Kansas City, Kan. — When Kansas revealed that it would play its nonconference home football games at Children's Mercy Park during the 2024 season, head coach Lance Leipold got a message from a friend who had experienced one of the select few previous American football games played at the venue. Mel Tjeerdsma, a former Northwest Missouri State head coach who was the school's athletic director when it won ...
Legendary Kansas forward Thomas Robinson's upcoming basketball camp in Lawrence may last just five days, but he hopes its effects will be much further-reaching. He said he sees it as "the start of a foundation that we want to build with training and building kids," and in promotional materials has referred to it as "the inaugural year of my annual basketball camp." "I think our main goal is to look at this ...
Kansas safety Mason Ellis has all the measurables. The redshirt sophomore from Mulvane said on Thursday that he has run as fast as 22.01 mph, after beginning his career at KU in the low 20s. In the spring, strength coach Matt Gildersleeve, distributor of faux "speeding tickets" for KU's best runners, said of Ellis, “He wasn’t two, three or even four this time last year, but he’s been our fastest guy.” ...
The NCAA changed a key rule in June, one that made even the typically measured Kansas coach Lance Leipold say recently, “I can’t tell you how excited I am.” “Moving forward, any staff member may provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes during practice and competition,” according to an NCAA press release, meaning that KU’s 11 analysts and quality control coaches can now have a ...
All six Kansas players selected in the MLB Draft have signed professional contracts, bringing the total number of former Jayhawks entering the pros this year to eight. That group includes pitchers Hunter Cranton (third round, Seattle Mariners) and Reese Dutton (undrafted, Philadelphia Phillies), both transfers who played at four-year schools and JUCOs and then exhausted their eligibility at KU. But it also ...
Leyton Cure and Jeff Grimes have something in common: They have both executed plays on which the tight end gets to throw the ball. Cure, who transferred to Kansas from Fort Hays State in the offseason, recounted his memorable completion to reporters on Wednesday, following his second day of fall camp with the Jayhawks. The Tigers were playing down at Central Oklahoma in 2022 and the first read, a go route, was ...