WRITER: Benton Smith

Notebook: Jayhawks dealing with non-COVID illnesses; Jossell returns

Kansas freshman K.J. Adams missed a game for the first time this season on Saturday, when he didn’t suit up for the Jayhawks’ home game versus Stephen F. Austin due to an illness. KU head coach Bill Self said it was a non-COVID illness. “KJ hasn’t felt well in a couple days,” Self said. “I’m not saying we’ve got a bug going through our team, but it’s been a weird couple of days,” the coach ...

'He's a gamer': Remy Martin nails clutch 3 to help KU survive vs. Stephen F. Austin

A late-game Remy Martin 3-pointer helped the No. 8-ranked Kansas basketball team survive a scare Saturday night against Stephen F. Austin at Allen Fieldhouse. The 80-72 victory was a hands on hips or face in palms type of night for head coach Bill Self. “It didn’t have to be that way,” Self said of the Lumberjacks giving KU such fits. “If we’d have played better and smarter I think we could have had ...

KU football to kick off 2022 season on a Friday

Whether it will become a new Kansas football tradition remains to be seen, but for the second straight season the Jayhawks will kick off their schedule with a Friday night home opener in 2022. KU announced this week that Lance Leipold’s second season as head coach will begin one day earlier than previously scheduled. Originally slated for the first Saturday in September of next year, KU’s opener versus ...

Bill Self hopeful vaccinations and boosters will keep KU basketball from having COVID pause this season

As COVID-19 cases among players in the NFL, NBA, NHL and college basketball in recent days have games being postponed and rescheduled, Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self is knocking on wood while feeling “fortunate” that the Jayhawks haven’t yet encountered such issues. “We’ll probably have to deal with it at some point in time this year. I hope not,” Self said on Friday, while speaking with ...

Transfer portal a source of depth and experience for KU football

When head coach Lance Leipold and his staff took over the Kansas football program this past May, they knew recruiting for the 2022 class would be slow-going at first, given the timing of the transition and only a handful of months left before the early signing period arrived. It didn’t take long for them to adapt and embrace the possibilities that the NCAA’s transfer portal had to offer. Especially once ...

'The whole package': Why KU football targeted prep QB Ethan Vasko out of Virginia

When the Kansas football staff determined the Jayhawks needed to add a high school quarterback to their 2022 recruiting class, the coaches already had Ethan Vasko in mind. After Vasko and five other prospects signed with KU on Wednesday, head coach Lance Leipold said the staff actually began evaluating Vasko, a standout QB from Chesapeake, Virginia, while the coaches were still at Buffalo. QBs coach Jim ...