The fateful hour of the NBA Draft is drawing ever nearer for former Kansas men’s basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. Both will hope to hear their names called on Wednesday, the first day of what will be the first two-day NBA Draft. The first round begins at 7 p.m. Central Time on ABC and ESPN, and the second round is set for Thursday at 3 p.m. Central Time on ESPN. The pair is expected to ...
Overland Park — The gym at Radiant Church was filled with familiar faces on Tuesday afternoon as part of former Kansas basketball player Christian Braun’s youth camp. There was Braun, the star of the show, as well as Ed Fritz, the camp organizer and the coach who guided Braun to state championships at Blue Valley Northwest. But the three-day event also drew a slew of the Huskies who helped aid those title ...
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald and his staff do everything they can to get a sense from their MLB Draft-eligible players on how high they’ll need to get selected in order to leave KU and go pro. They then calibrate their personnel accordingly based on what they learn. But, as Fitzgerald said on his “Hawk Talk” radio show Friday night, the KU roster can also survive a scenario in which it gets ...
The acquisition of Bryce Foster has all but eliminated the sense of mystery surrounding Kansas’ offensive line ahead of the 2024 season. The two months between the conclusion of spring practice and Foster’s long-awaited (and long-teased) commitment provided plenty of time for speculation as to how exactly KU’s interior offensive line would take shape. The central question was whether Tiffin transfer ...
Updated 7:47 p.m. Sunday, June 23: The Kansas football team picked up another in-state recruit on Sunday night in Tate Nagy, who plays quarterback at Blue Valley West but is expected to help KU bolster its future group of wide receivers. Nagy joins Jackson Cook from Snellville, Georgia, among the wide receivers in the 2025 class who will play a role in accounting for the losses of Lawrence Arnold, Luke Grimm, ...
Of all the teams affected in one way or another by the latest round of conference realignment, the Big 12 Conference softball teams have to be among the most relieved. With Oklahoma and Texas leaving the league, a new world of possibility opens for everyone else in it. It’s not just that those two conference foes were so dominant in 2024 as to face off in both the Big 12 softball championship and the ...