WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Belisle wins again, this time at The Prestige

For the first time in seven years, a member of the Kansas men's golf team has won multiple tournaments in a single season. Senior Cecil Belisle shot a 13-under 200 across three rounds (67-66-67) between Monday and Wednesday to claim the top spot at The Prestige at Greg Norman Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California. “Cecil was the guy this week,” KU coach Jamie Bermel said. “He played well all three ...

Jayhawks, McCullar in particular get much-needed break

Only twice since beginning its season in early November has the Kansas men’s basketball team gone from one Saturday to the next without playing a game: once for finals week, once for its Christmas break. The Jayhawks have finally gotten to do so again this week. After playing 13 Big 12 Conference games in a six-week span — including three Saturday/Monday turnarounds, all of which yielded at least one loss ...

KU women will battle Baylor, Kansas State in days ahead as they angle for postseason positioning

The Kansas women's basketball team resuscitated its season with a landmark victory over Baylor last month. To continue its upward trajectory and build toward a potential NCAA Tournament berth, it will need to take down the Bears once again. After dropping several hard-fought nonconference games on the road, the Jayhawks — who had faced sky-high preseason expectations after adding freshman S'Mya Nichols to ...

Leipold set to hire Daryl Agpalsa as O-line coach, per report

After bringing in new faces at offensive coordinator (Jeff Grimes) and co-defensive coordinator (D.K. McDonald), Kansas coach Lance Leipold looks poised to pick a past colleague to lead his offensive line. ESPN reported Tuesday afternoon that Daryl Agpalsa, the run game coordinator and offensive line coach at Northern Illinois, is set to join the KU staff as Leipold's new O-line coach. In this role he would ...

New Mass St. Collective executive director Stowers talks current NIL challenges, targeting 'the common fan'

Keon Stowers may have been a student-athlete for the Kansas football team in the early 2010s, long before the rise of name, image and likeness money in college athletics, but he saw the seeds being planted even then. He remembered that people would discuss the O’Bannon vs. NCAA case — a lawsuit that contested the NCAA’s use of college athletes’ likenesses without compensation — and the Northwestern ...

KU baseball loses series at UIC but picks up season's first win

Despite scoring 23 total runs across its first three games of the season, the Kansas baseball team lost its first series of the year, 2-1 to Illinois-Chicago in Corpus Christi, Texas. On a challenging weekend for the Jayhawks' pitching staff, Central Arizona College transfer Patrick Steitz, a junior from Peoria, Arizona, had by far the most success on the mound as he pitched six scoreless innings with four hits ...