When Matt Ulmer came aboard as Kansas’ head volleyball coach a year ago, he inherited a team with a host of juniors and seniors. Ulmer added a trio of international players because given the late stage at which he took over, that was one of his main ways of acquiring new talent. Now many of those experienced players are gone, either having exhausted their eligibility or having gone elsewhere as graduate ...
The Kansas baseball team completed a three-game sweep of Kansas State for the second straight year — but for the first time in Manhattan since 1963 — by beating the Wildcats 9-7 on Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium. The Jayhawks (33-11) still have plenty more work to do with three Big 12 weekend series remaining, but they are sitting pretty in the league standings with a three-game lead at 17-4 in conference ...
Left fielder Brady Ballinger fouled off seven pitches and ultimately hit a three-run homer on the 11th pitch of his ninth-inning at-bat, and the Kansas baseball team weathered a wild final two innings to claim a series win over Kansas State with a 10-8 victory at Tointon Family Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Jayhawks trailed 3-2 for much of the game after a pair of early home runs by K-State’s Dee Kennedy ...
The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks made Emmanuel Henderson Jr. the first Kansas wide receiver selected in the NFL Draft since 2010 by picking him in the sixth round at No. 199 overall on Saturday afternoon. It's the second straight year in which Seattle has picked a Jayhawk in the sixth round after spending the No. 192 pick on offensive lineman Bryce Cabeldue in 2025. Henderson was a highly ...
Junior first baseman Anna Soles hit a walk-off home run in extra innings to deliver the Kansas softball team a 4-2 victory over Iowa State on senior day at Arrocha Ballpark. The result on Saturday afternoon gave KU its sixth series win of Big 12 play as the Jayhawks improved to 32-16 overall, 13-8 in league games, and bolstered their NCAA Tournament candidacy. “I love our fight," KU coach Jennifer McFalls ...
The San Francisco 49ers made offensive lineman Enrique Cruz Jr. the first Kansas football player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon. San Francisco picked Cruz at No. 179 overall with the third-to-last pick of the fifth round. In doing so, the 49ers went back to the well for their second KU lineman in three years after selecting Dominick Puni in 2024 as the highest-drafted Jayhawk since Aqib ...