From dog food to pocketknives and everything in between, University of Kansas players and coaches held forth on a variety of subjects over the course of 2025. The Journal-World’s KU sports coverage captured what the Jayhawks had to say at their highest and lowest moments. Here are some of ...
It’s difficult to distill an entire year of college sports action into a single cohesive story, but the year 2025 in Kansas Athletics certainly saw many of KU’s recent coaching hires begin to bear fruit. Dan Fitzgerald (baseball), Lindsay Kuhle (women’s golf), Nate Lie (soccer) and Matt ...
The Kansas baseball team has 29 newcomers on its roster ahead of the 2026 season. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Jayhawks had 27 last year, and managed to mold that entirely new group into one that produced the best season in the program’s recent history and earned a trip to the ...
As good as Kansas was at the plate last season — and the Jayhawks both got on base and hit for power as well as anyone in their conference — they were noticeably lacking in a particular area on offense, one that head coach Dan Fitzgerald mentioned during the year and he said continued to ...
Amid all of the roster turnover that the Kansas baseball team endured this offseason, KU always had a foundational piece in the fold in pitcher Dominic Voegele. The question, entering his third collegiate season, is whether the Jayhawks’ ace can retain the form that earned him Big 12 ...
The Kansas baseball roster was not, as head coach Dan Fitzgerald would put it, decimated by the 2025 MLB Draft in the same way it had been the previous summer. KU did have a pair of key players forgo their senior seasons to sign professional contracts. Alex Breckheimer, the Jayhawks’ closer ...
Monday was a big day for Daniel Lopez. It was his 19th birthday, for one. It was also a day on which, as he was working out at the gym, he learned the Baltimore Orioles had picked him in the 12th round of the MLB Draft, No. 364 overall. “I just started getting random texts,” Lopez ...
Michael Brooks, a versatile infielder who spent three years at Kansas as one of the foundational pieces of Dan Fitzgerald's rebuild, has signed as an undrafted free agent with the Athletics, KU announced on Wednesday afternoon. Brooks played primarily at second base during his fifth and final ...
