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Charity, a proposal and NBA talent headline the 2024 Rock Chalk Roundball Classic

Very few basketball games are played to raise money for pediatric cancer treatment. Still fewer feature one assistant coach asking for another’s hand in marriage. Thursday night’s 16th annual edition of the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic, the charity game featuring former Kansas basketball ...

Former KU great Keith Langford reflects on a year of retirement

Keith Langford never had an issue with his identity being defined by his status as a basketball player. In his year of retirement since stepping away from a lengthy and decorated overseas professional career, though, Langford, 40, has swiftly developed a new identity: “glorified ...

Evaluating lineup possibilities for KU women’s basketball

With Butler Community College all-time scoring leader Freddie Wallace's commitment to Kansas women's basketball on Tuesday, the Jayhawks' roster may well be set for the 2024-25 season, five months before it begins. Head coach Brandon Schneider said on his "Hawk Talk" radio show on April 29 ...

Tight end Skipworth commits to KU football

The Kansas football coaching staff's work continues as it looks to shore up its post-2024 receiving corps. Tight end Joeseph Skipworth, a three-star prospect from Pace High School in Pace, Florida, announced Wednesday morning that he will join the Jayhawks next year. Skipworth, who visited KU ...

2024 Journal-World All-Area Boys Tennis Team

Coach of the Year: Randy Clark, Free State Clark guided the Firebirds to another strong season that featured a second-place finish at the Sunflower League tournament, nine points shy of Shawnee Mission East. That showing included strong performances by Jake Hedges and Felipe Reina-Salas in ...

KU women’s basketball lands JUCO transfer Freddie Wallace

The Kansas women's basketball team has added an accomplished junior-college player who may be able to help fill its vacancy in the post. Freddie Wallace, a 6-foot-2 forward from Lincoln, Nebraska, who played the past two seasons at Butler Community College in El Dorado, announced her ...