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 ...
Several student-athletes at the University of Kansas delivered a memorable performance in the classroom during the recently completed spring semester. In recording an overall grade-point average of 3.40 across all sports this spring, all 14 of KU’s scholarship programs topped the 3.0 mark and ...
The Kansas baseball team was only at the Big 12 tournament for one day last week, but that was long enough for freshman shortstop Maui Ahuna to make his presence felt. Ahuna was the lone Jayhawk named to the Big 12’s all-tournament team after tearing up West Virginia in the conference play-in ...
