A new year and the start of the spring semester bring a variety of fresh opportunities for athletes across Kansas’ 16 varsity sports teams. Below are some of the athletes who will have chances to seize the spotlight over the course of 2026. As usual, the only criteria for these selections ...
It may not feature quite as much upheaval as 2025 — accounting for the House v. NCAA settlement while opening a new stadium was certainly quite a lot to handle for the Kansas athletic department — but 2026 will still be a year of change for KU. The university’s Gateway project is really ...
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 ...
The Kansas softball team is still looking for its first trip to the NCAA Tournament under head coach Jennifer McFalls, and first since 2015 overall, following a lackluster 2025 campaign. After a slide late in the 2024 season had caused them to narrowly miss the postseason, the veteran Jayhawks ...
No. 8 seed Baylor hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the fifth inning to break open a tie game, and the ninth-seeded Kansas softball team lost 7-3 in the first round of the Big 12 tournament on Wednesday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. After KU right fielder Aynslee Linduff had driven in ...
The Kansas softball team will open the Big 12 tournament against the only team it has beaten in a Big 12 series this season. No. 9 seed KU (22-27, 6-18 Big 12) will face No. 8 Baylor (26-26, 11-13) on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Devon Park at Oklahoma City, and the series in which the Jayhawks ...
The University of Kansas softball team was one out away from a Big 12 Conference win over UCF Sunday afternoon at Arrocha Ballpark, but for the second straight day, the Knights found a way to come back and thwart the Jayhawks in their final at-bat. Kendall Yarnell hit a pinch-hit, three-run ...
