*Slated to begin on April 19, the 2020 NBA playoffs and the end of the 2019-20 NBA season were put on hold because of the COVID-19 health crisis.* *League officials last Thursday announced the approval of the NBA’s plan to restart play in early July, leaving 22 teams still alive in the 2020 title chase. While we wait for July to arrive, it seemed like a good idea to spend some of this idle time looking back ...
John Zook, the anchor of the Kansas defense during the Jayhawks’ 1968 Orange Bowl season, died Sunday at age 72. His brother, Dean Zook, confirmed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that John Zook had died after a long battle with cancer. Zook's death comes 24 days after his college coach, Pepper Rodgers, died at age 88. A native of Larned, Zook was a two-time all-Big Eight selection at Kansas and a ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is not too worried about what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to KU’s recruiting efforts during the last couple of months. The way Self sees it, he and his coaching staff are not the only ones dealing with travel restrictions, a prolonged dead period and the elimination of the summer AAU circuit. “I think it’s going OK,” Self said during a recent video interview with ...
*Slated to begin on April 19, the 2020 NBA playoffs and the end of the 2019-20 NBA season were put on hold because of the COVID-19 health crisis.* *League officials continue to look at ways to resume play, but whether they’ll reach a point where the season is completed remains to be seen. In case it isn’t, or even if it is, it seemed like a good idea to spend some of this idle time looking back at the ...
College basketball’s decision to move the 3-point line back 16.75 inches for the 2019-20 season had a minimal impact on KU’s overall 3-point shooting. While the Jayhawks’ team 3-point percentage dropped from 35% in 2018-19 to 34.4% last season, their place in the national rankings improved 26 spots, from 143rd to 117th. As a team, KU’s 3-point percentage was 1.1% higher than the Division I national ...
The Kansas football program hasn't identified a replacement for 2019 starting quarterback Carter Stanley — and without the chance to observe players in spring football, coach Les Miles says the QB contest hasn't even truly begun. “There’s no race,” the second-year head coach recently told the Journal-World. “You can’t call a winner until there’s a race.” In some ways, that race will begin in ...