WRITER: Benton Smith

4-star prep DE Steven Parker commits to KU football

National Signing Day isn’t until Wednesday, but Monday very well could go down as the most important day for the Kansas football program’s 2019 recruiting class. That’s when Steven Parker, a four-star defensive end from Dallas, announced his decision to join the Jayhawks. In picking KU over Texas Tech and Nebraska, Parker became the top-rated prospect in new head coach Les Miles’ recruiting ...

Jayhawks will have to seek out paint to get out of K-State with rare road win

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/feb/02/328612/ Recent history says this Kansas basketball team won’t fare too well Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum, likely the most hostile venue into which the Jayhawks will venture all season. Though coming off arguably their most impressive victory since losing center Udoka Azubuike for the season, the No. 13 Jayhawks are just 1-5 on the road, with three consecutive ...

Offensive tweak creates space, freedom for Dedric Lawson and Jayhawks

Something out of the ordinary happened to the best player on the Kansas basketball team. And it was so surprising that it didn’t even register for junior Dedric Lawson until after the fact. “I really didn’t get double-teamed today, did I?” Lawson interjected during one point of his postgame interview on Saturday. After seeing what felt like nothing but the long arms and large frames of multiple ...

Bishop Miege standout Dylan Downing plans to join KU football

The Kansas football coaching staff won’t know for certain until Wednesday’s National Signing Day exactly who they will be adding to their 2019 class. In the meantime, an in-state player they targeted as a preferred walk-on announced Sunday night his plan to join the Jayhawks. Dylan Downing, a 6-foot-2 linebacker from nearby Bishop Miege, tweeted out his decision to commit to KU and its new head coach, Les ...

Benton Smith: Silvio De Sousa ruling could galvanize Jayhawks

It’s no coincidence that one of the Kansas basketball team’s most impressive victories of the season came on the heels of the Jayhawks learning the on-court fate of one of the program’s most popular players. Throughout the first three months of the schedule, there always remained a chance. Maybe KU could add 6-foot-9 forward Silvio De Sousa to its lineup, and take off to another level as a result. That ...

NCAA: De Sousa must sit out this season and next

Silvio De Sousa will not play a game for the Kansas men's basketball team this season, nor will he join the Jayhawks’ rotation for the 2019-20 campaign, the NCAA ruled late Friday afternoon. The NCAA's ruling states that De Sousa must sit out the entirety of both this college basketball season and the next one, because his guardian received payment from a university booster and agent and agreed to receive ...