WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU baseball faces pivotal Texas series with postseason positioning at stake

The Kansas baseball team avoided disaster over the weekend, bouncing back from a blowout loss at home to 12th-place Houston with back-to-back wins to claim the series. The Jayhawks certainly didn’t make it easy, as Saturday’s victory in particular required a comeback from down 8-1. And now KU’s (29-18, 15-12 Big 12 Conference) task gets substantially more difficult, as it will conclude the regular season ...

KU men's basketball adds walk-on from Wichita

The Kansas men's basketball program fleshed out the back end of its roster a bit more on Tuesday when it earned a commitment from Will Thengvall, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard from Wichita's Kapaun Mt. Carmel High School who will serve as a walk-on for next year's Jayhawks, per multiple reports. Thengvall averaged 17.6 points per game as a senior for a team that won a state title. He was named to The Wichita ...

Regional golf roundup: Three Firebirds advance to state, Seabury's Hoffman ties for first

Three Free State golfers ranked among the top five individual performers from non-advancing teams in 6A regional play on Monday and will advance to state competition. While Free State did not qualify as a team — it came in fourth place of nine teams — senior Jack Randall and sophomores Cash Nelson and Henry Thompson performed well enough at Olathe-Prairie Highlands Golf Course on Monday to make it to next ...

Former Jayhawk Yesufu returns to Big 12

A former Kansas reserve will have the opportunity to face off against the Jayhawks next season. Joe Yesufu, a 6-foot guard from Bolingbrook, Illinois, who was a member of KU's 2021-22 national championship team and started three games the following season, announced Sunday night that he is transferring to West Virginia. The move brings Yesufu to his fourth school across six collegiate seasons, but it also ...

Baldwin soccer races past Seabury for 6-0 victory in regional playoffs

The Baldwin girls soccer team started its campaign for another long playoff run in style Monday night, pouncing on Bishop Seabury early on its way to a 6-0 home win in the first round of 4-1A regional competition. Senior Alyssa Reichard kept a clean sheet despite some strong runs by Seabury striker Josie Kim, and sophomore Chloe Neufeld scored a hat trick to lead Baldwin to victory. “We’ve been working ...

KU women's basketball adds high-scoring transfer Webster

The Kansas women's basketball team added another key piece to its new-look 2024-25 roster Monday night, earning the commitment of a high-volume scorer from the Big West Conference. Jordan Webster, a 5-foot-10 guard who played four seasons at UC Riverside, announced that she will join the Jayhawks next year. Webster started 64 games for the Highlanders over the past two years. In 2023-24, she averaged 17.1 ...