Jerry Tuckwin served in the Haskell Indian Nations University athletic department in various capacities as a coach and administrator for more than 30 years, and had just as many students earn All-American honors in cross-country, track and field and marathon running during that time. The awards, though, were never the focus. As he put it, "We’re kind of a humble people, and that’s how I was trying to ...
One month after unveiling entirely new football jerseys, Kansas has added another wrinkle to its game-day wardrobe. The Jayhawks will wear all-new all-black "Blackhawk" uniforms when they take the field Friday night in prime time against Illinois, the team announced Sunday, as a result of what head coach Lance Leipold characterized as a player-led campaign started by safety Kenny Logan Jr. “I’ve had them ...
With Lance Leipold in charge at Division III Wisconsin-Whitewater, his alma mater, the Warhawks played in the national championship seven of his eight seasons. Five of those years, Bret Bielema was the head coach just up the road in Madison at Division I Wisconsin, the biggest college program in the state, where over the course of his career he led the Badgers to a pair of bowl wins and, at one point, three ...
Arkansas State took as many shots Thursday night as Kansas scored goals, and the Jayhawks kept their unbeaten nonconference run going by shutting out the Red Wolves 3-0 at Rock Chalk Park. Hallie Klanke assisted on a second-minute strike for Lexi Watts and a 52nd-minute drive across the face of the goal for Brie Severns, her second two-assist match in a row. Freshman Montelene Dymond added a third goal off a ...
A battle of two teams ranked at the fringes of the top 25 went the distance, but No. 25 Purdue outlasted No. 23 Kansas in five sets at the Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena Thursday night, dealing the Jayhawks their first loss of the campaign. KU staved off match points for the Boilermakers with a series of challenges but ultimately fell on a pair of late attack errors, allowing Purdue to claim the fifth set by a ...
Sixth-year senior quarterback Jason Bean started Friday’s game for Kansas, bringing an uneasy end to weeks of uncertainty — and a particularly intense 24 hours of speculation — surrounding the health of Jalon Daniels ahead of the season opener. It had begun when Daniels, last year’s starter and the preseason Big 12 Conference offensive player of the year, was absent from the half-hour portion of ...