WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Well-traveled transfer forward visits KU

Oklahoma State transfer forward Patrick Suemnick recently completed a visit to Kansas, the Journal-World has confirmed. Suemnick was at KU on Sunday and returned to Oklahoma on Monday, according to his former club coach Dennis Coleman, of One Up Sports Agency. The visit comes as the Jayhawks are in search of a backup big man to occupy minutes behind Flory Bidunga next season, as freshman early enrollee Bryson ...

KU softball to face Baylor in Big 12 tournament opener

The Kansas softball team will open the Big 12 tournament facing the only team it has won a Big 12 series against this season. No. 9 seed KU (22-27, 6-18 Big 12) will face No. 8 Baylor (26-26, 11-13) on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. Coincidentally, the series in which the Jayhawks took two out of three from the Bears was their very first in league play this year, from March 7-9. At ...

Longtime KU assistant basketball coach announces retirement

For the first time since 2012, a Kansas men's basketball team will soon take the court for a season without Norm Roberts on the sideline. Bill Self's longtime assistant coach announced his retirement on Monday morning after 37 years of coaching. "I want to thank everybody at the University of Kansas and from everywhere I've been lucky enough to coach," Roberts said in a press release. "I've been fortunate ...

Chiefs minicamp invite 'dream come true' for Casey

Updated 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, May 6: Among a reported 87 players taking part in the Kansas City Chiefs’ minicamp over the weekend were a couple who were quite familiar with the Chiefs’ facilities. Former Kansas tight end Jared Casey, for one, played four games at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium with the Jayhawks during the 2024 season. In one of those, against Houston on Oct. 19, he even caught a pair of ...

KU concludes 'refreshingly steady' spring spent building toward next successful season

The Kansas soccer team was quite an enigma entering the 2024 season. The Jayhawks’ roster at the time was a patchwork composed of select returners from a team that won one Big 12 game in 2023, double-digit freshmen compiled from classes assembled by two separate head coaches and a select few transfers — all working under a new coaching staff that had seen great success in the Big East with its high-pressure ...

Several additional Jayhawks invited to NFL minicamps

Several more former Kansas football players have received NFL minicamp invites over the course of the week following the 2025 NFL Draft. Javier Derritt, Lawrence Arnold and Michael Ford Jr. will get opportunities to prove themselves to professional teams at various rookie minicamps that begin next Friday. They join previously reported invitees Jared Casey and Marvin Grant, who will both take part in the Kansas ...