University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long on Wednesday announced staffwide furloughs and pay cuts for all Kansas Athletics employees, including coaches, from June 1 through the end of 2020. An email sent to KU’s donors on Wednesday afternoon outlined four tiers of the department’s ...
Texas Tech guard Davide Moretti is skipping his final season of college to turn pro with Olimpia Milano in his home country of Italy, and the Red Raiders already have found someone to take his spot on the roster. The EuroLeague club announced the signing of Moretti on Tuesday, ending a ...
Former Kansas basketball big man Udoka Azubuike and standout swimmer Haley Downey recently were honored as KU’s 2019-20 Dr. Robert Frederick Senior Scholar Athletes of the Year. The announcement came in a news release rather than at an in-person ceremony and also featured Xinyun Yu ...
An overarching theme of the COVID-19 crisis, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said Tuesday, is that it’s been much easier to shut down operations than to open them back up. Girod, appearing at the KU Health System’s daily media briefing, acknowledged that many things would ...
*Slated to begin on April 19, the 2020 NBA playoffs and the end of the 2019-20 NBA season were put on hold because of the COVID-19 health crisis.* *League officials continue to look at ways to resume play, but whether they’ll reach a point where the season is completed remains to be seen. ...
It’s been four months since Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash, and former Kansas forward Tarik Black has thought a lot about him since that day in late January. Teammates with the Lakers for two seasons from 2014-16, Black had a front-row seat for some of the ...
Kansas native and legendary college basketball coach Eddie Sutton died late Saturday night at age 84. Sutton, who spent most of his 806-win career at Kentucky, Arkansas and Oklahoma State, was one of the key mentors, and like family, to current Kansas coach Bill Self. In early April, the ...
The Kansas basketball program on Saturday announced that incoming freshman Gethro Muscadin, a 6-foot-10, 215-pound forward from Aspire Academy, in Louisville, Ky., will wear No. 35 with the Jayhawks during the 2020-21 season. The move, in some ways, is reminiscent of the one made by a young ...
The Wild West can wait. But not for too long. That was the message sent to college athletics on Wednesday by the NCAA’s Division I Council, which essentially tabled until January the proposed one-time waiver exception for student-athletes who transfer in men’s and women’s basketball, ...
Newcomer Tyon Grant-Foster will become the latest Jayhawk to wear No. 1, the Kansas basketball program announced recently. Rated by some analysts as the top junior college prospect in the country out of Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa, Iowa, Grant-Foster, appropriately, was the ...
The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to lift a moratorium on voluntary workouts by football and basketball players effective June 1 as a growing number of college leaders expressed confidence that fall sports will be possible in some form despite concerns about the coronavirus ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and some of the school's other coaches were back in their offices this week — albeit with a host of COVID-19-related precautions and new routines. Before entering the building, Self said he had to have his temperature taken. Masks also are required at all ...
The fate of KU’s men’s basketball program — embroiled in serious pay-for-play allegations by the NCAA’s enforcement staff — may be heading for an all-or-nothing moment. The Journal-World has learned from an NCAA source that the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions wants the University ...
The COVID-19 crisis pushed pause on Aaron Miles’ first full season on the Golden State Warriors' coaching staff, but the former Kansas point guard is still doing some coaching — and anyone who wants to can watch his lessons online. Miles' four sons — Aaron Jr., Adonis, Asaiah and Avion ...
One round. Five measly questions. That was all it took for “Rock Chalk Sports Talk” host Nick Schwerdt to completely change his opinion about which competitors had the best shot to win the recently wrapped, 64-person trivia bracket that played out on Schwerdt’s show on KLWN during the ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program made the first cut for class of 2021 small forward Kendall Brown over the weekend. Brown, a senior-to-be at Sunrise Christian Academy in Bel Aire, is a five-star prospect and the No. 14-ranked player in the 2021 class, according to Rivals.com. He’s ...
By his own admission, former Eudora High standout Mitch Ballock nearly committed to play basketball at Kansas three different times. During his upcoming senior season at Creighton, Ballock will finally get his chance to play at Allen Fieldhouse. That matchup was made official on Wednesday, ...
It is unlikely to impact the Kansas men’s basketball program, but the NCAA on Wednesday announced it was pushing back the date for college basketball players to withdraw from the NBA draft and still return to school. The deadline for underclassmen who retained their college eligibility ...
The Kansas men’s basketball program’s [nonconference schedule was released Wednesday][1] and, as usual, it was packed with notable names and high-profile games. While that has become rather common around the program since head coach Bill Self's arrival in Lawrence 17 years ago, it has ...
The renewal of the series with bitter border rival Missouri highlights the 2020-21 slate of nonconference games for the Kansas men’s basketball program. The full nonconference schedule, released Wednesday afternoon, features the usual mix of games against some of the nation’s top programs ...