Free State senior Claire Covert was determined to get back to the state tournament for a third and final time in 2020. As the only senior on the varsity squad, Covert helped lead the way for the FSHS girls golf team at the regional meet. Covert was one of four individuals to finish inside the ...
Lawrence High head coach Steve Rampy wasn’t surprised in the least to see who made the game-clinching stop on a two-point conversion in the team’s 21-20 victory over Olathe North Friday night at LHS. Senior linebacker Cole Mondi came through when his team needed him the most, making the ...
The 10th-ranked Kansas women’s soccer team improved to 4-1 on the season with its fourth 1-0 victory of the season, this one over No. 8 Oklahoma State on Friday night at Rock Chalk Park. The lone goal of the match, an unassisted strike from KU senior Ceri Holland, came in the 41st minute of ...
Citing “personal issues,” Kansas senior Silvio De Sousa announced Friday afternoon on Twitter that he was leaving the KU basketball program. “I have a lot of things weighing on my mind and need to address these by taking time for myself and stepping away from basketball,” De Sousa ...
— Kansas (0-3 overall, 0-2 Big 12) at West Virginia (2-1, 1-1) • 11 a.m. Central kickoff, Milan Puskar Stadium • Game-time forecast: 51 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live coverage and follow our ...
A recent conversation with an old friend sparked an idea that could change the typical flow of the preseason for Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks. Speaking via telephone with former KU assistant and current East Carolina head coach Joe Dooley, Self was caught off guard by ...
There will not be fans in the Allen Fieldhouse stands to usher in another college basketball season, but the Kansas men’s and women’s basketball programs still plan to host Late Night in the Phog this month. The virtual version of the 36th annual event that marks the start of the season ...
After contracting COVID-19 more than a week ago, Les Miles won’t be coaching the Kansas football team at West Virginia after all. KU announced Friday morning that Miles received clearance from Kansas Team Health to travel with the Jayhawks, as was the plan all along. But in a statement Miles ...
Before the question was even finished, Kansas basketball senior Mitch Lightfoot already had begun smiling. Thursday afternoon, a couple of hours before the Jayhawks’ first official practice of the 2020-21 season, Lightfoot, now in his fifth season with the program, was asked about the ...
Nothing about 2020 has felt or will ever seem normal for anyone, including Kansas basketball players who saw a pandemic cancel what they counted on being a lengthy March Madness run. In spite of all the peculiarities that accompanied the pandemic, though, KU big David McCormack discovered some ...
In the fall of 2017, after playing a supporting role for his first three seasons at Kansas, former KU point guard Devonte’ Graham happily grabbed the reins as team leader in a very public celebration at Late Night that fit his personality and matched the adoration the fans had for him. ...
Lawrence High’s offensive line should have no shortage of confidence ahead of the final two games of the regular season before a likely deep postseason run. Last time out, the five players in the trenches for the LHS offense rose to the challenge in its toughest test yet. Lawrence’s o-line ...
The next time a Kansas football player intercepts a pass or recovers an opponent’s fumble it will mark the first time a Jayhawk creates a takeaway in 2020. Three games into its pandemic shortened 10-game season, KU is the only FBS team to have played more than one game and recorded neither ...
Kansas middle blocker Caroline Crawford, the Big 12's preseason pick for conference freshman of the year, was named the Big 12 Rookie of the Week earlier this week. A freshman from nearby Lansing, Crawford appeared in all 10 sets of KU's back-to-back losses to West Virginia last week, playing ...
There has been plenty of chatter this week about how it even would be possible for Kansas football coach Les Miles to coach on Saturday at West Virginia after testing positive for COVID-19 late last week, but it’s CDC guidelines and not Big 12 or NCAA rules that will determine his ...
Like their fall and spring sports counterparts before them, all NCAA Division I winter sports athletes have been granted an additional year of eligibility and an extra year in which to use it. The NCAA’s Division I Council voted Wednesday to pass a proposal for relief for winter sports ...
Free State senior Keegan VanPelt will end a sensational high school tennis career this weekend at the Class 6A state tournament. The two-day event, which is slated to take place at the College Boulevard Activity Center, will begin Friday and end Saturday. VanPelt, who is coming off a ...
A former starting cornerback at Kansas, junior Corione Harris is easing his way back into the defensive lineup this fall as a backup safety. After missing all of the Jayhawks’ preseason practices, as well as the season opener, due to a suspension following an offseason arrest, Harris finally ...
A reserve so under the radar that up until this week he was listed as a safety on the Kansas football roster — even though he plays linebacker — Nick Channel got the sense ahead of the Jayhawks’ most recent game he was in line for his first real taste of action on defense. The sophomore ...
It is no secret that the Kansas offense has had a slow start to the 2020 season. The Jayhawks have averaged just over 14 points per game during their 0-3 start, which includes a total of 21 points in two Big 12 defeats. There probably isn’t one obvious solution to help get this offense back ...
