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Soccer icon Matt Besler: Other World Cup hosts are asking ‘How can we follow KC’s lead?’

Kansas City might be the smallest city hosting FIFA World Cup games this summer, but it’s already showing the other 15 cities how to lead the way, the former Sporting Kansas City superstar shared.

Why the Savannah Bananas founder is coming back to KC (with a tip of his hat to winning leadership styles)

Jesse Cole isn’t afraid to reimagine the way things are done in business, he shared, and his brand of Banana Ball is paying off. In the past nine years, the ringleader of the Savannah Bananas — baseball’s answer to the trick ball-handling and exhibition athleticism of the Harlem Globetrotters — has gone from selling his…