Although he has gotten used to it by now, Kansas football coach Les Miles’ first attempt to coach his team in a virtual setting this spring proved to be a challenge. “It was the dangedest thing,” Miles said during a recent phone interview with the Journal-World. “The first time I’m ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles said Friday that linebacker Dru Prox “should play” for the Jayhawks during the 2020 season, whenever it may happen. “We don’t think there will be any hesitation to that,” Miles said in a phone interview with the Journal-World on Friday afternoon. ...
Story last updated at 7:28 p.m. Thursday The NCAA delivered a scathing response to the University of Kansas this week regarding alleged violations in its men’s basketball program, citing “egregious, severe” conduct and emphasizing KU’s “defiant posture” in the case. In a 92-page ...
Kansas football coach Les Miles is confident there will be college football this fall — but he said he’s not so sure what it will look like or when exactly it will start. “We’re going to play college football in the fall,” Miles said during a 12-minute spot on 610 Sports Radio ...
The University of Kansas has received a response from NCAA enforcement staff in a case involving alleged rule violations by its men's basketball and football programs, the Journal-World has confirmed from a source close to the situation. It's unclear when exactly KU received the response — ...
For two years in the late 1980s, former Kansas defensive coordinator Dave Campo shared the town of Miami with legendary Dolphins coach Don Shula, who died Monday at age 90. The stages they performed on were different, of course, with Shula nearing the home stretch of his Hall of Fame NFL ...
Andrew Simpson, a three-star linebacker from St. John Bosco High in Southern California, became the second defensive player in the 2021 recruiting class to commit to the Kansas football program on Saturday night. Simpson announced his news on Twitter, saying “I want to live the full college ...
The dates are set for the renewal of the football series between longtime border rivals Kansas and Missouri. The four-game series, which was rumored to be in the works early last month, will begin in five years, with KU making a trip to Columbia on Sept. 6, 2025, for the first of four ...
Two years removed from his last game at Kansas, linebacker Joe Dineen Jr. is in the same boat as many of his former teammates — sitting by the phone, waiting for a call and a chance. The former Free State standout got that chance from the Denver Broncos following the 2019 NFL draft, but a ...
According to a series of online polls [by Varsity Sports Now Louisiana,][1] Kansas junior Pooka Williams Jr. is the greatest high school running back in Louisiana history. A former four-star prospect in the class of 2018 who attended Hahnville High in Boutte, La., Williams won five rounds of ...
Picture current University of Kansas basketball players selling you a cheeseburger or hyping a local car wash. Images such as those, and many more like them, are now one step closer to becoming reality in college towns across the country, as the NCAA is moving forward with a plan to allow ...
The raw, unedited footage of the “Miles to Go” documentary that profiled coach Les Miles’ first season at the helm of KU football can be subpoenaed and used as evidence in the case of former coach David Beaty’s disputed firing, a U.S. magistrate judge ruled Tuesday. Beaty’s team of ...
He did not hear his name called during last week’s 255-pick draft, but former Kansas edge rusher Azur Kamara is still getting his shot at a spot in the NFL. Shortly after the seven-round draft wrapped on Saturday evening, Kamara agreed to a free agent deal with the Dallas Cowboys. His ...
Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji is headed to Cincinnati. The 6-foot-4, 302-pound tackle who started all 48 games of his KU career was drafted by the Bengals with the first pick of the sixth round on Saturday, No. 180 overall. Adeniji was the 17th tackle taken in the 2020 draft and was ...
The Kansas football program's 2021 recruiting class cracked the top 30 nationally on Wednesday after picking up an oral commitment from three-star offensive lineman De'Kedrick Sterns. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound lineman from Del Valle, Texas, is the eighth member and first offensive lineman in ...
Kansas offensive lineman Hakeem Adeniji is looking to put the Jayhawks back in the NFL draft this week after KU's absence from the draft last year. If successful, he’ll become just the second Jayhawk to be drafted since 2016. Two years ago, former KU defensive end Dorance Armstrong Jr. was ...
A legal battle over the termination of former Kansas football coach David Beaty has cost Kansas Athletics and the University of Kansas upward of $350,000 in outside legal fees in the 13 months since Beaty sued the athletic department over his November 2018 firing. Records obtained by the ...
Unbeknownst to the public, former Kansas football coach David Beaty issued a response in his personal capacity to the Notice of Allegations KU received from the NCAA in September 2019. In it, Beaty — who went 6-42 in four seasons as the Jayhawks' coach and was fired in November 2018 — ...
The Kansas football program picked up a class of 2021 tight end commitment on Tuesday night. Mason Brotherton, a 6-foot-4, 235-pound tight end from Mena, Ark., announced his decision to join the Jayhawks on Twitter. He told Jon Kirby, of JayhawkSlant.com, that he got a good impression from ...
While colleges and universities across the country wrestle with the idea of cutting sports to save money in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long said no such discussions had taken place in Lawrence. “We have not explored cutting any sports here ...