Kansas’ future secondary got a boost on Tuesday afternoon with the commitment of safety Braiden Graves in the class of 2027. Graves, from Bridgeland High School in Cypress, Texas, picked KU from a final group of contenders that included Houston, Iowa State, SMU, TCU and Utah, among a variety of other offers. He had visited SMU and was slated to see many of his other contenders in the months ahead, including ...
Kansas coach Dan Fitzgerald repeated as the Big 12’s coach of the year, winning the award for a second straight time in the postseason poll of his fellow coaches that was released on Tuesday. After leading KU back to the NCAA Tournament in 2025, Fitzgerald tacked on another memorable accomplishment with a rebuilt roster during the 2026 regular season, guiding the Jayhawks to their first conference title in 77 ...
The Kansas rowing team earned a second-place finish at the Big 12 Championship on Sunday morning in Sarasota, Florida, with five players earning all-conference honors in the process. Both were KU program records accomplished in the first year under head coach Andrew Derrick. "I am just really proud of this squad and excited about the future," Derrick said in a press release. "We have made a ton of progress ...
Emmah Jemutai emerged from Saturday with two Big 12 titles, providing the highlight of the conference’s outdoor track and field championship in Tucson, Arizona, for the Kansas team. The Jayhawks finished eighth of 10 teams in both the men’s and women’s competitions, with Jemutai providing two of KU’s four individual titles along with one from men’s pole vaulter Anthony Meacham and one from decathlete ...
NORMAN, Okla. — The Michigan softball team couldn’t score on Kansas freshman Lila Partridge for eight innings on Friday and then proceeded to pile on four runs against her on Saturday without Partridge even recording an out. That was one of innumerable ways in which the Jayhawks’ and Wolverines’ rematch differed from their prior meeting, and the most prominent was in the final outcome, as Michigan won ...
When Will Baker was 13 and playing on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour, he shot a 67 at the University of Georgia Golf Course, just about a 15-mile drive from where he grew up in nearby Statham, Georgia, for his first round ever in the 60s. “At that time there was no live scoring, so I watched (a) kid kind of hug his parents, thought he won,” Baker recalled on Tuesday. “I was like, ‘Eh, sorry.’ That ...