WRITER: Henry Greenstein

KU track and field sends two men to NCAA Championships, four more to Friday's preliminaries

The Kansas men’s track and field team built on its third-place showing at the Big 12 Conference Championships earlier this month with a strong start to Wednesday’s NCAA West Preliminary in Sacramento, Calif., qualifying a pair of Jayhawks for June's national tournament. Pole vaulter Clayton Simms posted KU’s top performance on the night in its final field event, finishing fifth at 5.40 meters to punch his ...

KU baseball falls to TCU's offensive flurry in Big 12 tournament

Kansas’ run at the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament isn’t quite over yet, but it sustained a series of punishing blows in the sixth inning Thursday night. An inning that began with small ball for TCU — a single to first base, a walk, a soft-hit ball up the middle to score a run and chase Jayhawks pitcher Ethan Bradford — got big very quickly when Horned Frogs third baseman Brayden Taylor sent a ...