Long snapper Rino Monteforte received his first Division I scholarship offer on July 26, 2019, from the University at Buffalo after he put on a masterful performance at one of the school’s kicking camps. “He was unbelievable,” recalled Taiwo Onatolu, who was the Bulls’ special teams coordinator at the time. Almost seven years later, now four seasons into his collegiate career with two as a starter, ...
Last July, Matt Gill moved from Sydney to Melbourne to train in a sport he had never previously played at a newly established punting academy that had not yet produced a player. By the end of October, Gill was receiving interest from American colleges, and by January he was signed to play at Kansas. “Never played in a football game ever to now he’s going to open up Week 1 versus LIU,” long snapper Rino ...
Leroy Harris III’s performance as a sophomore in 2025 might have come out of the blue for Kansas fans, and perhaps even for his own coaches, after he arrived as an unheralded transfer from Chattanooga. Not so much for Harris himself. “It was never a surprise,” he said. The 6-foot-5 defensive end from Brentwood, Tennessee, ultimately earned enough playing time as to receive more snaps on the season than ...
Updated 4:06 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2026: When the full results of the WBIT quarterfinals were not yet known on Thursday night, Kansas coach Brandon Schneider said he had enjoyed preparing for new opponents over the course of the tournament. The second-seeded Jayhawks have handled a series of unfamiliar mid-major challengers with aplomb during the postseason, dispatching Troy, Rice and San Diego State, without ...
The Kansas baseball team broke open a 4-4 tie with nine runs in the ninth inning on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati and ultimately claimed a 13-6 victory in the rubber match of a three-game series with the 25th-ranked Bearcats. Shortstop Tyson LeBlanc hit an opposite-field grand slam and catcher Augusto Mungarrieta clubbed another two-run homer as part of the big inning, which lifted KU to a win on a day when ...
Three weekends of conference play have now yielded three series wins for the Kansas softball team, which took two out of three games against BYU at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. After losing on a walk-off home run on Friday night, the Jayhawks were able to regroup and win the decisive third game, something they have done in each of their Big 12 series. This time, they did it by a score of 10-3 on Saturday. KU is ...