Ask the Kansas football players how much better this year’s team is compared to last year’s and they’ll tell you the difference is night and day.Ask second-year head coach David Beaty the same question and you’ll get a different, more diplomatic answer.The tone of his voice and the look ...

As if the bar for acceptable behavior in matters far more important than sports had not been lowered enough in recent months, swimmer Ryan Lochte managed to lower it to new depths.He trashed a gas-station bathroom in Rio, and he and two of his Olympic buddies were confronted by a security guard ...

In less than two weeks, the Kansas football team will have a winning record for the first time since before the Jayhawks took a 41-3 beating at the hands of fellow basketball powerhouse Duke in Durham, N.C., on Sept. 13, 2014.Rhode Island, which plays out of the Football Championship ...

Just as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, volleyball stars rise in the West and set, block, dig and kill in the West. Or so goes the stereotype blown to bits last autumn.“I think there are still some volleyball people who remember what happened 15, 20 years ago and still think ...

Al Kelley never did take me up on my standing offer, but that never stopped me from making it. He had my favorite laugh in Lawrence, deep and throaty, and I never grew tired of hearing it.A member of the Kansas 1952 national-championship basketball team and a gold medalist for USA in the 1960 ...

Texas is ranked No. 2 in the nation in women’s volleyball, Kansas No. 5.Two of KU’s three losses during a 30-3, 2015 season came to Texas, the national runner-up, the third loss to Nebraska, the national champion.Both Texas and Kansas are coming off of Final Four appearances and interest in ...