Kansas football fans got a rare opportunity this past weekend to watch a high school recruit tied to the program playing on national television. They obviously weren’t the only ones watching Class of 2021 quarterback Ben Easters closely. With his Brownsburg football team playing a marquee game on ESPN2 Saturday night, Easters told 247 Sports’ Steve Wiltfong that KU coaches texted him beforehand to let them ...
A year after experiencing his first losing season as a head coach in almost two decades, Les Miles figures to take on an even larger challenge in his second year at the University of Kansas: leading a football program through a pandemic. While other conferences have postponed their seasons until the spring semester, the Big 12 will try to press onward. The Jayhawks went 3-9 in 2019 with Miles in charge, but ...
After spending much of their lives racing and competing, University of Kansas cross country runners have had a bizarre spring and summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus wiped out all long-distance opportunities during what would have been the outdoor track season this past spring, and head coach Stanley Redwine could sense the excitement in the runners when they returned to Lawrence in mid-August ...
Torry Locklin arrived at the University of Kansas in 2019 as a quarterback. And in a way, at least, Locklin still is. But KU’s coaches envision the redshirt freshman more like a Swiss Army knife than even a dual-threat QB. Appearing in four games for the Jayhawks last year, Locklin lined up as a Wildcat QB on a few occasions, only rushing the ball three times for four yards. Offensive coordinator Brent ...
On the day the Kansas volleyball season originally was slated to start, the Jayhawks finally were able to release their pandemic shortened 2020 calendar. Instead of opening their season in late August with nonconference matchups, KU will play a Big 12-only schedule that begins the last weekend of September. The Jayhawks will face every team in the conference twice, but instead of Big 12 volleyball teams ...
Elijah Jones’ responsibilities within the Kansas football defense have become a lot more extensive this summer. Now in his third year with the program, the cornerback who joined the Jayhawks as a junior college transfer in 2018 could find himself in a starting role this fall, after playing infrequently as a reserve in 2019. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound defensive back from Cape Coral, Fla., thinks his game has ...