Kansas City, Mo. — By the time Kansas’ game against TCU on Saturday kicked off at 2:30 p.m., Taiwan Berryhill Jr. had already been awake for more than 12 hours. It wasn’t pregame jitters, or anything like that. Berryhill had spent the previous night at his mother’s wedding in Louisiana. The veteran linebacker had left Lawrence after practice on Thursday to make it to his hometown New Orleans in time for ...
Kansas City, Mo. — When a reporter asked Lance Leipold about an officiating decision after Kansas lost at Illinois on Sept. 7, Leipold joked, “You’re going to try to get me fined, aren’t you? I’ll split the money with you if you let me say it. You’re in for five grand?” He then went into a direct, but only lightly critical, explanation of the issue at hand (a picked-up flag for pass ...
The Kansas football team’s three-game losing streak has the Jayhawks entering GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in quite a different place than when they began their season at Children’s Mercy Park. But KU still has eight regular-season games left to play and plenty it can accomplish. Ahead of Saturday’s clash with TCU, the first game KU has played at Arrowhead since 2011, head coach Lance Leipold said on ...
The Kansas women's golf team finished first out of 16 schools at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic that concluded on Wednesday, securing the Jayhawks' second team victory under head coach Lindsay Kuhle. KU shot a 15-under 849 that was seven strokes ahead of the next two closest schools — Boise State and Pepperdine — at the event in Wolcott, Colorado. "Today and this whole week we talked about playing with ...
The Big 12 Conference announced full conference schedules on Thursday for the new-look 16-team league. The Kansas men's and women's basketball teams will both begin playing league games before the start of the new year — in the women's case, as early as Dec. 21. Men's basketball has an earlier start because it has expanded the Big 12 schedule to 20 games, with KU facing five teams twice each and 10 teams ...
The Kansas soccer team hasn’t always been able to rack up goals this season. So when UCF gave the Jayhawks a couple of golden opportunities early on Thursday night, it was essential that they took advantage. Lexi Watts and Saige Wimes did just that, forcing and then capitalizing on mistakes by the Knights right in front of the net so that KU seized a 2-0 lead within 20 minutes. “Before the game we just ...