The list of Kansas baseball coach has narrowed, but, as of Monday afternoon, sources told the Journal-World that no finalists had been formally identified and the timeline for a hire remained up in the air. After several Zoom interviews last week, the long list of applicants has been cut down, and it appears as if KU’s internal search committee is preparing to invite candidates to campus for in-person ...
If the Golden State Warriors wind up winning this year’s NBA title, former Kansas standout Andrew Wiggins will go down as one of the biggest reasons why. On Monday afternoon, KU coach Bill Self called Wiggins “Golden State’s second-best player in the playoffs.” On Monday night, Wiggins was by far the team’s best player, carrying the Warriors to a Game 5 win to give Golden State a 3-2 series lead ...
Adam Green has coached hundreds of games and been a part of more early-inning situations than he can count. But the one he experienced on Wednesday in Manhattan was different than any of them. Back on the Kansas State campus for the annual Kansas Senior All-Star Game, Green assumed Wednesday’s game would be just like any other. And through one inning it was. But then the public address announcer grabbed the ...
Topeka — After a year of dealing with injuries that ranged from uncomfortable to intolerable, sophomore guard Bobby Pettiford is finally pain free again. Pettiford said as much earlier this week while helping out at Washburn basketball camp, where he joined Kansas teammate KJ Adams and dozens of young campers on the court at Lee Arena. “I can’t believe it,” Pettiford told the Journal-World of finally ...
The University of Kansas will have a new head baseball coach in a matter of days. The guess here is that we’ll know his name by the end of next week, perhaps earlier. This much we know already, though. Before KU’s new coach hosts his first team meeting or fills out a single lineup card, he already will have had a major impact on the Kansas baseball program. He’ll have brought it together. Don’t get ...
The first full-scale Rock Chalk Roundball Classic in three years came down to a buzzer-beater on Thursday at Free State High School. But it wasn’t Devonte’ Graham, Svi Mykhailiuk, Wayne Selden, Sherron Collins, Mario Little or any other former KU sharpshooters that delivered the game-winning bucket for the red team. Instead, the big bucket came from 2003 power forward Jeff Graves, who rebounded a miss by ...