It wasn’t exactly the kind of bump that KU junior Ochai Agbaji saw during his recruitment — [from unranked into the Top 150][1] — but Class of 2021 Kansas commitment Zach Clemence did jump a couple of spots in the updated Rivals.com rankings. Projected as a 4-star prospect ranked No. 31 ...
The Kansas football program hasn't identified a replacement for 2019 starting quarterback Carter Stanley — and without the chance to observe players in spring football, coach Les Miles says the QB contest hasn't even truly begun. “There’s no race,” the second-year head coach recently ...
Former Kansas linebacker Joe Dineen Jr., has officially retired from football and has taken the first step in what he hopes will be a long and successful coaching career. Dineen, who starred at Free State High before becoming one of the top linebackers in the Big 12 from 2015-18, announced ...
In the end, it looks like the Kansas men’s basketball program’s offseason will wind up being delayed by about a month. In response to the Big 12 Conference’s Monday release of its complete return-to-campus guidelines, KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that he was targeting a ...
Amid the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, University of Kansas athletics leaders and several other sports figures with KU ties are speaking out. In a joint statement issued Saturday by the athletic ...
All these years later, most of the coaches and players on the Lawrence High baseball state title team of 2000 can recall the Lions’ only two losses that season. “Doubleheader at Shawnee Mission East,” said former LHS catcher Curtis Ledbetter, a senior on that team. “They had our ...
A new NCAA document gave universities and conferences across the country some more guidance Friday on how to prepare for the return of college athletics, advising them to create COVID-19 task forces and to formulate plans for what to do if an athlete gets sick. The 3,200-word report was ...
Although she never got to throw a pitch for the Firebirds this season, Free State junior Tatum Clopton has been named the Gatorade Kansas Softball Player of the Year for the second year in a row. Adjusted to account for the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down most spring sports seasons across ...
Plans to tear down Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium have been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, but the venue may not have hosted its last state high school track meet. The stadium will be empty this weekend, when the 2020 all-classes state track and field meet was supposed to take ...
KU has lost a ruling in its NCAA infractions case related to evidence involving its former football coach, and the ruling ultimately may play a role in the higher-stakes case against the men’s basketball program. Depositions from University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long and two ...
Six members of the Kansas track and field teams were recognized as All-Americans for their performances during the 2019-20 indoor season, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association announced this week. Sophomore Zach Bradford, junior Honour Finley, and seniors Gleb ...
Friday was supposed to be the start of something historic for the Free State softball team. Winners of back-to-back Class 6A state championships the past two seasons, the Firebirds were poised to make a run for a third consecutive state title and were considered by many as the favorites to ...
Cue the virtual visits and keep those cellphones charged. It’s going to be a quiet summer on the in-person college athletics recruiting front. That much was learned this week, when the NCAA’s Division I Council Coordination Committee announced that the current recruiting dead period had ...
The Kansas women’s basketball team will travel to Oxford, Miss., this season to take on Ole Miss in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, the Big 12 Conference announced Thursday. Dates and game times will be announced later. Kansas is 3-1 all-time in the conference challenge, which began in 2014 and ...
University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Wednesday announced staffwide furloughs and pay cuts for all Kansas Athletics employees, including coaches, from June 1 through the end of 2020. An email sent to KU’s donors on Wednesday afternoon outlined four tiers of the department’s ...
By now, the five new members of Les Miles’ Kansas football coaching staff should have been through 15 spring practices, countless in-person meetings and had plenty of time to get acclimated to their new roles. Instead, they’ve been stuck behind a computer and a camera lens for most of the ...
Texas Tech guard Davide Moretti is skipping his final season of college to turn pro with Olimpia Milano in his home country of Italy, and the Red Raiders already have found someone to take his spot on the roster. The EuroLeague club announced the signing of Moretti on Tuesday, ending a ...
Former Kansas basketball big man Udoka Azubuike and standout swimmer Haley Downey recently were honored as KU’s 2019-20 Dr. Robert Frederick Senior Scholar Athletes of the Year. The announcement came in a news release rather than at an in-person ceremony and also featured Xinyun Yu ...
An overarching theme of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday, is that it’s been much easier to shut down operations than to open them back up. Girod, appearing at the KU Health System’s daily media briefing, acknowledged that many things would ...
*Slated to begin on April 19, the 2020 NBA playoffs and the end of the 2019-20 NBA season were put on hold because of the COVID-19 health crisis.* *League officials continue to look at ways to resume play, but whether they’ll reach a point where the season is completed remains to be seen. ...
