It was barely more than two weeks ago that Christian Braun couldn’t stay on the floor against the athletic, long arms and legs of the Texas Longhorns. The University of Kansas freshman guard looked out of his depth, and, as a sub, watched the entire second half from the bench. At the time, KU basketball coach Bill Self lumped Braun in with some of the team’s other reserves, calling the group “so timid” ...
When Jeff Hecklinski left the Kansas football staff to become the offensive coordinator at San Diego State, head coach Les Miles decided to promote the departing assistant’s replacement from within. Miles and KU announced on Super Bowl Sunday afternoon, the promotion of Joshua Eargle to tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator. “Joshua will bring a wealth of experience to our program,” Miles stated in ...
Every head coach who is about to lead his players up against the Kansas basketball team this season builds a game plan around trying to stop the Jayhawks’ senior center, Udoka Azubuike. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse, one of the best tacticians in the country, Texas Tech’s Chris Beard, didn’t even really have to show his hand. Typically one of college basketball’s most dominant big men, Azubuike wasn’t ...
Although many lifelong Kansas City Chiefs fans are experiencing something entirely new, with their favorite team advancing all the way to the Super Bowl for the first time in 50 years, there are plenty of others around Lawrence who knew from experience it wasn’t impossible for the Chiefs to play on the NFL’s grandest stage. Well, they were at least fairly optimistic it could happen again. “It started to ...
After the Kansas basketball team yet again went on the road and held an opponent to a scoring total in the 50s, Marcus Garrett didn’t mind calling the Jayhawks’ defensive effort “great.” The Cowboys’ 50 points marked the fewest by an opponent in a KU road game since the Jayhawks held Texas Tech to 46, in January 2013. OSU shot just 28.1% from the floor and 11.1% on 3-pointers. “We know they have ...
The NCAA has amended the Notice of Allegations it sent the University of Kansas a little more than four months ago to add a minor violation that the university self-reported, and KU will now have more time to respond. The NOA was amended on Thursday to add the new football-related allegation, which involves impermissible actions by noncoaching staff. Unlike the other allegations against the football ...