The latest attempt at a spring football league has been formed by a merger of two others, and the new league’s rosters contain four players who finished their college football careers at the ...
FootballWalt Wesley, a member of Kansas’ 1965-66 conference championship team and one of the legendary Jayhawks whose jerseys hang in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, died Thursday morning in Tampa, Florida, KU Athletics announced. He was 79. A two-time All-American with the Jayhawks, the 6-foot-11 ...
Salt Lake City — Before Kansas even started its run in the NCAA Tournament, head coach Bill Self gave a glimpse into how he viewed the Jayhawks' up-and-down campaign when he was asked what he considered the most challenging part of the season. "I would say really probably not knowing day to ...
The physical tools are certainly in place for Kansas running back Harry Stewart III. The early-enrolling freshman from Frisco, Texas, is listed at 5-foot-10, 215 pounds, but that doesn’t tell the whole story; strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said last week, speaking to Stewart’s immediate ...
The latest attempt at a spring football league has been formed by a merger of two others, and the new league’s rosters contain four players who finished their college football careers at the University of Kansas. After the XFL and USFL announced their merger on Dec. 31 to form the United ...
Kansas linebacker Cornell Wheeler’s collegiate career has rarely been allowed to continue on a linear upward trajectory. “Cornell’s had some really good weeks in the program and then something’s always happened that unfortunately set him back,” head coach Lance Leipold said. Two ...
Kansas senior point guard Wyvette Mayberry will use her extra year of COVID-19 eligibility and return to the team next season, she announced on Instagram Thursday afternoon. Mayberry had gone through senior-night festivities at the end of the season, casting some doubt on whether she would be ...
In a matchup against No. 1 USC, Kansas proved that it could hang with the best of the best, at least for three quarters of play. However, the Jayhawks dropped the second-round NCAA Tournament game 73-55 on Monday night in Los Angeles after coming back multiple times to make things ...
After seeing its momentum cut short at midweek by a home loss to No. 15/16 Missouri on Wednesday, the Kansas softball team bounced back with its second straight Big 12 Conference sweep, this time at Houston. It was the first time in 19 years that the Jayhawks had swept consecutive Big 12 ...
Kansas freshman Johnny Furphy, against Texas on Feb. 24, turned in the sort of 16-point, eight-rebound performance that had become almost routine for him as a first-year college athlete — just two years after the Australian Centre of Excellence discovered him playing for his state’s ...
Spring practice is just a few days away for the Kansas football team, and head coach Lance Leipold has already suggested it could be pretty light at times for some of KU’s more experienced players. And the Jayhawks have quite a few this time around, particularly on offense, where ESPN ranks ...
Kansas City, Mo. — Kansas coach Bill Self has taken great pains to stress in recent weeks that his team just needs to become whole, to get healthy again, and then it can compete with anyone. After the injury-depleted Jayhawks, missing center Hunter Dickinson and guard Kevin McCullar Jr., ...