Mark Francis has been head coach of the Kansas soccer team long enough — try 24 seasons — to remember a time when professional women’s soccer offered far fewer opportunities than it does today. “There were years when we had really good players, All-Americans, graduate out of our program, there was nowhere to play,” he said in a recent interview. But between the growth of the sport in the United ...
The alleged victim in Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris' assault case filed an affidavit of non-prosecution Monday, but the Denton County Criminal District Attorney's Office said Tuesday it will continue to pursue the assault charge. The charge, for a Class A misdemeanor, dates back to a June 2022 altercation in Texas between Morris and an ex-girlfriend prior to Morris' freshman year at the University of ...
A national championship rematch is headed to Lawrence in 2024 — and to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the following year. Kansas Athletics announced Monday morning that its basketball team will take on North Carolina in a home-and-home series, set to be contested at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 8, 2024, and at the Dean E. Smith Center on Nov. 14, 2025. The pair of college basketball blue bloods will not only meet ...
Heartfire seized control in the second quarter and never relinquished it. The veteran squad, coached by longtime NBA player and ESPN analyst LaPhonso Ellis and making a repeat run through The Basketball Tournament, shook off an early slump to score 10 straight points in the second quarter as part of a 20-6 streak. Mass Street never got within five points for the remainder of the game, and the depleted Kansas ...
It's hard to overstate the sheer amount of exposure that Kansas football players got last Wednesday at Big 12 Conference Media Days. After most of them spent about eight or nine minutes each with local KU reporters in the early afternoon, they returned later on for breakout sessions that lasted about as long as any writers from the 14 different Big 12 markets wanted to talk. In and around those two windows, ...
With Marcus Adams Jr.’s departure, the Kansas men's basketball roster is now as thin as it has been at any point this summer, and it’s almost August. No need to panic — the Jayhawks’ remaining group of scholarship players still has a case to be the best in the country — but 10 scholarship athletes don’t provide much protection against a possible injury, especially when one, Zach Clemence, is ...