Kansas center Hunter Dickinson correctly predicted after the Jayhawks’ 91-57 loss at BYU on Tuesday that KU was about to receive widespread criticism from fans and national media. After four days of hearing that criticism — head coach Bill Self said there could be an opportunity to “pull ...
Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self on Friday afternoon pushed back on some aspects of a report from the Tulsa World that suggested he “seriously considered” an offer to become the head coach at Oklahoma State last March. Self said he has spoken to OSU every time there has been an ...
In the two decades before he came to Kansas, D.K. McDonald learned from a slew of accomplished defensive coaches. He began his coaching career at the Division II level and worked under Lou Tepper, who had been a coordinator at Colorado and Illinois; in his days on Matt Campbell’s staffs at ...
Lenexa — Free State freshman Gavin McIntosh qualified for the 6A state dive finals after scoring 246.05 points for 12th place on the leaderboard during the first day of the KSHSAA 6A state swim and dive meet. The Firebirds had two divers compete on Thursday, and both reached the semifinal ...
Yamirra Woods spent a lot of time watching wrestling videos in the days before her first high school wrestling match. Woods, a sophomore at Lawrence High School, decided to try something new this year. She’d always been told that she was strong, so wrestling seemed like a natural sport for ...
Boys and girls wrestling and boys swim and dive teams around Lawrence are in postseason competitions, and the local freshmen have had standout performances for their teams. Here are this week's selections for the Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Anabella Ackerman, Lawrence Ackerman made ...
