The fans sitting in the bleachers at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on April 13 will get to take in more than a football scrimmage. Though head coach Les Miles may have gotten ahead of himself a little over a week ago when telling a group of media members that rapper Rick Ross would be at the football team’s spring game, KU officially announced the performance on Friday. The Jayhawks publicized the news ...
If sometime in the future Ryan Schadler is able to carve out a spot for himself on an NFL roster, he’ll have to make it happen the hard way. Of course, his already difficult path to this point in his football life could actually end up helping the former University of Kansas receiver achieve his professional goals. Ahead of his senior season at KU, the Hesston native and one-time Wichita State track athlete ...
College football roster numbers are always at their thinnest in the spring, when the previous season’s seniors are no longer involved and most members of a given program’s recent signing class have yet to arrive on campus. At University of Kansas practices these past few weeks, the lack of bodies is most evident up front on KU’s defense, where the Jayhawks lost such regulars as Daniel Wise, Brian ...
Each of the past two Saturdays, the Kansas football team has broken up the necessary and monotonous drills and repetitions of spring practices with a scrimmage day. While head coach Les Miles chose not to divulge much about what occurred behind the closed doors of the program’s new indoor practice facility during those sessions, which double as rudimentary versions of a game day in the fall, he did make it ...
Don’t bring up the Kansas football team’s offseason conditioning sessions around Thomas MacVittie if you don’t want an honest response. And if for some reason there happen to be children nearby when you do broach the subject with the junior quarterback, just tell the kids to earmuff it before MacVittie is reminded of those pre-sunrise sprints. “(Expletive),” was MacVittie’s instant and visceral ...
As returning members of the Kansas football team’s defense learn the schemes, calls and nuances of new coordinator D.J. Eliot’s playbook, safety Mike Lee is thrilled about one component in particular. Over the course of his first three seasons with the Jayhawks, Lee has played in 32 games, made 215 total tackles, picked off four passes, forced five fumbles and built a reputation as a hard-hitter in the ...