As optimistic as Les Miles has professed to be regarding the talent level of his first team at the University of Kansas, the one-time national championship winning coach undoubtedly is undertaking as massive of a rebuilding project as exists in college football. In Miles’ 15 full seasons as a head coach — four at Oklahoma State and 11 at LSU — he averaged 9.3 wins a year and 3.5 losses. The KU football ...
Since the Kansas basketball team’s loss to Auburn in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the Jayhawks have been steeped in decision season. Which players would decide to declare for the NBA Draft? Who among the 2018-19 Jayhawks would elect to transfer? Would five-star prospects such as Matthew Hurt, Precious Achiuwa or R.J. Hampton choose to play at KU? What would the NCAA’s Student-Athlete ...
Silvio De Sousa wasn’t just the man of the hour in Lawrence when news broke on Friday that the NCAA had backed off its bizarre decision to ban him for a second season. Nor was De Sousa only the man of the day, even though his name was the predominant topic of discussion throughout this Kansas basketball crazed city. Welcome to the year of Silvio De Sousa. Yes, the Jayhawks’ frontcourt depth went from ...
If the severe weather rolling through Lawrence hadn’t forced them out of the dugout, the shellshocked Firebirds may have sat inside Hoglund Ballpark all night. Instead, members of the Free State High baseball team filed out despondently Friday evening with the Class 6A state runnerup hardware in their possession. A walkoff, state championship-sealing line drive from Haysville-Campus leadoff hitter Tanner ...
It took some late-game heroics, but the Kansas baseball team survived to see another day at the Big 12 tournament, finally knocking out rival Kansas State after two extra innings on Thursday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark, in Oklahoma City. The Jayhawks sent four runs across the plate in the bottom of the 11th inning, prevailing 15-14, thanks to five consecutive two-out singles in the decisive frame. Junior ...
When Les Miles agreed to take over the struggling Kansas football program this past November, he did so with a working knowledge of the situation he was inheriting. And while his familiarity with KU’s roster of players steadily grew the longer he was on the job, the truest testing ground wouldn’t come until March, when spring football began and Miles and his staff could work hands on with the ...