The 2021 high school fall sports seasons at Lawrence High and Free State are officially under way, with a few programs opening play or practicing for the first time since last October. Like many things, the 2020 fall seasons were dramatically altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and while precautions remain in place, the coaches, athletes and administrative staff at both schools are hopeful that the upcoming ...
Updated at 3:27 p.m. Commissioners from the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 joined together on Tuesday to formally announce an alliance between their three power conferences. While doing so, they made sure to point out that they’re rooting for the Big 12 Conference and emphasized that a thriving Big 12 is good for college athletics and the power conference landscape as a whole. Not so good that they would ...
Monday marked the official start of the 2021-22 University of Kansas school year and, as a result, the unofficial beginning of the college basketball season. While Lance Leipold’s football team, along with volleyball, soccer, cross country and a few spring sports with fall sessions, will be operating in the spotlight first, KU coach Bill Self’s Jayhawks began working toward the start of their season, as ...
It’s almost game week for the Kansas football program and we still don’t know which quarterback will be the first to take a snap for Lance Leipold’s first KU team. Truth be told, Leipold still might not even know yet. As he has promised repeatedly throughout preseason practices, this battle is one that could go right up until kickoff on Friday night. All three QBs who appear to have been in the ...
It’s down to Kansas, Duke, UCLA and Missouri in the recruitment of five-star small forward Mark Mitchell, who trimmed his list down to four on Saturday. Mitchell, a 6-foot-7, 190-pound wing ranked No. 8 overall in the 2022 class by Rivals.com, released his trimmed-down list on social media on Saturday afternoon. The posts featured images of Mitchell in all four uniforms along with logos of his finalists ...
When I first heard that Colin Gunhard was transferring to Kansas to finish his college career, one thought went through my head. There was no way his father, former Kansas City Chiefs center Tim Grunhard, would have let him come to KU if he did not believe the football program was in a better spot today than it was when the elder Grunhard was an assistant coach at KU for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. I never ...