Ever since Lance Leipold took over as Kansas football coach in 2021, the KU football players have exclusively selected team captains who have been with the Jayhawks for the entirety of Leipold’s tenure. Yes, as recently as 2024, KU had two captains who came to Lawrence in 2020 in Jalon Daniels and Luke Grimm and two who arrived in 2021 in Devin Neal and Cornell Wheeler. This season, it is quite possible that ...
The Kansas baseball roster was not, as head coach Dan Fitzgerald would put it, decimated by the 2025 MLB Draft in the same way it had been the previous summer. KU did have a pair of key players forgo their senior seasons to sign professional contracts. Alex Breckheimer, the Jayhawks’ closer in 2024, was a 16th-round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals, and center fielder Derek Cerda went to the Chicago White ...
A sophomore year can go one of two ways, to hear Kansas soccer coach Nate Lie tell it. In one case, a sophomore can keep moving forward, can “kick on,” as Lie says: “You go from (a) freshman, getting your feet wet, steady player, ups and downs, and then sophomore year they look like they have ownership, they look like they have leadership and they take that huge step. I’ve seen that.” And then on the ...
Head coach Lance Leipold and his staff have always tried to implement what they call a “culture of competition.” If the Kansas football team succeeds in 2025, it will be as a direct result of that culture. Gone is nearly everyone who had a firm grip on a starting spot in 2024. Many of those players had held those places for years at a time as they helped rebuild the Jayhawks. In are dozens of new ...
Kansas offensive line coach Daryl Agpalsa recruited Enrique Cruz Jr. when Agpalsa was at Northern Illinois and Cruz was one of the top prospects in the state, coming out of Willowbrook High School in the Chicago suburbs. But, as Agpalsa admits somewhat sheepishly now, he didn’t offer Cruz a scholarship: “I was at a smaller school, and he ended up going to Syracuse.” After playing four years for the ...
Back on the field for the unofficial start of his second professional season, former Kansas defensive end Austin Booker turned in a dominant performance in Chicago on Sunday. In his preseason opener with the Chicago Bears, Booker recorded three sacks and matched a team-high total with six tackles overall. Among his other contributions, he assisted on one tackle to halt Miami Dolphins running back Jaylen Wright ...