Sporting Kansas City II certainly possessed a flair for the dramatic this month. The developmental team ended three of its four June matches tied after regulation, meaning, under MLS Next Pro rules, that it played three penalty shootouts as well. In turn, all three of those shootouts were decided by a single kick. The decisive shot came from North Texas' Hope Avayevu on Sunday, as his effort bounced off the ...
We just saw the 28th and 29th players of the Bill Self era get drafted into the NBA and sports media is already speculating about who could be the 30th. Typical. I have to be honest, though — I do find excessively early mock drafts pretty compelling in the NBA, where players can go one-and-done (as Gradey Dick just did), meaning that draftniks frequently have to evaluate an athlete’s professional potential ...
At a recent press conference, after Kansas football moved each of its first two games of 2023, at home against Missouri State and Illinois, to Fridays, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold predicted further growth in this domain. “In today’s world of where it’s going in TV contracts and that, you’re starting to see it: Friday night college games are going to be (happening) more and more frequently,” he ...
Kansas' homegrown star will begin his professional basketball career in an entirely different country. Wichita native Gradey Dick, the latest KU freshman to jump straight to the NBA, went No. 13 overall to the Toronto Raptors at Thursday night's NBA Draft in Brooklyn as the penultimate pick in the lottery. Dick sported a red-sequined, "Wizard of Oz"-inspired suit as his draft-night attire Thursday, and it ...
The third time through the draft was the charm for Jalen Wilson. He went somewhat later than expected, but the former Kansas forward from Denton, Texas, heard his name called at No. 51 in Brooklyn, New York, late Thursday night. He walked across the stage in the very arena where he'll have a chance to play as a member of the Brooklyn Nets. Wilson had previously entered and withdrawn from the draft in both 2021 ...
Bill Self has seen his fair share of NBA drafts. A whole 20, to be exact, and that’s just since he came to Kansas. He’s watched 27 of his players get drafted — one year two twins went back-to-back, one year a record-tying five players got picked from the same team, a few years none got selected at all and one time Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid both went off the board in the top three picks. “That ...