Author: Jeff Jacobsen

Look past the wheelchairs, the unusual ramps, the pointers attached to heads and the various communication devices that are all…

As the sun began to set on the second game of a softball doubleheader featuring Sabetha High School hosting Perry-Lecompton…

This odd recipe created a morning of fun on April 2 at Troy High School. The event organizers, trying to raise funds to enhance the school’s end-of-the-school-year academic and athletic banquet, chose dodgeball and teams showed up to help the school’s dedicated parents get closer to their goal.

Two quarterbacks dropped back and fired passes to receivers running short curl-in patterns. Every pass was thrown hard and zipped…

Please be aware that there is one photograph showing a fighter with a bloody nose in the attached gallery.  My…

The Seaman Vikings celebrated like all Kansas state basketball champions did last Saturday. They had just won the 5A Boys…

Start with a wrestler’s celebratory lift and roll of his coach onto the mat. Then, add a three-time state champion…

As I drove to Sunrise Christian Academy last Friday, the size of the school surprised me. I expected a lavish…

Hello. I realize time has flown by since my last post. There are some long-term uncompleted photo projects involved in…

Just living in today’s crazy, mixed-up world is challenging enough. Yet, some find the need to overcome obstacles in their…

Hang a map of Kansas on the wall. Then, close your eyes and throw a dart at the map. Unless…

Stepping into Southwestern College’s Stewart Field House proves that growing old can be a beautiful thing. I felt utterly transported…

The photographs accompanying this short story have everything to do with the immense expectation I set for myself and The…

This is a story about football, but before I can detail the fun Laura and I shared covering two high…

These photographs come from the 10th annual Winter Wonderland 5K Run/Walk at Topeka’s Lake Shawnee on November 20. The race…

On November 18, the Kansas State High School Activities Association hosted the Unified Bowling Inaugural State Championship. The 15 teams…

In the fall of 2016, Shawnee Mission-Bishop Miege captured their fifth state 4-1A boys soccer title dating back to 1998….

The bizarre-looking photographs that highlight this story come from a simple feeling. Sometimes this photographer just wants to have fun….

How fitting that Dodge City, known for its wild west heritage, hosted the Wild West Bowl, the championship game of…

A look at photographs from the Kansas State 2A Volleyball Championship and semi-final matches reveals one of the great joys…

Most Kansans’ exposure to gymnastics comes once every four years during the Summer Olympics. However, it is essential to know…

To photograph cricket for the first time in my career took some work. Laura joined me for the trip to…

“Ok, riders, random start. Riders ready? Watch the gate.”  A BMX bicycle rider’s life is built around those words as…

When the PRIDE of Kansas Football League formed in 2014, the thought was to take the growing interest in tackle…

Needing fuel, I stopped at the lone gas station in Lebanon following my time at the Geographic Center of the…

During an August road trip, Laura and I passed by the Hanover High School football field.

In August 2009, Frank Halsey began secretly creating mountain bike single-track trails through the dense woods …

The game of Pickleball is deceiving.

Last Thursday, Laura and I were on an evening ride southeast of Topeka

For a sport that played its first matches in Kansas in 1917 and was certified as a club in 1930, it is hard to imagine a lesser-known sport in the state than polo.

Last Thursday, Clint Bowen proved once again just what it means for himself and his family to live and work in Lawrence.

Throughout my long photography career, many great sports traditions have left an indelible mark on me.

If we are honest with ourselves, the truth is that all of us driving a car have more than once wanted to crash into a rude or dangerous driver.

During the week of May 24-29, if my math is correct, the Kansas State High School Athletics Association (KSHSAA) held 26 sports championships.

I get a wonderful feeling when I photograph an event marked by a long heritage and a continual pedigree of champions.

There was one event that was an absolute, can’t miss event for my project – The Flint Hills Rodeo.

There are two reasons I held back the soccer photographs that could have gone with the story from my last post highlighting late May state champions.

Most golfers desire to stay out of the bunkers lining fairways and dotted around greens.

A man throwing horseshoes inside Gage Park in the 50s is a memory that has stuck with me all my life.

This post is the beginning of six that will come from eight days of coverage of nine events in various counties of Kansas.

While covering a rugby match on a rainy day in a lush, wooded setting in Vermont …

Unless you are an opponent, it is tough not to like the Topeka High softball team.

Over time as the rural population of Kansas shifted and shrunk, school districts in the state began melding older high schools in small towns into one unified modern high school.

Standing behind a row of motocross bikes readying for the start of a race is a full-on sensory overload.

My Heart & Soul travels took me to Leavenworth County and Chieftain Park …

By a wide margin, I have photographed basketball more than any other sport in my soon-to-be 52 years of photography.

Washburn Rural’s wrestling team dominated the Kansas 6A Boy’s State Championship.

During the second season of Kansas Girls State Wrestling, I was treated to quite a sight.

The best the state of Kansas offers showed off their impressive work inside the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center

The whirl of activity at last Saturday’s USA Powerlifting Star City Showdown suddenly came to a halt.

The United States Postal Service long boasts of its ability to deliver the mail no matter the weather.

Last Friday, steady 25 mph winds out of the northwest drove the wind chill index to a bitter 18 degrees during the early afternoon in Topeka.

It took an epiphany to save a Wichita prep wrestling meet.

Picking a state football championship to photograph would generally be challenging.

Laura and I chose the 1A state football semi-final between Lyndon and Olpe because it was a much-anticipated rematch between two good teams.

I am not much of a mathematics whiz, but the Madison/Hamilton 34-24 victory over home team Canton-Galva on November 13, proved to me that eight players on each team was the perfect number.

What I will long remember while photographing the 6A Boys State Soccer Championship are the faces of the Dodge City players throughout the match.

It has been a very long time since I last photographed a girls’ Kansas State Volleyball Tournament.

Highland Park football coach Mike Foristiere believes that coaching the Scots is “a process.”

In every sport, players begin at ground level. Since I started my project on Kansas sports at ground level, coach-pitch tee-ball baseball seemed the perfect place to swing away with my cameras.

In January 1957, a new product rolled out to change the way Americans looked at casual fun.

In the vast world of bicycle racing with events ranging from short sprints to epic endurance events, one challenge maintains mystical prestige – the hour record.

Five blocks from our home in the Old Town section of Topeka sits Faith Temple Church and its school.

The official USA Cycling website lists 26 velodromes spread over 21 states. The “World Famous” Lawrence Grass Velodrome is not one of them.