Nobody knows the identity of the starting quarterback for the upcoming Kansas football season. Nothing new there. That has been the case pretty much every summer since gunslinger Todd Reesing hopped on his horse and rode it back to Austin. The problem, I fear, is that few care anymore as to ...
WICHITA — The beauty of golf’s version of baseball’s Triple A is that, unlike baseball players, golfers don’t reach a point where their paths to the big leagues are blocked by the dreaded “nonprospect” label. In golf, it’s all there on the black and white of the rule book that ...
It’s not at all surprising that Devonte’ Graham was acquired on NBA draft night by Michael Jordan’s franchise, the Charlotte Hornets. For reasons that have nothing to do with Graham and Jordan both growing up in North Carolina, Graham in Raleigh, Jordan 185 miles to the west in Lenoir, ...
Web.com touring pro Chris Thompson fired a 6-under 64 Friday at Crestview Country Club to move into a tie for third halfway through the Wichita Open. Thompson and Ben Kohles are one stroke out of second place and three strokes behind leader Scott Pinckney. Thompson teed off on No. 10, started ...
Sometimes good things really do happen to good people. Devonte’ Graham, a grounded, friendly sort who didn’t allow the gathering fame he experienced in four years at Kansas change him, decided to come back for his senior year of college to give himself a better shot at getting drafted. It ...
Even 10 years later, looking at who should have gone where in the 2008 NBA draft has a subjective element to it. Still, in order to look at it, it helps to find an objective measure that best tells the story of a player’s career. Obviously, rebounds would not be a fair measure, because big ...
Bill Self’s basketball teams always have been known to play tough defense, but in recent seasons, it sunk in to me that what they actually do best is play with an extreme degree of confidence offensively. I attributed noticing that more than ever last season to one of two factors: either an ...
The 118th U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills featured a pair of controversies that not surprisingly were analyzed brilliantly by the Golf Channel, led by the man who consistently shines the brightest on a superstar panel. Brandel Chamblee is to golf what Charles Barkley is to basketball: the best ...
That time of year arrived again Thursday night, that time when Ben McLemore dominates the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic and leaves everyone in the packed gymnasium at Free State High wondering the same thing to themselves as they either line up for autographs or head outside for fresh ...
It seems not at all uncommon for a team’s smallest athlete in the huddle, on the diamond or in the layup line to double as the most confident. Think: Todd Reesing, Jose Altuve, Allen Iverson. It makes sense when you think about it. If they lacked confidence, they wouldn’t dare venture ...
For freshmen, one of the more enjoyable aspects of the first days as Kansas basketball players involves playing with and against NBA athletes that they, in the past, had seen only on television. For example, Devon Dotson was able to meet and share the court with free agent Mario Chalmers, a ...
The question hangs on the minds of every mainstream sports fan who gets into the World Cup every four years and then doesn’t follow the sport very closely until the next World Cup. It goes something like this: How is it that a nation of 325 million people misses qualifying for the World ...
Olathe — All in all, not a bad Sunday afternoon for University of Kansas rising junior golfer Andy Spencer. Withstanding an impressive charge from the ageless Tom Watson himself, Spencer shot even-par 72 to defend his Watson Challenge title by finishing the three-day tournament at Shadow ...
I would label my myriad golf swing thoughts as competing, except that in competitions there generally is a winner and all of my swing thoughts clearly are losers. Given that, I’ve always thought that reading the book “Zen Golf” might be the key to vacuuming the clutter between the ears. ...
Here’s how the popular storyline goes for Kansas and its perennial powerhouse basketball program: After a two-year, personnel-driven shift from a lineup with two post players to just one big man, Hall of Fame basketball coach Bill Self will return to his comfort zone and send two big men onto ...
Seeing a teenage post player competing for the first time generally means listening to opinions of those who don’t come right out and say it but drop hints that they were expecting to see more. “For his size, he didn’t dominate,” is a popular complaint. Or: “You didn’t even ...
For Brandon McAnderson, leading rusher for Kansas during its 12-1 Orange Bowl season, what started as a project intended to help his cousin ended up as a means of helping his alma mater. McAnderson’s first cousin, Brian Lipscomb, had a “monster junior year,” as McAnderson put it, for ...
For college baseball players, it’s not the first impression that lasts the longest, it’s the last one. That reality can only benefit right-hander Jackson Goddard, who finished his University of Kansas baseball career in dominant fashion. Goddard missed six weeks of his junior season, ...
Soon, the story of Michael Jordan getting cut from his high school basketball team will grow to the point that the coach not only cut him, but broke his legs with a baseball bat, prompting doctors to tell Jordan he never again would walk. The truth: As a freshman, Jordan was cut from the ...
Until the University of Kansas selects a new athletic director, which could be as late as mid-August, you no doubt will hear from friends what the next leader’s background should look like. Ideally, many will opine, the candidate must be a young, up-and-comer who has experience as an ...