Recent Articles

Recent Articles By Justin Kendall

  • The Sex Police
    An anti-porn crusader wants Kansas City juries to redefine what's obscene.
  • End Zone
    A generation of pro football players gave their bodies to the NFL. Now, they have to beg the NFL for some health Insurance.
  • The Search for the Garden of Eden
    Mitt Romney and his fellow mormons believe that Adam ate the forbidden fruit in Independence.
  • Sicko Junior
    Kidney cancer killed Julie Pierce's husband. Now she fears it will claim her 15-year-old son.
  • The Dimwit D.A.
    As Johnson County's top prosecutor, Phill Kline has been a disaster.

National Features

  • Houston Press
    "It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"

    For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.

    By Chris Vogel
  • SF Weekly
    The Candidate

    Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.

    By Matt Smith
  • Village Voice
    Project Runaway

    What becomes a gossip columnist most?

    By Michael Musto

Shawn Catlin was fed up with corporate kickball. The league was too disorganized, too pricy and too competitive. So Catlin decided to start a Kansas City kickball chapter of the Midwestern Unconventional Sports Association. Now he extends an open invitation to kickballers and drinkers for a free pickup game tonight at 7 at Rosedale Park (4000 Mission Road in Kansas City, Kansas). Players may register there for Catlin’s new league, which kicks off in late August. Games are tentatively slated for Friday nights this fall, but Catlin is open to suggestions. He stresses that the new league is a “social” one. That’s clear from the logo emblazoned on MUSA’s big red balls — a smiling ball clutching a foamy beer as if in toast. “We’re just out to have fun,” Catlin tells the Pitch. “It’s not professional kickball.” Registration for a team of 15 costs $500 (about $33 a person). For more information, see musakickball.com.

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