When linebacker Jibreel Al-Amin first arrived at Kansas, he downloaded an app to track his calorie intake. At a certain point he forgot about the app entirely — he had to keep eating, whether he was hungry or not. Such is the life of a previously 200-pound linebacker attempting to bulk up in preparation for his first season at the power-conference level. “At past schools I definitely tried all the extra ...
Melvin Council Jr. anticipates submitting another filing in his lawsuit seeking another year of collegiate eligibility, after the NCAA in its recent response broached “a number of issues … that we did not address” in previous arguments, Council’s lawyer Mark Oberstaedt said at a status conference in Douglas County court on Friday afternoon. Oberstaedt, a Philadelphia-based partner at law firm Archer ...
The Kansas athletic department on Friday morning announced that it has hired Sam Strantz as its executive director of front office strategy and operations, a high-level position in which Strantz will oversee athlete compensation via revenue sharing and name, image and likeness payments. Strantz most recently served as the senior team counsel for the NBA’s Houston Rockets. He has an undergraduate degree from ...
As long as DeAndre Harper has been playing competitive football, he’s been changing positions. By the time Harper was a second-team all-state lineman at Omaha North High School in Nebraska, he had already moved outside once, from guard as an underclassman to tackle as an upperclassman. As a freshman at Northwest Missouri State, he remained at tackle — only to move to guard during a redshirt year at KU. At ...
Austin Alexander, then a redshirt freshman, took advantage of the opportunities he garnered in fall camp while the more experienced D.J. Graham II was dealing with nerve damage to earn a starting job at outside cornerback in 2025. Then came the first game action of his career. “He had to get thrown in the deep end,” Kansas defensive backs coach Brandon Shelby said. “And every once in a while he got some ...
The 12th-ranked Kansas soccer team had a 12-game unbeaten streak in regular-season nonconference matches snapped on Thursday evening with a 1-0 loss to No. 19 Ohio State at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Senior forward Amanda Schlueter put the Buckeyes ahead in the final minutes of the first half, and OSU goalkeeper Peighton Northrop made six saves on KU’s 14 total shots to preserve a clean ...