It could be some time before any Kansas baseball player dethrones Curtis Shaw — the No. 42 overall selection to the Athletics in 1990 — as the highest-drafted Jayhawk ever. But former KU pitcher Hunter Cranton tied for second when he went to Seattle at No. 91 two summers ago, and KU has a ...

The Kansas baseball coaches know all too well that an MLB Draft can unexpectedly deplete a pitching staff. Two summers ago, head coach Dan Fitzgerald remarked at one point that KU surely wouldn’t either keep or lose everyone who was eligible for the draft, and then the Jayhawks proceeded to ...

Taking advantage of new NCAA rules that allow teams to sport corporate logos, Kansas Athletics announced on Wednesday morning that every KU sports uniform will feature an XRP patch as part of a “multi-year partnership” with Ripple. Ripple is a technology company of which KU alumnus and ...

Olivia Bruno needed a second opinion. When the former two-way standout for Kansas softball got a message in February from an Italian club team asking if she wanted to play for them, she had to consult Morgan Zerkle, her boss at Marshall. “I showed her the DM and I was like, ‘Is this ...

The Kansas softball team reached new heights, at least for Jennifer McFalls’ eight-year tenure as head coach, by earning a postseason bid in 2026. Now the work of replicating that performance continues, and the Jayhawks will have to go forward without an influential class of seniors that ...

In his previous stops as a baseball coach, Dan Fitzgerald worked with some talented players who went on to great success. Fitzgerald recruited Scott Schebler, from Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Des Moines Area Community College in what he described to The Athletic as his ...