Illinois coach Bret Bielema knows how much Friday's game means to his opponent. As he put it in a press conference Tuesday, "Kansas has targeted this game for a long time." "You know, when we agreed to move this game to Friday, they moved their (Missouri State) game to Friday so it's not as big a break or they didn't gain two days of advantage," he said in a press conference Tuesday "... I know they got new ...
Kansas' Cecil Belisle opened his senior season with a bang this week, shooting a 1-under 212 in three rounds at the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Grand Haven, Michigan, and winning his first event as a Jayhawk. Belisle began the event with a 3-under 68 on Monday to tie for second place right away, then stayed consistent with a pair of 1-over 72s Tuesday and Wednesday to claim victory by a one-stroke ...
The Texas Longhorns, set to leave for the Southeastern Conference after this season, received 11 of a possible 14 first-place votes in a new Big 12 Conference football power ranking from a panel of 14 beat writers that regularly cover the conference. Oklahoma, Kansas State and UCF each received one first-place vote. Kansas came in fifth following its season-opening victory over Football Championship Subdivision ...
Last season, the leaderboard for any given defensive statistical metric had a pretty good chance of reading "Illinois" at the top. The Fighting Illini allowed just 12.8 points per game — the fewest in the nation — and led the country in categories like interceptions (24), overall takeaways (32) and defensive red zone touchdown percentage (35.5%). And while offseason attrition eroded some of their defensive ...
Just as soon as Kansas earned an equalizer more than an hour in the making off the head of Kate Dreyer, Missouri took back its lead. Kylee Simmons threaded a pass through to Jessica Larson in a threatening position, and Larson took a touch out to her right before slicing the ball past goalkeeper Melania Pasar for her first career goal, which put the Tigers back ahead 2-1 with precious little time remaining ...
Jerry Tuckwin served in the Haskell Indian Nations University athletic department in various capacities as a coach and administrator for more than 30 years, and had just as many students earn All-American honors in cross-country, track and field and marathon running during that time. The awards, though, were never the focus. As he put it, "We’re kind of a humble people, and that’s how I was trying to ...