In his first season at the helm of Kansas baseball, Dan Fitzgerald found it difficult at first to cope with losing even one game. “My incredible wife, Kelly, last year said something like — after a game I was despondent — and she’s like ‘What’s up?’ and I’m like, ‘Well, we got beat,’ and she’s like, ‘Well, surely you knew you were going to lose a game this year,’” Fitzgerald recalled ...
While the Kansas football team had already laid out most of its vision for the future when it inked 17 freshmen and one transfer in December, the Jayhawks officially added a few more promising talents as part of Wednesday's National Signing Day. KU rounded out its transfer class by signing defensive linemen Javier Derritt (North Dakota State) and Dylan Wudke (Youngstown State), offensive linemen Shane ...
Manhattan — For two minutes out of the halftime break Monday night, Kansas looked like it had been replaced by another team entirely. And on this occasion it was a welcome replacement given the disjunction that had defined the Jayhawks’ first-half effort at Kansas State — even as they led 32-30 at the break. Instead, KU returned to the court with a fleeting performance befitting its newly reacquired (and ...
Back in her playing days — as a four-year starter for Texas A&M in the 1990s, and later on the Olympic softball team — Jennifer McFalls was a shortstop. So she understands the importance of leadership in the middle infield. “A shortstop is kind of like the quarterback of your team,” said McFalls, the sixth-year Kansas softball coach, in a recent press conference. “It’s an extension of me out ...
Manhattan — Kansas State’s most important possession of the game Monday night looked dead in the water. Then, with the shot clock ticking down in overtime, Tylor Perry zoomed into the paint past two Kansas defenders and managed to fling an underhand layup that spun its way into the hoop, giving the Wildcats a 67-66 lead. The next time down, he drained a 3 from the left wing to extend his team’s lead to ...
On a day filled with emotional highs for the Kansas men’s basketball team, a pair of dunks by Kevin McCullar Jr. rose above the rest. First, the super-senior guard punctuated a dominant KU start when he stepped in front of an ill-advised pass out of the post by Houston’s Joseph Tugler and slapped the ball down the court to set up a throwdown in transition. That boosted the Jayhawks to twice the Cougars’ ...