Wide receiver Cam Pickett’s first half as a Jayhawk gave a strong indication he could be one of Jalon Daniels’ top weapons throughout the 2025 season. In Kansas’ season opener on Aug. 23, Pickett scored the first touchdown in the new David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium after leaking out of the backfield on a run-pass option — and then scored again for good measure on the opposite end of the field on a ...
The Kansas football team has found its second running back in the 2026 recruiting class. KD Jones, a consensus three-star back from Jenks, Oklahoma, committed to KU on Thursday evening, his agent Ron Slavin confirmed to the Journal-World. “Let’s go!! Go Jayhawks,” Jones wrote in a post on X. Jones had previously considered KU as a finalist in his initial recruiting decision in March. But he ended up ...
Texas Tech was the unanimous pick for the top spot in this week’s Big 12 power rankings. The Red Raiders, who host Kansas on Saturday, received all 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Arizona State, the defending Big 12 champion, was second followed by Cincinnati, BYU and Iowa State to round out the top five. Cincinnati moved up five spots, the biggest jump of ...
The $300 million gift that Kansas Athletics received from benefactor David Booth is every bit as momentous a donation as KU made it sound in August. It is the largest gift ever given to the University of Kansas and one of the biggest ever in college athletics; it is, as athletic director Travis Goff calls it, a “fully funded endowment that’s been gifted to us” that will fuel KU for decades going forward; ...
Todd “Leaper” Williams has been ingrained in the Kansas football program for decades, to the point that KU’s current head equipment manager Darren Hain calls him “the connective tissue that links 55 years of players, coaches and staff together.” Williams’ connection deepened even further on Tuesday — if such a thing is possible — when KU officially dedicated the Todd “Leaper” Williams ...
The Kansas women’s golf team won its first event of the season on Tuesday, claiming the title at the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational at Lawrence Country Club, and sophomore Ebba Nordstedt recorded her first-ever first-place finish. Nordstedt shot 6-under in the tournament, including an 8-under round on Monday that tied the program record for lowest score and set a course record. Her performance led the ...