Carrying the label “basketball school” doesn’t make recruiting any easier for football coaches, but multiple basketball powerhouses, including a pair ranked in the top 25, are showing it is possible to overcome the label. No. 17 Kentucky (4-0): Mark Stoops has taken the slow, steady approach to building a program, exercising the discipline to avoid quick fixes in recruiting, and it’s paying off in a big ...
Gary Woodland finished the PGA Tour season ranked 29th on the money list with $3,108,907, 26th in the final FedEx Cup standings and is 40th in the Official World Golf Rankings. He’s done that well before, even better in 2011 when was 17th on the money list, but in many ways this felt like Woodland’s best season and felt as if it’s going to be a launching pad for an even better year. For one thing, he ...
Look for eight more Big 12 defenses to play Kansas the way Baylor did Saturday in scoring a 26-7 victory vs. the Jayhawks: Put eight men in the box, gang tackle Pooka Williams and trust that KU’s receivers won’t get open deep. So if the Kansas passing game can’t take the heat off of the lone running back, what remains as a means of making defenses play with more balance? Maybe it’s not realistic to ...
1 - Joe Dineen: Had 11 solo tackles, two assists, two tackles for losses and two quarterback hurries. 2 - Pooka Williams: Thrown for 14 yards in losses on 14 plays to offset 103 gains for a net total of 89 yards on 14 carries. Busted a 72-yard run to set up KU’s only score. Defense keyed on Pooka and KU’s offensive line gave him very little breathing room. Pass protection not Pooka’s specialty. He might ...
By Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW Waco, Texas — The Baylor football team’s defense figured out how to take Pooka Williams out of the game for all but one big run and poof, just like magic, the Kansas offense vanished. And even if the feel-good vibes born of a two-game winning streak against nonconference foes didn’t completely disappear, they were pushed beneath the surface by a question that ruled ...
By Tom Keegan Twitter: @TomKeeganLJW Waco, Texas — Backup quarterback Miles Kendrick left the game with an unspecified injury midway through the third quarter and did not return. Kendrick had run on back-to-back plays for gains of 13 and 5 yards. After getting up from the second play he was rubbing his shoulder and headed to the sideline. “He was unavailable after that play,” Kansas head coach David ...