Collin Baumgartner was all set to go to law school. He had been playing his sixth-year senior campaign at Kansas, he says, “more to have fun and kind of look at it as my last season." Then the Colorado Rockies signed him as an undrafted free agent after the 2023 MLB Draft. Now, less than two years later, it looks like he may make it to the big leagues before he would even have had the chance to sit for the ...
Sophomore Mason Meinershagen’s silver medal in the women’s pole vault headlined a busy day of action for Kansas on Friday, the second day of the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship at Rock Chalk Park. Meinershagen entered with a No. 6 national ranking, having recently reset the KU outdoor program record at 4.51 meters — just ahead of eighth-ranked teammate Erica Ellis’ 4.50. Meanwhile, Baylor ...
Any Kansas fans who were concerned about potentially losing marquee 2026 recruit JJ Dunnigan can breathe sighs of relief, as the four-star defensive back from Manhattan announced on Friday morning that he is shutting down his recruitment. In the months since he committed to KU on Jan. 2 at the Under Armour Next All-America Game in DeLand, Florida, Dunnigan had received additional offers from a variety of ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team on Friday afternoon received a new high school commitment from a familiar source. Corbin Allen, a 6-foot-6 point guard in the class of 2025, revealed that he is joining the Jayhawks next season. “Blessed to announce my commitment to the University of Kansas!” he wrote in a post on X. “Thank you God for guiding me, and thank you to my family, teammates, and coaches for ...
It was, he says now, both one of the coolest moments of Cooper Moore’s life and one of the scariest. On a rainy day the summer before his freshman year of high school, Moore, a native of Bixby, Oklahoma, went down to a neighborhood pond with a friend to do some fishing. “Fish are biting when it’s storming,” Moore said, by way of explanation. The young angler was sitting under a tree flipping a jig ...
Led by seven shutout innings from starter Dominic Voegele, the Kansas baseball team started its final series of the regular season with a bang on Thursday night, taking down No. 16 West Virginia 3-0 at Kendrick Family Ballpark. Voegele has been up and down at times after entering the season as the Big 12 preseason pitcher of the year and KU's unquestioned top-level starter, but on Thursday he was extremely ...