NEW YORK — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he's confident his sport can get through the regular season and postseason without being stopped by the coronavirus, though not every club might play all 60 games and winning percentage could be used to determine playoff teams. During an ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gio Gonzalez made his first start for the hot-hitting Chicago White Sox more than 16 years after they drafted him, and the veteran responded by holding the Kansas City Royals scoreless into the fourth inning of an 11-5 rout Saturday night. He got plenty of help from an ...
MIAMI — With six teams idled Friday by the COVID-19 pandemic, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke to union leader Tony Clark about the importance of players following the sport's coronavirus protocols. Manfred and Clark talked about what needs to be done to finish the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Adam Engel hit a three-run homer in the second inning Friday night, and that was all the offense the Chicago White Sox needed in a 3-2 win over Kansas City that spoiled the Royals' home opener. Dallas Keuchel picked up the win for the White Sox. Alex Colome converted his ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program picked up another commitment in the 2021 recruiting class on Friday night, when four-star forward KJ Adams picked the Jayhawks. A 6-foot-6, 220-pound power forward from Westlake High in Austin, Texas, Adams picked Kansas from a final 10 that included ...
Former University of Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland shot a 1-under-par 69 at the St. Jude Invitational on Friday to move up three spots into a tie for 43rd. After shooting a 1-over 71 on Thursday, Woodland is now even for the tournament. Woodland made the turn on Friday after carding ...
A nonprofit organization that aims to support the growth of youth golf in the Douglas County area will host its first major event Monday at Lawrence Country Club. The Kaw Valley Junior Golf Foundation, which was born from the vision of area golf course operator Jeff Burey, is still in the ...
The Lawrence school district is set to begin fall sports in August, despite not starting the academic year until after Labor Day. Julie Boyle, spokeswoman for the Lawrence school district, said Friday that the school district had decided it would follow the guidance of the Kansas State High ...
It took less than 30 seconds of KU’s second game of the 2019-20 season for freshman Jalen Wilson’s focus for Year 1 to shift from finding a way to get minutes to finding a way to get healthy. And Wilson, who is expected to return to KU’s campus this weekend for COVID-19 testing and ...
The powerhouse Southeastern Conference reconfigured its schedule Thursday to include only league games in 2020, a pandemic-forced decision that pushes major college football closer to a siloed regular season in which none of the power conferences cross paths. The SEC's university presidents ...
DETROIT — Trevor Rosenthal couldn't remember the last time he'd earned a save — nearly three years ago. “It's been a while,” he said. That drought is finally over after Rosenthal pitched a scoreless ninth inning Thursday night in Kansas City's 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The ...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Jamiro Monteiro and Sergio Santos scored two minutes apart midway through the first half, Santos added a second goal just before halftime and the Philadelphia Union reached the semifinals of the MLS is Back tournament with a 3-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City ...
For the second time this summer, the Big 12 Conference has canceled its virtual media day for the 2020 football season. The event was originally slated for July 20-21 and rescheduled for Aug. 3. Conference officials announced the latest cancellation in a news release Thursday afternoon and ...
One of the most unusual seasons in Kansas football history opens Friday, when the Jayhawks conduct their first official practice of 2020. In addition to the typical football-related questions that surface each August, the upcoming season features a host of other unknowns related to the ...
DETROIT — JaCoby Jones hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the seventh inning, and Detroit's bullpen came through again in a 5-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. A night after pitching six scoreless innings in a win over the Royals, the Tigers' relievers held Kansas City ...
Wednesday’s newly unveiled plans for the 2020 football season in the Atlantic Coast Conference figure to have a direct impact on the Kansas football schedule. In addition to moving to an 11-game format, with one nonconference opponent and 10 league games, the ACC on Wednesday announced that ...
Running back Damien Williams, whose strong postseason helped Kansas City to its first Super Bowl championship in 50 years, is opting out of playing the upcoming season. The 28-year-old Williams had 290 yards and six touchdowns in three postseason games — two TDs in the Super Bowl — for the ...
The summer conditioning program for Free State High School’s football team has been shut down after a student-athlete tested positive for the coronavirus. Julie Boyle, a spokeswoman for the Lawrence school district, said the team’s workout program has been suspended through Aug. 6 because ...
DETROIT — Jonathan Schoop and Christin Stewart each hit a two-run homer in the third inning to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Whit Merrifield launched a three-run shot in the top of the third for Kansas City, but the Tigers answered ...
Kansas Athletics on Tuesday night released the results of its most recent round of COVID-19 testing, which yielded zero positives in 156 tests. The testing, which included 136 athletes, took place last Saturday. KU did not provide a sport-by-sport breakdown of the athletes who were tested. ...
