It’ll be a battle for first place in the Big 12 this weekend at Hoglund Ballpark as No. 12 UCF visits Lawrence for a three-game series with Kansas, beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. The Knights, picked to finish 10th in the league in the preseason, are riding high in first place at 10-2 in Big 12 play after taking two of three on the road from fellow upper-echelon foe West Virginia. “I don’t think it’s ...
The Kansas football team had the privilege this offseason of being able to retain its leading tackler, the ever-reliable linebacker who played more snaps on defense than anyone during the 2025 campaign. But the Jayhawks almost lost him. Trey Lathan announced on New Year’s Day that he was entering the transfer portal. Two weeks later, he announced his return to KU. “Just wanted to see what was the best ...
Kansas forward Samis Calderon will enter the transfer portal after one season with the Jayhawks, according to a report from Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress on Thursday morning. Calderon, a 6-foot-8 freshman, played sparingly during his lone season in Lawrence. He appeared in 16 games and averaged 0.4 points and 0.8 rebounds per game. His most extensive action came when he received 14 minutes and tallied two ...
Every transfer-portal period these days seems to bring a couple of entries from Kansas players who have ostensibly exhausted their collegiate eligibility but are apparently hoping for some sort of waiver — Zeke Mayo, Dean Miller and the like in recent years — and this spring’s basketball portal window is no exception. Kansas guard Jayden Dawson entered the portal on Thursday after playing four years of ...
When he concluded his high school career at Niles North in Skokie, Illinois, Jailen Butler would have considered himself more of a basketball player than a football player. He didn’t start playing football until his senior year of high school, and his allegiance to basketball persisted well into his junior-college career, as he participated in both sports at Trinity Valley Community College. He was a shooting ...
Updated 8:48 a.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2026: The general consensus around the Kansas football program seems to be that working alongside Andy Kotelnicki isn’t all that different the second time around. “You jump right back into it,” passing game coordinator Jim Zebrowski said. But there are some changes, to be sure. For one, head coach Lance Leipold said KU has reshaped some of its offensive terminology, ...