The Kansas men’s basketball team landed at No. 3 in The Associated Press preseason poll ahead of the 2021-22 college hoops season. The Jayhawks, who finished last season ranked No. 12 in the poll, came in behind No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 UCLA, a pair of teams that played each other at last season’s Final Four. Monday marked the 10th consecutive year that KU was ranked in the top seven or better entering ...
Free State junior Claire Berquist saved her best for last at the Class 6A state tournament on Monday at Emporia Municipal Golf Course, parring her final two holes to finish the day in a tie for 13th place. Berquist, who earlier this season set a FSHS school record by shooting a single-round 72 at a midseason tournament shot an 88 on Monday. That was good enough to earn her a spot in Round 2 and Berquist is ...
Free State senior Tai Newhouse comes from a long line of football players, a handful of whom played some pretty meaningful snaps in the NFL. Offensive lineman Marshall Newhouse, a cousin, played 10 years in the NFL and won a Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers. Robert Newhouse, a more distant relative, played fullback for the Dallas Cowboys for 12 seasons from 1972-83. With those men as part of his ...
When you’re talking about a team in the midst of a five-game losing streak, the old chicken-or-the-egg question seems a little irrelevant. After all, a loss is a loss, bad is bad and searching for silver linings is a waste of time. In KU’s case, week after week, the question sounds something like this: Which hurts first, the offense or the defense? On Saturday, during a 41-14 homecoming loss to Texas ...
Three Firebirds won their opening-round matches at the Class 6A state tennis tournament on Friday at Riverside Tennis Complex in Wichita. And by day’s end, the doubles team of sophomore Maya Lee and senior Dayna Steadman, along with senior singles player Emma Evans, were all still alive on the consolation side of the bracket. "All three girls competed hard today and faced adversity throughout the day," ...
Shortly after hearing that he had been named the Big 12 Conference’s preseason player of the year, Kansas point guard Remy Martin took the news in stride. It wasn’t that Martin didn’t appreciate it. He did. He said Friday that he was thankful that the conference’s coaches recognized his talent and ability and even happier that his family could take pride in him receiving the honor. But the transfer ...