Arlington, Texas — By any metric, Kansas football has retained one of the most similar rosters to its 2022 iteration of any Division I team in the country. The most concise way to express this fact is via the Jayhawks’ first-place position in the returning production rankings from ESPN’s Bill Connelly; according to his post-spring assessment, KU returns effectively 91% of its offense and 79% of its defense ...
Arlington, Texas — Two years ago, the Kansas football team didn't even make it to the Big 12 Conference Media Days. Severe weather coming out of Lawrence grounded head coach Lance Leipold in his first year at the helm, and he and the Jayhawk players had to videoconference from afar. In 2022, after a 2-10 season, the new-era Jayhawks made the rounds at their media-day debut at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, ...
The Big 12 Conference Football Media Days are back Wednesday at a familiar venue in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, complete with a familiar set of Kansas speakers in quarterback Jalon Daniels, running back Devin Neal, linebacker Rich Miller, safety Kenny Logan Jr., and head coach Lance Leipold. Miller will be the only new addition to the media-day contingent, but he’s hardly new to the program as an ...
Kansas Athletics' annual preseason basketball celebration is back for a 39th iteration. Late Night in the Phog, the exhibition and entertainment extravaganza that has anchored the KU basketball preseason for 39 years, will return to Allen Fieldhouse on Oct. 6, the school announced Monday. Further details on the event were not disclosed, but it typically features scrimmages by the men's and women's basketball ...
It wasn't pretty, but Bryce Hoppel did it again. The former Kansas athlete and current professional middle-distance runner overcame a physical race that saw athletes jockeying for position along the track, winning the 800 meters for the second year in a row Sunday at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. As noted by Jonathan Gault of LetsRun.com, just once in the last two decades has a runner won ...
Consulting firm Hunden Strategic Partners created a stir in the Kansas sports community when it suggested last month that KU should consider shrinking its football stadium's capacity under 40,000 seats, from the current 47,233. That reduction, the consultants suggested, would make room for mixed-use development in the surrounding area as part of the school's forthcoming campus gateway project. After the ...