Frisco, Texas — Tight end DeShawn Hanika had the opportunity to represent Kansas at Big 12 media days this week before ever playing a snap for the Jayhawks. “It’s a true honor,” Hanika said on Wednesday. “I think for me, it just shows how much trust coach (Lance) Leipold has in me, how much trust my teammates have in me for allowing me to have this kind of a type of voice for the team, and I ...
Frisco, Texas — When Lance Leipold was an assistant coach at Nebraska-Omaha, the start of the football season was quite a ways away from July 24 — the day on which he and his wife Kelly were wed in 1999. “I got married, went on a week’s honeymoon, came back and still had over a week before the team reported,” Leipold recalled in February, shortly after KU’s schedule was announced. This year, ...
As organizers of the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic continue to stress, the event’s focus will always be on children battling cancer, and indeed it featured six primary beneficiaries in Thursday night’s edition. But in its 17th year, the event expanded for the first time to benefit a parent dealing with the disease, Kristi McAlister of Lawrence. She received a check for $25,000 midway through the charity ...
Frisco, Texas — Kansas center Bryce Foster was originally announced as a representative of the KU football team at Big 12 media days on Wednesday at Ford Center at The Star, but was unable to attend due to a recent “cleanup” medical procedure, head coach Lance Leipold said. “Bryce had a little procedure done that’s going to hold him back a little bit and they didn’t want him to fly,” Leipold said. ...
Frisco, Texas — Kansas athletic director Travis Goff and the rest of the athletic department have long repeated that the David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium renovation process is on time and on budget for the Jayhawks’ season opener against Fresno State on Aug. 23. Now, though, the stadium — or at least 70% of it, as part of phase one of the project — is starting to look much closer to a finished ...
Frisco, Texas — The announcement of Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s amended six-year contract in June provided some insight into KU’s future plans in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement by suggesting that the baseball program would receive “an increase in scholarships.” The House settlement, which became effective on July 1, replaced previous scholarship limits with newly devised roster ...