The postseason continued for wrestling, while basketball got closer to substate with more meaningful league games, and whether it was playoffs or the regular season, local athletes had winning moments for their teams. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the ...
STILLWATER, Okla. — Kansas coach Bill Self has spoken at length this season — even at his team’s happiest moments, like after KU beat No. 1 Arizona on Feb. 9 — about how he believes his team can reach another level of play when it has all its pieces firmly in place. The way Wednesday ...
STILLWATER, Okla. — Kansas jumped out to a 23-point lead in the first half thanks to a red-hot shooting start for Darryn Peterson, then the Jayhawks held on as Peterson sat out most of the second half and they managed to secure an 81-69 victory over Oklahoma State at Gallagher-Iba Arena on ...
Juliana Hout remembers Lawrence girls wrestling coach Carl Springer telling her this past summer that he found a great new practice partner for her sophomore year. Hout’s practice partner her freshman year graduated, leaving an opening next to her on the wrestling mat. After a freshman ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Redemption, at last, for Mikaela Shiffrin at the Winter Olympics. The American superstar put in two dominant runs to win the women's slalom on Wednesday by a massive 1.50 seconds, ending a run of eight straight Olympic races without a medal for arguably the ...
LIVIGNO, Italy — Su Yiming sat in the snow at the bottom of the snowboarding course, tears rolling down his cheeks. So close to winning China its first gold at the Milan Cortina Games, he still had a long wait to endure. Luckily for Su, one by one his rivals either fell or came up short of ...
