Thursday afternoon, during Lawrence High’s 3-0 win over Jefferson City (Missouri) in the opening game of the River City Tournament at Hoglund Ballpark, LHS senior Grant Cleavinger experienced his own Clayton Kershaw moment. Leading 3-0 with two innings to play, LHS coach Brad Stoll approached his hard-throwing left-hander in the dugout and told him he only had five pitches left before grabbing a seat on the ...
Former Bishop Seabury forward Juju Ramirez committed to play college basketball at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, on Wednesday. Ramirez will join a roster that features former Seabury standout Zach Bloch in the backcourt and former Lawrence High standout Dorian Green on the coaching staff. Bloch and Ramirez played together for two years at Seabury before Bloch went to college and ...
College basketball’s 2022 national champions got together one last time on Thursday night inside the very building where they’ll soon be raising another banner. It was team banquet time for the Kansas Jayhawks at Allen Fieldhouse, and this team had more to celebrate than most. From highlights of their recent run to the national title to the bonds and memories they made together — some for four or five ...
The Kansas men’s basketball roster grew by one on Wednesday, when 6-foot-3 guard Wilder Evers, of Oak Mountain High in Alabama, announced his commitment to Kansas. An honorable mention all-Birmingham selection this season by AL.com, Evers (pronounced Ee-vers) helped lead his school to a 2021 state championship and three consecutive appearances in the state semifinals. He comes to KU as a walk-on and ...
After narrowly missing out on Most Outstanding Player honors at the Final Four, the question of whether Kansas big man David McCormack’s name belongs in the Allen Fieldhouse rafters anyway has been red-hot of late. Some say he’s a lock because of his performance in leading Kansas to the 2022 national title. The Norfolk, Virginia native scored 40 points and grabbed 19 rebounds on 63% shooting in wins over ...
Tuesday’s City Showdown boys tennis match may have been a dual between Lawrence High and Free State High, but there were definitely three competitors on the court at LHS. The Lions. The Firebirds. And the wind. On a warm and blustery day at the Lions’ home courts, Free State won 19 of the 24 matches, including eight of the nine varsity matches played in the unrelenting wind. “It wasn’t exactly ideal ...