Local Sports Stories
Moore backs up talk with results
By DAVE MATTER of the Tribune’s staff
KANSAS CITY - Last month, a contingent from Missouri’s athletic department visited the remote Bootheel town of Hayti (population 3,207 in the 2000 census) on a statewide outreach trip that included Athletic Director Mike Alden and the football team’s offensive coordinator, Dave Christensen. 

Find a way to stop the spread or find new job
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
KANSAS CITY - The quickest ticket to unemployment for a college football coach today is the inability to defend a spread offense.

TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in sports
Greetings from Kansas City, site of the Big 12 Conference football media days, the annual ritual in which reporters, coaches and players smile and exchange pleasantries in anticipation of a long season in which they will complain bitterly about the other parties behind their backs.