Tony Wrisinger - Co Owner

Tony Wrisinger begins his twelfth year with Vision Sports. On Football Fridays he hosts the Adam’s Dairy Bank Game Night Pre Game Show during the Vision Sports broadcasts. He did the Sideline Reports from 2000-2009. In 2010 he will work behind the scenes during the in-game broadcasts. Tony resides in Blue Springs with his wife Tracy, and their children Andy (19), Olivia (6) and Eleanor (2). 

In addition to being one of the co-owners of Vision Sports, Tony founded and is the owner of Sideliner Sports, which produces the Sonic Locker Room Radio program that airs throughout the school year on 1030 AM KCWJ. The Sonic Locker Room is a series of eight (8) half-hour radio programs solely devoted to the eight public high schools in Blue Springs, Independence, Grain Valley and Oak Grove. The Sonic Locker Room is hosted by Bill Althaus of the Examiner and airs from 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Monday through Thursday on KCWJ and the archived shows can be heard at www.soniclockerroom.com

Tony is also proud to work or have worked with organizations such as the Kansas City Royals and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. He founded the State Farm Legends Luncheon Series in 2000 which raised over $150,000 for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum during its ten year run.

Tony is honored to work with a great staff of people at Vision Sports such as Brian Johnston, Dale Carter, Tim Crone, Buddy Young, Rich Montgomery, Bob Watson, Kevin Hornick and Myron Thomas. “They are all true professionals and overall wonderful people.  They are the ones that make Vision Sports the best at what we do!” 

Dale Carter

There is another side to KFKF’s morning drive co-host Dale Carter.  He has a passion for football and doing the play-by-play for those games.  Since 2005, Dale has been the voice of the Blue Springs Wildcats and Blue Springs South Jags.  In that time he has called two state championship games for South and one for Blue Springs!!  Twice in that time frame, Dale and the Vision Sports team has been honored by the Missouri Broadcasters as the Best Large Market Play-by-Play team!

Prior to coming to Kansas City in 1995, Dale was the voice of high school football and basketball in Evansville, Indiana, for 8 years and spent a year as the voice of the University of Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles basketball team.

Dale is an 15-year resident of Blue Springs.  In addition to everything else in his life, he sits on the Blue Springs City Council representing the 1st District and is the stadium voice for the Kansas City Chiefs.  His wife Lisa is the News Director at KMBZ in Kansas City.  They have four sons.  Matt and Nick graduated from Blue Springs High School and their youngest, Jonathan, is a junior at Blue Springs and a member of the Blue Springs Golden Regiment Marching Band. 

Tim Crone

I received my first teaching and coaching job at Washington High School in the fall of 1973. I served as Head Baseball and Assistant Football Coach. In 1974 the Washington baseball team won its first conference championship. The Blue Jays won the 3A State Championship in football and was state runner up in 1974. In 1986, I took a teaching and coaching job at Blue Springs High School. I served as Head Softball Coach and Defensive Coordinator for Football. I taught in the classroom and had testing duties for the counseling department. I coached softball for seven years, with a career record of 127-20. The teams won four conference championships. The football teams from 1986-1995 compiled a record of 82-27, winning eight straight conference championships, two state semi final round appearances, and one State Championship in 1992. I also served five years as Assistant Golf Coach and won two conference championships. In 1996 I served as Head Football Coach with a record of 10-1. We won the conference and district titles. I was named co-coach of the year by the Blue Springs Examiner. Ladell Betts was awarded the Simone Award for that year as the best football player in the Kansas City area. For the past thirteen years I have done the color with Brian Johnston for the Blue Springs High School home football games on Vision Sports. I have also worked for Team Sports doing the color on several football, baseball, basketball and boxing contests. I write a weekly column for the Blue Springs Examiner. I have been married to my wife, Helen for 31 years. We have two beautiful daughters, Kendra and Katie. Kendra is married and is a seventh grade teacher in the Blue Springs School District while Katie is a computer analyst with Quintiles.  I have three grandchildren: Brody (6), Aisley (1 and a half), and Bella (6 months).

Buddy Young

Buddy has been associated with high school football in Kansas City for a long time. He began his career in Blue Springs in the late 70’s as an assistant football and track coach at Blue Springs high school. After that he became the head football coach and athletic director of Grain Valley High School from 1984-88. From there he was head football coach of North Kansas City until 1995 when he became the head football coach and athletic director of Blue Springs South High School. Buddy had been broadcasting Blue Springs South football games as color commentator since 2001, the year after Greg Oder became head football coach. Broadcasting football games has kept him involved in the game that he devoted his coaching career to. He remained athletic director until his retirement in 2004.

Myron Thomas

Myron Thomas graduated with a bachelors of communications degree from Central Missouri State University in 1987 where he majored in broadcasting. While at CMSU, he worked at KCNW-FM. From 1988 to 1992 he worked at KCNW-AM 1380. Myron was a studio camera operator for KYFC-TV 50 and he was the defensive coordinator for the football team at Bishop Hogan High School from ’92 to ’93 before returning to KCNW. Myron left KCNW in ’98 to work for the Bott Radio Network. In ’99 Myron left Bott to become the program director at KCWJ-AM 1030. Also in ’99 he became the studio producer for Vision Sports. In 2002 Myron returned to the Bott Radio Network where he serves as a network board operator. Myron was an all conference lineman in high school. His high school tied for the conference championship for the first time in its history his senior season. Myron walked on during spring practice at CMSU his freshmen year. He’s engineered sports broadcasts for CMSU football and basketball, SMS basketball, Baker University football, high school hockey and Blue Springs and Blue Springs South basketball and baseball.

John Beaudoin

Blue Springs Journal publisher John Beaudoin got his start in the newspaper business on the sports desk. Beaudoin covered the University of Missouri-Kansas City athletics for three years before being named the Assistant Sports Editor of The Examiner in 1996. After five years on the sports and advertisings desks, Beaudoin helped launch SportsMontly, a Jackson County sports magazine featuring all things local – including high school, youth, adult and recreation sports and activities. After 10 years at The Examiner, he moved on southwest Iowa to take the Publisher position at the Logan Herald-Observer and Woodbine Twiner. In February of 2009, Beaudoin moved back to the Kansas City area to become Publisher of the Journal in Blue Springs and Lee’s Summit, both suburban properties of The Star.

Rich Montgomery and wife Mary have lived in the Blue Springs area for 20 years.  Rich is a long time Mizzou Tiger Fan and still to this day works for the University by heading up the "Chain Gang" for all Mizzou home games and also does the Big XII Championship games when they are held at Arrowhead.  Both sons, Jeff and Mark, are married and have a total of three children.  For those counting, that is three grandchildren for Rich.

After teaching and coaching for ten years, Rich became a State Farm agent and has been in Blue Springs for 20 years. 30 years altogether with State Farm.  Rich has been associated with Brian and Tony and Freddy for 13 years.  Rich loves to do the stats for Tim and/or Buddy as Dale does the hard work.   Rich looks forward to the Fall Football season both college and high school.