Just before Kansas took the field to battle Kansas State last November, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace asked Devin Neal — who had a pending decision to make about going to the NFL or staying for another year — whether it was going to be his last game in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. “He said, ‘We’ll find out,’” Wallace recalled on Thursday. “And I asked him that because I wanted to ...
Updated 11:20 p.m. Saturday: The college basketball season hasn’t even come to a close yet, but Kansas is well into its offseason and is already making moves in the transfer portal. South Dakota State transfer guard Zeke Mayo, who is a native of Lawrence, and Florida transfer guard Riley Kugel have each listed KU in their top four schools in the early stages of the recruiting process. Either would have a ...
The latest attempt at a spring football league has been formed by a merger of two others, and the new league’s rosters contain four players who finished their college football careers at the University of Kansas. After the XFL and USFL announced their merger on Dec. 31 to form the United Football League, the two leagues reduced their combined size from 16 teams down to eight and then held a dispersal draft to ...
The physical tools are certainly in place for Kansas running back Harry Stewart III. The early-enrolling freshman from Frisco, Texas, is listed at 5-foot-10, 215 pounds, but that doesn’t tell the whole story; strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said last week, speaking to Stewart’s immediate readiness for KU’s strength program, “His calves are bigger than my thighs and his thighs are bigger than my ...
Kansas linebacker Cornell Wheeler’s collegiate career has rarely been allowed to continue on a linear upward trajectory. “Cornell’s had some really good weeks in the program, and then something’s always happened that unfortunately set him back,” head coach Lance Leipold said. Two years ago, he got sick and missed time; last year, he snagged a massive interception at Texas that “really boosted his ...
Walt Wesley, a member of Kansas’ 1965-66 conference championship team and one of the legendary Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, died Thursday morning in Tampa, Florida, KU Athletics announced. He was 79. A two-time All-American with the Jayhawks, the 6-foot-11 center was a first-round pick and spent a decade playing in the NBA. Wesley’s No. 13 KU jersey was retired in 2004, ...