Kansas football coach Lance Leipold said Tuesday that he had a former coworker come through town recently and wasn't able to make time for them to stop by. "Stuff ran over and it didn’t work out," he said, "and I said, ‘Yeah, June’s not what it used to be.’” What used to be a light month separating spring football and fall camp has turned into another epicenter of the college football calendar, ...
Kansas football has added another piece to its backfield of the future. Harry Stewart III, a running back from Centennial High in Frisco, Texas, committed to KU Tuesday afternoon following his official visit over the weekend. The consensus three-star prospect, who also had offers from schools like Baylor, BYU, Cal, Michigan, Missouri and Texas A&M, now becomes the fourth player to commit after a dozen ...
More than four years ago, Kansas women’s basketball found itself mired in a string of losing seasons, and head coach Brandon Schneider offered a scholarship to a promising player from Overland Park who wasn’t even in high school yet. Now, the Jayhawks have reached the NCAA Tournament and then won the WNIT in back-to-back seasons, and that young woman — who soon became one of the top players nationwide in ...
The Kansas football team emerged from a busy weekend of official visits with its sixth, seventh and eighth commitments for the class of 2024. Linebacker Jacorey Stewart, from Milton High in Georgia, and offensive lineman Harrison Utley, of Norman North High in Oklahoma both announced their decisions Sunday night after committing during their visits to Lawrence. Cornerback Austin Alexander, an incoming senior at ...
After a breakthrough 2022-23 campaign that earned him plaudits and an award nod as the Big 12 Conference's most improved player, Kansas junior KJ Adams Jr. is looking to take another step forward next season. The 6-foot-7 Adams played primarily as an undersized center last year, averaging more than 10 points and four rebounds in the process, and so did most of his work near the rim. But with the arrival of ...
If you view a college athletic conference primarily as a bundle of brand equity and disparate assets to be auctioned off to the highest media-rights bidder, you probably love the direction the current conference-realignment cycle seems to be headed. If you place a certain emphasis on regional cohesiveness and historic rivalries, as I do, you may find yourself a little bit perturbed by the suggestion — ...