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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Both the Kansas Jayhawks and the K-State Wildcats will represent Kansas as Number 4 seeds in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which begins this week. -
The Kansas City Chiefs continue to make personnel change, including the release of veteran safety Eric Berry. -
David Beaty, the former head football coach at the University of Kansas, has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Kansas Athletics in which he's seeking $3 million. -
Coaches from all 32 NFL teams will evaluate the country’s top college players eligible for the upcoming NFL draft. -
Long-time sportscaster Tom Hedrick has called the play-by-play action for all kinds of sports at the college level and in the big leagues! The broadcaster made his final call Wednesday night and then hung up his microphone. KPR's Greg Echlin has some highlights from Hedrick's legendary career. -
The Monday night game was round two of the annual "Sunflower Showdown." The K-State Wildcats won the first game of the two-part series in Manhattan earlier this month. -
Lagerald Vick has left the team for “personal matters that require immediate attention.” There is no timetable for his return. Vick is KU’s second leading scorer this season. -
K-State’s win broke an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry. The Jayhawks will have another chance when the Wildcats visit Lawrence on February 25. -
University of Kansas basketball coach Bill Self says the university will continue to work to have Silvio De Sousa’s penalty reduced. -
The University of Kansas men's basketball team was dealt a major blow, when the NCAA declared forward Silvio DeSousa ineligible for the remainder of this season and the 2019-2020 season. KU, which has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the case, indicated in a statement that it would appeal the ruling.
