Kansas City is awash in red as the Chiefs approach a new season of super-sized possibilities. But have they cut corners on player character? Whither baseball’s Royals, reverted from World Series champions to all-too-persistent losers, and the local college triumvirate of KU, K-State, and Mizzou?

Will the city ever get a downtown baseball stadium? Should it give up on pro basketball? On big-league hockey?

The Kansas City Star’s two award-winning sports columnists, Vahe Gregorian and Sam Mellinger, sit down with veteran Star reporter Blair Kerkhoff to assess the local sports scene—the good, the bad, the questions and concerns both on and off the field.