After opening with three birdies on the front nine during the first round of the Travelers Championship on Thursday in Connecticut, former Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland struggled to get home. Woodland shot a 3-over par 38 on the back nine, which included a double bogey on the par-5 13th hole, and wound up even for the day and in a tie for 107th place. As he has done so often since the PGA Tour returned ...
In the month since the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has spent a lot of time thinking about race, social injustice and ways he can help. Self also has done a lot of talking about the issues, including the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in Lawrence and across the country. But, if there’s one thing the Hall of Fame ...
NCAA President Mark Emmert visited with The Athletic’s Seth Davis this week to discuss the outlook for fall and winter sports in 2020. Like many administrators trying to monitor the pandemic and plan for the upcoming seasons, Emmert made it clear that the key piece of information driving all of the NCAA’s decisions is the safety and well-being of the student-athletes along with common sense. “You have ...
Although the pandemic put a wrench in their softball plans, four seniors at Eudora High School got the sendoff they were looking for on Wednesday afternoon. One of 32 teams participating in a one-day event put on by Midwest Sports Productions with the approval of the Kansas State High School Activities Association, Eudora knocked off league foe Paola, 12-1, in what will go down in the history books as the lone ...
After 32 years with the same equipment manager, the Kansas football program is preparing for Year 1 of a new regime. KU on Wednesday announced that Blake Kuenzi (pronounced Ken-zee) had been hired as the program’s head football equipment manager, taking over for Jeff Himes, who retired at the end of April after more than three decades with the Jayhawks. Kuenzi, a 2005 graduate of Oklahoma University, comes ...
Toss Kansas basketball coach Bill Self into the camp of those who believe the absence of pre-draft workouts might actually help the two former Jayhawks eligible for this year’s NBA draft. On a special edition of his “Hawk Talk” radio show on Tuesday night, Self said the fact that NBA scouts and general managers this year will have to rely more on college game film than in-person workouts could benefit ...