Lawrence High senior Devin Neal had a feeling that the Kansas football program would get good news last weekend, when four-star wide receiver Keon Coleman committed. But Neal made sure to check in with Coleman before the announcement anyway. During the past couple of weeks, the two future ...
The only thing sports leaders should be promoting for fans right now is big-screen televisions, because the only way sports will have a chance to resume is if teams stay isolated and fans stay home. Even without fans, it’s far from a guarantee that things will go smoothly enough to actually ...
There's no time like the present to get back to our "Ask Us Anything" blog, which will feature questions from readers about KU hoops, KU football and anything else on your minds. We got a bunch of good questions this week and look forward to more in the weeks ahead. So if we didn't get to ...
At an outdoor Fourth of July barbecue on Saturday night in his hometown of Opelousas, Louisiana, Class of 2021 wide receiver Keon Coleman orally committed to play football at Kansas. The two-sport athlete who also hopes to play basketball in college picked KU over Oklahoma and South ...
An uptick in positive COVID-19 tests has led the Kansas football program to suspend its voluntary summer workouts, KU officials announced Friday morning. Twelve football players have now tested positive for COVID-19, and KU is requiring a 14-day self-quarantine for all football players and ...
Kansas linebacker Steven Parker recently made an appearance on a list of redshirt freshmen poised for breakout seasons — a list that also includes players from powerhouse programs such as Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas and Auburn. Parker, who played four games during his true freshman season, ...
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey told a U.S. Senate committee Wednesday that there needs to be a uniform federal law to regulate the compensation of college athletes instead of a series of state-level versions with differing requirements. Sankey was part of a panel discussing ...
KU has found seven cases of COVID-19 among the 100 student-athletes it's tested from across four sports, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long said Monday. Long discussed the school's testing results during an appearance on Sports Radio WHB. He didn't go into many specifics on the ...
Ever since Kansas football started recruiting Clinton Anokwuru, assistant coach Chidera Uzo-Diribe knew he had a special connection with the three-star defensive end — the two men both belong to the Igbo tribe in Nigeria. “I knew he was in that tribe right away because of his name,” ...
After 32 years with the same equipment manager, the Kansas football program is preparing for Year 1 of a new regime. KU on Wednesday announced that Blake Kuenzi (pronounced Ken-zee) had been hired as the program’s head football equipment manager, taking over for Jeff Himes, who retired at ...
NCAA President Mark Emmert visited with The Athletic’s Seth Davis this week to discuss the outlook for fall and winter sports in 2020. Like many administrators trying to monitor the pandemic and plan for the upcoming seasons, Emmert made it clear that the key piece of information driving ...
The Kansas football program made the latest cut for three-star wide receiver Keon Coleman — and if he becomes a Jayhawk, he might play at Allen Fieldhouse as well as on the football field. The 6-foot-4, 188-pound playmaker from Opelousas Catholic in Louisiana announced his final three on ...
While waiting for the 2020 college football season to kick off, three veteran football writers at ESPN recently drafted their favorite college seasons in history — and Kansas was a factor in two of them. Naturally, one of those mentions on the [15-season draft][1] by Bill Connelly, Ivan ...
The University of Kansas football program announced Saturday that one player has tested positive for COVID-19 and another had a positive test for the COVID-19 antibodies. The two positive tests came after 86 players and 110 KU staff members were tested during the past couple of weeks as KU's ...
The Kansas football program picked up a commitment from 3-star safety Omar Burroughs on Friday afternoon. Burroughs, of Savannah, Ga., is headed to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., to finish his high school career. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound defensive back announced his commitment on Twitter ...
University of Kansas fans holding season tickets for upcoming KU sporting events now have assurances from the athletic department that their investment is safe. On Wednesday afternoon, KU Athletic Director Jeff Long sent an email to donors announcing the details of a ticket assurance plan for ...
Months of planning and projecting have left University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long cautiously optimistic about hosting a full college football season this fall. Long said as much on multiple occasions during Tuesday night’s online discussion, “College Sports in the COVID-19 ...
On Monday, the Kansas football team conducted its first voluntary team workouts since the pandemic, after about 75 athletes tested negative for COVID-19, an athletic department official confirmed. KU spokesman Dan Beckler told the Journal-World early Monday afternoon that Kansas Team Health, ...
There's a new date to circle on the college athletics calendar for the 2020-21 academic year — Nov. 3, 2020. On Friday afternoon, the NCAA released a statement encouraging its member schools to designate Election Day in November as “a day off from athletics activity so athletes can vote ...
The first honor of 2020 has arrived for Kansas running back Pooka Williams Jr., with the junior from New Orleans picking up a preseason all-Big 12 nod from Athlon Sports. Williams was one of six Jayhawks honored in Athlon’s preseason Big 12 magazine, earning a spot on the all-Big 12 first ...