Updated 11:40 a.m. Sunday, June 15, 2025: Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s new contract, announced by KU last week and obtained by the Journal-World via a Kansas Open Records Act request, provides Fitzgerald a salary increase and extends his employment through the end of the 2031 ...

Kansas junior Ashton Barkdull finished as the national runner-up in the men’s pole vault, with his brother Bryce just a few spots behind, as KU wrapped up the track and field season on Saturday at the NCAA outdoor championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. The men’s team took 16th ...

Gavyn Schlotterback only received limited reps at first base as a freshman for Paris Junior College last fall; by the spring, the Dragons were starting him at that position. Then, when Paris’ catcher broke his nose, Schlotterback was suddenly catching in every doubleheader and even pitching ...

Tahj Edwards was excited when he met his new football coach, Jason Thoren, and heard how the new offense would focus heavily on the run game. Edwards, a running back for Lawrence, is gearing up for a final season with the Lions and wants to show colleges what he is capable of. With football ...

For the second time in his tennis coaching career, Stephen Hudson will become Lawrence High School’s next boys and girls tennis coach. Hudson took over the job at Lawrence High in 2006 before leaving after the 2010 school year. Hudson continued to coach in different capacities around De ...

Initially, Emerson Sloop was in it for the doughnuts. Sloop first became interested in refereeing soccer games at around 12 years old when she saw that the referees got doughnuts after soccer tournaments she played in. Almost five years later, Sloop has around 2,500 games under her belt as a ...