By virtue of its top-16 national seed, the Kansas baseball team earned the opportunity to host NCAA regional competition at Hoglund Ballpark. The Jayhawks didn’t disappoint in their first-ever home postseason action on Friday afternoon, beating Northeastern 6-3 to earn their first NCAA Tournament victory since 2014. KU expanded the ballpark’s seating in preparation for the event, installing bleachers and a ...
Amid a raucous environment at Hoglund Ballpark on Friday, with a record crowd of 3,571 on hand for Kansas’ first-ever NCAA regional action in Lawrence, perhaps no Jayhawk received a warmer reception from the KU fans than left fielder Brady Ballinger. It began when Ballinger, still recovering from a hamate bone injury suffered in the Jayhawks’ regular-season finale at BYU, was announced as a non-starter; it ...
The Kansas football team earned its second commitment at the tight end position in the span of a week when Luke Gazzaniga announced that he will join the Jayhawks. Gazzaniga made his decision public through an Instagram post in partnership with 247Sports on Thursday afternoon. A three-star prospect, he is listed at 6-foot-4 and 232 pounds and attends Santa Margarita Catholic High School in Rancho Santa ...
Hailey Cripe grew up dreaming of playing professional softball, but it's not a dream that all that many get the chance to attain. That’s both because of the elite level one has to reach in the sport to receive consideration and because so many attempts at pro leagues in recent years have been ephemeral. But Cripe had both the skill and the good timing to make her dream a reality. The former Kansas shortstop ...
The first-ever baseball regional in Lawrence is ready to get underway. Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri State and Northeastern practiced at a newly reconfigured Hoglund Ballpark on Thursday in advance of Friday’s opening action, with top-seeded host KU set to take on Northeastern at 12 p.m. and Arkansas and Missouri State doing battle at 5 p.m. “Our administration has done an incredible job of making Hoglund ...
A center of activity for much of the school year, The Wagon Wheel tends to get rather quiet when graduation passes and the students leave town. The 71-year-old Lawrence institution at 507 W. 14th St. used to be open on Fridays and Saturdays in off months, but it has in recent years closed for the summer, shutting its doors to everything but a handful of private parties, dinners and the like, its proprietor Rob ...