Kansas women’s tennis concluded play Sunday afternoon at the ITA Central Regionals. Sophomore Sofia Smagina advanced to the tournament’s quarterfinals in the singles main draw before ending her run there. Smagina was the last Jayhawk standing in the six-day tourney as she advanced to the ...
Junior Sera Tadokoro was an unstoppable force Sunday afternoon at the Louisville Cardinal Cup, as she took down the entire field on her way to her first-career tournament victory. The KU women's golf team finished fifth in the team standings. Tadokoro was on a roll during the final round, ...
Austin, Texas — The Kansas football team lost on the last play of the game in offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon’s sideline debut Saturday at No. 15 Texas. Even so, the offensive output fortified the Jayhawks’ conviction that the midseason switch to Dearmon will make a significant ...
Free State’s girls golf team has been preparing for the state tournament all year, even if it didn’t realize it. The Firebirds have done a better job of getting more practice holes in on a daily basis this season. They have cut down their time on the driving range, working on specific ...
Austin, Texas — In college football, motivational ploys know no bounds. And it appears one such behind-the-scenes tactic carried out by the Kansas staff this past week left its mark on quarterback Carter Stanley. After the senior helped the Jayhawks take a 1-point lead late in the fourth ...
Austin, Texas — In the exhilarating moment, the Kansas Jayhawks were convinced they had done it. They arrived at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday convinced they could knock off No. 15 Texas. And when KU quarterback Carter Stanley found receiver Daylon Charlot in the back of ...
Moral victories suck. By definition, they’re a cold, empty reminder that the one reason all teams suit up did not happen. But that doesn’t mean they’re totally worthless. KU’s 50-48 loss at Texas on Saturday night in Austin, Texas, was all the adjectives you could possibly imagine ...
Austin, Texas — Although still listed on the game day roster as a quarterback, Kansas football freshman Torry Locklin took all of his pregame reps with the Jayhawks’ running backs. That didn’t mean, however, the 6-foot-2, 210-pound athlete from Rockdale, Texas, Locklin was making a ...
Austin, Texas — Les Miles didn’t shake up his coaching staff in the middle of the season to play it conservatively with a chance to knock off a top-15 ranked Texas team on the road. And even though the Mad Hatter and the Jayhawks opted for heroics, the Longhorns dashed those chances with ...
Coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2018 Class 6A state girls tennis tournament, Free State junior Keegan VanPelt felt confident in how much she could improve in the offseason. “I noticed that (state is) really hard and that I have to keep working,” VanPelt said. “And I put in the ...
Kansas women’s tennis continued to play well at ITA Central Regional Championships on Saturday. In doubles action, Maria Toran Ribes and Malkia Ngounoue paired up and went 1-1, first downing a duo from Nebraska, 8-4, but later fell to their opponents from Arkansas by the score of 8-6. Sofia ...
At the midway point of the 2019 cross-country season, the Kansas men's and women's teams on Saturday morning took to the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind., where the Jayhawks went up against some of top individuals, and teams, from across the nation. For ...
Kansas volleyball was able to gain its second Big 12 victory of the season with a 3-0 win (25-18, 25-21, 25-19) over TCU inside Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. Led by redshirt-senior Ashley Smith, the Jayhawks were able to take set one with a score of 25-18. Both teams we knotted up at 10-10 ...
Free State senior Charlie Johnson kicked it into high gear once he saw a teammate’s mother. Susie Fagan, who is the mother of senior Erin Fagan, cheered loudly for Johnson on a steep downhill slope Saturday morning at Rim Rock Farm. It was all the motivation that Johnson needed to run a time ...
It was a familiar story for Tonganoxie, as it cruised to a 55-0 victory Friday night at Baldwin in a battle between two area teams. The Chieftains have now notched back-to-back shutouts, winning by a combined 96 points over the last two weeks. THS is now 7-0 on the year, while Baldwin falls to ...
Just as Shawnee Mission East seemed to be getting back into the game, momentum swung once again in Free State’s favor, as Firebird junior running back Tyler Bowden broke off an explosive 80-yard touchdown down the left sideline. The reliable legs of Bowden and Free State’s opportunistic ...
OLATHE — The defining moment of Lawrence High’s 35-10 win over Olathe North came well before it ever took the lead Friday night at Olathe District Activity Center. It came before the Lions even scored a single point, and it ultimately led to a double-digit deficit in the opening quarter. ...
The game winner came just two minutes in, but the Kansas women’s soccer team added two more goals for good measure to claim a 3-0 win Friday night over in-state rival Kansas State at Rock Chalk Park. Junior midfielder Ceri Holland’s goal at the 43:22 mark of the first half came on a ...
Earlier this week, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self said he expected senior center Udoka Azubuike to be the best big man in the country. Evidently, Self's not alone. For the second season in a row, Azubuike on Friday was named one of 20 watch list candidates for the 2020 Kareem ...
— Kansas (2-4 overall, 0-3 Big 12) at No. 15 Texas (4-2, 2-1) • 6 p.m. kickoff, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 88 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: Longhorn Network • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live ...
