Eudora — It’s been a good year for members of the 1999 Kansas men’s golf team that won the Big 12 title. Chris Thompson qualified for the 2018-19 PGA Tour season by finishing strong to place 20th during the regular season of the Web.com Tour. Ryan Vermeer won the PGA Professionals Championship, which earned him a $55,000 payday, a spot in the PGA Championship last August in St. Louis, and a spot in six ...
1 - Pooka Williams: Rushed for 158 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries, averaging 8.8 yards for the game and season. His third touchdown of the season went for 52 yards. 2 - Bryce Torneden: Has steadily improved since joining the program and has stood out three weeks in a row, this time with an interception return of 39 yards for a touchdown and a fumble recovery go go with three solo tackles and three ...
If you feel like you learn something new every day about Anthony Williams Jr., better known as Pooka, don’t consider yourself out of the loop. Even fourth-year Kansas football coach David Beaty forever picks up fresh material about the sensational running back. Beaty revealed after Kansas clocked Rutgers, 55-14, Saturday that his knowledge of Pooka’s football foundation grew on the short morning bus ride ...
The same sort of logic that made so many prognosticators overrate Texas coming into this season made a few of them paint way too optimistic a picture for Rutgers’ 2018 fortunes. Second-year Texas coach Tom Herman received kudos for landing the nation’s third-ranked recruiting class. That’s nice, but what does that have to do with 2018? This isn’t basketball where a few McDonald’s All-Americans can ...
Rob Likens, David Beaty's first offensive coordinator, came to Kansas with a reputation for being one of the more well liked assistant coaches among peers, and did nothing to change that in his two seasons in Lawrence, even though things didn't go well for him. Likens lasted one year in that job and was demoted to Walk Around Guy in his second season, when Beaty appointed himself OC for a year. It was tough ...
Hahnville, about 25 miles upriver from New Orleans, is in the region of Louisiana known as the River Parishes. Early in the 20th century, it was famous for being the 1891 birthplace of jazz trumpeter Thomas “Papa Mutt” Carey. Later in the century, it became known as a high school football powerhouse, a designation that still fits. As recently as 2014, Hahnville High had four graduates playing in the NFL at ...