The Kansas football team hasn’t participated in the postseason since 2008, but the Jayhawks got to share a small fraction of the spotlight during Monday’s national championship game, when the most renowned player in the program’s history picked up another honor. Gale Sayers, a Wichita native who accounted for 4,020 all-purpose yards in just three seasons for the Jayhawks (1962-64), was named one of the ...
A Texas native and former Big 12 defensive back at Texas A & M, Jordan Peterson is returning to the conference, this time at the University of Kansas, as the newest assistant on Les Miles’ coaching staff. KU announced Saturday that Miles hired Peterson, most recently the defensive coordinator at New Mexico, as the Jayhawks’ new safeties coach. “He is an excellent teacher,” Miles said of ...
The long and difficult path to a professional football career is taking three former Kansas football players to Florida this weekend, for the SPIRAL Tropical Bowl. Quarterback Carter Stanley and defensive linemen Codey Cole III and Darrius Moragne will be among the more than 130 prospects participating in the showcase, set to be played Sunday morning at Spec Martin Stadium, in Deland, Fla., in front of NFL ...
After one season as the receivers coach on Les Miles’ Kansas football staff, Emmett Jones impressed his boss and the Kansas Athletics administration enough to gain a new job title and a contract extension. KU announced Friday afternoon Miles promoted Jones to become the program’s passing game coordinator and extended Jones’ contract through February 2022. Jones will remain the receivers coach as ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/nov/19/330316/ This Kansas basketball team may not have a next-level human shot eraser manning the paint, but as the Jayhawks’ defense and toughness have emerged as their supreme traits this year, there’s no question Udoka Azubuike’s improvements as a defender have made that possible. The Jayhawks’ 7-footer is averaging a career-best 2.0 blocks per game through the ...
Hakeem Adeniji hadn’t even completed his first year at the University of Kansas when the offensive lineman began to think he had arrived as a college football player. His hunch proved correct, as further confirmed this week, when the four-year starter for the Jayhawks learned the NFL selected him as a participant at its 2020 scouting combine. Adeniji, along with more than 300 other prospects deemed as ...