It was a good year for a breakthrough. Just ask some of the Valley's top teams and two of its former football stars.

Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame named its induction class for ...

A new — and yet to be named — summer collegiate league baseball team that will be playing in Joplin starting in May announced Monday that it had hired Octavio Sanchez as manager. Sanchez, a new ...

Mo'ne Davis, a Little League World Series standout, was selected 10th overall in the inaugural Women's Pro Baseball League draft, continuing her journey in America's pastime and marking a major ...

Jeremiah Smith and the Ohio State Buckeyes won’t be the school’s first back-to-back national champions, and the College Football Playoff still doesn’t have a winner from teams with the first-round ...

Jed Miller scored a career-high 24 points in the men's home victory, and Issy Bunyan scored 21 points to lead the women in a win on the road.