WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Rice transfer tight end Groen commits to KU

Rice transfer Boden Groen has committed to Kansas, his agent Evan Pobuta of Vienna Talent confirmed to the Journal-World on Monday afternoon. Groen will be playing what is expected to be his final season of college football. He played just four games due to injury in 2024 and redshirted, but during the 2023 season Groen caught 39 passes for 383 yards and three touchdowns. In all, he has 60 catches for 556 yards ...

Neal arrives in New Orleans, sets out on professional journey

When he spoke to New Orleans media for the first time on April 26, shortly after the Saints selected him in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, former Kansas running back Devin Neal admitted he had “been waiting to get out of Lawrence.” The hometown hero certainly made his mark on the city, first as a multi-sport Chesty Lion standout and later as he became the face of the KU football rebuild and ...

KU women's golf will bring confidence into NCAA Championship after season of big wins

Kansas sophomore Lyla Louderbaugh officially earned the Columbus Regional individual title early on Wednesday afternoon, and she had been so far ahead — with a dominant eight-stroke lead on Arkansas’s No. 4 Maria Jose Marin and No. 45 Clarisa Temelo when all was said and done — that the outcome wasn’t in too much doubt for some time before then. But it didn’t actually register with her that she had ...

Logan begins new professional opportunity north of the border

The months after the Los Angeles Rams released Kenny Logan Jr. were an opportunity for him to “regroup and regather,” he said. But the period without a team was also something Logan simply wasn’t used to. He wasn’t far removed from completing a five-season career at Kansas in which he played in 59 games and started 45 with 373 career tackles. While he debuted under Les Miles, the safety was on the field ...

KU to host Doug Gottlieb's Green Bay, coach says

The Kansas men's basketball team will play an early-season game at Allen Fieldhouse against the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, according to the Phoenix's head coach. That wouldn't be attention-grabbing news under normal circumstances — KU hosts all sorts of mid-majors for so-called "buy games" in the months of November and December — if not for the fact that Green Bay is one of the nation's most ...

Baylor's 3 straight home runs sink KU in first round of Big 12 tournament

No. 8 seed Baylor hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning to break open a tie game, and the ninth-seeded Kansas softball team lost 7-3 in the first round of the Big 12 tournament on Wednesday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. After KU right fielder Aynslee Linduff had driven in Emma Tatum and evened the score at 3-3 in the top of the fifth, Big 12 batting champion Shaylon Govan and teammate Turiya ...