After three years of serious injuries, Wyatt Hendricks wasn’t sure what his future in football would look like. Hendricks, a senior lineman at Lawrence High School, fractured some vertebrae in his neck his freshman year. The next year, Hendricks broke his collarbone. His junior year, he broke his ankle. He didn’t expect to be committed to a Division I program going into his final year at Lawrence. The time ...
Tucson, Ariz. — Kansas football sits at 5-5 heading into its third and final bye week, needing to win one of its next two games to reach bowl eligibility. The Jayhawks missed out on their first opportunity to do so in Tucson on Saturday, with a 24-20 loss to the Arizona Wildcats. After the bye week, they will travel to Ames, Iowa, to play Iowa State before ending the season with Utah at home. “We’re ...
Tucson, Ariz. — Facing a fourth-and-2 deep in Arizona’s territory with a three-point lead, Kansas missed its first field goal of the season. Arizona drove 80 yards on the following drive and scored a 24-yard touchdown with 39 seconds left, as the Jayhawks’ hopes of a bowl-clinching win ended with Arizona winning instead, 24-20, on Saturday at Arizona Stadium. The Jayhawks got to that key ...
Tucson, Ariz. — Going into Saturday’s game against Arizona, the Kansas defense had a plan to turn the pressure up on Arizona quarterback Noah Fifita. Sophomore cornerback Jalen Todd, who has spent the majority of the season playing as the nickel back, was one of the main targets for this game plan. He blitzed often and brought Fifita down for a sack twice. “That was our game plan, for sure, to put some ...
Patrick Sandefur’s journey to playing college soccer began in eighth grade, when he started sending emails to teams even though he was too young to receive contact back. “It was a total shot in the dark because I couldn’t be on peoples’ radars yet,” Sandefur said. “They couldn’t talk to me. So (playing college soccer) has been in the back of my mind forever.” Sandefur has kept his goal alive ...
When it comes to Eudora football’s eight-game win streak, the success starts with the big guys up front. Eudora football has dominated its schedule, winning every 4A game they’ve played in along with a Frontier League championship. With a 7-1 regular season, the Cardinals earned the No. 1 seed in the 4A East in the playoffs. Where it all begins for the Cardinals is in the trenches. “We know it starts and ...