Two games into the season, Kansas football coach Les Miles is downplaying any concerns he may have about the team’s defense. “I think as this continues we’ll continue to build,” Miles said this week, pointing to the defensive unit’s “good character.” While the defense isn’t ...
Kansas might have had a true freshman quarterback in the Big 12 opener, but the offense was still much of the same — at least personnel wise — in a 47-14 loss to Baylor this past weekend. The Jayhawks utilized five different personnel groupings for the second game in a row, making sure the ...
Free State's girls tennis team defeated Lawrence High in a dual at LHS on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The Firebirds earned a 6-3 win over the Lions in the final competition before Thursday's Sunflower League meet. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
Free State senior Keegan VanPelt took care of business in what was the final city showdown of her impressive career. VanPelt dropped just one game overall in her two matches, earning an 8-1 win in doubles action while claiming an 8-0 sweep in singles play Tuesday afternoon at Lawrence High. It ...
At about 2 a.m. this past Sunday, KU football coach Les Miles was rewatching his team's 47-14 loss at Baylor. He noticed Pooka Williams Jr. watching, too. “He was looking over his head coach’s shoulder,” Miles recalled, “and watching the game on the computer.” It had been a few ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Patrick Mahomes put on a scintillating show while outperforming Lamar Jackson, and the Kansas City Chiefs deftly played the role of defending Super Bowl champions in a 34-20 thumping of the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night. Mahomes juked, danced, and jumped in and out of the ...
Depending on how the next few days of practices play out — and the health of one of the Jayhawks’ offensive veterans — the Kansas football team might go back to rotating quarterbacks when it takes on No. 17 Oklahoma State this week. Head coach Les Miles still wasn’t ready to name a ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals spent the 60-game season in 2020 saying farewell to longtime outfielder Alex Gordon, one of the linchpins of their back-to-back World Series runs, and welcome to the young core they hope will take them back there. Brady Singer nearly threw a ...
John Hadl, one of only three players in the history of football at the University of Kansas to have his number retired and a decades-long leader in Kansas Athletics' Williams Education Fund, has received the highest honor bestowed by the KU Alumni Association. The Fred Ellsworth Medallion, ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program’s annual boot camp kicked off bright and early Monday morning, but new offseason rules surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have created the potential for a slightly different look at this year’s conditioning session. With the NCAA recently granting a ...
Kansas suffered a 47-14 loss to Baylor in the Big 12 opener this past weekend, which wasn’t too surprising given the recent results between these two teams. What was interesting was looking at statistics from that game, using NCAA Premium Stats on Pro Football Focus. PFF’s grading system ...
College football’s most unenviable streak kept plummeting, clunking into a new low of a milestone this past weekend, as the Big 12’s often clobbered travelers, the Kansas Jayhawks, lost the program’s 50th true conference road game in a row. Often more inadequate than competitive when ...
http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2020/may/21/331143/ During a player-by-player rundown of the current Kansas basketball roster on the second episode of the online series “Grill with Bill,” Kansas coach Bill Self revealed that junior college transfer Tyon Grant-Foster has been dealing with a ...
Brady Singer finished his rookie season with a stellar performance, Alex Gordon wrapped up his long Royals career and Kansas City ended its season Sunday with a 3-1 win over the Detroit Tigers. The last-place Tigers left the field not knowing if they were done for the year. There was a chance ...
Jalon Daniels has taken a lot of snaps at quarterback during his life, but until Saturday night he had never called out the snap count or led an offense as a starter in college. As such, the true freshman from Lawndale, Calif., spent quite a bit of the spring and summer preparing for ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles started and stuck with true freshman quarterback Jalon Daniels in the Jayhawks’ 47-14 loss at Baylor. Nevertheless, KU’s quarterback situation going forward remained more murky than transparent late Saturday night. If an injury to senior QB Thomas ...
It's the defending Super Bowl champions against a team that's won 14 straight regular-season games. Or, maybe it's a preview of the AFC title game — a matchup many expected to see last January. Most of all, the intrigue surrounding Monday night's game between the Kansas City Chiefs (2-0) ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Niko Goodrum and Austin Romine keyed a three-run first inning, and the Detroit Tigers edged the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Saturday night. The Tigers made the third start for Kansas City right-hander Carlos Hernandez one to forget. Detroit got to Hernandez in the first ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles had another quarterback surprise for the Jayhawks’ opponent Saturday night in Waco, Texas. After waiting until minutes before the season opener to name a starting QB earlier this month, Miles’ choice for the job in KU’s second game wasn’t only different, ...
An unexpected change at quarterback only afforded the Kansas football team a fleeting spark in Waco, Texas, Saturday night. True freshman quarterback Jalon Daniels led the Jayhawks down the field for a touchdown to launch into the Big 12 opener and his first career start at Baylor’s McLane ...
