KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are accustomed to picking near the end of the first round of the NFL draft every year. They'll be picking there again this year. Only this time, they also have a top-10 selection. The Chiefs earned the ninth overall selection because of their 6-11 ...
One of the people principally responsible for shaping the basketball career of new Kansas forward Keanu Dawes was a Jayhawk himself. “It was neat when Keanu told me that he was going there,” said Brett Nixon, Dawes’ high school coach at Stratford High in Houston. “Pretty ...
The status of Kansas center Paul Mbiya has become a bit of an enigma in recent days. On April 6, the day before the transfer window opened, 247Sports and On3 reported that Mbiya planned to enter the portal. But by all accounts and according to reports in the days since, he has not actually ...
Between two City Showdown matchups and large invitationals across several sports, local athletes performed in big moments while representing their schools. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: AJ Collins, Free State Free State softball beat Lawrence 4-3 on ...
A former Kansas Jayhawk made an unprecedented move across enemy lines on Thursday morning, as Bryson Tiller announced on The Field of 68’s livestream that he has committed to Missouri in the transfer portal. Tiller will be a redshirt sophomore for the Tigers when he meets KU in a Border War ...
Kansas is on the board with its first transfer-portal commitment. Utah forward Keanu Dawes committed to KU, his agent Brandon Grier confirmed to the Journal-World on Thursday morning. Dawes, who was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in Houston, started his career at Rice before playing two ...
