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Key storylines entering spring practice for KU football

The Kansas football team will begin spring practice on Thursday morning, providing the first look at a reconstituted roster that will attempt to elevate the KU program during the 2026 season. The Jayhawks lost much of their skill-position talent from 2025, a campaign in which they finished 5-7 ...

Free State girls soccer loses 2-0 in season opener to Olathe Northwest

Free State girls soccer lost its season opener 2-0 on Tuesday to Olathe Northwest after a slow start put the Firebirds behind the Ravens. The Ravens started the game with an aggressive attitude that took the Firebirds some time to adjust to, and the Firebirds also had to knock off a little bit ...

How will Darryn Peterson’s year be remembered?

SAN DIEGO — The college career of the player Bill Self called the best he had ever recruited at Kansas ended with a futile half-jump. Twenty-two feet away from the hoop into which St. John’s point guard Dylan Darling was about to deposit the basketball for a game-winning layup, there stood ...

A look into the future of the KU men’s basketball roster

SAN DIEGO — What happened on the dais in the media tent just outside Viejas Arena on Sunday afternoon ensured that any assessment of the upcoming Kansas men’s basketball offseason must come with a very big asterisk. In stating after KU’s loss to St. John’s that he hasn’t decided yet ...