The 15th annual Coaches vs. Cancer season tipoff fundraiser is moving to Lawrence this year. Normally held in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the event will move to the large ballroom at Crown Automotive in Lawrence for the 2022 event, which will officially be dubbed the Coaches vs. Cancer Rock Chalk Tipoff. According to a news release announcing the move, KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self “and several ...
Last Friday night, on the heels of a 56-10 win over Tennessee Tech in the season opener at home, several Kansas football players took time out from their celebrations to emphasize their understanding that things were going to get much harder in Week 2. KU coach Lance Leipold appreciated that and, in some cases, was even a little surprised by it. “To see that is encouraging. It really is,” Leipold said ...
Somewhat lost in the euphoria of the Kansas football team’s 56-10, season-opening victory over Tennessee Tech last Friday night was the fact that head coach Lance Leipold recently received a one-year contract extension. The extension, which keeps KU’s second-year coach under contract at Kansas through the 2027 season, was announced last Thursday night, a little more than 24 hours before the Jayhawks opened ...
It’s been nearly four years since the Kansas football program had a player earn Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week honors. And it took transfer defensive end Lonnie Phelps Jr. just one week to end that skid. The Big 12 on Monday announced that Phelps had earned the defensive honor for Week 1. Phelps finished KU’s 56-10 win over Tennessee Tech with seven tackles, three sacks and four tackles ...
https://www2.kusports.com/photos/2022/sep/02/335100/ It’s been years since Kansas football fans looked ahead at the Jayhawks’ schedule with any kind of optimism or anticipation, so let’s take advantage of it while it’s here. Who knows how long it will last? Week 1 was kind to the Jayhawks, who blasted visiting Tennessee Tech the way they should have and looked good doing it. But there was more to ...
The 20th-ranked Kansas volleyball team stayed hot this weekend, sweeping three matches at the Black Knights Classic in West Point, New York, to move to 6-0 on the season. On Friday, Kansas defeated Temple (25-15, 25-19, 25-17) and host school Army (25-21, 25-21, 25-20) behind an all-around attack that showed off the Jayhawks’ depth. Saturday morning, KU clobbered UConn in three sets, winning each one by ...