WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU football up to 6 commitments on Sunday

After wide receiver Maliek Brown from Tyler, Texas, kicked things off, five more players announced commitments to join the Kansas football team’s 2027 recruiting class over the course of Sunday in what proved to be a very fruitful weekend of official visits for the Jayhawks. Brown, a 6-foot-3 three-star prospect, led the way before cornerback Nazir Pitchford, defensive end C.J. Johnson, wideout Tavares ...

Havili back in Lawrence after concluding playing career, joining KU as coach

Settling back into Kansas this time around required a brief adjustment period for Ainise Havili. The former KU setter, one of just a select few Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena, had obviously spent plenty of time around the program, even in the years since her All-American career. But coming back as an assistant coach under second-year head coach Matt Ulmer was ...

Lawrence Super Regional: KU welcomes OU for best-of-3 with World Series berth at stake

As Kansas embarked on its unbeaten run through the first-ever Lawrence Regional, there were moments when head coach Dan Fitzgerald took in the environment and thought, “Man, this is tough to top.” Both the Jayhawks and their fans will attempt to step it up to yet another level beginning on Saturday, when KU hosts Oklahoma for a best-of-three super-regional series. First pitch for the opener is set for 5 ...

Two more former KU players to join TBT team

Two familiar faces will join the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament this summer. Guards Zeke Mayo and Lagerald Vick have committed to play for JHX Hoops next month, it was announced on Thursday. Both will return after being part of the team in 2025, and in Vick’s case, each year since the inception of the current iteration of the KU alumni team in 2023. Mayo, who went undrafted last summer ...

Buzzer-beater caps off 18th annual Roundball Classic

Travis Releford concluded the 18th annual Rock Chalk Roundball Classic with some on-court heroics. The former Kansas guard, now working in medical device sales and as an assistant coach at Centennial High School in Ankeny, Iowa, capped off Thursday night’s all-star charity basketball game with a bang as he hit a game-winning off-balance 3-pointer to lift the blue Team Agbaji over the crimson Team Braun by a ...

KU among handful of teams making super regional debuts in upset-laden postseason

The Kansas baseball team has reached essentially unprecedented heights during its 2026 season by somehow synthesizing its first regular-season conference title in 77 years, conference tournament title in 20 years and regional title in 33 years into a single dominant campaign. It’s not over yet, either, with the Jayhawks now two wins from a College World Series berth as they host Oklahoma for a best-of-three ...