WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU softball opens regional against Michigan

The Kansas softball team earned a regional bid and a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament on the strength of some significant late-season victories. Now the Jayhawks’ focus will turn to actually advancing out of their regional — something the program has done just once, when it hosted in 1992 — a task that will presumably require at some point along the way defeating Oklahoma, a perennial power that is 18-0 ...

KU women's golf finishes 7th in regional, does not advance to nationals

The Kansas women's golf team finished seventh in NCAA regional competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the conclusion of its third and final round on Wednesday afternoon. KU, which had entered as the No. 7 seed in the regional, was looking for a second straight appearance in the NCAA National Championship in Carlsbad, California, which would have been the fifth overall in program history. But the Jayhawks ...

At Draft Combine, Peterson says he has regained pre-college level of athleticism

Darryn Peterson’s lone season at Kansas already feels like it was “so long ago,” the guard told reporters on Wednesday. Indeed, he’s had a busy couple of months since the Jayhawks lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, and in particular a busy week at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago, which continues through Sunday. The event is giving NBA teams an opportunity to evaluate Peterson up close ...

KU baseball looking to get back on course against BYU

The public discourse around Kansas baseball changed quite a bit in the span of a few days. In the wake of a three-game sweep by West Virginia at Hoglund Ballpark, KU moved in postseason projections from contending for a top-eight seed and a potential super-regional host spot to, depending on where you look, either clinging to one of the final top 16 seeds (No. 15 at D1Baseball) or traveling to someone else’s ...

After year off, could Kansas Relays return in some new form?

The month of April passed this year without the running of the Kansas Relays. That doesn’t happen often. The meet began in 1923 and paused only briefly for World War II, renovations and the COVID-19 pandemic. But KU decided not to put on the event this spring in order to reduce expenses, as the Journal-World reported in September, amid the advent of student-athlete revenue sharing and other significant ...

2027 quarterback Thomas commits to KU

The Kansas football team got its quarterback in the class of 2027 on Monday afternoon when Chance Thomas announced his commitment to the Jayhawks on a 247Sports livestream. Thomas picked KU from a top three that included Auburn and Utah. He is a three-star prospect out of Western High School in Anaheim, California, who as a junior in 2025 completed 71.5% of his passes for 3,327 yards with 33 touchdowns and ...