Game of the year, NCAA champs, World Cup bid award ... Can ’23 top ’22 in KC sports?

Blair Kerkhoff
Rich Sugg/rsugg@kcstar.com

Sure, we could have rolled out a SportsBeat KC podcast review of big sports headlines in and around Kansas City for 2022 in, you know, 2022.

But what if Kansas State had won the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Eve? That would have made anyone’s yearly sports highlight list.

So Kansas City Star columnists Vahe Gregorian and Sam McDowell and podcast host Blair Kerkhoff did the prudent thing by waiting. The Wildcats did not reward their patience, but winning the Big 12 championship was still one of the area’s biggest sports stories in a year full of them.

Consider these examples:

  • A Chiefs victory for the ages, quickly followed by the most crushing defeat of the Patrick Mahomes era

  • The Tyreek Hill trade

  • The Royals’ moves and a big decision about their future home

  • Kansas’ men’s basketball’s season-ending win streak that continued into football season

  • Missouri’s hot start in basketball with a new coach

  • And perhaps the biggest news of all: landing a piece of the planet’s biggest sporting event, the World Cup.

On today’s first podcast of the new year, we discuss all of those events and more, and look ahead to the moments that will shape Kansas City’s sports landscape in 2023.

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Appreciating a remarkable, pivotal year in Kansas City sports and what it portends

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