The Kansas football team might still open up its abbreviated 2020 schedule against Southern Illinois, but it’s not likely to be on Aug. 29 as scheduled. SIU Athletics Director Liz Jarnigan revealed as much Friday night while reacting to the news that the Salukis’ Missouri Valley Football Conference decided to postpone its eight-game FCS schedule until the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MVFC teams will ...
Former Kansas golfer Gary Woodland ran into some trouble Friday at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, dropping on the leaderboard a day after his bogey-free opening round at the PGA Championship. Woodland, who entered the day tied for 12th, got off to another promising start in the second round of golf’s second major of 2020, again avoiding bogeys completely on the first eight holes of the course. However, a ...
The Kansas football program’s next recruiting class now has a second in-state prospect on board. Christien Hawks, an offensive tackle from Norton, made his decision known Friday morning via Twitter. “I am absolutely pumped to announce that I am committing to the University of Kansas,” Hawks posted, tagging head coach Les Miles, offensive coordinator Brent Dearmon and offensive line coach Luke ...
Avoiding bogeys all round Thursday at the PGA Championship in San Francisco, former University of Kansas golfer Gary Woodland opened golf’s first major of 2020 with a 3-under 67 at TPC Harding Park. The defending U.S. Open champion, Woodland began his first round with a birdie on the 10th hole, setting the 36-year-old from Topeka up for a solid day. Woodland posted six consecutive pars before moving to ...
The man who helped set up the Kansas football team’s only Big 12 victory in 2019, senior long snapper Logan Klusman enters the coming season on the Patrick Mannelly Award preseason watch list. Klusman, who recovered a blocked field goal versus Texas Tech in the waning seconds of a KU home win, making a go-ahead Liam Jones field goal possible, is one of 20 specialists nationwide in the running for the Mannelly ...
Kansas football players are facing many unknowns as the COVID-19 pandemic looms over the season, but one bit of uncertainty is all too familiar to the Jayhawks: the quarterback competition. Since the pandemic wiped out the entire spring football schedule for KU, there was no obvious frontrunner for the most visible starting spot on the team when preseason practices began this past Friday. Nor was there a player ...