For the second time this week at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb., former Lawrence-based swimmer Michael Andrew punched his ticket for Tokyo. Already in this summer’s Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke after setting an American record on Sunday before Monday's finals, ...
Six of the newest players on the Kansas football roster already know what it’s like to play for head coach Lance Leipold and the assistants who followed him from Buffalo to Lawrence. And much in the way Leipold envisions staff familiarity helping the Jayhawks in his first year in charge of ...
NCAA President Mark Emmert told the organization’s more than 1,200 member schools Friday that he will seek temporary rules as early as July to ensure all athletes can be compensated for their celebrity with a host of state laws looming and congressional efforts seemingly stalled. In memo ...
Three area football players will compete in the Kansas Shrine Bowl later this month: Thad Metcalfe and Hayden Robb of Perry-Lecompton and Branden Martin of Tonganoxie. All three players will compete for the East team in the annual event, which is scheduled for June 26 at Hutchinson Community ...
The Kansas football offense no longer boasts a playmaker as hyped as former standout rusher Pooka Williams. However, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace not only likes the depth the Jayhawks have within the position group he oversees, Wallace also thinks highly of the players’ methods of ...
Lawrence High's boys basketball team competed in a summer workout on Thursday at Southwest Middle School on June 17, 2021. Photos by Shane Jackson/Lawrence Journal-World