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ST. LOUIS — Legendary Vashon High School basketball Head Coach Tony Irons is making the leap to the college level. Irons will take over as head coach at Mineral Area College in Park Hills, Missouri. He will replace former Head Coach Greg Heiar, now with Trinity Valley Community College.

It’s difficult to overstate the impact St. Louis CITY SC has had on the St. Louis sports landscape. In just a year, the club has garnered fans who come from near and far, showing up early to soak in every bit of the experience. The same could be said for its innovative CITY Flavor program, which breaks the rules on what stadium food can be, showcasing a wide variety of cuisines from more than 25 local restaurants on the CITYPARK campus.

The United Football League will host the 2024 UFL Championship in St. Louis. Tickets officially go on sale next week.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis City SC midfielder Eduard Löwen told reporters at a news conference Thursday that his wife has been diagnosed with brain cancer. “It was kind out of nowhere,” Löwen said to reporters. “My wife has had serious health issues. It got worse and worse, and then she ended up having surgery. […]

The St. Louis baseball world lost a gem last weekend. Coach Ric Lessmann passed away at age 86. He had a career worth remembering.

News Weather Watch Traffic Sports Contests Studio STL Jobs Connect. The Urban League braves the rainy weather for their grill-to-glory kick-off rally.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - St. Louis CITY SC midfielder and playmaker Eduard Löwen announced Thursday that his wife, Ilona Löwen, was diagnosed with cancer, which extended his absence from the team following his hamstring injury from March. Löwen made the announcement during a press briefing...

Kansas Christian College, in Overland Park, is bucking a trend. In a collegiate sport where African American representation is in short supply, almost a third of the private school’s student-athletes in baseball are Black. “It’s been our mission, in the very beginning when I was hired to take on...

Young children, ages 11 and 12, face the troubling statistic of being ten times more likely to drown. But one swim team is combating this trend.

It's a big deal for the Bears to host a regional, and this team is loaded from top to bottom with impact players.

With an opportunity to clinch a spot in the United Football League playoffs, the St. Louis Battlehawks aren’t giving up on quarterback AJ McCarron playing on Sunday against the D.C. Defenders. The former Alabama All-American sustained an ankle injury during the Battlehawks’ 30-26 loss to the Birmingham Stallions on...

ST. LOUIS – Before Caitlin Clark even stepped on a WNBA court, her impact was felt. Ticket sales are up 93% from last year, according to Forbes, and a lot of that has to do with Clark. “It’s slowly been on the incline, on the rise and now it’s just boomed,” St. Louis Surge Head Coach Petra Jackson […]

The Knights finished fifth with 91.5 points at the MIAC Outdoor Championships, turning in many strong performances, including All-MIAC (1-3 individual and relay) and All-MIAC Honorable Mention (4-6 individual and 4th place relay). Katie Hirsche `25 scored two points with a seventh-place finish in the 10,000-meter event, Aliya Larsen `26 scored two points with eighth-place finishes in the 1500-meter event (a PB of 4:49.72) and the 5,000-meter event, Riley Roberts `24 ran as part of the 4×100-meter relay (tied for sixth with a season’s best of 50.266), 4×400-meter relay, and placed eighth in the 100-meter event (12.74, a PB). The team’s All-MIAC performances included Sophie McManus’ win in the 3000-meter steeplechase (10:45.1, second all-time at Carleton and a likely NCAA qualifier) and a sixth-place finish for honorable mention in the 1500-meter run. Libby Rowland `25 ran as part of the 4×800-meter relay who were the runner-ups and was the runner-up in the steeplechase (11:20.49, a PB), Mary Blanchard `24 was second in the 800-meter run (2:11.57, a season’s best), fourth in the 1500-meter run, and ran as part of the 4×400 relay. Lara Erickson `25 finished fifth in the 800-meter event (2:16.61, a PB) and ran as part of the runner-up 4×800-meter relay. Hannah Preisser `26 finished sixth in the 10,000 meters and fourth in the 5,000 meters. Phoebe Ward `24 ran a PB of 35:54.26 for third in the 10,000 meters and also placed third in the 5,000 meters. Helen Cross `24 finished third in the 1,500-meter run and second in the 5,000-meter run. Nora Daley `27 and Alice Cutter `24 ran as part of the 4×800-meter relay. Up next for individually qualified Knights is the NCAA Outdoor Championships on May 23-25. Blanchard ran the 800, finishing ninth in 2:12.03, and Ward ran a 10,000-meter race solo, setting a meet record to finish out her Carleton career, in Illinois at the Augustana Last Chance meet on May 15.