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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Super Bowl LIV (54) pits the Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers. No matter what happens during Sunday's big game in Miami, one native Kansan will make sporting history of her own. Katie Sowers will become the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl. Even though Sowers is an assistant coach for the 49ers, she grew up in Hesston, Kansas, and has an image of the Kansas City skyline tattooed on her arm. Greg Echlin has more on the 33-year-old woman, one of just three women coaches in the NFL.https://www.chiefs.com/ -
A fight broke out toward the end of Tuesday night's Sunflower Showdown, the annual, in-state, rivalry game between KU and K-State. The 3rd-ranked Kansas Jayhawks defeated K-State 81-to-60, but it was the ugly brawl at the end of the game in Lawrence that captured everyone's attention. As Greg Echlin reports, the contest was all but over when a fight erupted involving players and coaches from both teams. -
The Kansas City Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl in Miami on February 2. -
Kansas State football head coach Chris Klieman is taking the Wildcats to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on New Year’s Eve. This is Klieman’s first season as K-State’s head coach, making him one of only eight "first year" coaches who are taking their teams to a bowl game this season. -
The KU Jayhawks struggled through another disappointing season but players say they are optimistic about the team's future under new head coach Les Miles. -
Making your way to the Benedictine College campus in Atchison, you can’t help but encounter the city's most famous figure: aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A bridge and highway leading into town bear her name. But this small town has room for more than one hero. And for the past four decades, Ravens football coach Larry Wilcox has been the local legend living in the limelight. -
About a thousand fans, friends, and family gathered at the University of Kansas Lied Center to remember broadcaster Max Falkenstien, the "voice of the Jayhawks." Falkenstien died July 29th, 2019, following 60 years of calling KU basketball and football. He was remembered at Saturday's event by KU basketball coach Bill Self, broadcasting partner Bob Davis, granddaughter Kate Falkenstien, and others.
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Max Falkenstien spent decades broadcasting sports for the University of Kansas. Family, friends and colleagues will gather this weekend to share stories and recall memories of the late KU broadcaster. A celebration of his life will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the Lied Center. KPR's Greg Echlin offers his own remembrance in this report. -
Topeka native Gary Woodland has won his first career major golf tournament title by capturing the 119th U.S. Open. Woodland is a former star athlete at Shawnee Heights High School, Washburn University and the University of Kansas. -
Disc golf enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Emporia last week for one of the sport's major events.
