MANHATTAN — The act of covering the Sunflower Showdown in recent years has largely been an exercise in trying to guess which plays will live in infamy. Kansas has now been close enough in three of its last four matchups with Kansas State to actually give some of its individual plays real import, which is no small feat considering where the program was a few years earlier. But those games have all ultimately ...
MANHATTAN — Even after squandering one of its largest leads in the 18-year duration of its Sunflower Showdown losing streak — 10 points — the Kansas football team still had a chance to surge ahead of Kansas State late on Saturday afternoon when was trailing by just one point. But Isaiah Marshall threw a pivotal end-zone interception early in the fourth quarter, Joe Jackson ran for 64 yards on the next ...
MANHATTAN — Through its first four games of the 2026 season, the Kansas football team held its opponents to a total of 400 rushing yards. The Jayhawks’ defensive front, combining elite defensive ends in Leroy Harris III and David Santiago with a steady rotation of defensive tackles and the solid linebacker play of Trey Lathan, Quincy Davis and more, forced its opponents to attack KU through the air, with ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold tries to treat each game week the same way while also imparting the importance of the Jayhawks’ rivalry matchups. As he acknowledged on Monday in the lead-up to the latest Sunflower Showdown, that has sometimes become a topic of conversation among KU fans as the Jayhawks haven’t gotten good results in those games. “I’ve tried to balance that through the years,” Leipold ...
The Court of Appeals of Indiana on Friday announced that it has denied the NCAA’s emergency motion to stay the injunction from Monroe County, Indiana, court that is currently allowing Kansas men’s basketball forward Tre White and KU football players Chase Belcher and Clifton Thompson, among 94 other plaintiffs, a fifth year of eligibility. In other words, all of those players remain eligible for the moment. ...
Friday’s Late Night in the Phog served as the introduction to Allen Fieldhouse for a variety of new Jayhawks, but for Christian Reeves it was also his first opportunity to play real basketball — while healthy — in quite some time. The 7-foot-2 center battled a shoulder injury all through last season at Charleston, averaging 11.1 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Cougars all the same, and continued to do so ...