High heat, drop kicks, random observations and points that amuse are all part of the wide, wide world of sports at the community and national levels.Aug. 2 was a near-perfect day for me.That morning, newspaper colleagues Miranda Jamison (a.k.a., “MJ”) and Micah Dillman (a.k.a., “Micafer”), and I visited Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph. If you follow pro football, then you probably know that’s where the Kansas City Chiefs have held their annual summer training camp for more than a decade. We decided we’d go, in part, so we could share our memories of our trip on a soon-to-be-published episode of “Ray County Voices,” the podcast series The Excelsior Springs Standard produces in partnership with its sister newspaper, the Richmond News.It was a blast! The enjoyment started with the trip from Excelsior Springs, where we had agreed to gather to carpool, to the practice fields, located near Craig Field a...