One of the most unusual seasons in Kansas football history opens Friday, when the Jayhawks conduct their first official practice of 2020. In addition to the typical football-related questions that surface each August, the upcoming season features a host of other unknowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a quick look of the five most pressing questions about Kansas football as the Jayhawks begin ...
For the second time this summer, the Big 12 Conference has canceled its virtual media day for the 2020 football season. The event was originally slated for July 20-21 and rescheduled for Aug. 3. Conference officials announced the latest cancellation in a news release Thursday afternoon and said it was not yet known whether the event would be rescheduled again. “There continues to be a lot more questions ...
Wednesday’s newly unveiled plans for the 2020 football season in the Atlantic Coast Conference figure to have a direct impact on the Kansas football schedule. In addition to moving to an 11-game format, with one nonconference opponent and 10 league games, the ACC on Wednesday announced that it would require all nonconference games to be played in the state of the ACC school. That likely eliminates KU’s ...
Four-star forward and current Kansas basketball target KJ Adams is expected to announce his college of choice at 6 p.m. on Friday evening, according to 247 Sports recruiting analyst Brian Snow. A 6-foot-6, 220-pound power forward from Westlake High in Austin, Texas, Adams narrowed his list to a final 10 in May and appears to be ready to pick one. His list includes Arkansas, Baylor, Georgetown, Iona, Iowa, KU, ...
A motion to delay the start of fall high school sports competitions in Kansas failed by a vote of 5-4 during Tuesday’s meeting of the Kansas State High School Activities Association’s executive board. As a result, all fall sports and activities programs will be allowed to start practices on Aug. 17 and to move forward with their regularly scheduled competitions. Local school boards, however, will still be ...
Kansas Athletics on Tuesday night released the results of its most recent round of COVID-19 testing, which yielded zero positives in 156 tests. The testing, which included 136 athletes, took place last Saturday. KU did not provide a sport-by-sport breakdown of the athletes who were tested. But a large number of them were likely football players. On July 22, one day before KU’s football program resumed its ...