NBC has done a nice job through decades of Olympic coverage at shining a light on athletes overcoming odds, turning obstacles into opportunities, tears of agony into joyful sobs.NBC, meet Andrea Geubelle, one of three women representing the United States in the triple jump in the Games of the ...

Wednesday, the Big 12 Conference released this year’s preseason all-conference football selections as voted by the media.As you might have guessed, no Kansas University players were mentioned.Because it’s just the preseason, the list was limited to a first-team offense, a first-team ...

Anyone not willing to acknowledge that the SEC ranks ahead of every other college football conference views it through green glasses colored so by envy.As for the best quarterback conference, the Big 12 rules in terms of talent, excitement and famous genes.Three of the 10 projected starting ...

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 ...