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Henry Greenstein

hgreenstein@ljworld.com

Henry is the sports editor at the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com, and serves as the KU beat writer while managing day-to-day sports coverage. He previously worked as a sports reporter at The Bakersfield Californian and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., Linguistics) and Arizona State University (M.A., Sports Journalism). Though a native of Los Angeles, he has frequently been told he does not give off "California vibes," whatever that means.

Preview: KU, K-State looking for first conference win in Sunflower Showdown

Kansas coach Lance Leipold tries to treat each game week the same way while also imparting the importance of the Jayhawks’ rivalry matchups. As he acknowledged on Monday in the lead-up to the latest Sunflower Showdown, that has sometimes become a topic of conversation among KU fans as the ...

Former KU assistant leading K-State defense into Sunflower Showdown

During his tenure at Kansas, which spanned two different coaching staffs and several roles across four seasons, Jordan Peterson had the opportunity to fill in as acting defensive coordinator on a pair of occasions. Once, he took over for D.J. Eliot due to COVID-19 late in the winless 2020 ...

Stokes named Big 12’s top freshman; KU picked 3rd

In keeping with his No. 1 ranking in the recruiting class of 2026, Kansas men’s basketball freshman Tyran Stokes was named the Big 12’s preseason freshman of the year in a poll of league coaches released on Thursday morning. Stokes, a 6-foot-8 freshman from Louisville, Kentucky, attended ...

Reeves ready to go after lengthy recovery from shoulder injury

Kansas center Christian Reeves declared at Thursday’s media day that he will be ready to play for the Jayhawks in Friday night’s Late Night in the Phog exhibition game. It’ll be the first time in a long time that Reeves takes to the court without the burden of a right shoulder injury. ...

KU to host Pitt State for exhibition in new version of Late Night

Late Night in the Phog, the traditional season-opening event for Kansas basketball, is at this point a bit removed from its period of greatest prominence. The event was thriving, as KU coach Bill Self recalled over the summer, when he first arrived in the early 2000s. Even a decade later KU ...