{"id":1169,"date":"2023-03-14T21:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluekc.com\/bluekcblog\/brief_articles\/1q-2023-sales-sporting\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T21:51:49","slug":"1q-2023-sales-sporting","status":"publish","type":"brief_articles","link":"https:\/\/www.bluekc.com\/blog\/brief_articles\/1q-2023-sales-sporting\/","title":{"rendered":"1Q 2023 Sales\/Sporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a cold February day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compassmineralsnpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Compass Minerals National Performance Center<\/a>, all eyes were on the Sporting Samaritan program. Sporting Samaritan winners, Sporting KC, school district leaders, and Blue KC talked about shared passions, the program, and the confluence of good that comes from it. 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