Sure, some of them already own Class 6A state championship rings. But members of Free State High’s softball team know that jewelry they earned in 2018 guarantees them nothing as they try to defend their title this week. The Firebirds enter their very short trip to Arrocha Ballpark at Rock Chalk Park for this year’s state tournament in quite a different spot. “We kind of snuck up on people last year,” ...
Retirement didn’t suit Les Miles. After a little more than two years of being away from college football, the former LSU head coach gladly reentered the work force at the University of Kansas this past November. Asked recently why he dove back into working nonstop when he could be out golfing or relaxing, Miles explained the allure of coaching for him and other FBS head coaches in his age demographic who ...
Apparently playing in just one Sweet 16 this spring wasn’t enough for a trio of University of Kansas tennis seniors. Less than two weeks removed from helping the program reach the round of 16 for the first time since 1998, the Jayhawks’ No. 1 singles player, Anastasia Rychagova, as well as the No. 1 doubles team of Nina Khmelnitckaia and Janet Koch, are at it again, this time at the NCAA Division I Women's ...
Though Les Miles could be seen wearing the purple and gold colors of his former employer, LSU, this past weekend at a charity event in Metairie, La., the head football coach spent much of his time sharing his thoughts on what he hopes to build at the University of Kansas. At Tyrann Mathieu’s Kickball Classic to support his former LSU player and roll out a ceremonial first pitch, Miles informed reporters about ...
Kansas Athletics has filed a motion in federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from former KU head football coach David Beaty that claims the athletic department owes him $3 million. As first reported by the Kansas City Star, lawyers representing Kansas Athletics filed this past Friday in the U.S. District Court of Kansas a motion for dismissal of Beaty’s lawsuit for, in part, a “lack of subject matter ...
A hopeful Jeff Long is putting in the legwork needed to try and speak a major college football change into existence. Once he officially became the athletic director at the University of Kansas last August, it didn’t take much time for Long to fully understand the troubling state of the football program’s scholarship situation, with the Jayhawks trying to survive on a roster that didn’t come close to ...