Plans to tear down Wichita State’s Cessna Stadium have been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, but the venue may not have hosted its last state high school track meet.
The stadium will be empty this weekend, when the 2020 all-classes state track and field meet was supposed to take place. But Bill Faflick, the executive director of the Kansas State High School Activities Association, said he expected ...
Although she never got to throw a pitch for the Firebirds this season, Free State junior Tatum Clopton has been named the Gatorade Kansas Softball Player of the Year for the second year in a row.
Adjusted to account for the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down most spring sports seasons across the country, the 2019-20 award recognizes Clopton not only for athletic excellence but also for the academic achievement ...
A new NCAA document gave universities and conferences across the country some more guidance Friday on how to prepare for the return of college athletics, advising them to create COVID-19 task forces and to formulate plans for what to do if an athlete gets sick.
The 3,200-word report was created in consultation with the NCAA’s COVID-19 Advisory Panel, and it says it aims to be consistent with recommendations ...
Friday was supposed to be the start of something historic for the Free State softball team.
Winners of back-to-back Class 6A state championships the past two seasons, the Firebirds were poised to make a run for a third consecutive state title and were considered by many as the favorites to win it.
If successful, Lee Ice’s team would have become just the second team in Kansas softball history to win three ...
Cue the virtual visits and keep those cellphones charged. It’s going to be a quiet summer on the in-person college athletics recruiting front.
That much was learned this week, when the NCAA’s Division I Council Coordination Committee announced that the current recruiting dead period had been extended through July 31 in all sports.
The move comes just a couple of weeks after the National Association of ...
By now, the five new members of Les Miles’ Kansas football coaching staff should have been through 15 spring practices, countless in-person meetings and had plenty of time to get acclimated to their new roles.
Instead, they’ve been stuck behind a computer and a camera lens for most of the past couple of months.
For KU football assistant coaches Joshua Eargle (recruiting coordinator/tight ends/fullbacks), ...
