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Jayhawks eager to practice again

On a busy Wednesday in the Big 12, University of Kansas Athletic Director Jeff Long spent a portion of his afternoon over at the football team’s indoor practice facility addressing the Jayhawks. Hours after the conference officially announced its plans to try and play fall sports during the ...

Schedule uncertainty led to preseason pause for Jayhawks

It’s been a strange preseason for the Kansas football team to say the least. As recently as Tuesday it remained to be seen whether the Big 12 would try to play this fall. Then came some good news for the Jayhawks that the conference would keep at it, even though the Big Ten and Pac-12 had ...

KU teammates Azubuike, Dotson project as 2nd-rounders in newest mock draft

There weren’t 30 better college basketball players than Kansas stars Udoka Azubuike and Devon Dotson in the shortened 2019-20 season. But at least that many prospects from the NCAA ranks and overseas are expected to get selected before the pair of Jayhawks in this year’s NBA ...

Ranking KU football’s 2020 matchups, from most to least winnable

http://www2.kusports.com/photos/2020/jan/01/330612/ If the oddsmakers in Las Vegas are correct, the second season of the Les Miles era at the University of Kansas won’t be that much more successful than his debut run with the Jayhawks in 2019. Consider the key players KU has lost from last ...

Devonte’ Graham a top candidate for NBA’s Most Improved Player award

The 2019-20 NBA season remains on a prolonged pause as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its return seems more in doubt than a certainty. Regardless of whether he gets to play another game this season, former Kansas star Devonte’ Graham should find himself in contention for one of the ...

Paul Pierce’s all-time KU starting 5 goes heavy in frontcourt

Without any NBA games or March Madness to discuss, the crew from ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” decided to take a nostalgic approach earlier this week and have former players, including 1997-98 Kansas All-American Paul Pierce, assemble their all-time teams. The task was an easy one for Pierce ...