An insurance run for Kansas in the eighth inning of a tight game on Friday night very quickly became two and then, in the blink of an eye, six. Shortstop Tyson LeBlanc hit a grand slam to break open the Big 12 semifinal matchup with Oklahoma State, tying KU’s single-season home-run record in the process with his 21st of the year, and the Jayhawks beat the Cowboys 9-2 at Surprise Stadium. In doing so, LeBlanc ...
The Kansas football team secured what may end up being one of its most significant commitments of the 2027 cycle on Friday night. Tight end Mason Oglesby, from New Palestine, Indiana, picked the Jayhawks over Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio State in a livestream on the Rivals YouTube channel. “Really just the way they’re using tight ends, knowing that I could play there and get the ball a lot, and then on ...
The Kansas baseball team escaped a potential disaster on Thursday evening thanks to an unlikely hero. Savion Flowers, a sophomore outfielder from Cisco College, entered as a defensive replacement midway through KU’s Big 12 tournament opener against Baylor. At the time, the Jayhawks had built a six-run lead. By the 10th inning, though, KU needed Flowers to hit a walk-off home run off the Bears’ closer, ...
Kansas junior Emmah Jemutai was named the Big 12 women’s track and field performer of the year in a poll of league coaches revealed on Thursday afternoon. "We're really excited about Emmah and all of the hard work she has put in," KU coach Stanley Redwine said in a press release. "She represents the program incredibly, and not just from the things she's doing on the track, but because she is such an amazing ...
The Kansas men’s basketball nonconference schedule is drawing closer to completion with Wednesday’s announcement of a home-and-home series with Villanova and Thursday's release of the Players Era brackets. That checks the box of a marquee home game at Allen Fieldhouse for the Jayhawks and brings them to an anticipated eight nonconference dates: Kentucky at the Champions Classic in Chicago on Nov. 10, three ...
The Kansas men’s golf team concluded its season on Wednesday at the Athens Regional at the University of Georgia Golf Course, as it finished in a tie for 11th in the 13-team field at 7-under and fell 12 strokes short of fifth place and qualification for the NCAA Championship. As a team, No. 7 seed KU put itself in an early hole by shooting 8-over on Monday to start out in 12th after its first round of ...