Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels came to Lawrence off of a 3-9 season for KU, a year in which the Jayhawks went 1-8 in conference play. His first year, he played in seven games during a 0-9 campaign that ended with the coach who recruited him to KU being fired months afterward. On Friday, Daniels concluded his six-year career with the Jayhawks, a tenure that saw the team reach back-to-back bowl games, start the ...
Despite running for nearly 300 yards, the Kansas football team fell short to No. 14 Utah 31-21 on Friday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium as red-zone turnovers doomed the Jayhawks in the final game of the season. “As a team, we didn’t play well enough to win the football game,” Kansas coach Lance Leipold said. The loss dropped Kansas to 5-7, leaving the team out of bowl eligibility for the second ...
As the Lawrence girls basketball team prepares for the upcoming season, a few things have stood out about practices — chief among them is the team’s selfless attitude both on and off the court. “Everybody is positive, everybody is picking each other up, everybody is playing hard,” Lawrence coach Jeff Dickson said. “We have a bunch of smart kids who care about more than just themselves. When we get out ...
Free State’s girls basketball team got an early taste at what the upcoming season will look like as the Firebirds hosted a jamboree on Tuesday. Free State faced Wellsville, Ottawa and Perry-Lecompton in a short, four-minute halves jamboree. The scrimmages came three practices after the team went through roster cuts, so the team got some early experience working through game-day situations. “We’ve really ...
Tahj Edwards was at a low point in his football career just over a month ago, when, as a senior, he tore his ACL and meniscus late in the second-to-last game of the regular season. The injury prevented him from being on the field for Lawrence’s lone win of the season, and it prevented the running back from finishing his high school career the way he had hoped. Yet, a little over a month and a day after the ...
Bailey Johnson had always been told that he should play football. Johnson, a longtime lacrosse player, came to high school with the height and size to be a star along in the trenches. He acquiesced and joined the Lawrence football team his freshman year, and that decision, as he put it, “has worked so far.” Four years into his football career, Johnson has turned that suggestion into becoming a collegiate ...