As much as Matt Ulmer and the Kansas volleyball team might look forward to experiencing a packed Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this season, they’re not going to get the chance to do so until Sept. 26. Indeed, KU’s first Big 12 match of the Ulmer era, a Friday night battle with Arizona State, is also its first home match of the season. Outside of practices and last Saturday's alumni scrimmage, the Jayhawks ...
It is often said that nervousness and excitement are two sides of the same coin, or at least that is often said by people around me when they have to hear about how irrationally anxious I am about almost everything almost all of the time. Whatever the case, Kansas fans are likely experiencing some combination of those two emotions — the exact proportion probably depends on one’s level of general optimism ...
The Kansas baseball roster was not, as head coach Dan Fitzgerald would put it, decimated by the 2025 MLB Draft in the same way it had been the previous summer. KU did have a pair of key players forgo their senior seasons to sign professional contracts. Alex Breckheimer, the Jayhawks’ closer in 2024, was a 16th-round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals, and center fielder Derek Cerda went to the Chicago White ...
Kansas offensive line coach Daryl Agpalsa recruited Enrique Cruz Jr. when Agpalsa was at Northern Illinois and Cruz was one of the top prospects in the state, coming out of Willowbrook High School in the Chicago suburbs. But, as Agpalsa admits somewhat sheepishly now, he didn’t offer Cruz a scholarship: “I was at a smaller school, and he ended up going to Syracuse.” After playing four years for the ...
Back on the field for the unofficial start of his second professional season, former Kansas defensive end Austin Booker turned in a dominant performance in Chicago on Sunday. In his preseason opener with the Chicago Bears, Booker recorded three sacks and matched a team-high total with six tackles overall. Among his other contributions, he assisted on one tackle to halt Miami Dolphins running back Jaylen Wright ...
A sophomore year can go one of two ways, to hear Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie tell it. In one case, a sophomore can keep moving forward, can “kick on,” as Lie says: “You go from (a) freshman, getting your feet wet, steady player, ups and downs, and then sophomore year they look like they have ownership, they look like they have leadership and they take that huge step. I’ve seen that.” And then on the ...