The Kansas women’s basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the Big 12 Conference in a poll of league coaches released on Thursday, and KU stars S’Mya Nichols and Jaliya Davis received preseason all-conference honors. Nichols, a 6-foot senior point guard, has been first-team ...
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 ...
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The Kansas baseball team battled the Iowa Hawkeyes in a fall exhibition on Saturday, but one that featured a special twist: It took place at the Field of Dreams, serving as the first Division I college baseball game on the site of the 1989 film of the same name. Iowa won ...
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 ...
MIAMI — Andrew Wiggins’ NBA career has progressed through several chapters since his one season at Kansas. Once the highest-ranked high school recruit in the class of 2013 and the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, Wiggins has become an All-Star and league champion not with any individual ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bucky Irving already had his first 100-yard game since his rookie year in 2024 when the Tampa Bay running back finished off the Dallas Cowboys with a run that gave him a career high. Jalon Daniels, the undrafted rookie filling in for franchise quarterback Baker ...
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,” ...
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 ...
