Each game gets magnified as the end of the season draws nearer, as Kansas coach Bill Self sees it. “When we can see the finish line, things that happen closer to the finish line are more important,” Self said, “because just like a game, you can make a mistake in the first five or 10 minutes and there’s time to recover. You get under the five-minute mark and whatever, there may not be time to recover. ...
Kansas coach Bill Self said on Monday that he was surprised by the timing of rival Kansas State’s decision to dismiss head coach Jerome Tang, which the school announced on Sunday with six games remaining in the regular season. “I like Jerome,” Self said. “I hate to see when any coach gets let go. But I also know that it’s big money and it’s big business, and people make decisions based on what is in ...
Gavyn Schlotterback played 58 baseball games at Paris Junior College in Texas last spring and another 44 over the summer for the Badlands Big Sticks in North Dakota without knowing that something was terribly wrong. He felt fine. He played well. So well in Paris, in fact, that he was all-conference at two positions and all-region at a third and earned an opportunity to play baseball at Kansas as a catcher, ...
The Kansas softball team took a step forward during the Jayhawks’ second straight weekend event at South Florida, winning four out of five games — headlined by a 7-2 victory over the host Bulls to avenge their previous loss — to improve to 7-4 on the young season. KU beat Indiana State convincingly on Thursday, but lost to Boston College after allowing three sixth-inning runs. However, the Jayhawks ...
The Kansas baseball team rebounded from a season-opening loss on Friday to win its next two games on Saturday and Sunday and claim a series win on the road at UTRGV in Edinburg, Texas. "First and foremost, UTRGV is a really good team," KU coach Dan Fitzgerald said in a press release. "What an unbelievable environment to play in and one that we were intentional in scheduling to get an atmosphere like this and ...
AMES, Iowa — A day on which both No. 9 Kansas and No. 5 Iowa State were wearing throwback uniforms seemed like an appropriate occasion for an old-fashioned rock fight. The Jayhawks and Cyclones delivered that style of play for about 13 minutes on Saturday afternoon at Hilton Coliseum — before one team figured out how to play effective offense and the other didn’t. ISU embarked on a 20-2 run over five ...