Columbia, Mo. — DeShawn Hanika tells his fellow tight ends, “We like to live in hell.” It’s a shorthand for a mindset that he and his teammates will have to adopt over the course of the next week and a half, as they embrace the opportunity to battle through their first major adversity as a team. “We like the challenges,” Hanika said on Saturday, “because without the challenges it’s easy, and we ...
One of the telltale signs that basketball season is on the horizon revealed itself on Monday, as the Kansas men’s basketball team began its annual boot camp, kicking off a period of intense conditioning that helps prepare the Jayhawks for the upcoming season. The boot camp's duration varies — last year it spanned about a week and a half — but it has been a longstanding tradition under head coach Bill ...
Columbia, Mo. — When Kansas coach Lance Leipold explained linebacker Bangally Kamara’s absence against Wagner as a “non-contact injury” and said his status would be “unknown for a while,” it didn’t necessarily give the impression that Kamara would return for KU’s very next game. But as the eight days between the Jayhawks’ 46-7 victory on Aug. 29 and 42-31 loss on Saturday unfolded, a quick ...
The Kansas soccer team claimed its first road victory of the season in dominant fashion on Sunday afternoon, as the Jayhawks routed Yale 4-0 at Reese Stadium in New Haven, Connecticut. “This was a good professional performance by our team,” KU coach Nate Lie said in a press release. “I thought the first road game of the year (a tie at Utah State on Aug. 24), we didn’t show up particularly well. This was ...
Columbia, Mo. — The Kansas offense had barely touched the ball in the second quarter — in fact, the Jayhawks had held it for 14 seconds compared to Missouri’s 810 — when KU regained possession of the ball with three timeouts and just over a minute remaining in the first half. The Tigers had chipped away at KU’s 15-point lead with a touchdown, safety and field goal in reasonably quick succession, but ...
Pin hitters Grace Nelson and Rhian Swanson reset career highs with 17 and 22 kills, respectively, but the Kansas volleyball team lost to Purdue 3-2 (16-25, 25-19, 18-25, 25-21, 11-15) on Friday night at Holloway Gymnasium in West Lafayette, Indiana. The defeat sent KU to 3-4 on the season, spoiling its run at the Stacey Clark classic after its victories on Wednesday and Thursday. It also completed a circle of ...