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Two years ago, the Cincinnati Bengals were the NFL’s worst team. Now they’re headed to the Super Bowl to play the Los Angeles Rams — in the Rams’ home stadium.

Winter is the best time of the year for spotting bald eagles. Of Kansas’ 28 state parks, 23 are situated near reservoirs, lakes or rivers, where eagles winter to feed on waterfowl and fish.

Ah, the exuberance of youth! A couple years back, I trapped coyotes for a couple weeks before deer firearms season in early December, with the poorest results since I was a beginning trapper. Meanwhile a young lad I mentored the year before continued to send me picture after picture of coyotes and bobcats he was catching. In the 2 ½ weeks I trapped, I caught only 5 coyotes and had to leave 4 properties because the landowners fenced them for grazing or knifedin nitrogen while I had traps there. I also seemed to enjoy trapping coyotes less that year than I can ever remember because the ground was so terribly hard and dry, making it miserable to get traps anchored in the cement-like soil and making it nearly necessary to extract them from the ground without a crane.

The Pratt girl’s and boy’s powerlifting teams had strong showings in a recent meet against Wellington. The girls finished fourth and the boys fifth overall.

Seven Pratt Wrestling Club student-athletes participated in PWC Elite testing on Monday night, with Jameson Grizzell (8U), Noah Ricke (8U) and Wyatt Ritz (10U) were named Elite Qualifiers. To make the Elite team, wrestlers must meet all of the following criteria: .

Pratt High School boys and girls basketball teams continued impressive play at the Hoisington Cardinal Winter Jam Tournament last week. The Greenbacks boys improved to 11-2 following a 53-45 championship game victory over Ellinwood Saturday.

KISMET, Kansas — As morning light creeps across this pasture, Bryan Garrison all but disappears into the High Plains landscape. Motionless and covered in camo, he reclines on a cushion next to a sagebrush.

The best time to overseed cool-season grasses such as tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass is September because the turf has more time to mature before crabgrass germination in the spring and the heat stress of summer. However, dormant seeding of turfgrass is sometimes used to help fill in bare spots of lawns that weren’t overseeded in the fall. Dormant seeding is normally not used to seed large areas because of the possibility of erosion before the seed emerges and becomes mature enough to hold the soil.

Seven Pratt Wrestling Club student-athletes participated in PWC Elite testing on Monday night, with Jameson Grizzell (8U), Noah Ricke (8U) and Wyatt Ritz (10U) were named Elite Qualifiers. To make the Elite team, wrestlers must meet all of the following criteria: .

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Patrick Mahomes found Travis Kelce in the corner of the end zone from 8 yards early in overtime, and the Kansas City Chiefs rallied to beat the Buffalo Bills 42-36 on Sunday night in a sizzling finish to a wild divisional-round weekend.