On Wednesday’s edition of The Game, Derek Young from K-State Online joins the program and Mitch and AJ discuss K-State baseball’s victory over West Virginia in the Big 12 Tournament.
Author: AJ Shaw
AJ Shaw
Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, AJ joined KMAN in the Summer of 2023 and is currently a news/sports reporter, producer and host of Scoreboard Saturday. You can contact him at aj@1350kman.com.
On Tuesday’s edition of the Game, Mitch recaps K-State’s loss to KU and looks ahead to tomorrow’s matchup against WVU and says it is a must-win. Plus Jabroni of the Week and Rashee Rice got some good news finally.
After coming up just 420 votes short in 2022 of unseating incumbent State representative Mike Dodson, Kim Zito announced her candidacy for a rematch this November in the 67th legislative district. Zito says she is running again at the urging of her husband. “I came up short two years ago,” she said, “And when I came home that night from the election watch party, my lovely husband told me I needed to do this again.” She further explained her reasoning saying that the legislature is not representing the views of the 67th district. “In the course of the two years…
On Monday’s edition, former KMAN sports directors and hosts of the show Brian Smoller and John Kurtz join the program as Brian discusses K-State baseball’s tourney hopes and John talks about the big court case House v. NCAA that could be decided this week.
The Riley County Law Board approved a motion on Monday to publish a budget that will be officially voted on at their meeting next month. After initially presenting last month a budget of $28.9 million, with an increase of 6.6%, RCPD presented other options Monday, showing reduced asks, totaling between 5 and 6 percent. The Law Board ultimately selected option 2, totaling a 5.88% increase, amounting to $28.5 million. The total dollar amount increase is approximately $1.8 million. Debate on Monday centered around funding for school resource officers. Board member Kaleb James led the argument saying that while SROs are important,…
Manhattan area lawmakers took part in a legislative forum, hosted Thursday by the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce. Medicaid expansion failed again and each of the Manhattan delegation shared their thought on the topic, which has long been pushed by Gov. Laura Kelly. Kansas remains just one of nine states to not have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. State Rep. Mike Dodson expressed frustration with it not being passed. “We had Medicaid expansion heard in committee,” he said. “I would equate that whole process to a mock trial.” State Rep. Kenny Titus held a different view on the…
The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce held its monthly military relations luncheon on Friday with its featured speaker being retired Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Tony Grinston who was recently appointed the CEO of Army Emergency Reserve. Grinston served 36 years in the Army before retiring last November. He has ties to the Flint Hills, being stationed on Fort Riley from 2013 to 2015 being apart of the Big Red One Soldiers. Grinston said he and his family still have many friends in the area and he said he always experienced kindness from people in the community during his…
Gov. Laura Kelly has once again vetoed a legislative proposal for broad tax cuts, the third veto this year. Her action Thursday all but guarantees a special session to be called as the legislature and governor continue to work toward a compromise. The plans included cutting income, sales and property taxes by a total of $1.45 billion or more over the next three years. Prior to Thursday’s announcement, the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce hosted Manhattan area lawmakers who weighed in on the session’s biggest debate this year. State Senator Usha Reddi says the fundamental disagreement on the bipartisan tax…
A Manhattan man is in jail on Wednesday following a Tuesday night arrest on a probable cause arrest for criminal damage to property. 35-year-old Mason Randolph was arrested in the 2400 block of Brockman Street at approximately 10:45pm on Tuesday on a single count of criminal destruction to property with a value anywhere between $1,000 and $25,000. He was also charged with a single count of violating a protection order. Randolph was previously arrested in March on a charge of aggravated domestic battery which is believed to have lead to the protection order. He remains confined in the Riley County…
On Monday’s edition of The Game, is KU headed to the SEC? Also, another edition of Stump the Shaw and Royals pitcher Seth Lugo is a stud.