WRITER: Matt Tait

Matt Tait: Les Miles' plan to fill spots a better approach than rewriting depth chart

It’s a daily conversation between Les Miles and his coaching staff, but there’s no tag line or marketing ploy associated with it. It’s just good, old-fashioned evaluation, and it’s just as important today as it was on Day 1 of preseason camp and as it will be on the final Friday before the season opener, which is now just 19 days away. Miles calls it “a daily mull,” as in “mull it over,” — ...

Teammate says Kansas freshman Christian Braun 'ready for whatever it takes'

According to his roommate, Christian Braun, KU junior Silvio De Sousa has spent more time in the gym this summer than in their room. And while that setting has provided the 6-foot-9 forward from Angola with the perfect place to work on his game and release his endless amount of excited energy from regaining his eligibility, it also has been a good vantage point for De Sousa to see Braun in action. “Hey, ...

Matt Tait: The optimist's outlook on the 2019 KU football team

Editor's Note: With KU football’s preseason camp now under way and the start of the season less than four weeks out, it’s time to start sizing up how the Jayhawks will fare in 2019 under new head coach Les Miles. Yesterday, we brought you a look at the new era of Kansas football from the point of view of the pessimist. And today, we’ve flipped the script and are looking at things through the eyes of the ...

Matt Tait: The pessimist's outlook on the 2019 KU football team

Editor's Note: With KU football’s preseason camp now under way and the start of the 2019 season less than four weeks out, it’s time to start sizing up how the Jayhawks will fare under new head coach Les Miles. History has shown us that there are generally two camps this time of year, the optimists and the pessimists. Here’s a glimpse at what the pessimists might be thinking today. Check tomorrow for the ...

KU walk-on Chris Teahan taking upperclassman role seriously

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2019/jun/11/329298/ Former walk-on Tyler Self played just 95 minutes in 45 games during his five-year Kansas career and, outside of a memorable 3-point shot in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, very few of them produced any kind of lasting memories. But after paying his dues and staying out of the way as a freshman and then slowly but surely building his body and his maturity during ...

Former Jayhawk Frank Mason III fired up to play with NBA's reigning MVP in Milwaukee

Former Kansas point guard Frank Mason III was back in Lawrence on Friday, conducting the third and final day of the Kansas tour of his annual summer camp. With the help of former K-State guard Will Spradling, Mason ran through drills, showed off his skills and interacted with the 30 or so campers who showed up at Rock Chalk Park to see the former Jayhawk. “This is always fun,” Mason said Friday. “I ...