WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Cliff Alexander joins TBT team of KU alumni

Cliff Alexander is joining the Kansas alumni team JHX Hoops for its run in The Basketball Tournament this summer. The news was announced on Wednesday morning. Alexander becomes part of a roster that so far includes Nick Timberlake and Lagerald Vick, with Tyshawn Taylor serving as general manager. Alexander, who is originally from Chicago, was a member of the KU men’s basketball team for a single season, the ...

Big 12 Outdoor Championship begins at Rock Chalk Park on Thursday

Kansas Athletics will get another chance to show off the newly refreshed Rock Chalk Park, this time for one of the most significant meets of the year as the Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship takes place in Lawrence for the first time since 2017. Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech have all played host to the event in the intervening years, but now KU will serve as the center of league ...

KU men's golf concludes season by tying for 10th in regional

It was a one-place improvement from last season, but the 44th-ranked Kansas men’s golf team still fell short of qualification for the NCAA Championship as it finished tied for 10th in regional competition in Bremerton, Washington, on Wednesday. As a team, regional No. 8 seed KU shot 21-over and fell 21 strokes short of the fifth-place mark, as the top five teams in the regional — Florida, Arizona State, ...

Projecting roles for KU's spring transfer additions

What looked like a relatively tidy spring transfer window for Kansas got a bit messier when tight end Keyan Burnett, just a few months removed from deciding to transfer to KU from Arizona, opted to head back into the portal. On Sunday, Burnett decided to return to Arizona, according to multiple reports. That unexpected flip creates one big hole for KU entering the month of May at a position that does not ...

2026 linebacker Credit commits to KU

The Kansas football team remains significantly ahead of schedule as compared to prior years in terms of building out its 2026 recruiting class, and on Tuesday the Jayhawks earned their 15th commitment in Pearland, Texas, linebacker Joseph Credit. Credit announced his decision in a post on X, selecting KU over final competitors that had included Arizona State and UCLA. The Bruins had even gotten the last ...

Neal arrives in New Orleans, sets out on professional journey

When he spoke to New Orleans media for the first time on April 26, shortly after the Saints selected him in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft, former Kansas running back Devin Neal admitted he had “been waiting to get out of Lawrence.” The hometown hero certainly made his mark on the city, first as a multi-sport Chesty Lion standout and later as he became the face of the KU football rebuild and ...