Kansas City, Mo. — This year’s Kansas basketball team wouldn’t be ranked in the top 5 in the country entering this season if it had to navigate the schedule without starting point guard Devon Dotson. So the No. 3 Jayhawks are thankful ahead of their Thursday night exhibition opener against Fort Hays State that Dotson only rolled his right ankle when the much larger Silvio De Sousa fell on KU’s primary ...
The second season of the Les Miles era at the University of Kansas will jump into Big 12 action in a hurry. The Jayhawks won’t open the 2020 schedule with three straight nonconference foes, as they usually do. The Big 12 announced next season’s football calendars for all 10 teams on Tuesday, and the dates include a Week 2 matchup between KU and Baylor, in Waco, Texas. It will mark the first time Kansas ...
With the early December signing period now just a couple months away, the Kansas football team added another commitment to its already crowded 2020 recruiting class. Steven McBride, a three-star receiver from Gonzales, La., announced Tuesday his plans to play for Les Miles and the Jayhawks. Listed by Rivals as a 6-foot-1, 165-pound prospect, McBride plays at East Ascension High, and reportedly had scholarship ...
For all the relatively positive vibes a last-second defeat at Texas seemed to generate for the downtrodden Kansas football program, the Jayhawks obviously encountered some defensive issues yet again in a 50-48 loss. As Les Miles succinctly put it during his Saturday night postgame press conference while glancing at the statistics in front of him, and reading that the Longhorns finished with 638 total yards, ...
Usually understated during his weekly press conferences, Kansas football coach Les Miles heard something Monday afternoon that stirred him to exuberance. The subject material didn’t have anything to do with the Jayhawks’ performance this past weekend at Texas, either. Rather it was a matter of a procedural oversight on that Saturday night stage that appeared to go UT’s way. A reporter asked Miles whether ...
The Kansas football team’s defense will be without another starter when the Jayhawks face Texas Tech for homecoming on Saturday. Head coach Les Miles said during his Monday press conference that safety Jeremiah McCullough will miss the matchup with the Red Raiders due to injury. McCullough, who started six of KU’s first seven games, got hurt while making an open field tackle against Texas quarterback Sam ...