Kansas City, Kan. — When Kansas revealed that it would play its nonconference home football games at Children's Mercy Park during the 2024 season, head coach Lance Leipold got a message from a friend who had experienced one of the select few previous American football games played at the venue. Mel Tjeerdsma, a former Northwest Missouri State head coach who was the school's athletic director when it won ...
The NCAA changed a key rule in June, one that made even the typically measured Kansas coach Lance Leipold say recently, “I can’t tell you how excited I am.” “Moving forward, any staff member may provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes during practice and competition,” according to an NCAA press release, meaning that KU’s 11 analysts and quality control coaches can now have a ...
All six Kansas players selected in the MLB Draft have signed professional contracts, bringing the total number of former Jayhawks entering the pros this year to eight. That group includes pitchers Hunter Cranton (third round, Seattle Mariners) and Reese Dutton (undrafted, Philadelphia Phillies), both transfers who played at four-year schools and JUCOs and then exhausted their eligibility at KU. But it also ...
Leyton Cure and Jeff Grimes have something in common: They have both executed plays on which the tight end gets to throw the ball. Cure, who transferred to Kansas from Fort Hays State in the offseason, recounted his memorable completion to reporters on Wednesday, following his second day of fall camp with the Jayhawks. The Tigers were playing down at Central Oklahoma in 2022 and the first read, a go route, was ...
Kansas cornerback Cobee Bryant may keep some opposing quarterbacks up at night, but late Monday he was the one dealing with a bout of insomnia. “I couldn’t go to sleep, man,” he said. “My girl (asked) why I’m still up, then around 5 o’clock, woke up — man, I can’t sleep, I’m ready to go play football.” Bryant eventually made it to the grass fields on KU’s campus near Hoglund Ballpark ...
Kansas and Arkansas are in the process of putting together an exhibition men's basketball game at Arkansas' home arena, the Razorbacks' coach John Calipari told reporters on Monday. Calipari, the longtime Memphis and Kentucky coach who made the move to Arkansas during the offseason, said as much during a press conference on Monday, after he was asked about the process of assembling his roster and schedule from ...