The news around Kansas City sports has been bleak lately. The Kansas City Chiefs find themselves in the cellar of the AFC West with a 2-3 record. The Kansas City Royals season came to an end, missing the playoffs again having last gone in 2015 when they won the World Series.
Sporting Kansas City haven’t been quite so bleak. They are winners of two straight and four of their last five, but during the international break they got a spate of bad news. First, it was announced that midfielder Felipe Hernandez, who had missed significant time for “personal reasons,” had been suspended for the remainder of the 2021 season due to a sports betting controversy that included betting on two MLS games.