The spring sports season ended over the weekend as local athletes competed in baseball, boys golf and track and field meets. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week:
Ben Graves, Free State
Graves threw seven innings and allowed five hits and one walk against ...
Two familiar faces will join the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament this summer.
Guards Zeke Mayo and Lagerald Vick have committed to play for JHX Hoops next month, it was announced on Thursday. Both will return after being part of the team in 2025, and in Vick’s case, each year ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Michael Massey hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nick Loftin homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 on Wednesday night to win the three-game series.
Massey’s line drive to right field off Tony Santillan ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban and others testified Wednesday in support of a bipartisan bill aimed at overhauling a college sports system where players can increasingly earn millions of dollars while moving freely between schools.
The leaders of the Senate ...
Landyn Watson, a transfer linebacker from Kentucky who committed to Kansas back in January and was with the Jayhawks this spring, is no longer on KU’s roster and will not be eligible to play this upcoming season.
Watson would have been a sixth-year senior, but he told the Journal-World in a ...
The Kansas baseball team has reached essentially unprecedented heights during its 2026 season by somehow synthesizing its first regular-season conference title in 77 years, conference tournament title in 20 years and regional title in 33 years into a single dominant campaign.
It’s not over ...