An already miserable Saturday for Kansas quarterback Carter Stanley at least didn’t conclude with a serious injury. Stanley spent much of a 38-10 Sunflower Showdown loss suffering hits. And eventually one forced him off the field in the fourth quarter, when Khalid Duke sacked KU’s senior QB and he hobbled to the sideline. Stanley told reporters after the loss that he had X-rays taken of his right knee ...
— Kansas (3-5 overall, 1-4 Big 12) vs. No. 22 Kansas State (5-2, 2-2) • 2:30 p.m. kickoff, David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 51 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live coverage and follow our team on Twitter: @KUSports, @BentonASmith, @mctait and @SJacksonLJW Keys for Kansas 1. Start ...
For a decade now, winning one Big 12 game has been not even a norm, only a ceiling, for the Kansas football program. Even Mark Mangino, who finished 50-48 as the Jayhawks’ head coach, only led KU to a single conference victory in 2009, his eighth and final season in charge. In the nine years that followed, the league’s worst program won one Big 12 game in five seasons and zero in the other four. Now, in ...
Joe Dineen felt confident roughly a decade ago that the oldest of his three younger brothers, Jay, possessed the fire required to play linebacker. Jay didn’t prove this to Joe on a football field, though. Joe’s revelation came in the basement of their parents’ home in Lawrence. Joe’s recollections this week brought his mind back in time to that setting, as the former University of Kansas linebacker and ...
It might have been easier than some would expect for Kansas State’s football players to flip the page this week and move on from a victory over Big 12 powerhouse Oklahoma. According to Wildcats head coach Chris Klieman, the way their in-state rival Kansas Jayhawks are playing had something to do with that. Klieman spent various portions of his weekly press conference in Manhattan on Tuesday making much of ...
The Big 12 Conference reminded football fans Wednesday evening that it frowns upon them celebrating their favorite team’s victory on the field. A few days after such postgame parties spilled out of the bleachers and onto the playing surfaces at three different venues, the conference office issued a public reprimand to the University of Kansas, Kansas State and TCU for how each institution handled ...