If you have heard anything about the 2025-26 Kansas men’s basketball team, you have probably heard that Melvin Council Jr.’s play style is reminiscent of former Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor’s. That’s a cross-decade comparison KU coach Bill Self has made on several occasions, equating the incoming fifth-year transfer from St. Bonaventure with the respected former All-American point guard. “Melvin will ...
The Kansas football team quietly added a new punter to its fresh group of specialists ahead of the 2025 season. Efren Jasso, a senior who spent his first three seasons at Prairie View A&M at the FCS level, was added to the KU football team's online roster in a recent update, ahead of the start of fall camp next Thursday. He made a post on X late on Friday night featuring a screenshot of his online KU bio ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas-friendly crowd at Municipal Auditorium had an uneasy Saturday afternoon until JHX Hoops finally seized control in the late stages of its first-round matchup in The Basketball Tournament. Kevin Young swiped the ball from OffDaHook’s Jaheam Cornwall, Lagerald Vick tossed a lob to Billy Preston for an alley-oop dunk and then Vick drained a deep 3 to put JHX ahead by double ...
The brotherhood of former Jayhawks was one of the compelling reasons for Billy Preston to play for the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament again. “(There are) some people I went to school with, like Lagerald (Vick), and people that I knew off the court like Cliff Alexander and a couple other people,” he said on Tuesday. “Just being around like a family vibe, it’s always like that every year ...
Monday was a big day for Daniel Lopez. It was his 19th birthday, for one. It was also a day on which, as he was working out at the gym, he learned the Baltimore Orioles had picked him in the 12th round of the MLB Draft, No. 364 overall. “I just started getting random texts,” Lopez recalled, “... just started hearing all these buzzings.” Lopez, a right-handed pitcher who recently completed his ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Less than 24 hours after he took the floor for the Washington Wizards in an NBA Summer League game in Las Vegas, Zeke Mayo made it halfway across the country to take part in an entirely different exhibition contest. He joined the Kansas alumni team JHX Hoops as part of its starting lineup for its scrimmage against Kansas State alumni squad Purple Reign, ahead of the start of The Basketball ...