This is the fourth time Daryl Agpalsa has come into a veteran offensive line room as its new coach, and he fully acknowledges that he hasn't always found the right balance between his own way of thinking and his players'. “I’ve done this before and I’ve failed, if I’m being completely honest," he said Thursday, and later added, “I made the mistake, probably, earlier on in my career of saying, ‘Hey, ...
Kansas junior KJ Adams received the Danny Manning "Mr. Jayhawk" Award at the Jayhawks' season-ending banquet Thursday night, claiming KU's lone team-specific award following a year in which he accomplished what head coach Bill Self called "something that mere mortals don’t do.” Adams did not miss a game for the Jayhawks during the 2023-24 season and started all but two, averaging 12.6 points and 4.6 ...
Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self pointed out at Thursday’s season-ending banquet that a year in which a team gets a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament — as the Jayhawks did in 2023-24, before their second-round loss — is considered worthy of praise at plenty of other schools. But at KU, he said, “We become so accustomed to winning — which is good — that we take it so for granted, and ...
One promising target for Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels will miss the rest of spring practice, as transfer tight end DeShawn Hanika is out with a leg injury, head coach Lance Leipold said Tuesday. Hanika, a native of Topeka who previously played at Iowa State, was KU’s first pickup in the winter transfer portal window. He had received praise from offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes early in the spring as ...
It’s not hard for new Kansas center Shane Bumgardner to pick out differences between KU and his old Division II school, Tiffin University. “Tiffin had about eight buildings total for a campus, and our student body was like 3,000 people,” he said Tuesday. “It’s a lot different. We had an indoor (facility), but we never had any nutrition or anything like that. Just getting food after practice, protein ...
The Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige, one of the legends of Negro League baseball, wielded an eclectic array of pitches. One, the “be ball,” was so named because, as Paige is often quoted as saying, "it be right where I want it.” Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald told reporters Tuesday that, having learned about Paige’s arsenal from Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick, one Jayhawk ...