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 ...
If the recent Scottsdale pow-wow attended by billionaires (with a ‘b’) didn’t cost Sheahon Zenger his job, it obviously didn’t save it. It represented Zenger’s last chance to scratch out a hit with two strikes by getting the heavy hitters to join the chant for a renovated football ...
The best basketball prospect playing Saturday night on Court 3 at Lawrence Sports Pavilion wasn’t difficult to spot. He was the one calling for the ball and, more often than not, wasn't having it passed to him. Such is the fate of AAU centers more often than not it seems. They still benefit ...
Before getting too euphoric over the Supreme Court’s decision to put the fate of legalized sports gambling in the hands of the states, consider the reason that an inordinate number of gamblers still wear polyester disco shirts that went into and out of style in the early 1970s. It’s not ...
When an athlete takes up track and field at the age of 17 and within four months becomes the national junior champion of Moldova, word has a way of spreading to college coaches in the United States. So University of Kansas throws coach Andy Kokhanovsky wasn’t the only one to contact Nicolai ...
Playing softball during her teenage years for the Lawrence Legends, which became the Kansas City Fusion, Jamie Stanclift’s head coach was her father, former University of Kansas softball coach Bob Stanclift and his longtime assistant, Gary Hines.Now Jamie’s father and Hines are working for ...
The search committee, multiple people who would know have told me, recommended University of Kansas Provost Neeli Bendapudi as successor to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, but the regents went with their own choice, Douglas Girod.Right out of the chute, Girod announced a Kansas Athletics’ ...
“Raise the Chant” seems far too ambitious a slogan for the fundraising campaign aimed at giving David Booth company in trying to bring state-of-the-art upgrades to the Kansas football stadium.One must crawl before walking, walk before jogging, jog before sprinting.Given that progression ...