The Big 12 Conference announced on Wednesday afternoon that its schools will soon be required to publish information about player availability. Big 12 teams will provide availability reports, to be published on the conference's website, ahead of league games for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball, beginning during the 2025-26 season. For football, schools will be required to put out reports ...
Touting it as one of the biggest single donations in the history of college sports, the University of Kansas athletic department announced on Wednesday morning that it had received a gift of $300 million from donor David Booth. The donation, which is also the largest ever to the university, includes $75 million to help jump-start the upcoming second phase of KU’s Gateway project. Plans for that phase include ...
Ever since Lance Leipold took over as Kansas football coach in 2021, the KU football players have exclusively selected team captains who have been with the Jayhawks for the entirety of Leipold’s tenure. Yes, as recently as 2024, KU had two captains who came to Lawrence in 2020 in Jalon Daniels and Luke Grimm and two who arrived in 2021 in Devin Neal and Cornell Wheeler. This season, it is quite possible that ...
As much as Matt Ulmer and the Kansas volleyball team might look forward to experiencing a packed Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena this season, they’re not going to get the chance to do so until Sept. 26. Indeed, KU’s first Big 12 match of the Ulmer era, a Friday night battle with Arizona State, is also its first home match of the season. Outside of practices and last Saturday's alumni scrimmage, the Jayhawks ...
It is often said that nervousness and excitement are two sides of the same coin, or at least that is often said by people around me when they have to hear about how irrationally anxious I am about almost everything almost all of the time. Whatever the case, Kansas fans are likely experiencing some combination of those two emotions — the exact proportion probably depends on one’s level of general optimism ...
The Kansas baseball roster was not, as head coach Dan Fitzgerald would put it, decimated by the 2025 MLB Draft in the same way it had been the previous summer. KU did have a pair of key players forgo their senior seasons to sign professional contracts. Alex Breckheimer, the Jayhawks’ closer in 2024, was a 16th-round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals, and center fielder Derek Cerda went to the Chicago White ...