WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Jemutai wins pair of titles to headline KU's performance at Big 12 Outdoor Championship

Emmah Jemutai emerged from Saturday with two Big 12 titles, providing the highlight of the conference’s outdoor track and field championship in Tucson, Arizona, for the Kansas team. The Jayhawks finished eighth of 10 teams in both the men’s and women’s competitions, with Jemutai providing two of KU’s four individual titles along with one from men’s pole vaulter Anthony Meacham and one from decathlete ...

KU softball eliminated with wild 12-10 loss to Michigan

NORMAN, Okla. — The Michigan softball team couldn’t score on Kansas freshman Lila Partridge for eight innings on Friday and then proceeded to pile on four runs against her on Saturday without Partridge even recording an out. That was one of innumerable ways in which the Jayhawks’ and Wolverines’ rematch differed from their prior meeting, and the most prominent was in the final outcome, as Michigan won ...

KU falls 9-0 to Oklahoma via run rule; Jayhawks will play elimination game Saturday night

NORMAN, Okla. — A matchup with an old foe yielded a disappointingly familiar result for the Kansas softball team. KU managed just one hit and fell 9-0 in five innings to its former conference rival, No. 1 seed Oklahoma, in an NCAA regional matchup on Saturday afternoon at Love’s Field. The Jayhawks and starting pitcher Chloe Barber limited OU’s offense reasonably well at first, outside of a pair of ...

KU's Baker will be on familiar turf for regional play in Georgia

When Will Baker was 13 and playing on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour, he shot a 67 at the University of Georgia Golf Course, just about a 15-mile drive from where he grew up in nearby Statham, Georgia, for his first round ever in the 60s. “At that time there was no live scoring, so I watched (a) kid kind of hug his parents, thought he won,” Baker recalled on Tuesday. “I was like, ‘Eh, sorry.’ That ...

KU is getting paid for the Union Jack Classic — will it also get attention?

Browsing a list of recent and upcoming international college football games reveals a clear pattern: They almost all take place before the season begins in earnest. North Carolina and TCU will face off in Ireland and N.C. State and Virginia in Brazil as part of this year’s Week 0, a chunk of games that takes place a week prior to the season proper. Iowa State and Kansas State started their seasons early last ...

KU baseball wins Big 12 title, takes 2 of 3 at BYU

For the first time since 1949, the Kansas Jayhawks are regular-season conference champions in baseball. The Jayhawks sealed an outright league title on Friday night by staving off a late BYU comeback to beat the Cougars 7-6 at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. That brought KU’s conference record to 22-7, which together with West Virginia’s 4-0 loss to TCU locked up the Big 12 crown. It also ensured that the ...