The Kansas football team acquired a new piece for its future secondary when Robert Reddick announced his commitment on Wednesday evening. Reddick, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound cornerback from Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, picked KU out of a top five that also included Illinois, Northern Illinois, Purdue and Toledo. The three-star prospect had visited Toledo earlier in the spring and made the trip to KU last ...
When Lilly Meister entered the portal in late March after three seasons with the Indiana women’s basketball team, she was looking for a sense of familiarity. “The transfer portal is hard, because in high school you have all these years to be recruited and get to know everybody,” she said on Monday on the “Hawk Talk” radio show. “When you’re in the portal you get a month, maybe a little more than ...
Nolen Ellison, a former Kansas men’s basketball player who went on to a lengthy career as an education official, died on Thursday. He was 83. KU Athletics announced the news in a press release on Tuesday, citing information from the Ellison family. Ellison, a native of Kansas City, Kansas, who attended Wyandotte High School, arrived at KU in 1959 on a basketball scholarship and played alongside and lived ...
Updated 11:40 a.m. Sunday, June 15, 2025: Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s new contract, announced by KU last week and obtained by the Journal-World via a Kansas Open Records Act request, provides Fitzgerald a salary increase and extends his employment through the end of the 2031 season, with the possibility for more years to be tacked on based on regular-season and postseason performance. Fitzgerald, ...
Kansas junior Ashton Barkdull finished as the national runner-up in the men’s pole vault, with his brother Bryce just a few spots behind, as KU wrapped up the track and field season on Saturday at the NCAA outdoor championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. The men’s team took 16th in the nation, headlined by the Barkdulls’ top-five finishes and another trip to the podium for discus thrower ...
Updated 9:39 a.m. Monday, June 16, 2025: The commitment of one defensive tackle to the Kansas football team's 2026 recruiting class came just 12 hours before the decommitment of another. Nakwaine Carter, who attends Southmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, and ranks as a three-star prospect, announced he was joining KU on Sunday night. On Monday morning, though, Landen Anderson, a fellow Oklahoman who had ...