Kansas guard S’Mya Nichols left the court in a wheelchair due to an ankle injury suffered in a loss at Arizona State last season; three days later she was back in the starting lineup scoring 18 points in 22 minutes in a win at Arizona. That may demonstrate the toughness Nichols has displayed ...
Five-star prospect and McDonald’s All-American Cydnee Bryant took to the court for her first official appearance as a Jayhawk on Sept. 8. The 6-foot-4 freshman made a cameo for a few points late in the first set of a Kansas match against Wichita State; she appeared again a week later in ...
It’s no secret that the Kansas women’s basketball team fervently hopes to return to the NCAA Tournament. “I mean, that’s always the main goal,” junior forward Regan Williams said. If the Jayhawks are to make it back into March Madness after a two-year absence, it will certainly have ...
The Kansas men’s basketball team broke the seal by bringing back Tre White last Friday, and then the KU football team had already acquired transfers Chase Belcher and Clifton Thompson by Monday. These are the first three known athletes to join KU this year after obtaining eligibility in the ...
The two most recent Kansas baseball rosters, which produced two of the best seasons in program history, consisted largely of newcomers, with minimal continuity from the prior year. KU head coach Dan Fitzgerald, now the reigning back-to-back Big 12 coach of the year, is used to assembling teams ...
More than nine years after he was selected in the MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates, former Kansas left-handed pitcher Blake Weiman made his big-league debut on Friday night. Weiman, now playing for the Los Angeles Angels, worked around a pair of singles to pitch a scoreless seventh inning ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield received some good news after dislocating his right thumb on Sunday in Tampa Bay’s loss to Minnesota, but the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback is expected to miss at least three weeks. “It’s consistent with everything we thought it was, a dislocation,” ...
The biggest news of the NFL preseason from a University of Kansas perspective was undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels’ ascension to the No. 2 spot for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Daniels, who started portions of six seasons at KU, including the entirety of 2024 and 2025, beat out ...
Jalon Daniels got his opportunity in the NFL preseason and made the most of it. The former longtime Kansas standout, who went undrafted in the spring after six years with the Jayhawks, has won the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ No. 2 quarterback job. “A true find and a very cool story,” wrote ...
BOSTON — University of Kansas alumna Sharon Lokedi won the women's race at the Boston Marathon on Monday to claim first place for the second straight year, this time in two hours, 18 minutes, 51 seconds. “I just kept telling myself ‘be patient, be humble, you’ve got this, you can do ...
BOSTON (AP) — Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday as the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War. Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over ...
If an athlete could be inducted into a collegiate Hall of Fame twice, Diamond Dixon would have as good a shot as any:Once for her athletic achievements. Once more for what her name has meant to the KU program.A 2012 gold medalist, leader of an outdoor national championship team, 14-time ...
