It wasn’t exactly the kind of bump that KU junior Ochai Agbaji saw during his recruitment — [from unranked into the Top 150][1] — but Class of 2021 Kansas commitment Zach Clemence did jump a couple of spots in the updated Rivals.com rankings. Projected as a 4-star prospect ranked No. 31 overall in the 2021 class when he [committed to Kansas last month,][2] Clemence is now officially a Top 30 ...
Former Kansas linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. has officially retired from football and has taken the first step in what he hopes will be a long and successful coaching career. Dineen, who starred at Free State High before becoming one of the top linebackers in the Big 12 from 2015-18, announced Monday that he had accepted an offer as a graduate assistant at SMU. Unsure of what exactly he will coach and when the ...
In the end, it looks like the Kansas men’s basketball program’s offseason will wind up being delayed by about a month. In response to the Big 12 Conference’s Monday release of its complete return-to-campus guidelines, KU coach Bill Self told the Journal-World that he was targeting a July 6 return to Lawrence for his players. The first Monday of July is the first day that the Big 12 is allowing men’s ...
No one knows yet exactly what role or how much playing time incoming freshman Latrell Jossell will get for the Jayhawks during the 2020-21 season. But you can’t say the young man is not going for it. Jossell recently became the final member of KU’s 2020 recruiting class to reveal his jersey number. And the 6-foot point guard from Central High in Keller, Texas, near Fort Worth, picked a Kansas classic. ...
All these years later, most of the coaches and players on the Lawrence High baseball state title team of 2000 can recall the Lions’ only two losses that season. “Doubleheader at Shawnee Mission East,” said former LHS catcher Curtis Ledbetter, a senior on that team. “They had our number that day.” And the Lancers were the only ones that season who could make that claim. Twenty years ago Sunday, ...
Amid the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality that were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, University of Kansas athletics leaders and several other sports figures with KU ties are speaking out. In a joint statement issued Saturday by the athletic department, 13 KU coaches and Athletic Director Jeff Long called for an end to racial divides and violence. “We join together ...