Jonathan Phog “JP” Bemberger, who had spent more than four years as an honorary member of the Kansas men’s basketball team while battling cancer, has died. He was 20. KU announced the news on social media Tuesday night. “Our beloved teammate, JP, has passed away,” read a post on the KU men’s basketball X account. “JP has been a member of Kansas Basketball since 2020 through Team IMPACT and has ...
Fort Worth, Texas — Kansas coach Bill Self doesn’t think his team has dramatically improved over the last couple months. In November, he said, the Jayhawks were playing with a better pace. They also had a defensive edge at first, before they “went soft,” and they’ve had to fight to regain it since. When KU beat TCU at Schollmaier Arena on Wednesday, though, the performance of key reserves suggested ...
The 2024 season was my first as a voter in the Associated Press’ national college football poll. After submitting a preseason top-25 ranking at the start of August, each week I stayed up until the wee hours to ensure I could catch every relevant college football result, then turned in a revised poll. My selections were tallied alongside those of about 60 other voters to assemble the AP Top 25 rankings that ...
With four victories in its last five games, the Kansas men’s basketball team has put itself in an adequate position in the Big 12 Conference race, as 14 games are still pending on the schedule. The Jayhawks recently received assists from West Virginia, as the same team that stunned KU in Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. 31 took down Iowa State on Saturday, and Texas Tech, which triumphed over previously surging ...
Former Kansas football player Dorance Armstrong was at the center of a pair of significant plays in Saturday's playoff action, boosting the Washington Commanders toward their upset win over the top-seeded Detroit Lions. Armstrong forced a fumble by Lions quarterback Jared Goff in the first quarter, brushing off guard Graham Glasgow and jarring the ball loose, to set up an early go-ahead touchdown for the ...
Kansas center Hunter Dickinson had a feeling teammate KJ Adams’ absence might come up in the postgame press conference. The Jayhawks had just played their first game without Adams seeing the floor since March 25, 2022. How did Dickinson’s role change without his senior teammate in the frontcourt, and with, at times, guard AJ Storr defending opposing forwards and needing Dickinson’s support in the ...