Kansas football players undoubtedly heard all sorts of things from the sold-out Missouri crowd as they prepared to battle the Tigers on Saturday. One thing tight end DeShawn Hanika heard was a fan asking him if he even plays. “To be honest, I love it,” Hanika said. “I heard him. I had ...
The Big 12 Conference has removed an officiating crew from its next scheduled assignment as a result of an error made during Saturday’s game between Kansas and Missouri. According to a statement issued by the conference on Tuesday morning, the crew’s punishment is because it “allowed a ...
Kansas and West Virginia will meet for their Week 4 football game at 5 p.m. on Sept. 20, the Big 12 Conference announced on Monday. It will be the first league matchup contested at the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and the third straight evening game there after KU ...
Columbia, Mo. — DeShawn Hanika tells his fellow tight ends, “We like to live in hell.” It’s a shorthand for a mindset that he and his teammates will have to adopt over the course of the next week and a half, as they embrace the opportunity to battle through their first major adversity ...
Columbia, Mo. — When Kansas coach Lance Leipold explained linebacker Bangally Kamara’s absence against Wagner as a “non-contact injury” and said his status would be “unknown for a while,” it didn’t necessarily give the impression that Kamara would return for KU’s very next ...
Columbia, Mo. — The Kansas offense had barely touched the ball in the second quarter — in fact, the Jayhawks had held it for 14 seconds compared to Missouri’s 810 — when KU regained possession of the ball with three timeouts and just over a minute remaining in the first half. The ...
Columbia, Mo. — Nursing a 31-28 lead, the Kansas football team had Missouri backed up at third-and-17 after a sack by Leroy Harris III with just under seven minutes remaining in Saturday afternoon’s Border War. With a stop, the Jayhawks could have returned possession to their offense with ...
The current Kansas football team is in many ways removed from the era in which the Border War rivalry with Missouri took center stage. KU has players on its roster who were in preschool when the Jayhawks and Tigers played for — until this year — the final time, as part of the 2011 season, ...
