In the seven months since the NCAA made profiting on one’s name, image and likeness legal, athletes at the University of Kansas have cashed in on close to half a million dollars. KU Athletic Director Travis Goff on Thursday morning provided an update on KU’s NIL statistics to the Kansas ...
Kansas Athletics recently announced that student-athletes at KU set a school record with a combined 90% Graduation Success Rate for student-athletes who began their full-time collegiate careers in the fall of 2014. The graduation success rate measures the number of scholarship student-athletes ...
Kansas Team Health is turning to a member of the United States Olympic Training Center to replace retiring head team physician Larry Magee at the end of the year. KU on Friday announced the hiring of Dr. Jarrod Harrall as Kansas Team Health’s new head primary care team physician. Harrall will ...
Twenty-nine days after the NCAA’s new name, image and likeness rule went into effect, the University of Kansas launched a four-tiered policy on how to navigate the new era of college athletics. Dubbed “Jayhawks Ascend,” the program is designed do everything from provide entrepreneurial ...
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday the time is right to consider a decentralized and deregulated version of college sports, shifting power to conferences and campuses and reconsidering how schools are aligned.Emmert said the recent Supreme Court ruling against the NCAA along with the ...
The names of 61 University of Kansas athletes appeared on the Big 12 Conference’s 2020-21 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team, with 13 first-year Jayhawks earning a 4.0 grade point average.KU had the third-most honorees in the Big 12, trailing Texas’ 96 and West Virginia’s 63.The 13 KU ...
As the University of Kansas athletic department continues to move forward into post-pandemic operations, the Kansas Athletics, Inc., Board of Directors on Monday unanimously approved a $100 million budget for Fiscal Year 2022, which runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. That number is ...
A federal law governing how college athletes can earn money off their fame and celebrity seems certain to pass — at some point.There is no real debate among lawmakers on Capitol Hill about whether athletes should be permitted to monetize their name, image and likeness.“There is broad ...
