It feels like it was just yesterday that former Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins forced the hiring of Turner Gill and then paid him way more than he was worth — or needed to come to KU — simply because he wanted to create the perception that the Kansas football job was a $2 million a year kind of gig.
Remember, this was back in 2009, when Alabama coach Nick Saban was making $4.7 million per year. ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team fell six spots to No. 9 in the Week 3 Associated Press Top 25 poll, but the Jayhawks’ fall was just the sixth largest of the week.
No. 1 North Carolina fell 17 spots to 18th while Duke dropped nine spots to 17th, Gonzaga eight spots to 14th, Michigan State eight spots to No. 20 and San Diego State seven spots to No. 24.
On the flip side, there were some serious risers in ...
It’s a tale as old as time, and it benefited the ninth-ranked Kansas men’s basketball team for the umpteenth time on Monday night in a 87-55 win over Texas Southern.
Just days after taking a tough loss to Tennessee in the finals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas, the Jayhawks returned home to friendly Allen Fieldhouse and looked like a team again.
The ball moved. Shots fell. Life ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is not backing off of his stance that one of the Jayhawks’ young big men needs to develop into an impact player for this KU team to reach its ceiling.
Until that happens, Self appears to be prepared to roll with 6-foot-7, 225-pound sophomore KJ Adams as his primary big man. Even if he doesn’t love it.
“I don’t want to play small,” Self said after KU’s Battle 4 ...
The Kansas volleyball team is back in the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row and headed north again for a first-round matchup in Nebraska.
The Jayhawks (18-10) will take on No. 7 seed Miami (Fla.) (19-10) at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the Devaney Center on the campus of No. 2 seed and host school Nebraska.
A win in Thursday’s match would set up the potential for Kansas to match up with the perennial ...
There has been some question, concern and confusion among Kansas fans surrounding whether the 6-6 Jayhawks are a lock to play in a bowl this postseason.
They are. And we’ll officially know which bowl they’ll be playing in one week from today, when the bowl pairings are announced on ESPN.
Not every 6-6 college football team has always played in a bowl game after becoming bowl eligible. Few programs know ...
