WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU loses 4-star in-state commitment to Nebraska

Updated 11:05 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20: The Kansas football team lost a key recruit in its 2025 class on Sunday afternoon when Julian "Juju" Marks, an offensive lineman from Olathe South High School, announced on Sunday that he is instead going to play at Nebraska. Marks, who was one of 15 high school commitments for the Jayhawks and three from the state of Kansas, had committed back on June 9. He had been the ...

KU women's golf wins third straight event for first time in program history

The 29th-ranked Kansas women's golf team shot a 3-under 285 on Sunday in the Bahamas to surge into the lead at the White Sands Bahamas Fall Invitational, ultimately claiming the team title. As a result, KU won a third straight event for the first time in program history. After Friday's competition got canceled due to weather, the Jayhawks, who were only the third-highest-ranked team at the competition, ended ...

4 more observations from Late Night in the Phog

Amid all the entertainment, pageantry and general silliness of Friday's Late Night in the Phog, Kansas basketball coaches Bill Self and Brandon Schneider provided some serious, relevant insights about their teams for the upcoming season. Between their broadcast appearances during their teams' scrimmages and their postgame press conferences, they shed some important light on player personnel. Here's more detail ...

Notebook: Homecoming for Houston coach; Leipold opines on rule changes

Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas owed some portion of its attendance figure at GEHA Field Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday to the friends and family of the opposing head coach. “I’m worried about tickets this week,” Houston coach Willie Fritz joked, later adding, “I’ll be helping them out with the crowd a little bit.” Fritz made those sorts of comments because he was expecting plenty of friends and family ...

KU routs Houston 42-14 to snap losing streak

Kansas City, Mo. — After sustaining four one-score losses during its five-game losing streak, the Kansas football team found an innovative solution to its recurring problem: building bigger leads. KU scored the first three touchdowns of the game on Saturday against Houston and, despite a problematic stretch late in the second quarter, managed to keep the Cougars at bay throughout to earn its first conference ...

Once 'highly questionable,' Bryant turns in memorable 3-pick performance

Updated 12:46 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21: Kansas City, Mo. — By the time head coach Lance Leipold addressed the media in his game-week press conference last Monday, cornerback Cobee Bryant hadn’t taken any team reps since suffering an injury at Arizona State more than a week earlier, and his status for Houston was “highly questionable.” For Bryant, it felt like it was never truly in question. “I wanted to ...