The NBA season is only a month away, but recent weeks have featured some significant transactions for onetime Kansas players at the top level of professional basketball. Many of the former Jayhawks are firmly entrenched on their current NBA teams. Joel Embiid recently signed a multi-year maximum contract extension that will see him rack up nearly $300 million by the end of the 2028-29 season. Christian Braun ...
After suffering an injury in the final minutes of Kansas' loss to West Virginia on Saturday, starting middle linebacker Cornell Wheeler missed practice on Monday, head coach Lance Leipold said. “We’ll see where it progresses with him," Leipold said. During West Virginia's penultimate drive, safety Devin Dye tackled WVU tight end Kole Taylor on a third-down reception and Wheeler's leg bent awkwardly ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — As Kansas and West Virginia entered the home stretch of a hotly contested Big 12 opener on Saturday, Mother Nature intervened. With KU leading 21-17 and 10 minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the game, the public-address announcer at Milan Puskar Stadium declared a severe weather delay at 2:46 p.m. Eastern Time, one minute after a visible lightning strike in the vicinity of the ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team carried a lead into Saturday afternoon’s two-hour weather delay and lost it not long after the sun came out. In fact, the Jayhawks had taken a commanding 11-point advantage when wide receiver Luke Grimm ran for a 32-yard touchdown shortly after the stoppage, but continued to struggle with what had haunted them all game: explosive plays by WVU quarterback Garrett ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team’s season has gotten off to an unexpectedly poor 1-3 start, culminating in Saturday’s conference-opening loss at West Virginia. As the Jayhawks’ vaunted class of seniors looks to keep the team together and get the year back on track, though, many of them can take solace in the fact that they’ve endured much worse — at a time when they played for a vastly ...
West Virginia coach Neal Brown agreed on Monday with a reporter’s suggestion that “Jalon Daniels’ biggest strengths are the things that you’ve struggled with so far.” “That’s fair,” Brown said. “He’s probably pretty excited.” The Mountaineers, who like Kansas have suffered a pair of frustrating nonconference losses, finished their third week of the season allowing 280.7 passing yards per ...