Topeka — Elmarko Jackson will be charged with playing a pair of positions as a freshman at Kansas. Early in his time in Lawrence, he's already found himself drawn, correspondingly, to a pair of mentors: point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. and wing Kevin McCullar Jr. "The way Juan sees the floor as a point guard is, I feel, very underappreciated," Jackson said Tuesday, "and then Kevin just does everything on the ...
The names of college football's administrative periods tend to lie — what, exactly, was “quiet” about June 1-25, an officially designated “quiet period”? — but there’s no getting around the “dead period” that started Monday. Coaches and players will be unable to communicate in-person, while a moratorium on campus visits, unofficial or official, persists for nearly a month. That’s not to say ...
Sporting Kansas City II certainly possessed a flair for the dramatic this month. The developmental team ended three of its four June matches tied after regulation, meaning, under MLS Next Pro rules, that it played three penalty shootouts as well. In turn, all three of those shootouts were decided by a single kick. The decisive shot came from North Texas' Hope Avayevu on Sunday, as his effort bounced off the ...
We just saw the 28th and 29th players of the Bill Self era get drafted into the NBA and sports media is already speculating about who could be the 30th. Typical. I have to be honest, though — I do find excessively early mock drafts pretty compelling in the NBA, where players can go one-and-done (as Gradey Dick just did), meaning that draftniks frequently have to evaluate an athlete’s professional potential ...
At a recent press conference, after Kansas football moved each of its first two games of 2023, at home against Missouri State and Illinois, to Fridays, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold predicted further growth in this domain. “In today’s world of where it’s going in TV contracts and that, you’re starting to see it: Friday night college games are going to be (happening) more and more frequently,” he ...
Kansas' homegrown star will begin his professional basketball career in an entirely different country. Wichita native Gradey Dick, the latest KU freshman to jump straight to the NBA, went No. 13 overall to the Toronto Raptors at Thursday night's NBA Draft in Brooklyn as the penultimate pick in the lottery. Dick sported a red-sequined, "Wizard of Oz"-inspired suit as his draft-night attire Thursday, and it ...