Dodge City Country Club will host a golf benefit for Dodge City native Tara Goedeken on Sat., May 9. Money collected from the benefit will help to cover the costs of entry fees, travel and equipment throughout the year as Goedeken begins her professional golf career on Arizona's Cactus Tour and the Duramed Futures Tour.

  When Ian Campbell was looking for a place to play college football, there weren’t many suitors at the Div. 1 level. After being asked to become a preferred walk-on at Kansas State, he proved himself three times over with All-Big 12 selections in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons at both linebacker and on the defensive line.
    The ultimate blue-collar workhorse is going to have to do it again.

   With any Dodge City fighter, a connection to famed lawman Wyatt Earp couldn't hurt, right?
    A little research will show that the line of ancestry linking Earp to Dodge native Dion Stanley, which Stanley's promoter likes to throw around, is purely an in-the-ring legend. But the 31-year-old professional boxer still likes to throw a mean right hook first and ask questions later.
    Stanley won his fourth straight fight earlier this month against St. Joseph's (Mo.) Jeremy Parks at Harrah's Casino Voodoo Lounge in Kansas City, Mo. Stanley knocked Parks down in the second of four rounds before earning a unanimous decision.

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 The Dodge City High School Red Demon volleyball teams ran through a quadrangular match in Goodland Thursday and won eight of their nine matches. The varsity team went 3-0, the junior varsity went 2-1 and the freshman team swept its matches as well.

    Kansas heads to Tampa next week to face No. 17 South Florida in what figures to be the 14th-ranked Jayhawks’ first big test of the season.
    There is one little bit of business to take care of between now and then: Louisiana Tech.
    Normally, a game like this, against a smaller school from the Western Athletic Conference, would be nothing more than a tuneup for Kansas, a way to smooth things out before it really gets tough.
    This one’s got the Jayhawks’ attention.

Victor Martinez reached base four times in his return to catching, helping the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 9-3 Friday night for their 10th straight road win.
    The Indians had been bringing Martinez along slowly after the two-time All-Star catcher had elbow surgery on June 13. He was activated from the disabled list on Aug. 31 and had struggled at the plate, going 3-for-15 in five games.

Kansas’ historic season didn’t go unappreciated.
    A crowd of 52,112, a record for 88-year-old Memorial Stadium, showed up for the season opener and watched the No. 14 Jayhawks race past Florida International, 40-10 on Saturday night.

    The Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday claimed two players off waivers, lineman Brian De La Puente from San Francisco and linebacker Erik Walden from Dallas.
    De La Puente, who played on the offensive line for California, entered the NFL this year as a rookie free agent with the 49ers. The 6-foot-3, 306-pounder earned honorable mention Pac 10 honors his senior year.

Kansas State coach Ron Prince stomped along the sideline, scowling, pointing, screaming at his players.
    Didn’t matter that his team was up by six touchdowns, against a small-conference team with one of the nation’s worst defenses a year ago. Thirteen months since his team’s last victory, Prince wanted a win. Really bad.
    Josh Freeman made sure he got it, throwing two of his three touchdown passes to Brandon Banks and running for two more scores to help Kansas State win another easy home opener Saturday night, 45-6 over North Texas.