Gavyn Schlotterback only received limited reps at first base as a freshman for Paris Junior College last fall; by the spring, the Dragons were starting him at that position. Then, when Paris’ catcher broke his nose, Schlotterback was suddenly catching in every doubleheader and even pitching at the back ends of some of those games. “I can tell you he was all-conference as a pitcher, all-conference as a ...
However much intrigue surrounds the Kansas football offense entering the 2025 season, there’s arguably even more left to figure out when it comes to KU’s defense and special teams. The defense features both a variety of transfers and a large, prominent contingent of returning players whose roles may not be set in stone. While the offense includes, for example, the likes of Kobe Baynes and Bryce Foster on ...
Spring football can only be so informative. Teams are only beginning to take shape, and coaches don’t always want to share the biggest insights they learn about those teams — especially when the rosters are, like this year’s group at Kansas, largely composed of new players overseen by freshly promoted coaches. That’s not to say that KU’s spring, which wrapped up in April, was totally opaque. On the ...
The 11 Kansas athletes who will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Oregon’s famous Hayward Field beginning on Wednesday run the gamut in terms of experience. On one side are veterans like decathletes Alexander Jung and Tayton Klein, discus thrower Dimitrios Pavlidis and distance runner Aaliyah Moore, who have been to nationals before, understand the grandeur and scale of the meet and ...
In a previous column I spent an unjustifiable amount of first time, then space, essentially trying to project what ultimately amounted to two fictional regular-season nonconference games for the Kansas men’s basketball team. KU then proceeded to announce the rest of its nonconference schedule on June 4 before I could even publish the remainder of my predictions — for all the world knows now, they could have ...
Not much of Kansas’ nonconference men’s basketball schedule came as a surprise. The vast majority of the Jayhawks’ prominent matchups had been previously reported, including the cornerstone of the home schedule — UConn — mere hours before KU officially announced the slate, and games like North Carolina, Duke and N.C. State were public much further in advance. That said, the schedule still possesses ...