Frisco, Texas — Tight end DeShawn Hanika had the opportunity to represent Kansas at Big 12 media days this week before ever playing a snap for the Jayhawks. “It’s a true honor,” Hanika said on Wednesday. “I think for me, it just shows how much trust coach (Lance) Leipold has in me, ...
Frisco, Texas — When Lance Leipold was an assistant coach at Nebraska-Omaha, the start of the football season was quite a ways away from July 24 — the day on which he and his wife Kelly were wed in 1999. “I got married, went on a week’s honeymoon, came back and still had over a week ...
Frisco, Texas — Kansas coach Lance Leipold didn’t know quarterback Jalon Daniels was bringing his receiving corps to California until the plan was already in motion. Whether it was actually Daniels’ idea, though, or instead originated from Alabama transfer Emmanuel Henderson Jr., is up ...
Frisco, Texas — Kansas center Bryce Foster was originally announced as a representative of the KU football team at Big 12 media days on Wednesday at Ford Center at The Star, but was unable to attend due to a recent “cleanup” medical procedure, head coach Lance Leipold said. “Bryce had ...
Frisco, Texas — Kansas athletic director Travis Goff and the rest of the athletic department have long repeated that the David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium renovation process is on time and on budget for the Jayhawks’ season opener against Fresno State on Aug. 23. Now, though, the stadium ...
Updated 1:50 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, 2025: Frisco, Texas — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark, in his opening remarks at the conference’s media days at Ford Center at The Star on Tuesday morning, said he expects the league “to earn multiple College Football Playoff bids this year and to ...
Kansas center Bryce Foster was named to the Big 12’s preseason all-conference team, the league announced on Monday afternoon. The honor for Foster, who was the only Jayhawk selected, follows his second-team all-league honor at the conclusion of the 2024 season, which was his first year at ...
Precious few players occupy the college football spotlight for so long that they represent their schools four separate times at conference media days, but few players have career arcs quite like that of Jalon Daniels. Daniels has been Kansas’ starting quarterback for long enough that he has ...