Women's Basketball

KU women’s basketball adds Southern transfer Cunningham

The Kansas women’s basketball team continues to fill out its roster, and on Wednesday afternoon it earned the commitment of Mykayla “Kayos” Cunningham, a 5-foot-10 guard who most recently played at Southern. For the Jaguars, who reached the NCAA Tournament and won a First Four game ...

Schneider hires pair of veteran assistants

Kansas women’s basketball coach Brandon Schneider announced the hirings of two new assistants on Friday morning: Jerise Freeman and Jayci Stone. Both are Kansans with power-conference coaching experience. They replace Morgan Paige, who was recently hired as the head coach at Loyola-Chicago, ...

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Baseball

Jayhawks thrive in new roles after unexpected lineup change

The absence of Cade Baldridge from Kansas’ lineup for the first time all season — in a season that has now stretched to 61 games — was far from a certainty until mere minutes before first pitch against Arkansas on Sunday night, as Baldridge was dealing with an injury. That meant that ...

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Professional

Several former KU players have shots at NFL Draft selections

The NFL Draft can be exceptionally difficult to predict. In the days leading up to last year’s draft, after Kansas had graduated a memorable and extremely talented senior class, it appeared a virtual certainty that four KU players would get selected, matching the program’s high-water mark ...

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 ...

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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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