WRITER: Matt Tait

Kansas football coach Lance Leipold's new contract runs through 2029 and more than doubles his total compensation

The new contract signed by Kansas football coach Lance Leipold is slated to keep him in Lawrence through the 2029 season and will more than double the salary he agreed to when he signed his initial six-year deal with KU in 2021. There are buyouts for both the university and Leipold, should either party want out early. But those figures, like the number of years and total compensation also are higher than ...

Kansas drops to 9th in latest AP poll which features wild risers and fallers

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 ...

No. 9 Kansas cruises to 87-55 win over Texas Southern at Allen Fieldhouse

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 volleyball earns spot in NCAA Tournament field for 2nd consecutive year, 11th time overall

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 ...

An overview of the 6-6 Kansas football team's 2022 bowl prospects

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 ...

Kansas basketball coach Bill Self still waiting for one of KU's young big men to emerge

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 ...