WRITER: Benton Smith

With younger sibling's commitment, Mayberry brothers plan to team up at KU

If everything goes according to plan, the Kansas football team will have two Mayberrys among its defensive backs in 2020. The younger brother of KU redshirt junior Kyle Mayberry, Duece Mayberry announced Sunday his plans to eventually join the Jayhawks, too. A 6-foot, 178-pound prospect heading into his senior year at Owasso High, in Oklahoma, the younger Mayberry brother is considered a three-star talent in ...

Les Miles rappels down 7 story building to help raise money for Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence

Before Les Miles headed downtown Saturday morning the Kansas football program’s head coach presented some of his assistants with a proposition. “Hey, if you go off the edge first, I’ll give you a raise,” Miles joked before heading to the rooftop of 888 Lofts, on New Hampshire St., in downtown Lawrence, where he rappelled down the side of the building to help raise money for the Boys & Girls Club ...

RB Amauri Pesek-Hickson won't join KU football until 2020

As various incoming freshman members of the Kansas football team arrived on campus this weekend to move in and get initiated before summer classes and strength and conditioning workouts begin this week, Amauri Pesek-Hickson wasn’t a part of the group. The running back from Blue Valley North who signed with KU this past February still plans on joining the Jayhawks. But Pesek-Hickson won’t be doing so until ...

Lawrence Shadd III, a 2-star WR prospect, joining Jayhawks as walk-on

Though Lawrence Shadd III committed ahead of his senior year of high school to play football at Illinois State, he never made the move official by signing a letter of intent. By keeping his options open, Shadd, a 6-foot-1 wide receiver from Powder Springs, Ga., was able to change his decision with ease once the University of Kansas showed some interest in him. Shadd announced Friday morning, a mere two days ...

Kickoff times set for KU football's nonconference home dates

Once the first weekend of the college football season arrives, eager University of Kansas football fans won’t have to sit around all Saturday waiting for the debut game of the Les Miles era. The Jayhawks’ season opener against Indiana State will kick off at 11 a.m. Aug. 31, the Big 12 announced on Thursday. Those who can’t make it to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium will be able to watch Miles’ ...

Devon Dotson's presence eliminates concerns, raises KU's ceiling

A Devon Dotson-less Kansas basketball team would have figured out some way to succeed in the 2019-20 season — Bill Self is still the Jayhawks’ head coach, after all. That alternate reality isn’t one even the most die-hard KU follower could stomach in fan fiction form, though. If Dotson had decided to go ahead and keep his name in this year’s NBA Draft, maybe Quentin Grimes would have tried to return to ...