"Big Noon Kickoff" host Rob Stone, the veteran, multi-sport Fox broadcaster, has no qualms about labeling his pregame show and the marquee broadcast that follows "a five-hour national commercial, essentially free of charge." The beneficiaries of that promotion this weekend will be the University of Kansas and its football program, a "burgeoning power" as Stone says, receiving its first-ever visit from "Big ...
Kansas men's basketball freshman Johnny Furphy met with reporters for the first time at the team's media day Wednesday, but fans may have to wait a little longer to see him in extended action. The same day that Furphy earned a nod to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's 2024 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Watch List — before ever having played college basketball — his head coach Bill ...
The top four spots in the Big 12 Conference power rankings were unchanged after Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State all won over the weekend. Oklahoma, the unanimous No. 1 in voting by 14 beat writers that regularly cover the Big 12, escaped upset-minded UCF. Texas got a favorable spot at its own 10-yard line in the final minute to narrowly beat Houston, while Oklahoma State staged a ...
The Kansas offense under Andy Kotelnicki may not yet have met its match on the field, but it certainly has on paper. Oklahoma's defense — engineered by defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Ted Roof and overseen by head coach Brent Venables — is every bit as diverse, and can throw as many different looks at opponents, as does KU's motion-heavy, pro-style, spread-influenced offense. “The best way I ...
As goes Elmarko Jackson, so go the Jayhawks? It might not be such a stretch, at least based on what Kansas coach Bill Self said at the team's media day Wednesday. "If you’re going to have a crystal ball and say, 'Who needs to play well to give us the best chance to max out?', I’d say Elmarko would be at the top of that list," Self said. "Just because I think he can add an element that this team will ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said at Big 12 Conference media day last week that every year upon receiving the NCAA Tournament bracket, one of the first things he would do was look for Illinois. Self always had complex feelings bound up with the prospect of having to play against the Illini, the team he had coached for three successful seasons immediately prior to departing for KU. His Jayhawks beat Illinois once in ...