The NCAA’s new eligibility rules are less than a week old and already facing legal challenges. Attorneys Ryan Downton and Darren Heitner are attempting to remedy what they see as unfair treatment of the high school class of 2022 through lawsuits, including one reportedly filed last week in Hamilton County, Ohio, on behalf of 15 men’s basketball players. Their essential contention is that players who began ...
In his previous stops as a baseball coach, Dan Fitzgerald worked with some talented players who went on to great success. Fitzgerald recruited Scott Schebler, from Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Des Moines Area Community College in what he described to The Athletic as his biggest recruiting find; Schebler went on to a seven-year major-league career, primarily with the Cincinnati Reds. Later, as ...
For the second year in a row, the Kansas men’s basketball team reeled in the top-ranked high school recruit in the nation. Darryn Peterson, who had vied with AJ Dybantsa for the top spot in the 2025 rankings, ultimately went second behind Dybantsa in the first round of the 2026 NBA Draft, making him the highest-drafted Jayhawk in 12 years. This coming season, new KU forward Tyran Stokes has a stranglehold on ...
Almost as soon as the college baseball season ends, Kansas baseball players decamp to locations around the country to join summer collegiate leagues. This year has been no different, although some of the Jayhawks got off to a bit of a later start considering how much further the KU baseball team progressed in the postseason than usual. The Northwoods League, a wood-bat competition centered in the upper ...
Stepping in for head coach Bill Self, Kansas associate head coach Jeremy Case got the chance to lead off Wednesday night’s special offseason edition of the “Hawk Talk” radio show, which meant he had the opportunity to provide the first word on many of the newest Jayhawks. Self made press-release statements when each player signed, of course, and he also spoke to reporters at an event in Topeka earlier ...
After going unselected in the 2026 NBA Draft, former Kansas guard Melvin Council Jr. signed as a free agent with the New Orleans Pelicans, his agency Seros Partners announced in a post on Instagram on Thursday morning. The 6-foot-4 native of Rochester, New York, played one year with the Jayhawks, aided by the one-time blanket waiver for former junior-college players after he had spent his first two years at ...