WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Veteran tackle Cruz transfers to Kansas

Former Syracuse offensive tackle Enrique Cruz Jr. has committed to Kansas, he announced on Friday afternoon. Cruz, a fifth-year senior who started at left tackle for the Orange in 2023 but played sparingly during his fourth season, brings immediate experience to an offensive line looking to replace two NFL-bound tackles. He is a 6-foot-6, 319-pound native of Chicago who attended Willowbrook High School, where ...

Former KU assistant Robinson announces retirement

Arizona assistant men's basketball coach Steve Robinson, who spent eight seasons at KU in two separate stints working under Roy Williams, announced his retirement on Thursday. "After more than 40 years of coaching and mentoring young men from around the world, I feel it is the right time for me to step away and spend more time with my wife, our kids and our grandkids," Robinson said in a press release. ...

KU's vision for hard-throwing Breckheimer is gradually coming to fruition

Bryant & Stratton College has 16 campuses with seven athletic departments, four of which have teams currently playing baseball, and at least one search engine considers its Virginia and Ohio outposts more salient than the Wisconsin program, nestled in the Milwaukee suburbs, where Alex Breckheimer pitched for two seasons. The Bobcats are not necessarily salient to the Division I baseball world either. When ...

KU adds defensive back Gibbs from transfer portal

The Kansas football team has added some much-needed experience to its secondary. Syeed Gibbs, a defensive back from Everett, Massachusetts, who played two years at Rhode Island and one at Georgia Tech, announced his commitment to KU on Thursday night. He will be a redshirt junior with two years left to play. Gibbs saw time in 10 games and started six during his lone season with the Yellow Jackets. He tallied ...

KU men's golf finishes 10th at Big 12 Championship

The Kansas men’s golf team finished 10th of 16 programs in the Big 12 Championship, which concluded on Thursday afternoon at Southern Hills County Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. KU posted its best overall performance of the event in its final round of action, with a team score of 4-over 284 led by graduate student Gunnar Broin’s 3-under 67, and moved up one spot in the rankings from the previous day. "We played ...

KU football alumni set for big NFL Draft

The NFL Draft is imminent, with the first round set for Thursday night, and this year’s event has a chance to make history for the Kansas football program. With offensive lineman Logan Brown, a former five-star high school recruit, and KU’s all-time leading rusher Devin Neal joining cornerbacks Cobee Bryant and Mello Dotson in the draft, the 2025 class already looked like a good bet to match 2008 with four ...