The NCAA's Division I Council on Wednesday voted to remove the annual signing and initial counter limits that have prevented many FBS schools from having the maximum of 85 players on scholarship each season. That move, which will go into effect on June 1 and initially last two years, should significantly help Kansas, which has battled significant roster turnover in recent years as it has shuffled through ...
When Zion Bowlin was considering whether to return to the Washburn baseball team for a fifth and final season, his father, Craig Bowlin, reminded him that the money from an athletic scholarship would prevent him from going further into debt as he finished his business management degree. Had either known that the Ichabods would end up making their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament, it may not have been as ...
Jarrett Paul left Eastern Michigan earlier this spring hoping to play football in a Power 5 conference once again. On Wednesday, that goal became reality. Paul committed to transfer to Kansas at the end of an official visit, marking the second time he will have changed schools. For him, the visit was more of a formality than it is for most players; he had already told defensive coordinator Brian Borland and ...
Flavio Gonzalez, a left guard at Butler Community College, rescinded his April 30 commitment to transfer to Kansas and instead intends to play at Oregon State. Gonzalez, who is from Tucson, Arizona, wrote on social mediaMonday night that he had always dreamed of playing in the Pac-12 and was thus decommitting from Kansas. He held a signing ceremony at his old high school, Pueblo High, earlier in the day. In ...
Free State sophomore Jack Randall overcame a difficult day off the tee to shoot a 3-over-par 75 at Rolling Meadows Golf Course in Milford on Monday to finish second in one of four Class 6A boys golf regionals. His performance helped the Firebirds finish third, which means they will be one of 12 teams competing at the Class 6A championships next week at Mariah Hills Golf Course in Dodge City. Randall, a ...
Maui Ahuna hated what he saw. Leering at him from high above the right-field wall, like in many other ballparks he has played in, was a scoreboard — except this scoreboard was the kind he detested the most. It displayed his statistics in large, white, contrasting numbers, and it was one that forced him to see those numbers out of the corner of his eye while he was standing in the left-handed-batter's box. In ...