With an aunt who was a four-time state champion at Osborne High in the north-central portion of the state and a sister who plays college tennis at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Free State sophomore Kinley VanPelt knew she had to do something special to keep up with the family legacy.
So that’s exactly what she did.
Competing as the top seed at the Class 6A state tournament over the weekend, VanPelt ...
Now that he has picked up his national championship ring and seen the 2022 National Champions banner unveiled at Allen Fieldhouse at last week's Late Night in the Phog, former Kansas big man Mitch Lightfoot is off to start his professional basketball career.
Lightfoot is slated to fly to Germany on Monday to join the KVL Kirchheim Knights, a pro team based in Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany, that plays in the ...
After finally cracking the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in 674 weeks after their win over Iowa State, the Kansas Jayhawks’ streak of weeks ranked is over at 2.
KU fell out of this week’s AP Top 25 after a 52-42 loss at Oklahoma over the weekend.
The loss dropped the Jayhawks to 5-2 on the season (2-2 in Big 12 play) and was KU’s second in a row. In Week 6, KU lost at home to then-No. ...
For the first time in 20 years, the Free State High tennis program watched one of its own be crowned as a Class 6A state champion.
And not just any state champion either — an undefeated, 29-0 state champion.
That's how FSHS sophomore Kinley VanPelt will forever be remembered in the halls of Free State High after she capped off her magical season with a clean sweep at the state tournament this weekend at ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self was about as complimentary as you’ll hear him after a Late Night scrimmage Friday, following the white team’s 32-31 win over team blue.
“I don’t think it was bad,” Self said. “I don’t think it was bad at all.”
That didn’t exactly mean he thought it was good, though, either.
“The ball didn’t move and we don’t know how to play yet and don’t guard,” ...
Regression was probably inevitable at some point, but I don’t think Kansas fans thought it would look quite like this.
In their second crack at becoming bowl eligible this season after a 5-0 start, the 19th-ranked Jayhawks came up short again, this time in the form of an uninspiring 52-42 loss on Saturday at unranked Oklahoma.
The final score did not fully indicate how lopsided Saturday’s matchup was, ...
