After a long summer and nearly two weeks of practices, the Free State football team is prepared for Week 1. The Firebirds will begin the 2026 season on the road at Shawnee Mission West, which finished 1-8 in 2025 in its second season led by coach Craig Lewis. That season featured a young but ...

Long Island University didn’t exactly start the 2026 season, its eighth overall as a Division I program since its two campuses merged their athletic departments into one, in good form. The Sharks, who play at the FCS level, went behind 42-0 by halftime against North Dakota in their Week 0 ...

After a deep playoff run in Free State’s trial year with a flag football team, the Firebirds picked right back up with a 48-0 blowout home win over Shawnee Mission East on Wednesday. “I was happy for the kids,” Free State coach Adam Barmann said. “They competed. We had a great crowd ...

The biggest news of the NFL preseason from a University of Kansas perspective was undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels’ ascension to the No. 2 spot for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Daniels, who started portions of six seasons at KU, including the entirety of 2024 and 2025, beat out ...

Free State boys soccer got its first win of the season by beating De Soto 3-2 in the home opener. “We saw some things we needed to correct (from Free State’s 3-1 season-opening loss to Olathe Northwest) and I think the boys did that tonight,” Free State coach Tyson Heck said. “They ...

The Kansas men’s golf team opened its season in style on Tuesday with individual and team first-place finishes at the New York Harbor Cup in Bayonne, New Jersey. At the brand-new event hosted by Rutgers, the Jayhawks shot 25-under as a team across three rounds to slip past Purdue by two ...