Oklahoma City — Sophomore shortstop Hailey Cripe tied a Big 12 Conference record by driving in five runs, becoming just the fifth player to do so in the league’s softball tournament, and she led the Kansas softball team to a 6-5 win over Houston at Devon Park on Wednesday night. Cripe hit a two-run home run in the first inning and then cleared the bases with a two-out double in the fourth. She had ...
The Kansas football team added a sought-after player at perhaps its position of greatest need, earning the commitment of former Michigan State defensive end Bai Jobe. Jobe’s trainer, Sean Cooper, announced the decision in a post on X Tuesday morning. https://twitter.com/seancooper_C4/status/1787863647571558831 Jobe, who is originally from Senegal but played high school football at Community Christian School ...
Kansas legend Danny Manning will be back in the Big 12 Conference next season. Manning has been hired as an assistant coach at Colorado, where his former KU teammate Tad Boyle is the head coach. The school announced the news Tuesday morning. "I'm very excited to join coach Boyle's staff," Manning said in a press release. "This staff has been together for quite some time and has had quite a bit of success, so I ...
After losing 10 consecutive games to conclude the regular season, the Kansas softball team slid to seventh in the Big 12 Conference and will play last-place Houston to open the league's postseason tournament Wednesday at 5 p.m. The Big 12 championship at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City is nearly 50% larger and a day longer this season after the league added three softball programs — ...
The Kansas baseball team held narrow leads in a pair of road matchups at rival Kansas State on Friday and Sunday but dropped both, falling 2-1 to the Wildcats in a key late-season series in Manhattan. KU fell to 13-11 in Big 12 Conference play, tied for fifth with Cincinnati, and 27-17 overall, while K-State improved to 12-12 with a 28-19 record on the year. On Friday, KU ace Reese Dutton was nursing a one-run ...
Kansas freshman Johnny Furphy had a season that exceeded "what anyone would ever imagine," head coach Bill Self said Monday, and now Self believes it will likely be Furphy's lone season at KU. Speaking to NCAA correspondent Andy Katz in an offseason video interview published Monday afternoon, Self said, "Chances are I think that he’ll probably stay in the draft, because I think he’ll go in the first ...