WRITER: Benton Smith

Pooka Williams reinstated by KU football after domestic violence arrest, will miss season opener

Story updated at 4:17 p.m. Monday The Kansas football team’s undeniable star a season ago, running back Pooka Williams, is rejoining the program after a seven-month suspension. Williams, who was arrested and charged with domestic battery in December before reaching a diversion agreement in the case, will miss the Jayhawks’ season opener versus Indiana State as part of his punishment, KU announced on ...

Group of KU seniors to accompany Les Miles to Big 12 Media Days

While Les Miles will attract most of the cameras, questions and attention during his first trip to Big 12 Media Days as the head coach at the University of Kansas, The Mad Hatter will have some veterans alongside him for the ride next week in Arlington, Texas. KU announced Monday that four seniors — left tackle Hakeem Adeniji, running back Khalil Herbert and safeties Mike Lee and Bryce Torneden — will ...

Acting was a 'passing fancy' for football lifer Les Miles

Les Miles never thought while in between head coaching jobs he’d suddenly find himself in another line of work. But that’s what happened to the up-for-anything football coach when, during his downtime, a friend of Miles’ put him in contact with an executive producer on a small budget movie. “I read lines for the first time,” the short-term actor turned University of Kansas coach recalled of the first ...

Done in Sacramento, where might new free agent Frank Mason end up?

For now, Frank Mason III is a Sacramento King. Kind of. But not really. The franchise that drafted the former Kansas All-American in the second round of the 2017 NBA Draft announced earlier this week it is waiving Mason but keeping the 25-year-old point guard on its summer league roster. The Kings seem to be doing Mason, suddenly a free agent, a favor by taking him with them on their trip to Las Vegas. When ...

Drew Harvey could play key role for inexperienced KU linebackers

With preseason camp and more concrete answers to some of the issues facing this year’s Kansas football team a little less than a month away, no position group on the roster appears quite as unpredictable as the Jayhawks’ linebackers. Even if KU’s starting lineup in Week 1 ends up featuring only two linebackers, it’s difficult at this point to project who they would be. The safest bet for one of those ...

KU football D.C.: Steven Parker 'very similar' to young Josh Allen

Back when D.J. Eliot worked for the University of Kentucky football program as the Wildcats’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, he came across a mostly unrecruited Class of 2015 linebacker from New Jersey. Four years and two jobs later, Eliot, now in charge of the defense and the outside linebackers coach at Kansas, remembers that prospect, Josh Allen, fondly. When Eliot thinks about the Allen he ...