Hailey Cripe grew up dreaming of playing professional softball, but it's not a dream that all that many get the chance to attain. That’s both because of the elite level one has to reach in the sport to receive consideration and because so many attempts at pro leagues in recent years have been ephemeral. But Cripe had both the skill and the good timing to make her dream a reality. The former Kansas shortstop ...
The Kansas football team earned its second commitment at the tight end position in the span of a week when Luke Gazzaniga announced that he will join the Jayhawks. Gazzaniga made his decision public through an Instagram post in partnership with 247Sports on Thursday afternoon. A three-star prospect, he is listed at 6-foot-4 and 232 pounds and attends Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa ...
The first-ever baseball regional in Lawrence is ready to get underway. Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri State and Northeastern practiced at a newly reconfigured Hoglund Ballpark on Thursday in advance of Friday’s opening action, with top-seeded host KU set to take on Northeastern at 12 p.m. and Arkansas and Missouri State doing battle at 5 p.m. “Our administration has done an incredible job of making Hoglund ...
A center of activity for much of the school year, The Wagon Wheel tends to get rather quiet when graduation passes and the students leave town. The 71-year-old Lawrence institution at 507 W. 14th St. used to be open on Fridays and Saturdays in off months, but it has in recent years closed for the summer, shutting its doors to everything but a handful of private parties, dinners and the like, its proprietor Rob ...
Incoming Kansas signee Taylen Kinney has been named to the United States’ under-18 national men’s basketball team, USA Basketball announced on Wednesday morning. Kinney is a 6-foot-2 point guard from Newport, Kentucky, who played at Overtime Elite and ranks among the top players at his position in the class of 2026. He averaged 18.8 points and 6.1 assists as a senior at OTE and was a McDonald’s ...
Back in high school, Reese Messer committed to USC about as soon as it was possible for her to do so. It was the summer after her sophomore year, and the setter from Olathe had made up her mind that she wanted to try going far from home for college and that USC was the right place to do it. And so she committed less than six days after it became possible for coaches to contact members of her recruiting ...