Greg Echlin
Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports anchor and a radio sportscaster in Salina, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1984 and has been there since covering sports. Through the years, he has covered multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours and Major League Baseball's World Series and All-Star games.
With his high metabolism rate, Greg is able to enjoy a good meal and stay slim when he's not running around on the sports scene. He loves desserts, even making them. Cheesecakes, pies and parfaits are the most common around the Echlin household.
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An Overland Park tech and fabrication company set aside loyalty to the Kansas City Chiefs when the rival Las Vegas Raiders hired it to build a memorial torch honoring Raiders' icon, Al Davis.
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Longtime Royals Star Alex Gordon will be remembered for hitting the ninth-inning home run that tied Game One, but the fan favorite garnered accolades for his performance on the field and off.
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The NFL season started at Arrowhead Stadium in a game where social justice movements played out and a pro football crowd of thousands gathered amid COVID-19 for the first time since the Chiefs won the Super Bowl.
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A packed Arrowhead Stadium is a thing of the past as architects, sports teams, and health officials decide how to safely accommodate a percentage of fans during the coronavirus pandemic.
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One of the biggest decisions schools have faced was whether falls sports would be played, giving parents and students another decision to make with possibly long-term implications.
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'It's Bad' Says Sporting KC Player As Kansas City Sports Teams Speak Out But Decide To Practice FollThe Chiefs continue their practices, but Coach Andy Reid and some players have joined other professional sports teams in their vocal opposition to ongoing police brutality.
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John Donaldson, one of the best pitchers in The Negro Leagues, played for the Kansas City Monarchs. He excelled on the diamond despite the tragic start to his life in the town of Glasgow, Missouri, where a police officer shot and killed his father.
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The Kansas City Royals are playing at Target Field, about four miles from where George Floyd was killed.
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The pandemic delivered Monte Harrison an opportunity that came with a downside: 17 of his Marlins' teammates have been diagnosed with the virus.
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The NFL's directive to stay close to home for training camp will keep the Kansas City Chiefs at the Truman Sports Complex instead of in St. Joseph.