Kansas football coach Les Miles left a steamy preseason practice early Tuesday afternoon not drowning in sweat, rather once again in a buoyant mood. Following what Miles disclosed would be the last camp practice during which the team tackled throughout, from start to finish, he opened his ...
After a couple rough seasons of limited snaps, special teams play and even a position change, Kansas wide receiver Daylon Charlot is right again, and his coaches believe they know why. “He has his confidence back,” said KU running backs coach Tony Hull, who, like Charlot, is a native of ...
If any team knows not to overlook an FCS foe, it is the Kansas football program. With the 2019 season opener a little over a week away, there is still so much uncertainty about both Kansas and Indiana State. The two teams will square off at 11 a.m. on Aug. 31 at David Booth Kansas Memorial ...
As the start of the college football season inches closer by the minute, here at KUsports.com and the Lawrence Journal-World we are counting down to kickoff by each day revealing a new KU player on Benton Smith’s list predicting the top 11 Jayhawks for the 2019 season. Les Miles will lead ...
Not even the heat could spoil Kevin Stewart’s spirits on his first day. Monday marked the beginning of a new era for the Free State football team with Stewart at the helm. However, due to the heat index, outdoor practices at FSHS did not begin until 5:30 p.m. on the first day of the new high ...
Baltimore — Nicky Lopez and Nick Dini homered on successive pitches in the seventh inning and the Kansas City Royals stretched Baltimore’s latest losing streak to eight games, defeating the Orioles 5-4 Monday night. Kansas City (45-80) won for only the sixth time in its last 22 games, and ...
An idea pushed this past spring by University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long may be picking up some steam nationally. According to a report from The Athletic, the Mid-American Conference has introduced what is now known as a “concept” in NCAA legislation parlance that suggests ...
Now that D.J. Eliot has 15 spring practices and two-plus weeks of preseason camp behind him, Eliot is much more familiar with the defensive personnel on the Kansas football roster than he was when he agreed to become the defensive coordinator for head coach Les Miles. While Eliot didn’t want ...
Kansas offensive line coach Luke Meadows loves his position group. In his first season in Lawrence, Meadows has multiple players that will make an impact on the offensive line. It is the main reason why he plans to rotate guys this fall. Meadows even has plenty to like about some of reserve ...
There have been harder tournaments and more grueling challenges, but former University of Kansas golfer Conrad Roberts is back on top. Roberts won Sunday’s City of Lawrence Championship by firing a 6-under par 66 at Eagle Bend to hold off Mark Elliott (68) and Tyler Cummins (70) in an event ...
The starting quarterback battle isn’t the only competition up in the air for the Kansas football team. With less than two weeks until the season opener, the Jayhawks have yet to settle on a starting kicker. Similar to the signal caller competition, the battle to be KU’s kicker is between ...
Pittsburgh — Mason Rudolph guided a long first-half touchdown drive to perhaps nudge ahead of Josh Dobbs in the race to be the backup behind Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 17-7 on Saturday night. Rudolph finished 10 of 15 for 77 yards while Dobbs ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Jacob deGrom pitched seven sharp innings and Pete Alonso put the New York Mets ahead with a two-run single in a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night. Alonso got three hits and snapped a 1-all tie with two outs in the seventh when he rolled a ...
The Kansas volleyball team earned a 3-2 victory over Wichita State inside Wichita's Koch Arena in the Jayhawks’ lone exhibition match of the 2019 season Saturday. After falling behind two sets to one, the Jayhawks rebounded by outscoring the Shockers 40-21 in the final two sets to take the ...
With the start of another school year right around the corner, things are beginning to heat up in the 2020 college basketball recruiting class. And that usually means official visits, trimmed-down lists and fall commitments are forthcoming. Caleb Love, a 4-star point guard from St. Louis, ...
Dating back to the spring and continuing on through the summer and into preseason camp, first-year Kansas football coach Les Miles has leaned into letting those who are listening know that he feels positive about his new team. So much so that it almost seemed out of character Friday at KU’s ...
As soon as Kansas football head coach Les Miles handed him the Gatorade towel, junior nose tackle Sam Burt knew something was up. A walk-on the previous two seasons who played mainly on the scout team and special teams, Burt received the unexpected gift from Miles on Wednesday night. “But ...
The Kansas women’s soccer team unofficially opened the 2019 season with a 0-0 tie against Omaha in an exhibition match Friday night at Rock Chalk Park. The Jayhawks outshot the Mavericks 20-1 but could not put one in the back of the net to net the goal needed to break the scoreless ...
With the season less than two weeks away, Kansas offensive line coach Luke Meadows has yet to narrow his unit down to five starters. And that is by design. During KU’s media day on Friday, head coach Les Miles admitted that he and Meadows are both comfortable with their two-deep on the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike Montgomery outpitched Noah Syndergaard, and the Kansas City Royals ended their scoreless drought Friday night in a 4-1 victory over the New York Mets. The hottest team in the majors until this week, the Mets have lost four of five after a 15-1 stretch propelled them ...
