This preview is the third of a 12-part series breaking down the upcoming KU football schedule. This week’s edition of the Booth Breakdown zooms in on Nevada, the Jayhawks’ first road test of the season and the final nonconference foe on the schedule. Nevada falls somewhere in the middle of Missouri State and Illinois — two very different programs exposed to KU during Weeks 1 and 2 — after a ...
For his entire time at Perry-Lecompton High School, Gunnar Ball was a jack of all athletic trades, regularly found working his tail off on the gridiron, hardwood, diamond and track. But when he heads to Washburn University to study business in the fall, he won’t be playing four different sports for the Ichabods. In fact, except for intramural activities, he won’t be playing any sports at all. “It’s ...
Bishop Seabury named assistant boys basketball coach Trey Johnson as the program’s next head coach on Monday. The school also returns Mehdi Honarvar and introduces Dee Early and Collins Robinson as the team’s assistant coaches for the upcoming season. The personnel change comes after the departure of former head coach Benny Molle, who left Lawrence to continue coaching basketball in the Kansas City area. ...
Jeff Dickson coaches basketball at full speed. Nearly three months ago, the Lawrence High head girls basketball coach led his team back to the Class 6A state tournament for the first time since 2017. He put together a dynamite starting five that played as if they had nothing to lose. But, as is routine for any high school basketball coach, Dickson sent off four All-Area seniors that put the program back on the ...
Senior Spotlight is a summer series highlighting incoming area high school senior athletes. Wesley Edison is a familiar face on the Free State football team. The incoming senior notched his varsity letter quarterbacking as a sophomore with a team full of big names — Jet Dineen (Kansas State), Dash Cleveland (Baker), and Jordan Brown (Saint Mary) — two years ago. Things have changed since then. Gone are the ...
Two years ago, it seemed like Free State alumna Emily Venters’ college running career was on its last lap. At the University of Colorado Boulder, she suffered a vicious cycle of one injury after another, and as her bone density declined, it seemed like her prospects in college track and cross country were bleak. But she decided to give it another shot at Utah — and her perseverance paid off this year when ...