Sports

Athletes of the Week: Joey Dooley and Shea Griffith

More fall sports concluded over the weekend as local athletes performed at their peak in state competitions. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Joey Dooley, Lawrence Dooley was nearly perfect through the air in Lawrence's 52-7 win over Shawnee Mission ...

KU volleyball takes down Iowa State 3-1 in road match

The Kansas volleyball team stretched its win streak to four matches on Sunday with a 3-1 victory (25-19, 23-25, 25-17, 25-23) over Iowa State at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Junior outside hitter Grace Nelson matched her career high with 18 kills, including the decisive one on match point, ...

Preview: KU opens season against Fordham

The Kansas men’s basketball team learned quite a bit about its makeup in exhibition games against Louisville and Duke, even as neither went its way. “For me personally, I view both those teams as national championship contenders,” center Christian Reeves said. “... I think we fought. I ...

What we learned from KU’s loss to TCU

FORT WORTH, Texas — The final word in Saturday’s postgame media availability, after one of the more dispiriting losses of Lance Leipold’s tenure as head coach, went to junior cornerback Jalen Todd. Todd was asked about KU’s recurring issue of losing games in which it had led at ...