On the corner of Lillian Avenue and Beacon Drive sits a yellow, two-story house in north St. Louis, Missouri. The area has seen a history of severe gun violence, including several high-profile homicides, and a 16-year-old was murdered last July while riding his bike nearby. Freddie and Rosie Patterson have resided in the house for more than 50 years, and they refuse the overtures of their youngest son, Cory Patterson, to relocate them to a safer location. Freddie is blind and Rosie had a stroke, but the place is home. Young men mow their yard and trim bushes.
Collin Klein, on his 200th day on the job as Kansas State head football coach — a whirlwind six-month journey featuring little sleep and lots of detailed step-by-step planning — made an announcement at the Wichita Catbackers event on Monday afternoon.
The Manhattan skies are clear and the track is hot as Tah Chikomba, who owns the longest long jump in the world since 2019 and whose jump of 8.75 meters (28 feet, 8.5 inches) in the NCAA West Preliminary ranks eighth longest in world history, makes his way over to second-year Kansas State jumps coach Clive Pullen, who represented Jamaica in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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