WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Leipold hopes small modifications can help make difference for KU football

Kansas coach Lance Leipold’s 19 years as a head coach have featured multiple situations in which his patience and his convictions were rewarded. When he went 7-3 at Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2012, in what he said was characterized as a “disastrous season” after he had won four national titles in his first five years, he made some small adjustments to his coaching staff — not necessarily voluntarily, he ...

Key storylines entering spring practice for KU football

The Kansas football team will begin spring practice on Thursday morning, providing the first look at a reconstituted roster that will attempt to elevate the KU program during the 2026 season. The Jayhawks lost much of their skill-position talent from 2025, a campaign in which they finished 5-7 and fell short of the postseason for the second straight year, but they do return some key defensive pieces who have ...

How will Darryn Peterson's year be remembered?

SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood KU’s freshman star Darryn Peterson, who had drifted out to the right wing to prevent a potential kick-out to Oziyah ...

In the mood for spring football? This UFL team features 3 former Jayhawks

A new franchise in the United Football League has gone heavy on Lance Leipold-era Kansas football players in constructing its roster. The Louisville Kings, who will kick off their inaugural season against the Birmingham Stallions on Friday at 8 p.m. at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, feature three recent former Jayhawks: quarterback Jason Bean, offensive tackle Earl Bostick Jr. and defensive end ...

A look into the future of the KU men's basketball roster

SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet whether he will return for the 2026-27 season, Bill Self left room for the possibility that the program could ...

KU eliminated by St. John's on buzzer-beater

SAN DIEGO — On a day when it committed 16 sloppy turnovers and let modest but unspectacular 3-point shooting team St. John’s convert 11 3s on a season-high 35 attempts, Kansas still found a way to give itself a chance in the final minutes. Darryn Peterson evened the score with two free throws in the final minute after KU had trailed by as many as 14 points in the second half. But Dylan Darling of St. ...