Lawrence High School football coach Steve Rampy will be leaving the program to become the head coach at Staley High School in the Kansas City area, the schools announced Saturday. Rampy, who led the Lions to an 18-11 record in three seasons at the helm, told the Journal-World that he ...
Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider and his players are doing their best to navigate a strange season. The pandemic, COVID protocols and injuries, too, have wreaked havoc with the Jayhawks’ calendar. “I’ve had teams where we were short on numbers but we still got to ...
Lawrence High's boys basketball team secured a road win over Mill Valley Friday night on Jan. 15, 2021. Photos by Chance Parker/Lawrence Journal-World
The Veritas boys basketball team lost its first game since December, suffering a 89-60 road loss to the Wichita Warriors on Friday. Both teams were all tied up at 22-all after the first quarter, but the Wichita Warriors rolled after that starting with a 30-point effort in the second period. ...
Lawrence High’s girls basketball team faltered down the stretch in a hard-fought 37-35 loss to Mill Valley Friday night at LHS. The Lions took a 30-27 lead into the final quarter, but were unable to hang on in the end. The Jaguars closed it out by scoring 10 points in the final period, which ...
Free State’s girls basketball team couldn’t overcome Olathe Northwest’s perimeter shooting in a 50-37 loss at Olathe Northwest on Friday. The Ravens knocked down nine shots from outside, which allowed them to go on runs throughout the game. The Firebirds (1-3) hung tough all night, but ...
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self has always demanded that his teams play great defense. But after watching Oklahoma State carve up KU’s D and hit KU for 37 points in transition during Tuesday night’s loss in Stillwater, Okla., Self said he wanted his current team to get a better ...
Make that four wins in a row for the Free State boys basketball team. Thanks to a stingy defensive effort in the second half, Free State secured a 42-33 win over Olathe Northwest Friday night at FSHS. The Firebirds (5-1, No. 9 in Class 6A) have now won four consecutive games, a streak that ...
If a slow second quarter left anyone wondering what was going on with the third-ranked Lawrence High boys basketball team, the Lions put all concerns to rest by blazing through the second half in a 57-31 victory at Mill Valley on Friday night. Led by 23 points from junior forward Pearse Long ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team’s Saturday home game with Iowa State has been postponed because of COVID-19 protocol issues within the ISU program. Both schools announced the postponement just before 7 p.m. Friday night, with Iowa State officials saying the Cyclones have “paused ...
As Kansas football head coach Les Miles and his staff continue trying to rebuild the program, they hope their next incoming recruiting class will end up including some helpful walk-ons. The Jayhawks on Friday picked up the commitment of offensive lineman Hank Kelly, who was recruited as a ...
No. 6 Kansas Jayhawks (10-3 overall, 4-2 Big 12) vs. Iowa State Cyclones (2-7 overall, 0-5 Big 12) Time: 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021 Location: Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kan. TV: Big 12 Now / ESPN+ | Radio: IMG Jayhawk Radio Network Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog ...
For shooters on Bill Self’s teams, there’s a five-letter word that’s just as bad as any four-letter swear word: “slump.” “I don’t like it if a guy were ever — a shooter — to ever admit that he’s in a slump,” Self said Friday. And to his credit, sophomore guard Christian ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday upheld convictions against a sports marketer, an aspiring agent and a financial adviser in a college basketball scandal that spoiled the careers of several coaches. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said in its ...
Big 12 Men's Basketball Standings TeamBig 12Overall Baylor4-011-0 Texas4-110-2 Texas Tech4-211-3 Kansas4-210-3 Oklahoma St.3-39-3 Oklahoma3-37-4 West Virginia2-39-4 TCU2-49-5 Kansas St.1-45-8 Iowa St.0-52-7 Saturday's Games Iowa St. at Kansas, 1 p.m. TCU at West Virginia, ...
Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts (All times Central) COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN'S) 4 p.m. CBSSN — Marshall at Western Kentucky ESPNU — Alabama (Birmingham) at Charlotte 6 p.m. CBSSN — Bowling Green at Buffalo ESPN2 — Duquesne at St. Bonaventure ESPNU — Cleveland ...
With only eight players available and scarce practice time in recent weeks to prepare the Kansas women’s basketball team for its first meeting this season with a ranked opponent, the Jayhawks’ upset bid fell short Thursday night at No. 21 Texas. Playing without a pair of 6-foot-2 forwards, ...
Kansas freshman Bryce Thompson had surgery on his broken right index finger Thursday morning and a timetable for his return remains unknown. Talking on his regular “Hawk Talk” radio show on Thursday night, Kansas coach Bill Self said Thompson’s surgery “went very, very well,” and ...
Given the way he started the season, exploding onto the college basketball scene as one of the country’s top breakout players, Jalen Wilson’s past two games have not exactly lived up to the standard he set for himself. In a [close-call KU win over Oklahoma][1] at home last weekend and ...
Despite a late schedule change, Free State’s wrestling team was business as usual during its 69-12 win at Blue Valley West on Wednesday. The meet was originally supposed to be a double dual at Olathe Northwest before a quarantine forced everybody to improvise. The Firebirds responded by ...
