This past Saturday night at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, former Louisiana prep football star Pooka Williams was recognized as the Greater New Orleans Male Amateur Athlete of the Year during the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame Banquet. It was an event, of course, Williams couldn’t afford to attend. Louisiana’s reigning Mr. Football, following Williams’ ...
A couple of days into preseason camp, Kansas cornerback Hasan Defense could tell that the secondary in which he played didn’t resemble its predecessor. When Defense first joined the program as a sophomore transfer in 2017, the Jayhawks were too thin at his position for him to take many breathers during practices. “Before, we would get a lot of reps. Now, you have to split up the reps. Obviously, when your ...
Before the Kansas football team makes its season debut Sept. 1 against Nicholls State, fans around the Sunflower State will have chances to hear from and meet some members of the program at a series of rallies this month. The mini tour begins Thursday in Topeka, with the first KU Kickoff set to take place at 6 p.m. outside the the Celtic Fox, an Irish pub and restaurant at 118 SW. Eighth Ave., in downtown ...
Less than a week into his time as athletic director at the University of Kansas, Jeff Long is bringing a fresh approach to how the department will handle its long-struggling football program. Long announced Monday the hiring of Mike Vollmar, a former associate athletic director for football at Alabama and Michigan, as KU’s senior associate AD for football administration. "I am pleased to add an administrator ...
Ask University of Kansas football coach David Beaty which Jayhawks among the team’s 22 offensive linemen will play center, and he will tell you “about eight” of them spent some time snapping the ball during the team’s first couple of preseason practices. Beaty will go on to explain how a team without playable second- and third-string centers can’t survive, and KU is doing all it can to develop depth ...
Now that preseason camp has arrived, the Kansas football team’s offensive line looks significantly different than it did just a week ago. At the team’s second practice on Saturday KU made public for the first time an updated list of active players, highlighted by an inundation of blockers listed in the neighborhood of 6-foot-3 and 320 pounds. When players reported this week, what is shaping up to become a ...