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 ...
Make no mistake: Mass Street's Kansas alumni team is taking The Basketball Tournament seriously. Each player may have his own reason for participating, Keith Langford said Friday. In his case, this summer's tournament serves as his farewell to professional basketball following a distinguished overseas career. Tyshawn Taylor, for his part, has played in numerous iterations of TBT and said he's found again and ...
The optimism about this year’s Kansas football team that pervades Lawrence, following the Jayhawks’ first bowl appearance in 14 years, does not seem to extend to Bristol, Connecticut, and beyond. In an article posted last Friday, ESPN’s Bill Connelly ranked the Big 12 Conference according to his SP+ figure — an analytical metric that attempts to aggregate “returning production,” “recent ...
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 ...