The Lawrence High and Free State High varsity football teams are looking for new Week 1 opponents following Friday’s decision by the Olathe and Shawnee Mission school districts to suspend fall sports because of the spread of COVID-19 in Johnson County.
LHS football’s season opener with Olathe East, scheduled for Sept. 4, will no longer be played, and Free State’s opener with Shawnee Mission Northwest on ...
Former Lawrence High football standout Amani Bledsoe will get another shot in the NFL in 2020 after signing a contract with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Bledsoe, who starred at LHS from 2013-15 and went on to play three years of college football at Oklahoma from 2016-18, spent last season on the Tennessee Titans’ practice squad and was waived by the franchise on July 26 after spending the 2020 offseason with the ...
It’s easy, on Aug. 20, for anyone on the Kansas football team to say in a mostly empty room that they’re going to be smart and safe during the upcoming season so the Jayhawks can actually play football this fall.
But it’s something else entirely to ask those same guys, and dozens like them, to do it after a Saturday night victory.
However, to a man, the six Jayhawks who were asked about it on Thursday ...
When the Kansas football program announced last week that it would be playing Coastal Carolina on Sept. 12, that didn’t mean all the logistics of the game had been hammered out.
In fact, because the kickoff time hasn’t been announced, Coastal Carolina Athletic Director Matt Hogue hasn’t even been able to lock down his travel plans yet. But he’s not really worried — charter flights and hotel rooms ...
Everybody knows Pooka Williams, Andrew Parchment and Stephon Robinson.
And, heck, you’ve probably even heard enough about quarterbacks Miles Kendrick and Thomas MacVittie to have a decent idea what each of those players can bring to the table for the Jayhawks this fall.
But this Kansas roster, newcomers and all, has more than a handful of under-the-radar players who could play a huge role in how things go ...
The Riley County Commission on Monday approved [Kansas State University’s plan for roughly 25% attendance capacity at football games in Manhattan this fall.][1]
The Big 12 Conference is allowing schools to set their own attendance policies based on local jurisdictions, but it’s safe to say K-State’s plan and KU’s plan will have a lot of similarities.
KU has not yet presented its plan to Douglas ...
