WRITER: Matt Tait

Big 12 Champion for Life, Caleb Sampson, one of 12 seniors honored during Kansas football Senior Day ceremony

During the first 11 games of his super-senior season, Kansas defensive tackle Caleb Sampson has operated with the type of disruptive demeanor that defensive linemen are expected to have. His impact on this roster, however, has gone well beyond his tackles, sacks and pass break-ups. Sampson’s mere presence on the roster has been a big part of the culture change that has taken place at Kansas, and ...

Kansas football ready to welcome Texas to town for home finale

It remains to be seen if this season’s Kansas-Texas football game will bring with it the same kind of excitement as last season’s 57-56 overtime win by KU in Austin, Texas. But for the Jayhawks, the 2021 game has proven to be the gift that keeps on giving. Not only did that win spark last season’s strong finish that carried over into bowl eligibility in 2022, but it also made a couple of Kansas ...

Leipolds pushing for one more packed house to close out Kansas football's 2022 home schedule

Kansas football coach, Lance Leipold, and his wife, Kelly, are doing everything in their power to make sure David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is as full as possible this weekend for the Jayhawks’ home finale against Texas. Already the benefactors of three sellouts this season, the Jayhawks have responded well to playing in front of a full stadium. Kansas is 4-1 at home this season, with the lone loss ...

KU women's coach Brandon Schneider hopes signing of S'Mya Nichols will have 'significant impact on future recruiting'

The Kansas women’s basketball program’s recruitment of five-star prospect S’Mya Nichols came down to one simple thing, and both Nichols and KU coach Brandon Schneider are hoping it opens the door to even bigger things ahead. Rather than joining a program like Oklahoma or Tennessee, which both have national title pedigrees, Nichols’ connection to Kansas left her with one thought. “You don’t have ...

Through KU's first 3 games, junior forward Jalen Wilson following nicely in Ochai Agbaji's footsteps as a scorer and a leader

I hesitate to make the comparison because of everything that Ochai Agbaji went on to do during his final season as a Kansas Jayhawk. But if you haven’t at least thought briefly about Ochai while watching Jalen Wilson go off to open the season, I’m not sure you’ve been watching closely enough. Wilson added to his stellar start with one of the best all-around games of his career on Tuesday night in ...

Elite effort, intensity on defense early shows sky-high potential for KU's defense overall

I’ve said this to a few people, a few different times, already this season, but last night’s effort by the Kansas defense in a 69-64 win over No. 7 Duke inspired me to write about it. I cannot remember seeing a Kansas team that played this hard and with this much intensity on the defensive end this early in the season in a long time. It usually takes some time for the Jayhawks to get to this level. ...