WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU men's basketball schedule for Puerto Rico posted

The Kansas men's basketball team has posted more details regarding its three exhibition games in Puerto Rico next week. According to a schedule uploaded onto the Kansas Athletics website Thursday, the Jayhawks will face a "Puerto Rico Select Team" at 11 a.m. Central Time on Aug. 3, then the national basketball team of the Bahamas at 4 p.m. Aug. 5 and again at 11 a.m. Aug. 7. All three games will take place in ...

Shooting guard will be position to watch in Puerto Rico

When Kansas men's basketball returned three decorated veteran starters — KJ Adams Jr., Dajuan Harris Jr., Kevin McCullar Jr. — and then snagged the highest-profile transfer in recent college basketball history, Hunter Dickinson, that naturally locked down four of its five starting spots. All indications are that a trio of newcomers is vying for the last one, though, each player with his own merits. We now ...

Kansas football facility briefly evacuated Monday; football player faces felony charge

Story updated at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday: Several University of Kansas football facilities were evacuated Monday evening following a bomb threat, according to KU police, and a KU football player is currently facing a felony charge in Douglas County District Court. On Monday evening, the Anderson Family Football Complex, Beatty Family Pavilion and David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium were evacuated and searched by ...

KU to open against Chaminade in Maui Invitational

Kansas men's basketball has earned the top seed in the Maui Invitational for the third straight time. The Jayhawks will play Chaminade, the Honolulu-based NCAA Division II school that hosts the tournament in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Nov. 20 at 8 p.m. Central Time. on ESPNU. They previously faced the Silverswords in the opening round in 2015 and 2019, and are 4-0 against them all-time. The game against Chaminade ...

Professional opportunities fueling growth in KU soccer

Mark Francis has been head coach of the Kansas soccer team long enough — try 24 seasons — to remember a time when professional women’s soccer offered far fewer opportunities than it does today. “There were years when we had really good players, All-Americans, graduate out of our program, there was nowhere to play,” he said in a recent interview. But between the growth of the sport in the United ...

Arterio Morris' assault case expected to continue despite affidavit of non-prosecution

The alleged victim in Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris' assault case filed an affidavit of non-prosecution Monday, but the Denton County Criminal District Attorney's Office said Tuesday it will continue to pursue the assault charge. The charge, for a Class A misdemeanor, dates back to a June 2022 altercation in Texas between Morris and an ex-girlfriend prior to Morris' freshman year at the University of ...