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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Kansas faces Villanova Saturday at the NCAA's Final Four match-up in New Orleans. This is KU's 16th appearance in the Final Four. -
Rocky Lamar, head men's basketball coach at MidAmerica Nazarene in Olathe, has retired after 36 years of coaching. Lamar racked up more than 800 career victories. -
Some baseball historians say today’s pandemic is almost a repeat of what happened 100 years ago in Kansas City. -
Some might say it’s been a long time coming. But basketball coaching legend Eddie Sutton has finally been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Though he was born in southwest Kansas. Sutton made a name for himself coaching teams in other states. Even though he never played for - or coached at - the University of Kansas, he still left a mark on the KU basketball program. KPR’s Greg Echlin explains. -
The KU women’s swimming and diving team had its best performance ever at the Big 12 championships this year, finishing second - just behind eight-time defending champion Texas. In an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, the season ended abruptly for the KU women's swim team. Despite their amazing success, Jayhawk swimmers remained largely in the shadow of the men's basketball team. KPR's Greg Echlin reports. -
Remember sports? Tonight (TUE) in Kansas City, the NAIA tournament title game would have determined a national champion. But because of the coronavirus, that won't happen. Greg Echlin tells us more about what's in store for the NAIA. -
The Emporia State University Lady Hornets will travel to Central Missouri later this week as a number-4 seed in one of the eight NCAA regionals played around the country. -
Former Kansas State offensive lineman Scott Frantz, of Lawrence, has been preparing for the NFL Combine next week. Frantz could become the first openly gay player in NFL history. -
Less than two weeks after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, pitchers and catchers for the Kansas City Royals are now reporting for spring training. This season, the Royals begin working under a new owner, John Sherman. For him, the centerpiece of the sports world wasn’t always baseball. It was football. As Greg Echlin reports, Sherman stays connected to it. -
The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions again after beating the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20. The city is planning a parade for Wednesday to celebrate the long-awaited victory.