Page 6 - Greg Echlin News Today

Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports anchor and a radio sportscaster in Salina, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1984 and has been there since covering sports. Through the years, he has covered multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours and Major League Baseball's World Series and All-Star games...

Segment 2, beginning at 29:49: Suggestions for a complete day of Super Bowl feasting! The predicted cold front descending on the metro may put the kibosh on firing up the grill or maybe you need some sides to go with your main course. The Food Critics are loaded with recommendations of area eateries with takeout options to save the day! Danielle Lehman, host of the Open Belly podcast and creator of Curbside KC Carlton Logan, co-administrator of the “Kansas City Eats” Facebook group Copyrigh...

/ Segment 1, beginning at 4:54: Hearing Kellyanne Conway utter the now famous phrase pushed one professor to create a course for determining fact from fiction. In defending a higher crowd number at Donald Trumps inauguration, Conway laid the foundation that kicked off four years of the president disparaging mainstream media as "fake news." Prof. Erika Martin is teaching her students the work it takes to get truthful information. Segment 2, beginning at 29:36: Patrick Mahomes has been in...

/ Segment 1, beginning at 5:02: COVID-19 is delaying some office building deals but several residential projects have opened during the pandemic. Whats driving development in Kansas City, Missouri could be a side-effect of the work from home culture that has sprung up since last February or it could be related to the upcoming expansion of the streetcar line. We review the latest building projects in the city. Kevin Collison, editor and publisher of CitySceneKC Segment 2, beginning at 32...