No matter how great a new product looks on paper, it’s going to be tough to sell unless the salesman has that first satisfied customer to stand as proof of concept. For the Kansas football program's Louisiana recruiting plan, junior safety Mike Lee represents proof of concept. Associate head coach Tony Hull deserves most of the credit for recruiting players from The Boot, but Lee coming here made Hull’s ...
Multiple highlights of Anthony "Pooka" Williams running around through and even over defenders during his record-breaking career for Hahnville High in Louisiana light up Youtube. My favorite is shown in this Tweet: 2018 RB Anthony “Pooka” Williams (Hahnville HS (Boutte, LA) puts up Over 600 yards in 2 games....by any means necessary!
Kansas wide receiver D.J. Beshears caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Jordan Webb with nine seconds remaining to give Kansas a 45-42 victory against Northern Illinois with 48,084 on hand at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 10, 2011. That dramatic ending made KU's record 2-0 and stands as the most recent two-game winning streak for the program. Las Vegas oddsmakers expect that streak of no winning streaks to end ...
Mount Pleasant, Mich. — Debuting Kansas freshman running back Anthony “Pooka” Williams killed more than a nine-year road losing streak late Saturday afternoon, so far from his hometown of Marrero, La. He also, at the very least, put on hold the apathy of a football fan base that had grown weary of the annual exercise of hearing all about talented newcomers during the spring and summer, only to be ...
Mount Pleasant, Mich. — In sports, long streaks of futility tend to end on a fluke play. Many a hitter has broken his batting slump with a swinging bunt single. A tipped ball that leads to an interception returned for a touchdown or a blocked punt is how football teams are supposed to score their first wins in a long time. That’s not how it went down for the University of Kansas football team Saturday at ...
1 - Pooka Williams: He’s so fast and changes directions so sharply at full speed that he’s hard to put a hand on, much less slam to the turf. Pooka rushed for 125 yards and had touchdown runs of 20 yards, freeing himself up the middle with sharp cuts, and 41 yards down the left sideline after a wicked early cut. He averaged 8.9 yards per carry, and that included a 5-yard loss for which he wasn’t ...