Defensive tackle Tre’von McAlpine, one of KU’s premier offseason acquisitions, will miss the 2026 season due to injury, head coach Lance Leipold announced at the start of fall camp on Tuesday. “Tre’von was injured in the spring, had surgery and will not play this season,” he said. Leipold said that KU has filed for a medical waiver so that McAlpine can return to the Jayhawks in 2027 for what would be ...
Maybe one day, one of the Kansas soccer team’s goalkeepers will get the chance to play on a World Cup field. Sophie Dawe, after all, was called up to a training camp for the United States under-20 women’s national team last summer. But in the meantime, Dawe and her teammate Clara Roche got about as physically close as one can get to doing so without actually being part of a team. As part of a package ...
It certainly seems like quite a few college athletes are about to get more eligibility, whether they were actively looking for it or not. Amid a barrage of increasingly successful lawsuits by members of the high school class of 2022 who played four straight seasons in college, then graduated this past year — so too early to take advantage of the NCAA’s new five-year eligibility rules — a judge in Denver ...
With Big 12 media days now well in the rearview mirror, another key offseason milestone will arrive soon enough when the Kansas football team begins its fall training camp on Tuesday, a month ahead of the Jayhawks’ Sept. 4 opener against Long Island at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. On the practice fields around the stadium in the weeks beforehand, the Jayhawks will compete to resolve the offseason’s ...
When analysts discuss Kansas’ highly touted freshman forward Tyran Stokes, they tend to focus on his size, his athleticism and his competitive attitude. The KU coaches, for their part, have spent plenty of time over the summer praising his passing as potentially his top overall attribute. But his shooting — a question mark, or as his 247Sports scouting report terms it, a “swing skill” — may well be ...