[Fired from his job as the head basketball coach at Wake Forest on Saturday morning,][1] Danny Manning will move forward in an enviable position. Set financially and loaded with connections throughout all levels of basketball, Manning has the luxury of being extremely picky about what he does next. The knee-jerk reaction to the news by Kansas fans was, of course, for Manning to land on his feet back in ...
He did not hear his name called during last week’s 255-pick draft, but former Kansas edge rusher Azur Kamara is still getting his shot at a spot in the NFL. Shortly after the seven-round draft wrapped on Saturday evening, Kamara agreed to a free agent deal with the Dallas Cowboys. His agent, Christina Phillips, announced the signing on Twitter and Kamara responded with a tweet of his own, saying, “Blessed ...
Danny Manning has been dismissed as the head basketball coach at Wake Forest after six seasons at the helm, the school announced Saturday. Under the 53-year-old Kansas alumnus, Wake Forest finished the 2019-20 season at 13-18 overall and in a last-place tie in the ACC at 6-14. Manning’s teams won six or fewer conference games in five of his six seasons and finished in second-to-last place three ...
Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji is headed to Cincinnati. The 6-foot-4, 302-pound tackle who started all 48 games of his KU career was drafted by the Bengals with the first pick of the sixth round on Saturday, No. 180 overall. Adeniji was the 17th tackle taken in the 2020 draft and was the lone offensive lineman selected by the Bengals this year. In a post-draft online video chat with media members, ...
Live, unscripted sports temporarily returned to our television sets this week. And boy was it glorious. We have the NFL draft to thank for that. And this year’s event, which began with Round 1 on Thursday night and continues through Saturday evening, was more important than ever before. Save for the recent WNBA draft, which was a smaller production but also saw a serious rise in viewership, Thursday’s ...
Already full in the 2020 class and focusing most of its recruiting efforts on prospects in the classes of 2021 and 2022, [the Kansas men’s basketball program has not been slowed down by the recruiting restrictions put in place because of the pandemic.][1] Things have been different, of course, with the Kansas coaching staff doing all of its recruiting from cellphones, iPads and online channels instead of ...