The Kansas City Royals traded their best and most marketable player this weekend, and there isn't a fan in Kansas City that shouldn't be ecstatic about it. Royals general manager Dayton Moore has been entertaining offers for 2009 Cy Young winner Zack Greinke all offseason, and he finally found a deal he couldn't pass up. In trading Greinke and shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt...

If you've been a football fan for a while, you've likely engaged at least once in the debate of "Who's the greatest quarterback of all-time?" Was it Montana with all his rings? What about Elway? Marino? Favre? Brady? Manning? Depending on the logic you choose to use, all of those current or future Hall of Famers have exhibited a level of "greatness"...

In Kansas City’s 3-1 start to the season, no other Chiefs’ player has been ridiculed and questioned more than quarterback Matt Cassel. For Cassel, the heat is probably well deserved considering he ranks 25th in passer rating and 30th in completion percentage. You would expect both numbers to be much better considering he’s only been sacked a league low three times. If Cassel...

The Chiefs have had two defensive linemen in recent memory that have worn the number 90 and had the name “Smith” on the back of their jersey. Neil Smith was selected second overall in the 1988 draft out of Nebraska and was a six-time Pro Bowler. Shaun Smith, on the other hand, was an undrafted free agent out of the University of South Carolina in 2003 who at the age of 29 is...

Dear Romeo Crennel, Let me start out by saying, “Thank you!” for what you've done with the Chiefs defense this season. I'm not sure if you realize this or not, but the blue collar defensive-minded fans in Kansas City have been waiting for you and this year's defense since Marty Schottenheimer resigned way back in 1999. For more than a decade under Schottenheimer...

Some NFL fans around the country, particularly those on the east coast, may choose to skip Monday night's late game between division foes Kansas City and San Diego. After all, the Chargers have won their last four games against the Chiefs and most experts have already penciled them in to win a fifth consecutive AFC West title. So the outcome of the week one finale in Kansas...

The San Diego Chargers will have two primary goals when they take on the Chiefs on Monday Night Football, get an early lead and stop the Chiefs’ running game. While the Chiefs will definitely try to establish the running game with Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones, one player they know will give the Chargers defense problems will be rookie wide receiver Dexter McCluster. For fantasy...

There may be no other division in the NFL as wide open this season as the AFC West. Last year, rookie head coach Josh McDaniel had the Broncos looking like world beaters when they flew out the gates to a 6-0 start, only to turn around and lose four straight after their bye and winning just one of their final ten games. The Chiefs also spent 2009 breaking in a new head coach, with...

If you play fantasy football, and if you're reading this article you probably do, the number one thing you fear is blowing your draft by wasting your first round pick on a guy who doesn't live up to expectations. Right now, you may be having flashbacks to drafts of past years and nightmares named Clinten Portis, Larry Johnson, Steve Smith, or LaDainian Tomlinson. While running...

The Kansas City Chiefs will once again be one of the youngest teams in the NFL in 2010. The average age for the 82 players on the current roster is 25 years old. It appears very likely that all seven of the team's draft picks will not only make the team, but see quite a bit of the field this season. Additionally, the Chiefs have 13 rookie free agents in camp, and it's entirely...

One week of training camp is now in the books, and the Kansas City Chiefs and their fans have to be excited about what they've seen thus far. After spending a full day watching practice in St. Joseph, MO earlier this week, I can say that while there are still areas with plenty of room for improvement, there are a few areas where the team already appears to have turned the corner...

Here we go again. According to several published reports, future Hall of Famer Brett Favre has notified the Minnesota Vikings that he is hanging up his cleats...again. Of course, the one person with the Vikings that you'd expect to be the first to hear from Favre, head coach Brad Childress, says he hasn't heard a peep. So is it all true? Is the all-time NFL leader in pass...

The Kansas City Royals, fresh off a 7-game losing streak, have fired Manager Trey Hillman. While you would be hard-pressed to find anyone who would say one negative thing about Hillman the man, you can find plenty of Royals fans who were tired of Hillman the Manager. At 12-23, the Royals are dead last in the AL Central. Thursday afternoon's win against the Indians finally got...

If there's one thing all Chiefs fans learned about General Manager Scott Pioli in the 2009 NFL Draft, it is that he's going to draft the player he feels best addresses what he feels is his team's biggest need, regardless of what everyone else thinks. Last year, Pioli felt that a defensive end who could be stout against the run in the team's new 3-4 defense was their...

With the first week of the 2010 season in the books, the Kansas City Royals find themselves in a familiar position...last place. The Royals have company in the AL Central basement, as their 2-4 record matches that of both the White Sox and Indians. Both the Tigers and Twins looked good during the first week, posting five wins apiece. The GoodNew additions Rick Ankiel and Scott Podsednik...

If you’re a sports fan and you’ve been to Kansas City for a Royals or Chiefs game, you know that Kansas City fans know how to throw a party. This is never more apparent than at the beginning of the season when expectations abound and disappointment has yet to infest public sentiment. For the Royals, no other day is more exciting and indicative of fan excitement than the team’s...

When it comes to fantasy baseball, there are certain teams—like the Yankees and Red Sox—where virtually everyone but the batboy will get selected in your draft. Fantasy owners build their teams around names like Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Albert Pujols, Jonathan Papelbon, etc.They don't, however, build their teams around guys like Alex Gordon and Yuniesky Betancourt.�...

This is a message to all the so-called NFL Draft "experts" out there that continue to make the pitch that the Chiefs must draft a left tackle with the fifth overall selection in this year's draft. Please analyze the Chiefs pass-blocking last season before assuming that Scott Pioli feels the team's top need is a new left tackle! Do a simple analysis of the number...

In the 40 year history of the Kansas City Royals, there have been many defining moments. Unfortunately for the youngest fans, those who have watched this team the past 15 years or so, most of those moments have defined losing. For older Royals fans however, there are fond memories of contending Royals teams who made two World Series appearances and were in a pennant race virtually...

Back in 1993, then Chiefs General Manager Carl Peterson signed a highly productive running back whose former team thought he was washed up at 33 years of age. That running back was former Oakland Raider great Marcus Allen. Allen was brought in to take 26 year-old running back Harvey Williams under his wing, and provide the team some insurance should Williams falter in the running...

If you believe what NFL players post on Twitter, then in a matter of hours, Terrell Owens will be a Cincinnati Bengal. Late this afternoon, Owens replied to a tweet by the Bengals Chad Ochocinco, all but saying he was on his way to Cincinnati to sign a contract with the Bengals.As far as how "conversations" go on Twitter, here's how it went down between Ocho and T.O...

The 41-year history of the Kansas City Royals is a story of a meteoric rise to contention in the franchise's first 21 years, followed by a titanic fall to baseball's cellar in the last 20 years.As an expansion team in 1969, the Royals became a winner after just two seasons and was a title contender for two decades. In fact, all seven of the team's playoff appearances...

The Kansas City Chiefs have struggled on the field the past few years.But if there's one thing Chiefs players continue to do better than any other players in the NFL, it's give back to the community off the field. For the fifth time in the history of the NFL Man of the Year award, known since 1999 as the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, a Chiefs player has won for his...

Back in 1988, the Kansas City Chiefs used the third overall pick of that year's draft on a promising young defensive end named Neil Smith from the University of Nebraska.In the season that followed, the Chiefs ended up with the league's worst rush defense, hemorrhaging a horrific 162 yards per game. That season, the Marty Schottenheimer-led Chiefs floundered their way to...

As a kid growing up in the '70s and '80s, I was a huge baseball fan. Back then, baseball was a sport that wasn't dominated by any single aspect of the game. Teams won games with dominant pitching, defense, the running game, the occasional 3-run homer, or a combination of all of these. Players like Pete Rose, Fred Lynn, Rickey Henderson, and George Brett put every fundamental...