The Kansas athletic department is asking sincerely when it calls the nation’s top programs for advice on its coaching searches, athletic director Travis Goff says. It just turns out that some of those programs’ head coaches become interested in KU themselves. Excluding football coach Lance Leipold and baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald (who was an assistant), each of Goff’s four additional hires since he took ...
Michael Brooks, a versatile infielder who spent three years at Kansas as one of the foundational pieces of Dan Fitzgerald's rebuild, has signed as an undrafted free agent with the Athletics, KU announced on Wednesday afternoon. Brooks played primarily at second base during his fifth and final collegiate season after starting at third each of the previous two years. As a redshirt senior, he served as one of the ...
After details of various matchups trickled in over the course of the offseason, Kansas women's basketball coach Brandon Schneider announced on Wednesday the nonconference schedule for the Jayhawks' highly anticipated 2025-26 campaign. KU's slate features the return of the Border Showdown, a neutral-site matchup on Nov. 15, as well as the Jayhawks' first official matchup with local NAIA foe Haskell Indian ...
Kansas City, Mo. — A group of Kansas and Kansas State men’s basketball alumni passed on some of their hard-earned knowledge to a handful of young players as part of a skills camp on Tuesday morning. As part of the first day of the camp, held in conjunction by The Basketball Tournament teams JHX Hoops and Purple Reign, former Jayhawk standout Tyshawn Taylor, JHX’s general manager, did his best to instill ...
Kansas City, Mo. — The Kansas alumni team has put the finishing touches on its roster for The Basketball Tournament by adding a couple of well-traveled athletes who never attended KU. Kelvin Amayo, a 6-foot-5 guard who played in college at Marshall, Iona and Loyola Marymount, and Marcus Bell, a 6-foot-10 center who spent time at three junior colleges, Idaho and Stanislaus State, joined the JHX Hoops roster ...
Rowing coach Andrew Derrick says often that it’s not a coxswain’s job to motivate, nor is it a coach’s. A functioning culture for Derrick, once he’s provided some initial guidance to his team, “looks like the team running itself in the right direction, because anything that is self-driven is more powerful than anything that is coach-driven.” “I think something that I’ve really enjoyed is trying ...