The physical tools are certainly in place for Kansas running back Harry Stewart III. The early-enrolling freshman from Frisco, Texas, is listed at 5-foot-10, 215 pounds, but that doesn’t tell the whole story; strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said last week, speaking to Stewart’s immediate readiness for KU’s strength program, “His calves are bigger than my thighs and his thighs are bigger than my ...
Walt Wesley, a member of Kansas’ 1965-66 conference championship team and one of the legendary Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, died Thursday morning in Tampa, Florida, KU Athletics announced. He was 79. A two-time All-American with the Jayhawks, the 6-foot-11 center was a first-round pick and spent a decade playing in the NBA. Wesley’s No. 13 KU jersey was retired in 2004, ...
Kansas linebacker Cornell Wheeler’s collegiate career has rarely been allowed to continue on a linear upward trajectory. “Cornell’s had some really good weeks in the program, and then something’s always happened that unfortunately set him back,” head coach Lance Leipold said. Two years ago, he got sick and missed time; last year, he snagged a massive interception at Texas that “really boosted his ...
Kansas senior point guard Wyvette Mayberry will use her extra year of COVID-19 eligibility and return to the team next season, she announced on Instagram Thursday afternoon. Mayberry had gone through senior-night festivities at the end of the season, casting some doubt on whether she would be back for a fifth year after spending two at Tulsa and two at KU. She dispelled that doubt in a short message just three ...
As a slew of departing Jayhawks angle for favorable positioning ahead of next month's NFL draft, a total of 16 are participating in a new event hosted by the Big 12 Conference. For the first time, the Big 12 is holding a centralized Pro Day that encompasses all the league's members, instead of the individual school-specific events that have taken place in the past. The event, which is taking place at Ford ...
Towards the end of last season, it started to set in for the Kansas tight ends that they would have to face a season without Mason Fairchild. "We started thinking about it more and more, where we’re not going to have Mason next year, and it got pretty important to us to retain a lot of the offense this year," senior Trevor Kardell recalled recently, "and I think we’ve done a pretty good job of that so ...