WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU announces sellout for season opener, reveals stadium's capacity

The Kansas football team's season opener against Fresno State on Saturday at 5:30 p.m., which will be the first game in the revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, has sold out. KU Athletics announced the news on Wednesday afternoon, while also revealing for the first time this season's official capacity for the stadium, following the completion of the first phase of the Gateway project: 41,525. That is ...

The players left off KU's depth chart who are most likely to contribute in 2025

A depth chart doesn’t tell the whole story. Last season, defensive tackle Blake Herold, then a redshirt freshman, didn’t get a spot on Kansas’ depth chart coming out of fall camp, as he was passed up in favor of several upperclassmen. He made it on the depth chart by the third week of the season thanks to his high-level play. By the end of the 2024 campaign, Herold had played 277 snaps and become KU’s ...

Stewart back on track after offseason injury

When he arrived on campus in the spring of 2024, not too long ago, Harry Stewart III made a strong first impression. Not only was the then-freshman running back “built like a monster,” as teammate Daniel Hishaw Jr. puts it now — “He’s still built like a monster,” in fact — but position coach Jonathan Wallace called Stewart “almost like Devin Neal all over again” in terms of how eager he was to ...

KU to add Bland as assistant coach

Tony Bland will soon join the Kansas men's basketball team as an assistant coach, a source confirmed to the Journal-World on Tuesday afternoon. Bland comes to KU after most recently serving for one season as an assistant coach on Danny Sprinkle’s staff at Washington. ESPN first reported the news of his move to KU. He replaces Chase Buford, after head coach Bill Self said on Friday that Buford had accepted an ...

Daniels, Foster, Finkley named captains

Head coach Lance Leipold announced the Kansas football team’s captains for the 2025 season following the conclusion of Monday's opening game-week practice. Center Bryce Foster, one of the three players chosen, found himself tearing up as the Jayhawks went through their post-practice prayer. “I kind of caught myself,” Foster said. “I don’t know, it gave me goosebumps, gets me excited, and I’m just ...

Takeaways from KU's first depth chart of the 2025 season

The release of an inaugural depth chart is a valuable development at the start of any football season, because it codifies weeks of training-camp speculation in the form of a single, largely unambiguous document. Granted, the 2025 Kansas depth chart still prompts a lot of questions. KU has returned to using at least a few “ors” this season, after doing away with them entirely at the start of 2024 — a ...