LONDON — Two notable offensive players for the Kansas football team were ruled out for the Union Jack Classic as part of an availability report released on Friday night. Backup quarterback Cole Ballard and starting tight end Carson Bruhn will not play against Arizona State in the matchup at Wembley Stadium on Saturday at 11 a.m. Central time, after each was injured in KU’s loss to Missouri last ...
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 — Kansas punter Matt Gill, who is from Australia, had his father in attendance for his debut on Sept. 4 against Long Island. Well, at least it was supposed to be his debut — the Jayhawks’ offense was so effective as to render Gill’s services unnecessary. That made for a “bittersweet” result for the family, as Gill put it. A larger contingent with two aunts and an uncle was on ...
LONDON — Kansas coach Lance Leipold was a graduate assistant at Wisconsin in 1993 when the Badgers played in the Coca-Cola Classic in Tokyo. They won, rather decisively in fact, which is why Leipold knows firsthand that the memories of playing in such a unique game take on an even greater value when the outcome goes your way. “(That) is when you really get to think about what you did, and something that ...
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 ...
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 ...