He doesn’t officially start his job as 11th athletic director in University of Kansas history until Aug. 1, so it’s no surprise that Jeff Long isn't ready to state a definitive position on the dormant rivalry with Missouri. He doesn’t yet know the sentiments of Kansas alumni on the ...
It was important to Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod to land an athletic director who has a national profile. First, Kansas utility man Drue Jennings, the first person Girod turned to when he knew it was time to find a new AD, said so at Jeff Long’s introductory press conference ...
If you’re a college football coach fighting for your job, you have to take at least a little comfort in knowing that, if all the players you have in camp qualify academically and stick around, you’ll have a roster stocked with 47 juniors and seniors recruited on scholarship, as compared to ...
Dreams take the sleeping mind to such strange places, so different from anywhere the waking mind wanders. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that young people so often are willing to take wild detours to places so different from where they imagined they would travel to pursue their career ...
Now that Sheahon Zenger is gone, the length of the Kansas football coach’s tenure will be based purely on what’s best for the university’s future, not what’s best for anybody else’s job security. Firing Beaty would have been the same as Zenger firing himself because there was no way ...
Fundraising, facilities upgrades, running a department in a cost-efficient, classy manner, compliance, hiring coaches in non-revenue sports, those all are important aspects of any athletic director’s job. But in the end, the way most ADs are remembered is by the performance of the football ...
The punchy, popular and somewhat impatient question floating around following Thursday’s announcement of the hiring of Jeff Long as the new athletic director at the University of Kansas was short and sweet. Was this a good hire? People from all walks of life will, and certainly already do, ...
Never let it be said that right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn isn’t willing to go the extra 10,000 miles to advance his baseball education. A Topeka native who earned second-team All-Big 12 honors for the University of Kansas this past spring, Zeferjahn had been in North Carolina last week, pitching ...
Svi Mykhailiuk’s prospects for success as an NBA rookie just took a gigantic leap forward with Sunday night’s news that LeBron James decided to sign a four-year, $154-million deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, who drafted Svi in the second round last month. This is how it works for ...
Running back Anthony "Pooka" Williams and quarterback Miles Kendrick were the most celebrated signings recruited to spice up a sluggish offense, but unless Kansas significantly upgrades its offensive line, newcomers and holdovers alike at skill positions won’t have space to show their ...
TOPEKA — His junior year soccer season at Oak Park High in Kansas City, Mo., was winding down, basketball season around the corner, when Ochai Agbaji received a couple of scholarship offers to play Division I basketball. That was when he decided to finish up his soccer career to concentrate ...
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 ...