It wasn't pretty, but Bryce Hoppel did it again.
The former Kansas athlete and current professional middle-distance runner overcame a physical race that saw athletes jockeying for position along the track, winning the 800 meters for the second year in a row Sunday at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
As noted by Jonathan Gault of LetsRun.com, just once in the last two decades has a runner won ...
Consulting firm Hunden Strategic Partners created a stir in the Kansas sports community when it suggested last month that KU should consider shrinking its football stadium's capacity under 40,000 seats, from the current 47,233. That reduction, the consultants suggested, would make room for mixed-use development in the surrounding area as part of the school's forthcoming campus gateway project.
After the ...
As Kansas Athletics bestows one honor upon her after another, former KU volleyball star Ainise Havili has retained her setter’s mentality.
When the program wanted to retire her jersey last year, she immediately suggested that she could share her ceremony with her old right-side hitter Kelsie Payne, as their coach Ray Bechard previously told the Journal-World.
And after KU announced her induction into the ...
Steven Johnson may not have taken the junior-college route coming out of high school, but he knows a little something about unconventional paths to football success.
Facing a dearth of Division I offers out of high school, he attended a year of prep school at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. After suffering a devastating knee injury almost immediately, he walked on at Kansas in 2008, where he worked ...
A big hype-building week for Kansas football, which featured four preseason all-conference first-team selections and a ninth-place projected finish, culminated late Friday night with the unveiling of two new uniforms.
Kansas Athletics posted a video featuring two new designs on social media after a tease early in the day, revealing fresh all-blue and all-white uniforms.
The blue jersey features a pair of white ...
There's so much to learn about the four new Big 12 schools beyond the nuances of their football and men's basketball programs. While there will certainly be no shortage of commentary in the months and years to come about how BYU, Cincinnati, Central Florida and Houston match up against Kansas in those two ways — on the gridiron and on the court — they will in reality be taking on the Jayhawks in eight times ...
