Kansas City, Mo. — A group of Kansas and Kansas State men’s basketball alumni passed on some of their hard-earned knowledge to a handful of young players as part of a skills camp on Tuesday morning. As part of the first day of the camp, held in conjunction by The Basketball Tournament teams JHX Hoops and Purple Reign, former Jayhawk standout Tyshawn Taylor, JHX’s general manager, did his best to instill ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas alumni team has put the finishing touches on its roster for The Basketball Tournament by adding a couple of well-traveled athletes who never attended KU. Kelvin Amayo, a 6-foot-5 guard who played in college at Marshall, Iona and Loyola Marymount, and Marcus Bell, a 6-foot-10 center who spent time at three junior colleges, Idaho and Stanislaus State, joined the JHX Hoops roster ...
Acquiring four transfer wide receivers wasn’t quite enough for the Kansas football coaching staff. The Jayhawks took advantage of a newly enacted portal window for Designated Student-Athletes (DSAs) that opened on July 7 and earned the commitment of Nebraska transfer Jaiden Doss on Monday. JayhawkSlant first reported the news, which Doss shared on social media. “Choosing Kansas just felt right for me,” ...
Updated 7:46 p.m. Monday, July 14, 2025: Three Kansas baseball players, including one graduating senior in Brady Counsell and two players with additional collegiate eligibility in Alex Breckheimer and Derek Cerda, were selected in the 2025 MLB Draft on Monday. "Having guys drafted is one of the many signs of a healthy program and having guys drafted for the first time is a major sign of great development," KU ...
Rowing coach Andrew Derrick says often that it’s not a coxswain’s job to motivate, nor is it a coach’s. A functioning culture for Derrick, once he’s provided some initial guidance to his team, “looks like the team running itself in the right direction, because anything that is self-driven is more powerful than anything that is coach-driven.” “I think something that I’ve really enjoyed is trying ...
When freshman guard Darryn Peterson found out that former Kansas great Jacque Vaughn was joining the coaching staff as an assistant, he sent Vaughn a text: “So excited to learn from you.” Those were clearly not just empty pleasantries. Kansas athletic director Travis Goff said on Wednesday at Big 12 football media days in Frisco, Texas, that each time he has visited KU’s summer practices, on three or four ...