Former Jayhawk Devonte’ Graham’s strong year continued Friday night when he outlasted all competitors to win the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic’s “Shooting for the Stars” 3-point contest. Friday’s event, which was shown on television sets throughout Kansas and online exclusively at KUsports.com, featured 10 of the top 12 3-point shooters in Kansas basketball history. And it came down to the only ...
The Journal-World is excited to announce that KUsports.com will be bringing you an exclusive, commercial-free, online broadcast of Friday’s “Shooting for the Stars” 3-point contest put on by the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic. Beginning at 7 p.m. on cable networks across Kansas, our website will be the only place you can watch the shootout online. And, in order to pair up well with the TV broadcast, ...
The Lawrence High and Free State football teams will get two cracks at each other this season, one at home and one away. LHS will host Free State in Week 3 on Sept. 18, and the Firebirds will welcome the Lions to their place in Week 8 on Oct. 23, which was the regularly scheduled date of this year’s football city showdown. “We wanted to move our game with each other up as early as we could,” LHS ...
With the 2020-21 Kansas basketball team now into its fourth week of on-campus training this offseason, KU coach Bill Self has identified the team’s increased camaraderie as one of the biggest advantages of the current climate. “They seem to really be getting closer as a group because there’s nobody else to hangout with outside of their own little bubble, so to speak,” Self told the Journal-World on ...
It was a busy week for point guards in the 2021 recruiting class, with one top prospect coming off the board and two others including Kansas while trimming their lists of finalists. Nolan Hickman, a 6-foot-2, 170-pound from Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, committed to Kentucky on Saturday. The four-star guard who is originally from the Seattle area, is ranked No. 76 overall in the 2021 class by ...
Forced to adjust because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Rock Chalk Roundball Classic will feature an unprecedented group of former University of Kansas sharpshooters. Like in years past, all of the proceeds raised from the event — which also includes a silent auction online that goes live on Monday — will go to benefit local families of children fighting cancer. Unlike previous years, however, ...