Another poll with Kansas on top — this one of college basketball coaches, conducted by CBS — means more fuel will be added to the notion that this will be a disappointing underachievement of a season if the Jayhawks don’t make it to the Final Four. Not fair. No need to look beyond ...
The University of Kansas athletics director Jeff Long has named Jennifer McFalls the head softball coach, the team announced Monday evening. McFalls most recently spent eight years as the assistant softball coach at the University of Texas from 2011-18. She helped lead the Longhorns to eight ...
Popular opinion might state that most of the Kansas football team’s defensive linemen are unproven. The foremost member of the position group happens to see it differently. “Some of the guys, I think, are proven but have to be more consistent,” redshirt senior defensive tackle and team ...
Rare is the athlete whose developmental curve is a straight line forward, without stalls, setbacks, even regressions. Tyrone Miller came to Kansas as a high school recruit from Michigan and was pressed into duty at cornerback right away. He showed a knack for making plays, but lacked the pure ...
What do Kansas, Duke and Kentucky all have in common? In addition to being three of the biggest powerhouse recruiting programs in college basketball, being in the top four in all-time victories and having been led by Hall of Fame coaches, those three also were the most popular answers to the ...
The gang’s all here and the Kansas men’s basketball team is officially ready to begin preparations for the 2018-19 season, which officially opens in just 39 days. That date — Sept. 28 — marks the arrival of Late Night in the Phog, KU’s first official practice of the season, with ...
Nineteen years after turning pro, Chris Thompson finally has made it to the big leagues. Thompson, 42, was one of 25 Web.com Tour golfers presented with PGA Tour cards for the 2018-19 season Sunday night. A native of Independence, Thompson finished 20th on the final money list with $181,738. ...
Lawrence High senior Trey Quartlebaum didn't want to worry about his collegiate plans this winter. Quartlebaum, a guard for the LHS boys basketball team, announced his commitment to play basketball at St. Francis Brooklyn College at the collegiate level. For Quartlebaum, it was important to ...
With a steady rainstorm towering over Rock Chalk Park, University of Kansas senior forward Grace Hagan knew her team needed to score quickly. After winning possession on the opening kickoff, Hagan broke away and isolated herself with South Dakota State goaltender Maggie Smither. With slightly ...
Since the start of the fall sports season officially begins this week, I thought I’d take the time to formally introduce myself. My name is Shane Jackson, and I’m the new high school sports reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World. I came to Lawrence in June after spending a year covering ...
Former Lawrence High head coach Dirk Wedd didn’t stay retired very long. Not long after finishing his 19th season at LHS last November, Wedd was offered a chance to make an impact at the collegiate level. David Beaty, who is the head football coach at the University of Kansas, decided to ...
Catch, drop, kick. Those three phases to a successful punt need to come in the right order. Kansas punter Kyle Thompson earned a full scholarship out of high school based on the strength of his foot, but struggled to execute the three phases of punting in the right order during practice. Too ...
The Kansas volleyball team opened the 2018 season with a four-set exhibition victory over UMKC Saturday afternoon at Horejsi Family Athletics Center. In the win, the Jayhawks were led by junior outside hitters Patricia Montero and Ashley Smith, who combined for 37 kills on a .394 hitting clip. ...
When two small buses filled with Kansas football players pulled into the Corinth Square parking lot in Prairie Village Friday night for the athletic department’s KU Kickoff event, freshman Corione Harris was the first to leap out. The smiling cornerback from New Orleans didn’t pause to ...
Freshman Sarah Peters got her first chance at giving the Kansas women's soccer team a win against No. 18 Pepperdine before she even went to her first class. With two saves already on the night, into the 61st minute, Peters saw pressure coming toward the net from Pepperdine's forward line. ...
Prairie Village — As more than 20 University of Kansas football players and head coach David Beaty began mingling with fans Friday night at the athletic department’s 13th annual KU Kickoff at Corinth Square, new athletic director Jeff Long outlined a few of the ways he hopes to help the ...
Kansas quarterbacks aren’t the only players on the football team gunning for a starting role this weekend. Head coach David Beaty plans on using Saturday’s scrimmage, the second of preseason camp, as a proving battleground to sort out positions all over the depth chart. And the way Beaty ...
Could it be that fourth-year Kansas football coach David Beaty actually has chosen a starting quarterback but is keeping it quiet so as not to tip off Nicholls State? I suppose so, but I don't think so. If the players know who's starting they aren't saying, and the way they answered questions ...
http://www2.kusports.com/users/photos/2018/aug/07/327177/ Class of 2019 forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl has trimmed his list to five schools, according to multiple reports. Robinson-Earl, who recently made the move to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., is now down to North Carolina, Arizona, ...
Jennifer Freeman, daughter of legendary Lawrence High football coach Bill Freeman, will be in Lawrence on Saturday signing copies of her new book "Heart of a Champion" from 1-3 p.m. in the LHS cafeteria. Freeman's book, which chronicles the life and lessons of her father, was released this ...