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KU allows back-to-back touchdown drives in final minutes, loses at West Virginia

Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team carried a lead into Saturday afternoon’s two-hour weather delay and lost it not long after the sun came out. In fact, the Jayhawks had taken a commanding 11-point advantage when wide receiver Luke Grimm ran for a 32-yard touchdown shortly after ...

Notebook: Weather delay disrupts fourth quarter of KU-WVU game

Morgantown, W.Va. — As Kansas and West Virginia entered the home stretch of a hotly contested Big 12 opener on Saturday, Mother Nature intervened. With KU leading 21-17 and 10 minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the game, the public-address announcer at Milan Puskar Stadium declared a severe ...

LHS football falls 42-34 on the road to Olathe North in first loss of the season

For the first time this season, the Lions started from behind. The LHS football team has succeeded in scoring early. They took a 21-7 lead over Junction City after the first quarter and started with a 21-0 lead and a 7-0 lead over Shawnee Mission South. But on Friday night, that wasn’t the ...

Free State football can’t hang onto early lead in loss at Mill Valley

Shawnee — Free State football went into the fourth quarter tied with Class 5A No. 1 Mill Valley on Friday night. Early in the final quarter, though, the Jaguars took their first lead of the night, and for good, as multiple Free State chances came up short and the Firebirds lost ...

Preview: Daniels, KU offense have opportunity against struggling WVU secondary

West Virginia coach Neal Brown agreed on Monday with a reporter’s suggestion that “Jalon Daniels’ biggest strengths are the things that you’ve struggled with so far.” “That’s fair,” Brown said. “He’s probably pretty excited.” The Mountaineers, who like Kansas have ...

Free State gets road 4-2 win in boys soccer City Showdown over LHS

A wind came through the Lawrence High School soccer field almost immediately at the start of the Thursday night match between Lawrence and Free State high schools. Cracks of electricity danced through the clouds, while the full benches were split with the east side sporting green and the west ...