It’s been a little more than six weeks since the Kansas men’s basketball team first reported to campus after four months away because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and head coach Bill Self has liked what he’s seen during that time. “I could not be more impressed, at this early stage, at how mature they are,” Self said of his team during a recent episode of “Grill with Bill,” a new online video series ...
Putting a consistently competitive product on the field continues to be the preferred scale of progress for the University of Kansas football program. And while that means week-to-week improvement in the eyes of head coach Les Miles, his bosses are looking at it from a slightly larger perspective. “We need to see improvement and see development and see our program moving forward,” KU Athletic Director ...
Now that we’re less than a month out from the official start of the 2020-21 college basketball season (practice, that is), I figured it was time to start taking a closer look at the Kansas basketball roster and to set a few expectations for the upcoming season. By expectations, we’re not talking number of wins, finish in the Big 12 standings, NCAA Tournament seed or where KU will finish when it’s all ...
Former KU point guard Naadir Tharpe has been added to the coaching staff at Brewster Academy, where he played before coming to Kansas. The news came late last week from Brewster head coach Jason Smith, who pointed out in a tweet announcing the hire that Tharpe was the NEPSAC player of the year in 2011 before he went on to earn an honorable mention all-Big 12 nod with the Jayhawks. Tharpe’s hiring also ...
The Ottawa University and Baker University football programs have pushed back Saturday's previously scheduled games because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ottawa postponed its game with Sterling College and next week’s game at Kansas Wesleyan after one of its football players tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week. According to a news release, the university tested three additional players following the ...
Defending U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland followed up Thursday's 4-over 74 with another 74 on Friday to fall to 8-over for the tournament after two days. Woodland finished Round 2 two shots off of the cut line and will not be around Winged Foot to defend his title in Rounds 3 and 4 this weekend. The former KU All-American opened Friday's round with a double bogey and never got on track from there, ...