It’s not hard for new Kansas center Shane Bumgardner to pick out differences between KU and his old Division II school, Tiffin University. “Tiffin had about eight buildings total for a campus, and our student body was like 3,000 people,” he said Tuesday. “It’s a lot different. We had an indoor (facility), but we never had any nutrition or anything like that. Just getting food after practice, protein ...
The Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige, one of the legends of Negro League baseball, wielded an eclectic array of pitches. One, the “be ball,” was so named because, as Paige is often quoted as saying, "it be right where I want it.” Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald told reporters Tuesday that, having learned about Paige’s arsenal from Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick, one Jayhawk ...
Before Logan Brantley had even played in a game, and the same summer he had arrived on campus, linebackers coach Chris Simpson told reporters that Kansas would take as many players like him as it could get. After he redshirted during the 2023 season, playing just 16 snaps on kick coverage across two games, head coach Lance Leipold mentioned Brantley as a player standing out in practice ahead of the Guaranteed ...
Kansas linebackers coach Chris Simpson said that early last season, linebacker JB Brown was a “see ball, get ball” kind of player. That’s theoretically a good quality for a linebacker to have, particularly one who, since arriving from Bowling Green last spring, has consistently dazzled his teammates with some of the hardest hitting of any Jayhawk. But Simpson noted that such a straightforward mentality ...
Returning players will be the minority on next year’s Kansas women’s basketball team. Paris Gaines, Skyler Gill and Zsófia Telegdy are all in the transfer portal, a KU spokesperson confirmed Monday, running the total number of offseason departures from the Jayhawks’ roster to seven. Changing out seven of its 13 scholarship players is far from calamitous for KU — after all, it’s not too far off what ...
The Kansas volleyball team announced its 2024 conference schedule, and it looks quite a bit different from the 2023 edition. For one, 2023 league winner and national champion Texas is gone, as is Oklahoma, as both will depart the Big 12 Conference prior to next season. Instead, the league now features Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah, formerly of the Pac-12 Conference. In addition, the layout of the ...