After opening with three birdies on the front nine during the first round of the Travelers Championship on Thursday in Connecticut, former Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland struggled to get home. Woodland shot a 3-over par 38 on the back nine, which included a double bogey on the par-5 13th ...
In the month since the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has spent a lot of time thinking about race, social injustice and ways he can help. Self also has done a lot of talking about the issues, including the Black Lives ...
Former Kansas point guard Frank Mason III knows a thing or two about collecting trophies. But just in case he forgot how to do it, Mason got a chance to sharpen those skills Thursday, when he was named the NBA G League’s 2019-20 Most Valuable Player. Voted on by the league’s 28 head ...
Although the pandemic put a wrench in their softball plans, four seniors at Eudora High School got the sendoff they were looking for on Wednesday afternoon. One of 32 teams participating in a one-day event put on by Midwest Sports Productions with the approval of the Kansas State High School ...
After 32 years with the same equipment manager, the Kansas football program is preparing for Year 1 of a new regime. KU on Wednesday announced that Blake Kuenzi (pronounced Ken-zee) had been hired as the program’s head football equipment manager, taking over for Jeff Himes, who retired at ...
Toss Kansas basketball coach Bill Self into the camp of those who believe the absence of pre-draft workouts might actually help the two former Jayhawks eligible for this year’s NBA draft. On a special edition of his “Hawk Talk” radio show on Tuesday night, Self said the fact that NBA ...
NCAA President Mark Emmert visited with The Athletic’s Seth Davis this week to discuss the outlook for fall and winter sports in 2020. Like many administrators trying to monitor the pandemic and plan for the upcoming seasons, Emmert made it clear that the key piece of information driving ...
I’ve long been a believer that baseball, in the world we currently live in, is in need of a tweak or two that brings a little excitement and urgency to the ballpark. And it appears as if Major League Baseball is on the brink of delivering that. At least temporarily. No, the decision to ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self will tell you that no one knows at present day exactly what the 2020-21 college basketball season will look like. But given that the KU coach has always had a hint of optimist in him, he’ll also tell you that he feels confident that there will be a season. ...
Bishop Seabury Academy’s athletic teams are officially joining a conference. Beginning in the fall of 2021, Seabury will compete in the newly formed Kaw Valley Conference, the school announced this week. The KVC will include five other schools — Heritage Christian Academy in Olathe, KC ...
For a few months last fall and winter, Kansas guards Ochai Agbaji, Devon Dotson and Marcus Garrett staged a regular competition that led to the 2019-20 Jayhawks becoming one of the best takeaway teams of the Bill Self era. Those three Jayhawks pushed each other, and their teammates, to swipe ...
The Kansas football program made the latest cut for three-star wide receiver Keon Coleman — and if he becomes a Jayhawk, he might play at Allen Fieldhouse as well as on the football field. The 6-foot-4, 188-pound playmaker from Opelousas Catholic in Louisiana announced his final three on ...
While waiting for the 2020 college football season to kick off, three veteran football writers at ESPN recently drafted their favorite college seasons in history — and Kansas was a factor in two of them. Naturally, one of those mentions on the [15-season draft][1] by Bill Connelly, Ivan ...
Former Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland never quite got going this week at the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head, S.C., where he shot 6-under for the tournament to finish tied for 62nd. Woodland made the cut on Friday by shooting 5-under during the first two rounds. But he shot ...
The University of Kansas football program announced Saturday that one player has tested positive for COVID-19 and another had a positive test for the COVID-19 antibodies. The two positive tests came after 86 players and 110 KU staff members were tested during the past couple of weeks as KU's ...
The Kansas football program picked up a commitment from 3-star safety Omar Burroughs on Friday afternoon. Burroughs, of Savannah, Ga., is headed to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., to finish his high school career. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound defensive back announced his commitment on Twitter ...
Former KU golfer Gary Woodland shot 3-under and moved up 19 spots in the standings at the RBC Heritage by the time his second round was finished on Friday morning. Woodland opened his round with a bogey but responded by carding five birdies and just one more bogey the rest of the day. His ...
After a slow start to his round on Thursday at the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C., former University of Kansas golf standout Gary Woodland finished on a hot streak for the second week in a row. After shooting a 2-over par 38 on the front nine, Woodland carded birdies ...
Kansas coach Bill Self’s personal attorney has informed the NCAA, college sports’ governing body, that the Hall of Fame coach is considering legal action against the NCAA for its handling of the violations case involving Self and the Kansas men's basketball program. Scott Tompsett, ...
While the NBA continues to sort out the details of its 2019-20 season resumption in Orlando later this summer, one key decision sets up potential good news for a couple of former Jayhawks. According to reports, the NBA rosters inside the Orlando bubble starting next month are expected to ...
