When Lilly Meister entered the portal in late March after three seasons with the Indiana women’s basketball team, she was looking for a sense of familiarity.
“The transfer portal is hard, because in high school you have all these years to be recruited and get to know everybody,” she said on Monday on the “Hawk Talk” radio show. “When you’re in the portal you get a month, maybe a little more than ...
Kansas junior Ashton Barkdull finished as the national runner-up in the men’s pole vault, with his brother Bryce just a few spots behind, as KU wrapped up the track and field season on Saturday at the NCAA outdoor championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
The men’s team took 16th in the nation, headlined by the Barkdulls’ top-five finishes and another trip to the podium for discus thrower ...
Updated 9:39 a.m. Monday, June 16, 2025:
The commitment of one defensive tackle to the Kansas football team's 2026 recruiting class came just 12 hours before the decommitment of another.
Nakwaine Carter, who attends Southmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, and ranks as a three-star prospect, announced he was joining KU on Sunday night. On Monday morning, though, Landen Anderson, a fellow Oklahoman who had ...
Updated 11:40 a.m. Sunday, June 15, 2025:
Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s new contract, announced by KU last week and obtained by the Journal-World via a Kansas Open Records Act request, provides Fitzgerald a salary increase and extends his employment through the end of the 2031 season, with the possibility for more years to be tacked on based on regular-season and postseason performance.
Fitzgerald, ...
Gavyn Schlotterback only received limited reps at first base as a freshman for Paris Junior College last fall; by the spring, the Dragons were starting him at that position.
Then, when Paris’ catcher broke his nose, Schlotterback was suddenly catching in every doubleheader and even pitching at the back ends of some of those games.
“I can tell you he was all-conference as a pitcher, all-conference as a ...
However much intrigue surrounds the Kansas football offense entering the 2025 season, there’s arguably even more left to figure out when it comes to KU’s defense and special teams.
The defense features both a variety of transfers and a large, prominent contingent of returning players whose roles may not be set in stone. While the offense includes, for example, the likes of Kobe Baynes and Bryce Foster on ...
