WESTMINSTER, England — Amid a crimson-and-blue crowd that sang along with the Rock Chalk chant and clapped to the beat of “I’m a Jayhawk” were some local onlookers who had little idea what was going on. Andy Lobban had made the trip on the tube from 25 miles outside of Central London for his son’s birthday and entirely by coincidence stumbled upon the Union Jack Classic festivities that had created an ...
ISLEWORTH, England — Shortly after Kansas lost 38-21 to Missouri, in a fairly grim performance from the Jayhawks’ offense that featured a turnover-prone quarterback and no real running game, associate head coach Andy Kotelnicki told his charges, “I am excited to see how we will respond.” “Because I think we all know it’s easy to respond when things are going well,” he said on Wednesday, “but ...
The Kansas men’s basketball schedule is now complete with the release of the full Big 12 slate on Thursday afternoon. Despite some persistent rumblings that the conference might soon return to a 20-game schedule, KU will again play 18 games against its league foes this season with one open date, and it all begins on Jan. 2 against West Virginia at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks will hope for a better outcome ...
An experienced Kansas women’s basketball team looking to find its way back to the NCAA Tournament learned on Thursday morning exactly what sort of challenges await it this year. The Big 12 Conference announced its 18-game conference schedule, which begins before the new year and concludes ahead of the league tournament on March 3. The schedule unfolds mainly on Wednesdays and either Saturdays or Sundays this ...
ISLEWORTH, England — When the Kansas football team headed out to practice on Wednesday afternoon in the suburban London district of Osterley, some 4,400 miles from Lawrence, they might not have seen anything particularly familiar — outside of the sign touting a Mr. Dineen as head teacher at the Sikh school across the parking lot. But as parents were streaming in to pick their kids up from that Nishkam ...
If the Kansas defensive backs need to be convinced of the potential benefits of playing more aggressive coverage, beginning on Saturday against Arizona State, they need only look at their own body of work for evidence. On one particular snap in Friday’s loss to Missouri, cornerback Austin Alexander played stifling defense on a wide receiver. It was such good work that defensive coordinator D.K. McDonald added ...