WRITER: Matt Tait

Kansas football coach Lance Leipold a fan of several aspects of recently released 2023 schedule

Kansas football coach Lance Leipold’s strongest reaction to the recently released 2023 football schedule had everything to do with the opener. Slated for Aug. 31 at home against Missouri State, Leipold said this week that he was thrilled to see that his team’s first game of the season would be on a Thursday night instead of a Friday. Most college football coaches don’t get a whole lot of say — or at ...

KU coach Lance Leipold announces 2 signees, several walk-ons and talks transfers on national signing day

College football’s February signing day has been forever changed by the transfer portal, turning what once was among the biggest days of the year in the sport into more of a reason to rehash days gone by. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t things to celebrate when the first Wednesday of February rolls around each year. KU coach Lance Leipold on Wednesday officially announced the addition of two more ...

Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris knows he needs to shoot more, and good things usually happen when he does

Maybe it was just because Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce was in the building on Tuesday night, but Kansas coach Bill Self used a football analogy to describe the Jayhawks’ offense. Specifically, he was talking about Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr., and how his willingness and ability to shoot the ball from the outside can make all the difference for the 8th-ranked Jayhawks’ scoring attack. ...

2023 Kansas football schedule features 7 home games, 3 Big 12 newcomers

The 2023 Kansas football schedule was released in full on Tuesday afternoon and with it came a state goal from one of the Jayhawks. Sure, it was fun to see where the four new Big 12 teams fell on the schedule and, yeah, it was interesting to see which teams KU would not be facing as a result of the league’s expansion. But linebacker Rich Miller had a much more pressing question. “Can we sell out the ...

All square: No. 8 Kansas tops 7th-ranked Kansas State, 90-78, evening the season series and their records

What took the Kansas men’s basketball team 45 minutes in the first meeting with K-State was accomplished in just 10 minutes and 44 seconds on Tuesday night at Allen Fieldhouse, where the 8th-ranked Jayhawks ran past No. 7 Kansas State, 90-78. After hitting 6 of 29 3-point attempts in an 83-82 overtime loss in Manhattan two weeks ago, the Jayhawks made six of their first 10 3-point tries on Tuesday on their ...

Notebook: Ejiofor out ‘for extended period’ after injury; Chiefs' Kelce attends game

Freshman big man Zuby Ejiofor did not suit up for Tuesday’s game against Kansas State. The 6-foot-10 forward was injured during the Jayhawks’ win at Kentucky and Self said he would be out for “a while.” “We got a great report today in that it is what we thought it was,” Self said on Monday of the news for team doctors. “He has a pretty banged-up (left) foot, a sprained foot.” While Self ...