Rabu Leyva remembers the time incoming Kansas guard Wyvette Mayberry made an opponent quit. Mayberry was a senior in high school when Leyva, her coach, assigned her to defend the point guard. That player, whom he would not name but is now playing at a Division I mid-major school, grew increasingly frustrated by Mayberry's relentless full-court defense until she finally snapped. "She didn't want to bring the ...
If the Kansas football team can have as much success this weekend with its visitors as it did a week ago, its recruiting class will be in excellent shape. The Jayhawks will host their second of two big recruiting weekends beginning Friday as several of their top targets will be on campus for official visits. One of them is Taylor Davis, a safety from Missouri City, Texas, who became the first player in the ...
Dean Miller, an outside linebacker at College of the Canyons, became the latest player to commit to transfer to Kansas when he did so on Wednesday afternoon. A freshman last season, Miller, who is 6-foot-6 and 210 pounds, has three seasons of eligibility remaining plus a redshirt year. An outside linebacker in the Cougars' 3-3 stack defense, he would likely play defensive end at Kansas, which uses a 4-3 base ...
Zuby Ejiofor has only been at Kansas for four days, so when he joined his new teammates for a scrimmage Wednesday to conclude a week of youth basketball camps, he didn't want to hold anything back. "I feel like I had to make a statement," Ejiofor said. That he did, scoring 28 points as he led the red team to an 85-73 win over the blue team in a game with a 30-minute running clock in a sweltering Allen ...
The Kansas football team received two more commitments from players who made an official visit over the weekend when Keaton Kubecka and Tony Terry Jr. decided to join the Jayhawks. The additions of Kubecka and Terry mean that five of the eight players who were meeting with coaches and players from Friday through Sunday intend to play for Kansas. A 6-foot-2, 195-pound wide receiver at Westlake High in Austin, ...
It was difficult for Tristian Fletcher to keep a straight face. Fletcher had just committed to play football at Kansas during his official visit on Saturday when coach Lance Leipold encouraged him to play coy and not immediately share the news with the Jayhawks' assistant coaches. But Fletcher, a linebacker from Trinity Valley Community College, realized as soon as linebackers coach Chris Simpson asked him ...