The margin between unprecedented success and undistinguished stagnation has proven very thin for the Kansas football team.
Not so long ago, the Jayhawks were riding high coming out of the 2023 season with consecutive bowl appearances for the first time in 15 years. What followed were consecutive near-misses.
The disappointment of early 2024 gave way to a late-season surge with three straight victories over ...
Losing three safeties to the transfer portal and bringing in four new ones gave Kansas an opportunity to change its athletic profile at the position.
In Corey Gordon, a veteran previously of Louisville and Baylor, and Christian Pritchett, a younger transfer from Georgia Tech, KU has a pair of taller and more coverage-inclined defensive backs than it has been able to employ at the strong safety position in ...
Jim Zebrowski, like much of KU’s current staff, has seen firsthand how quickly and suddenly a third-string quarterback can get called into action — like when Cole Ballard had to enter midgame as a true freshman former walk-on back in 2023, then start in the Sunflower Showdown.
“What happened the first couple years we were here?” Zebrowski said on Saturday. “Multi-quarterbacks.”
The Jayhawks’ ...
More than nine years after he was selected in the MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, former Kansas left-handed pitcher Blake Weiman made his big-league debut on Friday night.
Weiman, now playing for the Los Angeles Angels, worked around a pair of singles to pitch a scoreless seventh inning in what became a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins.
After a long road through the minor leagues, the 2026 season ...
The Kansas soccer team’s season-opening exhibition will be, as usual, the first KU athletic competition of its academic year.
It just arrives a little deeper into the Jayhawks’ time on campus this time around. Thanks to a revised calendar for the women’s soccer season, new this year, KU has had a bit more time to settle in ahead of Saturday’s preseason match at 1 p.m. against Iowa.
“I feel like ...
Ever since the NCAA removed limits on so-called “countable coaches” in college football — allowing more members of a team’s staff to do hands-on coaching in practices and games than ever before — the significance of analyst roles has dramatically increased.
Kansas has 14 analysts on staff this season, the vast majority of whom are new this year, and all of whom are now listed as assistant position ...
