The Kansas men’s basketball team benefited from a flagrant foul call against TCU in the final minute during its 83-81 win in Allen Fieldhouse. And while that call will certainly command much of the conversation following Saturday’s Big 12 opener, the sequence leading up to the foul was just as much of the story. Facing a 79-77 deficit with a minute to go, Kansas senior Kevin McCullar Jr. tried to force the ...
When Free State's soccer players take the field this school year, they'll be led by a new coach who's had decades of experience leading club, high school and college soccer teams. Earlier this week, Joe Waldron was named the new head coach of the boys and girls soccer programs at FSHS. He comes to Free State after 10 years as an assistant for Mill Valley High School's girls and boys programs, and he was the ...
When former Jayhawk Gleb Dudarev squares off against some of the best hammer throwers in the world in the Olympics, he’ll have a lifetime of experience — and a long family history — backing him up. The 24-year-old thrower, who is representing his home country of Belarus, grew up in a family of throwers. His mother once held a national record in the hammer throw, and his grandmother held one in discus. And ...
When Audrey Pope-Trowbridge was attending Lawrence High about 20 years ago, she wrote down a big goal in her journal: One day, she would become the head coach of the Lions' track and field team. Earlier this week, she finally made that dream a reality. She's stepping up to the program's top job after serving as an assistant for 15 seasons. The head coach spot was left vacant in June when the previous coach, ...
Despite being a first-year participant at the Olympics, Christina Clemons is already well known entering the track portion of this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. Clemons, a 31-year-old Olympic athlete and volunteer coach for the Kansas track and field program, became a fan favorite by wearing earrings shaped like miniature bags of Cool Ranch Doritos during the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in late June. ...
New Kansas football center Mike Novitsky enters the 2021 campaign as one of the top players at his position. Novitsky was named to the Rimington Trophy Watchlist on Friday, the Boomer Esiason Foundation announced. Novitsky, a redshirt junior transfer from Buffalo who arrived in Lawrence this summer, is one of 40 centers nationally to be recognized. He is one of five centers in the Big 12 to make the list along ...