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 ...
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As organizers of the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic continue to stress, the event’s focus will always be on children battling cancer, and indeed it featured six primary beneficiaries in Thursday night’s edition. But in its 17th year, the event expanded for the first time to benefit a parent ...
With all 30 rosters released for the 2025 edition of the NBA Summer League, the full complement of rookies and sophomores from Kansas is now set to participate in this year’s competition. Returnees Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. and newcomers Hunter Dickinson, Dajuan Harris Jr. and ...
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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon judge on Wednesday sentenced former NBA player Ben McLemore to over eight years in prison, a week after a jury found him guilty of raping a woman at a 2021 party at the home of a then-teammate. The ex-Portland Trail Blazer was sentenced to 100 months in prison ...
Frisco, Texas — The announcement of Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s amended six-year contract in June provided some insight into KU’s future plans in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement by suggesting that the baseball program would receive “an increase in ...
Frisco, Texas — The announcement of Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s amended six-year contract in June provided some insight into KU’s future plans in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement by suggesting that the baseball program would receive “an increase in ...
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 ...
This year’s edition of Big 12 media days will give some new Kansas football players a turn in the spotlight. Yes, Jalon Daniels will indeed be in attendance as usual at Ford Center at The Star down in Frisco, Texas, and indeed, he’ll have plenty of time to answer questions from local and ...
The Kansas football team is relying on a greater proportion of transfers for significant contributions during the 2025 season than it has in any other year under Lance Leipold. The ultimate fate of the Jayhawks, though, may well depend on the ability of certain returning players to grow into ...
