KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Danny Mendick hit a two-run homer during an eight-run first inning for Chicago, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 9-1 on Saturday night. Yoan Moncada drove in three runs on two hits in the first, and Andrew Vaughn, Leury Garcia and Yasmani Grandal each had ...
Seven Sunflower League titles were won either by Lawrence High or Free State swim during the league meet Saturday at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center. Both squads came home with high finishes in the team standings. Lawrence claimed runner-up with a total score of 332. Free ...
A third consecutive below-par round on Saturday at Quail Hollow has former University of Kansas All-American Gary Woodland within striking distance at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte. After entering Round 3 in a tie for the lead, Woodland shot a 1-under 70 on Saturday and, at ...
Lawrence Country Club has a new head golf pro and his title is merely a variation of the one he’s had for the past two decades. Former University of Kansas All-American Chris Thompson, a 44-year-old Independence native, recently accepted the job as the club’s new golf guru, transitioning ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Carlos Rodón struck out eight in six innings, Zack Collins homered and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 3-0 on Friday night. The Royals were blanked for the second straight game in part of a six-game losing streak, all to division opponents. Rodón ...
Free State’s boys tennis team took home a regional title for the first time in a decade on Friday in the Class 6A regional meet at Gardner Edgerton. The Firebirds had both doubles teams finish inside the top five and two singles players earn top-six finishes on the day. They scored 15 points ...
On a day when the three players who finished ahead of him in Thursday’s first round struggled, former University of Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland moved up to the top of the leaderboard at the Wells Fargo Championship. [After finishing Round 1 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte in a tie ...
Kansas City, Mo. — One of the benefits of having so few holes to fill on a roster that has reached back-to-back Super Bowls: The Kansas City Chiefs were able to use late-round draft picks on high-upside medical gambles. In the fourth round, they took massive defensive end Joshua Kaindoh, ...
When Lance Leipold took over the Kansas football program, the new head coach inherited a roster without many local or in-state scholarship players. He plans to change that. Leipold during his introductory press conference described recruiting locally as “extremely important.” “It needs ...
A total of 14 running backs went off the board before the Chicago Bears selected former Kansas running back Khalil Herbert with the 217th overall pick. Yet that doesn’t mean the Bears will temper their expectations for the running back who played his final collegiate season at Virginia ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program made the cut for Georgia point guard Sahvir Wheeler, a sophomore transfer who released his four finalists on Friday morning. Wheeler, a 5-foot-10, 180-pound lead guard who averaged 14 points per game for the Bulldogs last season, is down to Kansas, ...
A no-hitter from pitcher Grant Cleavinger and an offensive onslaught by the lineup led Lawrence High’s baseball team to a convincing 15-0 win at Mill Valley on Thursday. The game was called after five innings, and the Lions (11-7) extended their win streak to four in a row. Cleavinger ...
In a busy first week on the job for new University of Kansas head football coach Lance Leipold, much of his daily calendar from Monday on has been booked with one-on-one meetings with the players. Leipold said Thursday evening during his debut on KU’s “Hawk Talk” radio show he had just ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Triston McKenzie bounced back from a rugged start to pitch one-hit ball into the sixth inning and the Cleveland Indians completed a four-game sweep by blanking the Kansas City Royals 4-0 Thursday. It was the fifth straight loss for the Royals, who came into the series ...
In its final home midweek game of the 2021 campaign, the Kansas baseball team earned a 3-1 victory over Missouri State Wednesday night at Hoglund Ballpark. The Jayhawks (25-21) got a quality start from Steve Washilewski, who pitched four innings and allowed one unearned run while striking out ...
Continuity was one of the most popular themes of Lance Leipold’s introductory press conference on Monday, and the new KU coach’s moves since that day have delivered the Jayhawks with a fair amount of it already. Sure, Leipold and his coaching staff are new to Kansas. But the fact that ...
In successful runs at his previous two stops as a head coach, at Wisconsin-Whitewater and Buffalo, Lance Leipold and his staff established a winning culture. A buzzword throughout college football and the rest of the sporting universe, culture is a concept that coaches and players alike often ...
The first Kansas football team coach Lance Leipold leads onto the field in the fall won’t include one of his predecessor’s most promising young defensive linemen. Da’Jon Terry, who would’ve been a redshirt sophomore and was a near lock to start at defensive tackle for the Jayhawks in ...
The Kansas men’s golf team is headed to the postseason for the fifth consecutive season. Earlier this week, head coach Jamie Bermel’s squad found out it had earned a spot in the NCAA Regional in Tallahassee, Fla., which is slated for May 17-19. The Jayhawks are the No. 9 seed in the ...
After leading the Kansas football program through an uncertain spring as the interim head coach, Emmett Jones reportedly will be sticking around and working with the Jayhawks’ new boss, Lance Leipold. According to Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, as Leipold assembles his first staff at KU, ...
