Women's Basketball

KU women’s basketball learns Big 12 schedule

An experienced Kansas women’s basketball team looking to find its way back to the NCAA Tournament learned on Thursday morning exactly what sort of challenges await it this year. The Big 12 Conference announced its 18-game conference schedule, which begins before the new year and concludes ...

KU women’s basketball earns commitment from 2027 wing Borden

The Kansas women’s basketball team received a commitment on Monday evening from Kawehi Borden, a 6-foot guard from Sumner, Washington. Borden made her announcement on Instagram. She had reported previous offers from BYU, Oregon, Seton Hall, TCU, Utah and Washington, and now joins guard ...

KU’s year-round social club at Allen Fieldhouse draws closer to opening

Several years ago, the University of Kansas athletic department considered implementing a social club, through its partnership with venue management company Oak View Group, as part of its Gateway project. A group of KU athletics representatives and donors took advantage of a KU basketball trip ...

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Baseball

Former KU pitcher Weiman makes MLB debut

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 ...

How latest eligibility bombshell could affect various KU sports

It certainly seems like quite a few college athletes are about to get more eligibility, whether they were actively looking for it or not. Amid a barrage of increasingly successful lawsuits by members of the high school class of 2022 who played four straight seasons in college, then graduated ...

An early guess at a prospective 2027 KU baseball lineup

Monitoring the offseason in college baseball is an entirely different sort of enterprise than keeping track of what’s going on in basketball and football. Even with the sport’s ongoing growth, player movement receives substantially less coverage. Prospects announced as signees in the fall ...

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Professional

How former Jayhawks fared as NFL teams trimmed rosters

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 ...

Daniels wins Bucs’ backup job

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 ...

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Track And Field

Defending champ, former KU great Sharon Lokedi repeats at Boston Marathon

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 ...

Former KU star Sharon Lokedi wins Boston Marathon, breaks course record

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 ...

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