I noticed recently that the Kansas University football coaching staff had extended a scholarship offer to Class of 2018 pro-style quarterback Cammon Cooper, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound Utah prospect who already is receiving interest from several big-time programs.While it seems unlikely the Jayhawks ...

Bill Self ranks “hard to guard” as one of the most important qualities in a basketball player when he wears the general manager’s hat and determines which players to offer scholarships.Self likes to have a minimum of four “hard-to-guard,” call it HTG for short, players on the floor at ...

Malik Newman commits to Kansas University out of high school, and the internet breaks, the Mass Street bars sell out of legal beverages, and every baby boy born in Lawrence for the next six months is named Malik.Newman announces he will transfer to KU after a year at Mississippi State, and ...

Quiet body language can lead to misconceptions that cause talent evaluators to miss badly. Wesley Matthews had quiet body language during his career as a four-year starter at Marquette.Muscle-bound point guard Dominic James had remarkable leaping ability, a super-quick first step and was a ...

Steve Kerr knows what it takes to win an NBA championship.He won one as a player when Michael Jordan drove into the lane and hit him with a pass on the perimeter for an open shot in 1997, Game 6 against the Utah Jazz.Kerr won one a year ago as a coach with the Golden State Warriors.So when ...

Kansas University men’s basketball coach Bill Self has one goal when he trades in his whistle for a driver and heads out to the links for a round of golf: He just wants to be one of the guys.With that in mind, the Journal-World caught up with three of the four members of Self’s scramble ...