Kansas City, Mo. — Adidas, apparel partner of the University of Kansas athletic department, was found guilty of defrauding the university, and it was the best news the nation’s No. 1-ranked college basketball program had heard in months. It was this type of trial: You find out it has been determined that your business partner went behind your back to break rules and the first thing you want to do is find a ...
(Still) Kansas head football coach David Beaty said he will see how things go in practice this week before selecting a starting quarterback. Maybe he just wants to keep TCU guessing or maybe he really does put more emphasis on how quarterbacks perform in practice than in games, although that's hard to believe. The statistics clearly show that Stanley is a better quarterback vs. Big 12 competition than ...
The euphoria of the Kansas football fan base when David Beaty landed a pair of Alabama transfers reached offseason levels that it hadn’t experienced since Charlie Weis’ rapid-fire announcements of a pair of five-star quarterbacks transferring to KU. Offensive tackle Charles Baldwin and wide receiver Daylon Charlot were going to take Kansas to the big time after leaving ‘Bama, just as Notre Dame transfer ...
News broke Monday that Kansas earned the distinction as preseason No. 1 in the Associated Press men's college basketball poll. Under normal circumstances, that would trigger peacock struts from Mass Street to campus to the West side of town. It might spark conversations here and there as to whether this adds pressure to the season, but those would be drowned out by festive, relentless boasting. Instead, the ...
All athletic directors constantly update lists of names of coaching candidates in case they happen to be in the market for a new one. Obviously, KU athletic director Jeff Long isn't going to share his list, so I thought I would check out his Twitter account to see what college football coaches he follows. It proved a worthwhile exercise. Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but if you were a month or so away from ...
If you found watching Kansas football on television even more excruciating than usual Saturday, consider how lucky you were compared to redshirt junior quarterback Carter Stanley. He had to fly all the way to Lubbock to watch it in person. At least you had the option of changing the channel. He was forced to pay attention. Not only that, he had to watch Peyton Bender, his friend and teammate, suffer through ...