When safety Landon Nelson joined the Kansas football team as a 168-pound preferred walk-on who “didn’t talk at all," then-first-year head coach Lance Leipold and strength coach Matt Gildersleeve saw potential in him. “They forced me to be uncomfortable,” Nelson said. “They forced me ...
In three straight years, the Kansas alumni team in The Basketball Tournament has exited in the round of 16, and in each of the last two the former Jayhawks have come just three points away from a trip to the quarterfinals. Twice their vanquisher was Heartfire and once it was Team Colorado, ...
Updated 3:20 p.m. Friday, July 25, 2025: On Monday, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said he was looking for an experienced player who could run the point to serve as an “insurance policy” for this year’s roster; by Friday, he had a commitment from that type of player. Former ...
Coming up on Aug. 23 is the start of Jalon Daniels’ final season. Coming later on is another season just over a year away in which KU no longer has Daniels as its starting quarterback — something it hasn’t experienced since 2021. The rest of the Jayhawks’ quarterback room, headlined ...
In past years, Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels took on a particular look when he was truly locked in. Strength coach Matt Gildersleeve called it his “game-day eyes” — presumably because it was most closely associated with some dozen days a year on which the Jayhawks were about to go to ...
Former Kansas guard Zeke Mayo has signed to play professional basketball for Ironi Kiryat Ata in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, the team announced on Instagram on Thursday. Mayo’s agency ADS Sports Management also shared the news on social media and wished its client a “long, ...
