WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Hamilton joins professional softball league

Former Kansas pitcher Kasey Hamilton is pursuing an opportunity to continue playing softball in a new professional league. Women's Professional Fastpitch, which is entering its second season of play beginning on June 20, is playing a four-team schedule this season. One of the teams, the Coastal Bend Tidal Wave, announced on Saturday that it had added Hamilton to its roster. Hamilton started 89 games and ...

KU women's basketball lands JUCO transfer Freddie Wallace

The Kansas women's basketball team has added an accomplished junior-college player who may be able to help fill its vacancy in the post. Freddie Wallace, a 6-foot-2 forward from Lincoln, Nebraska, who played the past two seasons at Butler Community College in El Dorado, announced her commitment to KU in a social media post on Tuesday, calling the school her "new home away from home." Wallace started all but ...

Transfer recruiting gives KU staff 'mulligan' on certain players it pursued out of high school

Given that he was speaking at a golf event, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self made an apt choice of words on June 3 on the subject of recruiting transfers he hadn’t signed out of high school. “Sometimes it’s nice to get a second chance, or to get a mulligan, so to speak,” he said, “not only from our standpoint but from the kids’ standpoint too.” KU is getting a mulligan, in this case, on ...

KU football lands in-state prospect Marks

Olathe native Julian "Juju" Marks announced his commitment to play football at Kansas on Sunday afternoon, kicking off what figures to be a busy month of visits and acquisitions for KU as Lance Leipold and his staff shape their 2025 recruiting class. Marks, a 6-foot-8, 275-pound offensive tackle who has previously attended Saint Thomas Aquinas and will play his senior year at Olathe South, is the first ...

Passmore ready to compete at KU

Incoming freshman Rakease Passmore watched Kansas' spree of offseason acquisitions just like everyone else. At one point, the Jayhawks had four off-ball guards and wings — Riley Kugel, Zeke Mayo, AJ Storr and Rylan Griffen — committed to join the team for Passmore's first season in Lawrence. But Passmore, despite his similar positional fit, didn't waver in his pledge to come to KU. “I’m always ...

Clemence getting back into action after 'professional' redshirt year

When Zach Clemence returned to Kansas last offseason following a brief stint in the transfer portal and an ill-fated commitment to attend UC Santa Barbara, the agreement with head coach Bill Self was that Clemence would take a redshirt to work on his game, then emerge as a better player in 2024. But, as KU saw key members of an already thin team miss time due to injury, did Clemence ever think about burning the ...