Football predictions

Week 1 football predictions Mark Shelton Dodge City Daily Globe The start…

DCCC: Men’s soccer moves to 3-0 with win over Southeast

Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Three-straight wins to open the season is the best start for the Dodge City men’s soccer program since the 2012 season as the Conquistadors picked up a 3-0 win over Southeast to move to 3-0 on the season. The first half would be back-and-forth and both teams had some looks, but neither would be able to breakthrough leaving the game scoreless headed into halftime.

2022 pre-season volleyball rankings

The Kansas Volleyball Association is pleased to announce the 2022 pre-season volleyball rankings. Current classifications for the rankings are based on enrollments from the 2021-22 school year, and the rankings will be adjusted when the updated classifications are released at the end of September.

DCCC: Volleyball posts 4-0 performance at Trinidad State tournament

Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Dodge city volleyball team traveled to Trinidad, Colorado, and posted a 4-0 weekend at the Trinidad State Tournament to move to 5-2 on the season. The Conquistadors opened the tournament on Friday with a four-set win over Casper (WY) 25-19, 25-18, 19-25, 25-22 and capped Friday with another four-set win beating Otero 25-12, 25-22, 23-25, 25-16.

Narcissist mother inspires ‘no contact’ effort

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: I wish to go “no contact” with my mother. She is a narcissist who does everything in her power to gaslight, avoid blame, and will never acknowledge her behavior as anything other than “joking.” I have worked with a few therapists over the years who have helped me to protect myself from her abuse and understand where it’s coming from.

Clay Wallin, Heartland Game Birds

Ron Wilson Director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development This Kansas business is for the birds – gamebirds, that is. Today we’ll meet a young ruralpreneur who has created a business of raising pheasants and guiding pheasant hunts in his home region of rural Kansas.

A walk with Dad

It was about this time several years ago, when our part of the country was bone-dry like today, that I took what was probably my last outdoor hike with our dad. I swooped him up at his retirement home apartment and we headed to the McPherson Valley Wetlands just outside Inman for a hike. The trails had recently been mowed making the walking easy, but I had to measure my steps so my long legs didn’t out-distance him. We stopped on the first rise and I pointed out all the marshes that were now dry and the ones that still held water. Next, we meandered down into one dry pool along the trail where I had trapped muskrats the prior winter. We looked over a now flattened muskrat hut that had once seemed as big as a Volkswagen. We could still make out a muskrat trail in the mud that led from one big bunch of cattails to another. A little further, and we topped the dike along the drainage ditch that runs nearly a mile to the next road and drains all the marshes along the way, but was now so dry the ducks have to hitchhike down it. Just behind us, the drainage split as it made its way around a large grove of trees. The previous winter at that place there had been a long beaver dam that had since been demolished with heavy equipment. We stepped over the left-over rubble from that beaver dam and down into the dry drainage ditch. It was fascinating to think that the previous winter the water was deep enough where we stood that I hesitated to wade into it with chest waders. We found a beaver den or two dug into the bank deep in the bottom of the dry drainage. Bottles, tree limbs and strangely enough a bright yellow golf ball all lay in the mud waiting to be covered once again when the rain came. The grove of trees harbored mammoth cottonwoods probably as old as dad and I together. We clamored up out of the dry ditch, meandered through the trees and onto the road that led us back to the truck.