Less than a month after she was selected by the Connecticut Sun at No. 19 overall, and less than two weeks after she began training camp with the team, former Kansas center Taiyanna Jackson has been waived. The Sun announced the news Friday morning, a day after Jackson made her first unofficial appearance in a Connecticut jersey, scoring two points and grabbing three rebounds in an 82-79 preseason loss to New ...
The Lawrence High softball team split a low-scoring doubleheader with Shawnee Mission East on Thursday to finish its regular season with a 9-16 record. In the top half of the doubleheader, Charlee Burghart’s third-inning RBI single to score Harper Dye went down as the Chesty Lions’ lone run, but that was all they needed thanks to Keira Norris’ 16-strikeout complete-game shutout, as they won 1-0. They ...
One local singles player and two doubles pairings will participate in the high school state boys tennis championships beginning Friday. At the 6A level, Free State senior Jake Hedges and the doubles partnership of Lawrence High senior Logan Daniels and junior Josh Lavin will head to Wichita-Riverside Tennis Complex to take part in state competition hosted by Wichita North. Hedges advanced out of last ...
Oklahoma City — The Kansas softball team opened its matchup against Oklahoma on Thursday with three straight hits and then did not record another for the remainder of the game. Those three hits amounted to just one run. And in the ensuing innings, the Sooners did what the Sooners tend to do with their second-ranked scoring offense, piling on one score after another against multiple KU pitchers, and beat the ...
The Kansas football coaching staff returned to the Division II ranks and added an intriguing transfer at a position of need. Leyton Cure, a native of Goodland who played at Fort Hays State, announced his commitment to KU Wednesday evening. Cure is a 6-foot-3, 235-pound tight end who had 26 catches for 281 yards and two touchdowns as a redshirt freshman in 2022. He will join a position group that, with DeShawn ...
Florida transfer wing Riley Kugel will not attend Kansas, according to multiple reports Wednesday afternoon. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was first to report the news, which follows a comment by KU coach Bill Self in an interview with the NCAA Monday about the prospect of the long-committed Kugel joining the team was "up in the air." Self did not provide the reasoning for the commitment's uncertainty. Kugel, ...