WRITER: Benton Smith

Miles Kendrick: Jayhawks doing what they can during bizarre spring

When the COVID-19 pandemic nixed spring football and everything else Miles Kendrick had planned for this stretch of the offseason, the University of Kansas quarterback had a decision to make. Stay in Lawrence or head back to his home state of California? It didn’t take much contemplation for Kendrick, and even though sequestering comes with some challenges, he’s glad he decided to stick around the college ...

KU teammates Azubuike, Dotson project as 2nd-rounders in newest mock draft

There weren’t 30 better college basketball players than Kansas stars Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson in the shortened 2019-20 season. But at least that many prospects from the NCAA ranks and overseas are expected to get selected before the pair of Jayhawks in this year’s NBA Draft. Although Dotson hasn’t yet officially reached a decision on entering his name into the pool, the latest mock draft from ESPN ...

Report: Football Border War on brink of returning

A football rivalry left for dead almost a decade ago, the Border War reportedly will be exhumed and brought back to the gridiron sometime in the not too distant future. University of Missouri Athletic Director Jim Sterk on Thursday in an email sent to donors teased an upcoming four-game football series with Kansas, saying it’s “being contracted,” Gabe DeArmond of Rivals reported. KU football hasn’t ...

Will there be college football in 2020? 'We've got to think about this,' Mark Mangino urges

Like most people doing their best to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis, former University of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino isn’t sure what will come next in these unpredictable times. And for the retired Mangino, who often spends his fall Saturdays attending college football games or watching them on TV, that uncertainty is hanging over the sport he loves. Will there be college football games this ...

Ranking KU football's 2020 matchups, from most to least winnable

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2020/jan/01/330612/ If the oddsmakers in Las Vegas are correct, the second season of the Les Miles era at the University of Kansas won’t be that much more successful than his debut run with the Jayhawks in 2019. Consider the key players KU has lost from last season’s 3-9 team and you quickly realize why Caesars Entertainment placed the Jayhawks’ over/under at 3.5 wins for ...

Devonte' Graham a top candidate for NBA's Most Improved Player award

The 2019-20 NBA season remains on a prolonged pause as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its return seems more in doubt than a certainty. Regardless of whether he gets to play another game this season, former Kansas star Devonte’ Graham should find himself in contention for one of the NBA’s featured individual honors. After bouncing back and forth between Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C., as a rookie, ...