The Kansas men’s basketball program announced last week that incoming freshman Bryce Thompson will wear No. 24 with the Jayhawks. A single-digit wearer throughout his senior season at Booker T. Washington High in Tulsa, Okla., Thompson is making the move to double digits as a way to keep alive the memory of Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant. “I chose No. 24 to honor Kobe and the mamba mentality,” ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program officially hired Roy Williams to replace Larry Brown as head coach on July 8, 1988, and less than two months later Williams was sending staff members to Michael Jordan’s house in Chicago. A move like that might seem like a bit of flex. After all, the relatively unknown Williams helped recruit and coach Jordan at North Carolina before taking the job at Kansas, and the two ...
The Pembroke Hill School athletic department announced Monday that former Kansas point guard Jeff Hawkins had been named the school's head varsity boys basketball coach. Hawkins had coached the eighth grade boys team at Pembroke Hill during the 2019-20 season. A native of Kansas City, Kan., Hawkins played at KU for both Roy Williams and Bill Self. He also coached boys basketball at Perry-Lecompton High for ...
The dates are set for the renewal of the football series between longtime border rivals Kansas and Missouri. The four-game series, which was rumored to be in the works early last month, will begin in five years, with KU making a trip to Columbia on Sept. 6, 2025, for the first of four on-campus clashes between KU and Mizzou. The Tigers will play in Lawrence on Sept. 12, 2026, and the series will take a ...
Andrew Simpson, a three-star linebacker from St. John Bosco High in Southern California, became the second defensive player in the 2021 recruiting class to commit to the Kansas football program on Saturday night. Simpson announced his news on Twitter, saying “I want to live the full college experience and go somewhere I know I will be focused on my craft.” Primarily recruited by KU assistant coach Chidera ...
Two years removed from his last game at Kansas, linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. is in the same boat as many of his former teammates — sitting by the phone, waiting for a call and a chance. The former Free State standout got that chance from the Denver Broncos following the 2019 NFL draft, but a broken hand late in camp ended his chances of making the Broncos’ 53-man roster. “It’s frustrating for sure,” ...