The Big 12 Conference Football Media Days are back Wednesday at a familiar venue in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, complete with a familiar set of Kansas speakers in quarterback Jalon Daniels, running back Devin Neal, linebacker Rich Miller, safety Kenny Logan Jr., and head coach Lance Leipold. Miller will be the only new addition to the media-day contingent, but he’s hardly new to the program as an ...
Kansas Athletics' annual preseason basketball celebration is back for a 39th iteration. Late Night in the Phog, the exhibition and entertainment extravaganza that has anchored the KU basketball preseason for 39 years, will return to Allen Fieldhouse on Oct. 6, the school announced Monday. Further details on the event were not disclosed, but it typically features scrimmages by the men's and women's basketball ...
It wasn't pretty, but Bryce Hoppel did it again. The former Kansas athlete and current professional middle-distance runner overcame a physical race that saw athletes jockeying for position along the track, winning the 800 meters for the second year in a row Sunday at the USATF Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. As noted by Jonathan Gault of LetsRun.com, just once in the last two decades has a runner won ...
Consulting firm Hunden Strategic Partners created a stir in the Kansas sports community when it suggested last month that KU should consider shrinking its football stadium's capacity under 40,000 seats, from the current 47,233. That reduction, the consultants suggested, would make room for mixed-use development in the surrounding area as part of the school's forthcoming campus gateway project. After the ...
As Kansas Athletics bestows one honor upon her after another, former KU volleyball star Ainise Havili has retained her setter’s mentality. When the program wanted to retire her jersey last year, she immediately suggested that she could share her ceremony with her old right-side hitter Kelsie Payne, as their coach Ray Bechard previously told the Journal-World. And after KU announced her induction into the ...
Steven Johnson may not have taken the junior-college route coming out of high school, but he knows a little something about unconventional paths to football success. Facing a dearth of Division I offers out of high school, he attended a year of prep school at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. After suffering a devastating knee injury almost immediately, he walked on at Kansas in 2008, where he worked ...