WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Woodland to enter KU Athletics Hall of Fame

Kansas Athletics will induct golfer Gary Woodland into its Hall of Fame, it was announced on Thursday. The induction ceremony will take place on Sept. 19 at The Jayhawk Club in Lawrence. "There is no easier Jayhawk to root for than Gary, and we are so proud he is taking his rightful place in the Kansas Athletics Hall of Fame,” KU athletic director Travis Goff said in a press release. Woodland has won four ...

KU volleyball beats Bowling Green and Georgia Tech in Purdue tournament; No. 17 Purdue next

Updated 4:26 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025: The new-look 15th-ranked Kansas volleyball team got to experience matches shorter than five sets for the first time, and in turn experienced victory for the second and third times. The Jayhawks took down Bowling Green in four sets — 25-18, 25-20, 25-27, 25-14 — on Wednesday, then beat No. 23 Georgia Tech, also in four, 25-17, 25-18, 22-25, 25-14, on Thursday. KU ...

Jon Jon Kamara will receive his most extensive playing time against Missouri

Kansas didn’t encounter a lot of resistance in its 46-7 victory over Wagner last Friday, but one of the “disappointments of the game,” as head coach Lance Leipold put it, arrived late in the first quarter. Redshirt freshman linebacker Jon Jon Kamara, making his first career start at weak-side linebacker with teammates Jayson Gilliom and Bangally Kamara recently injured, got ejected for targeting when he ...

Big 12 power rankings: ASU opens at No. 1

Arizona State begins this season in the same spot as it ended last season – at the top. The defending Big 12 champions are No. 1 in the first Big 12 power rankings, receiving 11 of a possible 16 first-place votes from a panel of media members who regularly cover the Big 12. Iowa State picked up four first-place votes and TCU received the other after an impressive win over North Carolina. Kansas began the ...

Getting to know the Tigers: Q&A with a Missouri writer

Keeping in mind that it’s been 13 years since Kansas and Missouri last played, some sort of refresher on the Tigers might be necessary. Not so much a refresher about the University of Missouri in a broad sense, or the history between KU and MU — which KU fans are surely well acquainted with by this point in the Border War game week, if they weren’t already long beforehand — but about the Tigers’ ...

Leipold talks Missouri preparation: 'We always want to be an enthusiastic team and not an emotional team'

The 2025 matchup between Kansas and Missouri has been on the books since 2020, which means it’s been on the horizon for the entire duration of Lance Leipold’s tenure as KU’s head coach. He’s just started to hear about it a little more often recently. “You know, you try to push it off until it’s the game week,” Leipold said on Monday. “I guess now, we got to address it, right? Last Friday, ...