The 162-game Major League Baseball season has crossed its halfway point, and the minor leagues are soon to be flooded with new talent when the MLB Draft concludes on July 14 in Cumberland, Georgia. Having just completed one of its best seasons in recent years, the Kansas baseball program is likely to have some players selected over the course of the two-day, 10-round draft. This all provides an opportune ...
JHX Hoops, the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament, and Purple Reign, its Kansas State counterpart, have announced that they will face off in a scrimmage prior to the start of TBT. The game, which the teams are promoting as the second annual Wheat State Summer Showdown, is set for 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 17. The scrimmage will take place at the Swinney Center, the gymnasium that is home to the ...
The Kansas football team is relying on a greater proportion of transfers for significant contributions during the 2025 season than it has in any other year under Lance Leipold. The ultimate fate of the Jayhawks, though, may well depend on the ability of certain returning players to grow into much larger roles than they have occupied in previous seasons. Here’s a look at some of those returnees who will be ...
Lucas Smalls-Allen, a 6-foot-4, 260-pound three-star defensive tackle from Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Roswell, Georgia, announced his commitment to the Kansas football class of 2026 on Friday morning. He joins recent addition Carter among the defensive tackles, as well as ends Hunter Higgins and Draeden Punt on the defensive line. Smalls-Allen is the 19th member of KU’s 2026 class and could be ...
The 2025 NBA Draft wrapped up on Thursday evening, and no Kansas players were selected, just the third time since 2010 that a Jayhawk’s name hasn’t been called. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the outgoing KU seniors won’t receive decent opportunities to make in the NBA. Hunter Dickinson already signed a two-way contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, and Dajuan Harris Jr. will reportedly get a ...
Kansas athletic director Travis Goff announced on Friday that KU has hired Gonzaga head coach Andrew Derrick as its new rowing coach. In his five seasons with the Bulldogs, Derrick led his team to four straight West Coast Conference titles followed by one second-place finish. Gonzaga compiled a conference record of 127-5 in NCAA events during his first four years. A graduate of the University of Washington who ...