Sports editor Klint Spiller talks with Mike Hammett, the assistant news and sports director at Eagle Radio and the former editor-of-chief of The Leader in 2007-2008, and the two preview winter athletics.

What do you consider to be a true friend? Is it someone you can call to come get you when you’re stranded? Someone you can call at 3 a.m. who will wake up out of a dead sleep to talk to you about anything that could be bothering you? Someone who would drive you to work for a week while your car is in the shop? Do you know people like this?

I figured that most of Western Civilization knew how to behave in a movie theater, but that precious, delicate illusion was shattered the other day.

In a battle of offensive juggernauts, the Fort Hays State University football team simply coudn’t keep up.

At the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association cross country championships, the Fort Hays State University cross country teams walked away with only one All-MIAA honor.

Memorial Union director Bill Smriga has a picture hanging on his office wall for each of the student unions he has worked for.

The Fort Hays State University volleyball team returned home for the first time in more than six matches.

In the last three decades, Fort Hays State University has gone winless against Pittsburg State University, but also in that time, the Gorillas had never lost four games in conference, either.

When Fort Hays State University women’s basketball coach Tony Hobson watched junior point guard Jacie Hoyt go for a loose ball in a fall pick-up game, he saw danger looming.

Q: How did you get started painting?
A: I always wanted to become a studio major. I started because I wanted to make paintings that had that “wow” factor.