A Wednesday report from The Southern Illinoisan indicated that the Kansas football program will host Coastal Carolina on Sept. 12 in the Jayhawks' lone nonconference game of 2020. During a Wednesday Zoom call with local media members, KU AD Jeff Long confirmed the Sept. 12 date of KU's season ...
On Tuesday afternoon, the Pac-12 Conference’s announcement that it would cancel all of its sporting events through at least the end of the year put a strain on schedules across the country. A little more than 24 hours later, Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long was in discussions with head ...
CINCINNATI — Streaking Salvador Pérez had three more hits, including a homer and RBI double, Reds left-hander Wade Miley made another early exit after a misstep, and the Kansas City Royals beat Cincinnati 5-4 on Wednesday for their fifth victory in six games. The Royals' offense has led the ...
A couple of audible gasps emerged from the crowd Wednesday night when D’Marion Alexander pulled off his jacket to reveal he was wearing a TCU T-shirt. The look didn’t last, though, during a commitment ceremony the prep linebacker from Texas broadcasted live via his Instagram ...
The Kansas football team has a new season-opening opponent — again. While explaining Wednesday night what the Jayhawks would do with their one nonconference date in September, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long told reporters on a video conference that the football team will kick off its 10-game ...
Though nothing has been finalized on the matter, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long expects there to be fans in David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium when the Jayhawks open their 2020 season on Sept. 12. “That’s just my thought at this point,” Long said during a Wednesday ...
While explaining why the Big 12 swerved around the Big Ten's and Pac-12’s decisions to cancel fall sports, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby didn’t claim to have a better understanding of the future than other college athletics administrators. Instead, he said, the decision was intended to ...
The Big 12 Conference is moving forward with college football in 2020, but not at the expense of common sense. During an hourlong conference call with reporters from across the country on Wednesday, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby explained the thinking behind the Big 12’s decision to press ...
Story updated at 2:11 p.m. Wednesday Baylor coach Dave Aranda could see a weight being lifted off the shoulders of his players during a meeting Tuesday night, when word began to filter out that the Big 12 Conference would attempt to play football this fall. “You could just see the joy,” ...
The majority of the Kansas football team’s pandemic-shortened 2020 schedule is set. As the Big 12 moved toward playing games this fall, officially announcing that decision Wednesday morning, the conference finally made its schedule public. The Jayhawks’ first league game will still be at ...
It’s been a strange preseason for the Kansas football team to say the least. As recently as Tuesday it remained to be seen whether the Big 12 would try to play this fall. Then came some good news for the Jayhawks that the conference would keep at it, even though the Big Ten and Pac-12 had ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Joey Votto doubled home the winning run in the 10th inning Tuesday night, and the Cincinnati Reds blew another late lead before rallying for a 6-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The Royals tied it 5-5 in the eighth on Ryan McBroom's pinch-hit, two-run homer off Amir ...
Despite the decisions by the Big Ten and the Pac-12 to call off fall football, the Big 12 appears to be forging ahead toward a football season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hours after two of college football’s Power Five conferences canceled their games for at least the remainder of 2020, ...
The 2020-21 Kansas men’s basketball schedule, as currently constructed, took another hit on Tuesday, when [the Pac-12 Conference announced it would postpone all sports competitions through the end of 2020.][1] The news came in conjunction with the Pac-12 calling off the 2020 college ...
Story updated at 4:29 p.m. Tuesday The Big Ten and Pac-12 called off their fall football seasons on Tuesday because of concerns about COVID-19, taking two of college football's five power conferences out of a crumbling season. Five months after the first spikes in coronavirus cases in the ...
It’s astonishing to me how college football, which operates under the NCAA umbrella and has done so gainfully and successfully for decades, can be so segmented during a time when conferences need to come together to find a way to play during the pandemic. There’s no one to blame but NCAA ...
President Donald Trump on Monday joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches calling to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown as supporters pushed the premise that the players are safer because of their sport. There was speculation two of the five most powerful ...
The Lawrence school district is planning on taking measures to help keep students safe while they participate in athletics and activities amid the coronavirus pandemic this fall. Some of those measures include limiting use of locker rooms and providing specific guidelines for each athletic ...
As the fate of their season is debated by Power Five conference leaders, with momentum possibly building for a fall without college football, some players began this weekend voicing their desires to play, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. While Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, Ohio State QB ...
If all you saw were the highlights of how Collin Morikawa beat back the biggest names in golf and walked off with the PGA Championship, you’d conclude he did it the old-fashioned way. The 23-year-old Californian delivered a 6-under 64 in the final round, including a signature shot that fans ...
