WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Daniels named preseason Big 12 offensive player of the year; three other Jayhawks honored

What a difference a year has made for Kansas football — at least in terms of public perception. The Big 12 Conference announced Wednesday that its 2023 preseason all-conference football team, voted on by media members, includes KU junior quarterback Jalon Daniels as its offensive player of the year. Junior running back Devin Neal, redshirt senior offensive lineman Mike Novitsky and junior cornerback Cobee ...

Surveying the Big 12's newest men's basketball squads

It's easy to forget with the near-daily developments in the conference-realignment news cycle, but Kansas hasn't actually had a new league opponent for 11 years, since TCU and West Virginia first joined the Big 12 back in 2012. It will therefore be a significant adjustment for KU to have four new schools, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston, to play annually in some sports and near-annually in others. ...

Kansas football completes edge-rusher duo with holiday commitment

In a four-day span, the Kansas football team has won a pair of competitive recruiting battles for highly touted edge rushers. Dakyus Brinkley, a linebacker and defensive end from Katy, Texas, wrote on Twitter that “Lawrence is home” Tuesday morning as he announced his commitment to join the Jayhawks’ 2024 recruiting class. The news follows Arizona end Deshawn Warner’s announcement on Saturday, giving KU ...

Former Jayhawks looking to stand out in this year's NBA Summer League

The NBA Summer League is one of the most thorough preseason evaluative periods afforded by any American sport. It’s essentially like if the former Week 4 of the NFL preseason, in which teams were composed of almost exclusively rookies and last-chance veteran backups seeking the spotlight, were extended into an 11-day, five-game Las Vegas basketball extravaganza, complete with a tournament, championship and ...

Three-star defensive end commits to KU football

The Kansas football team completed its Desert Edge High trifecta Saturday evening when three-star edge rusher Deshawn Warner announced his long-awaited commitment to join the Jayhawks. Kansas won a tight race with Oregon State, Texas and Washington for the services of the Goodyear, Arizona, native, who now becomes the third player from his high school to commit to KU for the class of 2024, thanks in large part ...

14-team Big 12 will yield one odd year of scheduling

The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will spend one season among the biggest. With BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF joining the league Saturday – a year before ...