Eighteen years ago, when former Journal-World Sports Editor Tom Keegan showed up to work for his first day on the job in Lawrence, I fired off an email that would change the next two decades of my life. In it, I explained to Keegan who I was, why I was emailing him and how, for as long as I could remember, I always had aspired to write for the Journal-World and cover sports in the town in which I grew up. It ...
The Kansas football program has picked up an oral commitment from three-star tight end Carson Bruhn, who chose the Jayhawks over Kansas State and Minnesota. Bruhn took several visits to KU — official and unofficial — and told Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com that he loved getting to see “a different side of KU” during each visit. “The academics were great, the college atmosphere is amazing, Jayhawk ...
Friday marked the 20-year anniversary of Bill Self’s hiring at the University of Kansas, and it’s a safe bet that the KU coach did not think when he was hired that college basketball would be what it is today. Whether you’re talking about the recent rise in transfer portal popularity or the name, image and likeness opportunities that have changed the entire landscape, things are certainly different than ...
One of the things that made Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels so effective last season was his ability to take off and run. That also made him vulnerable. With that in mind, and with Daniels still building strength after the shoulder injury that forced him to miss four games a season ago, KU strength coach Matt Gildersleeve crafted a very focused plan for the junior quarterback’s offseason. His message to ...
Representatives of the Kansas men’s basketball program and Kansas Athletics last week participated in a long-awaited hearing with the Independent Accountability Resolutions Process regarding the NCAA’s infractions case against KU, according to a report from SI.com. The hearing has been viewed by many as the last major hurdle in reaching a resolution in KU’s case. The SI.com report indicated that both KU ...
One of the biggest stories of spring football at the University of Kansas was the emergence of sophomore safety Jalen Dye, who has firmly worked his way into the mix in the KU secondary and figures to be a key part of the Kansas defense this fall. The opportunity to do so presented itself right away, when starters Kenny Logan Jr. and Marvin Grant were ruled out for spring ball before it even started. ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program picked up its first commitment from the transfer portal on Wednesday night, with Towson guard Nick Timberlake choosing the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound senior combo guard announced his decision on his Instagram and Twitter pages, posting a photo of himself and his parents, with a second image of him in a blue, No. 25 Kansas jersey standing in a sunflower field amidst ...
The Kansas baseball team responded to a weekend sweep by Kansas State by pounding Air Force on back to back days at Hoglund Ballpark this week. The Jayhawks won 19-4 on Tuesday, giving them back-to-back outings of 18 or more runs for the first time since 2007. KU fell to K-State 21-18 on Sunday in the finale of the Sunflower Showdown series by making a game of it after falling into a disastrous 13-0 hole to ...
Some pretty good leaders have come through the Kansas men’s basketball program during the past few seasons. And even though Ernest Udeh Jr. and Zuby Ejiofor didn’t play with all of them, the two young big men are hoping to add their names to that list in the near future. “One hundred percent,” Udeh said after the Jayhawks’ season ended in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. “When you’re ...
In an era when college athletes are looking around every corner to see what kind of money they can make through name, image and likeness deals, one Kansas baseball player is looking to give money away. Michael Brooks, a third-year sophomore from Wellington, Florida, announced back in late-February that he would donate $20 of his own money to the Lawrence Schools Foundation for every hit he registered this ...
While eyes across the country continue to be fixed on Michigan big man Hunter Dickinson and where he will wind up playing next season, hundreds of other college basketball players and programs continue to make moves outside of that bubble. Two of the most recent pieces of news involving KU’s efforts in the transfer portal have come from a pair of guards who played back east last season. Towson guard ...
Former Kansas basketball walk-on Terry Nooner, a one-time fan favorite at Allen Fieldhouse from 1997-2000, is leaving his job as the Associate Head Coach with the KU women's program to take the head coaching gig at Wichita State. Kansas women's coach Brandon Schneider announced the move in a news release Monday afternoon. Nooner spent the last three seasons on Schneider's staff after coming back to KU ...
Kansas commitment Marcus Adams Jr. officially joined the KU basketball program on Monday after signing his national letter of intent with the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-8, 205-pound Adams reclassified into the 2023 class and will join the program this summer for the 2023-24 season. Adams, from Torrance, California, committed to Kansas on March 11 as a member of the Class of 2024. KU was not initially on his list ...
Years after she last made history by running for the Jayhawks, former University of Kansas All-American and national champion Sharon Lokedi was at it again this weekend at the Kansas Relays. In a ceremony on the final day of the 100-year anniversary of the history-rich track meet, Lokedi became the first female and first international student-athlete to have her silhouette added to KU’s famed Rim Rock Farms ...
After competing in the Kansas Relays as a freshman in 2019, Rylee Anderson always just assumed the iconic meet would be a regular part of her college experience. Four years later, the KU senior finally got back there, winning the high jump on Friday to bookend her KU career with wonderful Kansas Relays memories. Anderson also won the event in 2019, clearing 1.75 meters that year and 1.83 (6 feet) on Friday. ...
On opening day of the Kansas Relays at Rock Chalk Park on Thursday night, KU junior Chandler Gibbens paced the 5,000-meter run, a worthy featured event for the start of the 100-year anniversary of the historic meet. The reason had everything to do with who Gibbens has become since the calendar flipped to April, transforming from a promising athlete with big time potential into the kind of runner who has ...
Two more members of the Kansas football team on Wednesday announced their plans to enter the transfer portal when the window opens this weekend. Wide receiver Kelan Robinson, a redshirt sophomore from Grand Prairie, Texas, and walk-on place kicker Grant Glasgow, a freshman from Lawrence High, both shared their plans on social media. Robinson, who caught a touchdown during the recent Spring Showcase event ...
There’s still a long way to go in the quest to land former Michigan big man Hunter Dickinson, who recently became the hottest commodity in the transfer portal. And there certainly is no shortage of programs interested in adding the 7-foot-1, 255-pound center to their roster for the 2023-24 college hoops season. It appears that Kansas is one of those — as it should be — and the Jayhawks figure to have ...
When Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine met with the media on Wednesday to preview the 100-year anniversary of the Kansas Relays, which begin on Thursday and run through Saturday evening, he joked that new meet director Tim Byers had an afro on top of his head when he took the job. Now bald, Byers laughed when he heard Redwine’s quip, but he was willing to acknowledge that bringing back the ...
Ethan Vasko, a promising young quarterback stuck behind starter Jalon Daniels and back-up Jason Bean on the Jayhawks’ depth chart, announced Tuesday that he was leaving the KU football program. Vasko revealed his plans on social meedia, saying “a lot of consideration and discussion with my family” went into his decision. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound redshirt freshman from Chesapeake, Virginia, noted in his ...