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 ...
The Kansas athletic department is asking sincerely when it calls the nation’s top programs for advice on its coaching searches, athletic director Travis Goff says. It just turns out that some of those programs’ head coaches become interested in KU themselves. Excluding football coach Lance Leipold and baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald (who was an assistant), each of Goff’s four additional hires since he took ...
After details of various matchups trickled in over the course of the offseason, Kansas women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider announced on Wednesday the nonconference schedule for the Jayhawks' highly anticipated 2025-26 campaign. KU's slate features the return of the Border Showdown, a neutral-site matchup on Nov. 15, as well as the Jayhawks' first official matchup with local NAIA foe Haskell Indian ...
Michael Brooks, a versatile infielder who spent three years at Kansas as one of the foundational pieces of Dan Fitzgerald's rebuild, has signed as an undrafted free agent with the Athletics, KU announced on Wednesday afternoon. Brooks played primarily at second base during his fifth and final collegiate season after starting at third each of the previous two years. As a redshirt senior, he served as one of the ...