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, ...

Colorado transfer Gooden signs with KU women’s basketball

The Kansas women’s basketball team earned its second transfer commitment of the offseason, this time from within the Big 12. Former Colorado guard Erianna Gooden signed with KU, the team announced on social media on Thursday afternoon. Gooden is a 6-foot point guard from Fort Smith, ...

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Baseball

KU baseball wins Big 12 title

For the first time since 1949, the Kansas Jayhawks are regular-season conference champions in baseball. The Jayhawks sealed an outright league title on Friday night by staving off a late BYU comeback to beat the Cougars 7-6 at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. That brought KU’s conference record ...

KU baseball looking to get back on course against BYU

The public discourse around Kansas baseball changed quite a bit in the span of a few days. In the wake of a three-game sweep by West Virginia at Hoglund Ballpark, KU moved in postseason projections from contending for a top-eight seed and a potential super-regional host spot to, depending on ...

No. 15 West Virginia completes sweep of No. 7 KU with 13-2 run-rule blowout

The Kansas baseball team took one on the chin Sunday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark, losing 13-2 in eight innings to No. 15 West Virginia in a Big 12 Conference game. Despite being swept by the Mountaineers (35-12, 19-8), seventh-ranked Kansas (37-15, 20-7) still leads the Big 12 standings by ...

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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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