The Kansas football team didn’t have to look far to find its first wide receiver commitment of the 2026 recruiting class. Nate Sims, who is from Ottawa, announced that he will play college football for the Jayhawks. Sims made his commitment at the Homefield sports complex in Olathe on Wednesday night. “You know, I grew up around Kansas, just living 25 minutes away,” Sims told Jon Kirby of ...
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 ...
After Kansas State’s two-big lineups had vexed Kansas in the first half on Saturday, it was center Hunter Dickinson’s turn to give the Wildcats trouble when the rivals emerged from halftime. The 7-foot-2 center scored KU’s first 10 points of the second half, keeping K-State off balance with post moves, drives to the basket and a soft touch inside. “I thought that was a huge part of the game," KU coach ...