Determining exactly how the pieces fit together is always a process for the Kansas baseball team. The proof is in head coach Dan Fitzgerald’s office, where mounted on the wall is the lineup card from his first victory at Kansas: a 5-1 win over Valparaiso on Feb. 17, 2023. “(Kodey) Shojinaga was on the bench,” Fitzgerald said — he finished that season as the conference’s freshman of the year. ...
Kansas freshman guard Darryn Peterson has played in 13 of KU’s games this season, but he has missed 11 and been limited in the second halves of plenty more, for a host of different reasons. “He’s got a string of bad luck,” head coach Bill Self said. From his early-season hamstring injury to the cramps that bothered him in December and January to single-game absences due to a rolled ankle and flu-like ...
Kansas is on the board in the 2027 recruiting class. The Jayhawks earned the commitment on Wednesday night of Derek Gonzalez, a consensus three-star offensive lineman from Nogales High School in La Puente, California. Gonzalez announced his decision in a post on social media. He chose KU over offers from Arizona, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas Tech, and Vanderbilt, among others. Listed at 6-foot-7 and 280 pounds, ...
Updated 3:16 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026: Former Kansas football players Enrique Cruz Jr., Jalon Daniels and Emmanuel Henderson Jr. are among the 319 NFL hopefuls invited to the Scouting Combine, the league announced on Wednesday morning. Each of the three players, alongside numerous other former Jayhawks, recently took part in all-star events. Cruz played in the American Bowl on Jan. 22 in Lakeland, ...
Plenty of the offseason discussion of the Kansas football team, especially before the Jayhawks have taken the field for spring practices, will inevitably center on the Jayhawks’ numerous and in many cases quite promising transfer-portal additions. That’s natural considering how much KU had to overhaul its roster, particularly at positions like running back, linebacker and safety, after an offseason that ...
Kansas’ win over No. 1 Arizona on Monday night, its first ever against a top-ranked team in Allen Fieldhouse in a showdown Bill Self called “as big a game that college basketball has had” this year, was so momentous an occasion as to inspire some admittedly uncharacteristic behavior from the head coach. His double fist pump before a roaring crowd of Jayhawks was a familiar sight, at least for those who ...