The Kansas men’s basketball program has been busy passing out scholarship offers to players in the next two prep classes this week, according to several Twitter accounts. After receiving offers, many prospects typically post messages to their social media accounts, complete with photos of past players or the arena from the program offering them along with a short message reporting the news. Ten new Kansas ...
According to a series of online polls [by Varsity Sports Now Louisiana,][1] Kansas junior Pooka Williams Jr. is the greatest high school running back in Louisiana history. A former four-star prospect in the class of 2018 who attended Hahnville High in Boutte, La., Williams won five rounds of voting during the recent 32-back bracket that played out on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The former freshman ...
The NCAA’s recent show of support for compensation through endorsement deals for college athletes was a win for the athletes. But there are still so many questions to ask, loopholes to close and concerns to consider before this development can be called a success for college athletics. “A monumental shift” was the way Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long described the move that brings the NCAA one step ...
When college basketball fans look back on the 2020 postseason, former Eudora High standout Mitch Ballock’s Creighton Bluejays will be a good team to know for trivia contests. That’s because Creighton was in the last game that was played in 2020’s Division I postseason, before COVID-19 forced nationwide cancellations of conference tourneys and the NCAA Tournament. That game on March 12 —Round 1 of ...
The first four episodes of “The Last Dance” documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls have brought back dozens of childhood memories for Free State boys basketball coach Sam Stroh. But none of them quite stack up to the night he met his idol at a fundraiser in New York City. Eight years ago this August, Stroh’s decision to throw a $15 donation at an online lottery for dinner with Jordan and ...
The Kansas State High School Activities Association continues to work toward hosting many of its regular summer activities for high school students but does not yet know how or what that might look like. “The biggest question on everyone’s mind, spoken or unspoken, is when do we get to get back to normal, what are we going to be able to do and when,” KSHSAA executive director Bill Faflick told the ...