Bryant tore his lef...
Super Bowl LIV preview
Hayden Davidson, sports writer
January 30, 2020
Anything can happen in sports, especially in high-stakes, heat-of-the-moment games. In the Super Bowl’s recent history, we’ve seen a two-point conversion play that earned its own nickname (the “Philly Special”), a comeback from 28-3 at halftime and a puzzling pass play call at the goal line with time about...
2019 NBA All-Star Predictions
Tom Mueller, sports editor
January 23, 2020
Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, John Wall and Kyrie Irving are just a handful of elite NBA players who will miss this year’s All-Star game due to injuries — but, in a sad paradox, their injuries might actually be good for the sport. This year’s game will showcase many first time All-St...
The perfect Hall of Fame ballot
Daniel Tobias, sports writer
January 20, 2020
January’s frigid weather and the fading memories of last year’s World Series make baseball season feel hopelessly distant. Yet even if there are no blockbuster trades, baseball fans can still find some warmth in the frozen desert of the off-season when the Baseball Writers’ Association of America revea...
Making the case for a St. Louis NBA team
Hayden Davidson, sports writer
December 9, 2019
The 2019-20 NBA season is underway, and fans across the world are watching the 30 teams compete from October to April (and the top teams in the playoffs until June). But what if there were more than 30 teams, and how likely is it for a team to come to St. Louis? Basketball is becoming an increasingly globa...
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