The Kansas football team held a lengthy, administrative meeting Monday night to help prepare its players for the start of training camp. At one point, head coach Lance Leipold said, he asked his players what was different from two years ago when his staff first came in. Leipold cited Lawrence Arnold — a redshirt freshman then, a redshirt junior and one of quarterback Jalon Daniels' go-to targets now — as ...
The Kansas football team is in uncharted territory, facing the highest expectations in over a decade, but this year's fall training camp should feature a refreshing familiarity. Practically all of the coaches and players are back from last season, and certainly little of note has changed on the roster since spring practice. As a result, fall camp, which begins Tuesday, should serve as a demonstration of what ...
The Basketball Tournament had included just one Kansas alumni squad in its nine years of existence before the Mass St. Collective sponsored a team this year. Mass St. serves primarily as the name, image and likeness partner of Kansas Athletics, helping secure financial partnerships for current Jayhawk athletes — thus making the connection to their predecessors somewhat more tangential. But Dan Beckler, the ...
Just when it seemed like 2024 football recruiting had slowed down for the summer, 2025 recruiting kicked into gear. The Kansas football team earned its first verbal commitment from an incoming junior Thursday evening. Quarterback David McComb from Oklahoma's Edmond Memorial High, who first visited Lawrence on June 25, pledged to attend KU after spending more time with head coach Lance Leipold and offensive ...
Bill Self has seen the same process unfold in several consecutive years: A Kansas player will enter the draft and ultimately decide to come back but do so with renewed “confidence and aggressiveness.” “I think it’s the exact same thing that Ochai (Agbaji) and J-Wil (Jalen Wilson) did,” he said. “I think they tested the waters, they went and did all the NBA stuff, they saw (it), they have a better ...
Peruse recent Kansas soccer lineups and you’ll find plenty of towns with familiar names: Leawood, Lenexa, Olathe, Overland Park and Shawnee in the state of Kansas; Grain Valley, Lee’s Summit and of course Kansas City in Missouri. “I think in my years that I’ve been here, obviously, I’ve seen a lot of changes in the quality of players coming out of Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri,” head coach Mark ...