Cincinnati — Kansas coach Bill Self received a text message during the week that proved prescient ahead of Saturday’s game at Cincinnati. It told him, “You win the fight, you usually win the game.” Or, put another way, as Self said in a paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw, “You wrestle with the pig, you get muddy, but they like it.” “And we need to be one of those teams that like it,” Self ...
Cincinnati — After an ugly, low-scoring, slow-paced first 33 minutes, Kansas dealt a death blow to Cincinnati with one pivotal stretch of 14 straight points. Previously clinging to a one-point lead, the KU men’s basketball team pounced on the Bearcats with seven minutes to go. Led by guard Zeke Mayo, who scored a contested layup over Cincinnati’s Dan Skillings Jr., swiped the ball from Day Day Thomas and ...
The Kansas football team continued to flesh out its new-look secondary on Friday night by adding its 21st transfer of the offseason, former Auburn safety Laquan Robinson. Robinson, a surprise addition to the defensive backfield, is the former top-ranked JUCO safety in the country in the class of 2024. He had extensive interest from schools like Florida, Ole Miss and Texas A&M coming out of Holmes Community ...
Looking to sustain its renewed momentum from a pair of resounding victories over UCF and Arizona State, the Kansas men’s basketball team will make its first road trip to face Cincinnati in 60 years. The Jayhawks’ date with the Bearcats, set for 1 p.m. Central Time at Fifth Third Arena on Saturday, is the third game of a challenging swing early in conference play that includes three separate road trips and ...
Before a new crop of former Kansas football stars enters the professional ranks — a particularly large one, given that so many foundational players graduated following the 2024 season — the start of the NFL postseason provides an ideal opportunity to check on those who are already in the fold. Several Jayhawks in the NFL, such as veteran wide receiver Steven Sims, made midseason moves from one team to ...
With a new era of compensation for college athletes on the horizon, the Mass St. Collective has ceased operations, Executive Director Keon Stowers told the Journal-World on Thursday. The collective previously facilitated payments to University of Kansas athletes for name, image and likeness considerations. But beginning with the approval of the pending House v. NCAA settlement, which is expected to take effect ...