Greg Echlin
Greg Echlin is the sports reporter for KPR and KCUR. Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports anchor and a radio sportscaster in Salina, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1984 and has been there since covering sports. Through the years, he has covered multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours and Major League Baseball's World Series and All-Star games. With his high metabolism rate, Greg is able to enjoy a good meal and stay slim when he's not running around on the sports scene. He loves desserts, even making them. Cheesecakes, pies and parfaits are the most common around the Echlin household.
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The groundskeeping legend, known in the discipline as "The Sodfather," worked for the Kansas City Chiefs for 26 years. This week, the 94-year-old is in Glendale, Arizona, where he's hard at work preparing State Farm Stadium for the Super Bowl game and Rihanna's halftime show. -
College Football Hall of Famer John Hadl has died at the age of 82. He was a football star for the University of Kansas in his hometown of Lawrence before turning pro in the early 1960s. Hadl had a successful KU career playing quarterback, running back and punter. He then turned pro, as quarterback for the San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers and Houston Oilers. -
After a string of disappointing seasons the Pittsburg State football faithful have found confidence again. -
Roy Williams and Lon Kruger, two former basketball coaches with Kansas connections, are in the Class of 2022 for this weekend’s National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ceremony in Kansas City. -
Sherman signaled his intent to leave the team's home at the Truman Sports Complex when the current lease is up, saying a new ballpark would be a "far better investment." -
After a decade of losing football seasons, the Kansas Jayhawks seem to have finally turned a corner. The 5-and-1 Jayhawks are off to a great start this season and are ranked in the AP’s Top 25. But how long will the good times last? And will coach Lance Leipold stick around? -
Britt Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was facing a felony charge of drunk driving after crashing his Dodge Ram truck into two cars on the ramp of Interstate 435 in 2021. Reid will be sentenced in October. -
With Dawson at QB, the Chiefs lost in Super Bowl I, but beat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl IV. Dawson was the MVP. -
Sixteen years after his death, the former Monarch legend’s name, and memories of his personality and wisdom, are still being passed along in Kansas City. The ceremony is set for this weekend in Cooperstown, New York. -
The Flint Hills Rodeo in Strong City was once the longest, consecutively-held rodeo in the state of Kansas. The pandemic brought that to an end in 2020. But the Flint Hills Rodeo bounced back into action last year and again, last weekend. Greg Echlin rode down to Chase County to learn about the history of one of the state's biggest rodeos.
