A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will upend the way college sports have been run for more than a century. In short, schools can now directly pay players through licensing deals — a concept that goes against the foundation of amateurism ...

A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that ...

Updated 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 6: The Kansas athletic department is on track to be “right around budget” for the fiscal year 2025 that concludes at the end of June, Chief Financial Officer Pat Kaufman told members of the board of directors on Friday. It’s a significant shift from KU ...

Just as Kansas fans familiarized themselves with a whole new group of Jayhawks at the start of the 2025 season — which proved to be a rewarding pursuit, given how successful the fresh group of recruits ultimately was — they will have to do the same ahead of 2026. The extent to which this ...

Updated 2:07 p.m. Wednesday, June 4: Lawrence’s two women’s college basketball programs will share the same floor in an official game for the first time in more than 50 years. The Kansas women’s basketball team is hosting Haskell Indian Nations University at Allen Fieldhouse on Dec. ...

Updated 2:28 p.m. Monday, June 2: Kansas coach Dan Fitzgerald’s first two seasons at the helm suggested incremental progress each year, but in 2025 the Jayhawks took a significant leap forward. Relying on a team essentially built from scratch after the 2024 MLB Draft derailed some of KU’s ...