Kansas is rotating through various players to occupy its fourth team captain spot over the course of the 2025 season, and of course it made sense for head coach Lance Leipold to pick middle linebacker Trey Lathan — a West Virginia transfer — during the week the Mountaineers were in town. But that was just one factor in Leipold’s decision to place Lathan alongside Jalon Daniels, Justice Finkley and Bryce ...
Time was ticking down in the fourth quarter, Kansas running back Leshon Williams wanted to get out of Saturday night’s game, and it became clear to him that the shortest path to the sideline was through the end zone. “You want to know what was really going through my head … I’m going to tell y’all the truth,” he said. “It was about the fourth quarter. I’m like, ‘We got to finish, and it’s ...
Time and again during its 2024 Big 12 Conference slate, the Kansas football team suffered pre- and post-halftime setbacks that hampered its ability to build and maintain leads. If Saturday’s league opener against West Virginia was any indication, 2025 could be quite a bit different. KU scored a first-half touchdown just before the two-minute timeout, added a field goal as time expired and then got a 94-yard ...
Playing early is a rare opportunity for any college freshman, and even rarer is receiving pregame advice, prior to one’s collegiate debut, from an NFL player who plays the same position. That’s exactly what Kansas’ Tate Nagy got in the form of a text from Kansas City Chiefs punt returner Nikko Remigio before KU played its season opener on Aug. 23. Nagy has studied Remigio, who “catches the ball super ...
Kansas and West Virginia enter Saturday night’s conference opener in Lawrence coming off hard-fought games against their biggest rivals. The difference is that KU is now two weeks removed from its 42-31 loss at Missouri, while the Mountaineers will hope to have moved on sufficiently quickly following a 31-24 overtime victory against Pittsburgh last Saturday. “If there’s any kind of hangover, whatever you ...
In introducing Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Gary Woodland on Friday evening at The Jayhawk Club, KU deputy athletic director Sean Lester relayed a story from an associate of Woodland’s. Woodland's team member recalled hearing from a PGA Tour official, “If I were on the side of the road with a flat tire, and there was one tour player that would stop to help me, it would be Gary Woodland.” If ...