FRISCO, Texas — Trey Lathan’s role pushed him to his physical limits at times in 2025. The Kansas linebacker will readily point to the Missouri game, a 42-31 loss in which KU’s defense simply couldn’t get off the field. “I mean, you feel it toward the end,” he said on Wednesday at Big 12 media days. “I think Missouri, I think I felt it a lot. I think I played like 77 snaps.” He did indeed play ...
It could be some time before any Kansas baseball player dethrones Curtis Shaw — the No. 42 overall selection to the Athletics in 1990 — as the highest-drafted Jayhawk ever. But former KU pitcher Hunter Cranton tied for second when he went to Seattle at No. 91 two summers ago, and KU has a chance to get another player taken on the first day of this year’s MLB Draft, which begins at noon on Saturday in ...
This summer’s edition of The Basketball Tournament could be Kansas' fans last chance to see Frank Mason III on the hardwood. In the initial Instagram post announcing that he would join KU alumni team JHX Hoops, the former national player of the year suggested he could potentially be drawing close to the end of his career. Speaking to reporters on a Zoom call on Thursday afternoon, Mason, 32, said he has ...
The Kansas baseball coaches know all too well that an MLB Draft can unexpectedly deplete a pitching staff. Two summers ago, head coach Dan Fitzgerald remarked at one point that KU surely wouldn’t either keep or lose everyone who was eligible for the draft, and then the Jayhawks proceeded to lose everyone as six players with remaining college eligibility opted to sign and turn pro. The future prospects of ...
FRISCO, Texas — On Wednesday, Leroy Harris III served as one of five players representing the Kansas football team in interviews with regional and national reporters at Big 12 media days. “I'm just honored that they even brought me, brought me out to media day, only being here a year and only being a junior,” he said. “I think I’m one of the youngest that got to go for the team.” A year earlier, ...
FRISCO, Texas — Former Kansas safety Lyrik Rawls is ready for his sixth tour of duty in the Big 12 at a third school. “It’s not going to be like no new bubbles in my stomach or anything, no new butterflies,” said the native of Marshall, Texas. “I’m going to be good.” Rawls acknowledged that he’s going to encounter plenty of players and uniforms he’s seen before over the course of his lengthy ...