In a four-day span, the Kansas football team has won a pair of competitive recruiting battles for highly touted edge rushers. Dakyus Brinkley, a linebacker and defensive end from Katy, Texas, wrote on Twitter that “Lawrence is home” Tuesday morning as he announced his commitment to join the Jayhawks’ 2024 recruiting class. The news follows Arizona end Deshawn Warner’s announcement on Saturday, giving KU ...
The NBA Summer League is one of the most thorough preseason evaluative periods afforded by any American sport. It’s essentially like if the former Week 4 of the NFL preseason, in which teams were composed of almost exclusively rookies and last-chance veteran backups seeking the spotlight, were extended into an 11-day, five-game Las Vegas basketball extravaganza, complete with a tournament, championship and ...
The Kansas football team completed its Desert Edge High trifecta Saturday evening when three-star edge rusher Deshawn Warner announced his long-awaited commitment to join the Jayhawks. Kansas won a tight race with Oregon State, Texas and Washington for the services of the Goodyear, Arizona, native, who now becomes the third player from his high school to commit to KU for the class of 2024, thanks in large part ...
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 ...