New Kansas co-defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald is bringing proven NFL coaching experience to this year's defensive backs — but he's even helping out players from before he arrived in Lawrence, too. “I had a great conversation with Kenny Logan the other day," McDonald said Thursday. "He was just kind of picking my brain about what it takes to stay at that level and stick. And I gave him my number, I told ...
The Baldwin boys basketball team took advantage of a second straight trip to the 4A state playoffs and redeemed itself after last year’s overtime loss to rival Eudora. This time around, the fifth-seeded Bulldogs took on No. 4 Towanda-Circle on Thursday evening and used runs of 10 and nine straight points on either side of halftime to down the Thunderbirds, 63-53, at the Tony’s Pizza Events Center in ...
Kansas coach Bill Self has a good record of making 3-pointer-related predictions recently. Before KU lost to BYU last week, he had foretold the exact amount of 3s each team could potentially make — three for the Jayhawks and 13 for the Cougars — in his press conference the previous day, and turned out to be exactly correct. He thought he had hit on a happier prediction Tuesday night when senior guard Nick ...
For a moment following his senior night Tuesday, Kansas center Hunter Dickinson looked ready to deliver some big news. “I already have a decision to make,” he told reporters postgame, as he paused for dramatic effect and looked earnestly at teammates Kevin McCullar Jr. and Nick Timberlake. Then he turned back to the gathered media with a grin and said “Nah, I’m just playing with y’all.” It was an ...
Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine will serve as the head coach of the U.S. men's track and field team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. USA Track & Field announced Redwine's appointment on Feb. 21, and in a KU Athletics press release issued Tuesday, Redwine expressed his appreciation for the honor, saying he is "excited that I get to be around the other coaches from other schools and just to ...
Super-senior Taiyanna Jackson and freshman S'Mya Nichols were named to the All-Big 12 first team Tuesday afternoon, headlining an array of all-league honors for the red-hot Jayhawks ahead of the conference tournament. Jackson also made the Big 12's all-defensive team for the third straight year, following a regular season in which she set the Kansas record for career blocked shots despite only playing at KU for ...