Baseball, such a grinder sport, offers no shortcuts. Each step up in competition requires more adjustments. Sometimes, even when a player is ready, he doesn’t know it and needs something to break the dam of pressure.It even can happen to a team all at once.Kansas University baseball coach ...
Kansas University track hurdler Michael Stigler repeated as the Male Athlete of the Year, while volleyball player Caroline Jarmoc won Female Athlete of the Year at Sunday’s third-annual Rock Chalk Choice Awards at Lied Center.The volleyball team also won the Team GPA and CHAMPS (community ...
Former Kansas University pitcher Brett Bochy has joined the San Francisco Giants, where he will become the first pitcher to be coached by his father in the major leagues.The Giants purchased Brett Bochy’s contract, and he joined the big-league team Tuesday in Colorado.“This is what you ...
Kansas University closer Stephen Villines earned second-team Freshman All-America honors, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association announced Monday.“It is a tremendous honor to even be considered for an honor like this,” Villines said. “I have to give credit to the whole team ...
Five Kansas University baseball players were drafted on the final day of the Major League Baseball amateur draft on Saturday.Senior pitcher Frank Duncan went in the 13th round to the Pirates; junior left fielder Michael Suiter went in the 24th to the White Sox; the Angels drafted senior pitcher ...
With the 156th pick of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft, the Texas Rangers selected Kansas University baseball’s junior left-handed pitcher Wes Benjamin Friday afternoon.“I am absolutely thrilled for Wes,” Kansas coach Ritch Price said. “It is a great compliment to Wes to be ...
Not so long ago, the family of a minor-league baseball player would have to wait for The Sporting News to arrive in the mail or get filled in on an expensive, weekly long-distance phone call to track their son’s performance in far-away towns.Not now.Kansas University baseball coach Ritch ...
And then there was one.Four city high school products earned trips to the NCAA Baseball Tournament, but just one advanced out of the regional round Sunday.Free State graduate Tim Lewis, left fielder for Maryland, went 1-for-5 with two runs and an RBI in the Terps’ 10-1 rout of top-seeded ...
