Thomas Robinson did it, again. The All-American forward and NBA lottery pick nailed the game-winning basket for Mass Street, a team of mostly Kansas alumni, in a 69-65 victory over the Show Me Squad, Missouri’s alumni team, in the second round of The Basketball Tournament on Saturday in Wichita. Robinson, totaling 15 points on 5-for-14 shooting, capped off the Elam ending for the KU alumni at the free-throw ...
This preview is the seventh of a 12-part series breaking down the upcoming KU football schedule. While Oklahoma and Oklahoma State fans alike will cherish what’s seemingly the final football edition of the Bedlam series this fall, Kansas will have the Cowboys circled on their calendar for another reason. It was a Week 9 romp over then-No. 18 Oklahoma State that clinched KU’s eventual trip to the Liberty ...
With just two more matches remaining on Sporting KC II’s July slate, the club is looking more and more like a playoff contender. SKC II (7-5-5), coming in at No. 5 in the Western Conference with 29 points after last Sunday’s 2-1 victory over San Jose Earthquakes II, has won five of its last seven matches since the beginning of June. This past match saw SKC II’s Pau Vidal grab his 10th goal of the season, ...
State tennis champion Kinley VanPelt joined 24 other high school players on the All-USA Today Girls Tennis Team last week, cementing her nomination for Player of the Year. The winner is slated to be revealed later this month on July 30. The only Kansan featured on this year’s national team, Free State’s VanPelt brought home the Class 6A singles title as a sophomore when she defeated Blue Valley Northwest ...
It’s hard not to associate basketball with Lawrence. Kansas stars like Wilt Chamberlain, Danny Manning, Raef LaFrentz and Paul Pierce, just to name a few, made the game a mainstay attraction for the town. So the fact that Allen Fieldhouse, the 68-year home to the Jayhawks and one of the state’s most historic venues, hasn’t hosted a statewide high school basketball championship in more than three decades ...
This preview is the sixth of a 12-part series breaking down the upcoming KU football schedule. One of the four new programs found at Big 12 Conference Media Days this week, Central Florida, will make its first trip to Lawrence this fall when Kansas hosts the Knights in Week 6. Looking ahead, the matchup will be the third conference meeting of the 2023 season for the Jayhawks. UCF, a member of the American ...