Football

Several new additions featured among 5 former Jayhawks on UFL rosters

The United Football League begins its schedule on Friday, and that means another opportunity for a handful of former Kansas football players to show off their talents in the spring. This year, the UFL ranks feature few holdovers from last season, at least in terms of these former Jayhawks. ...

Several former Jayhawks stood out at Big 12 Pro Day

Updated 1:56 p.m. Tuesday, March 25: Twenty-nine former Jayhawks represented the Kansas football team at the Big 12 Conference's league-wide Pro Day between last Wednesday and Friday as many looked to improve their prospects for playing at the professional level. Several of these players took ...

KU broadcasting legend Bob Davis dies at 80

Bob Davis, the venerable University of Kansas sports commentator who served as the longtime voice of the Jayhawks, died on Thursday, his family announced on Friday afternoon. He was 80. “For more than three decades, Bob represented Kansas Athletics in exemplary fashion and connected Jayhawk ...

KU football will not hold Spring Showcase this year

The Kansas football team will not host a Spring Showcase this season, a KU Athletics spokesperson said on Thursday morning. KU cited logistical conflicts at Rock Chalk Park with other events during the weekend the Spring Showcase was set to take place. According to a spring practice schedule ...

KU football’s large outgoing senior class well represented at Big 12 Pro Day

The current iteration of the Big 12 features 16 teams, yet one-eighth of the players at the league-wide Big 12 Pro Day event, which begins on Tuesday at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas, come from the Kansas football program. That’s a testament to the sheer size of the Jayhawks’ ...

KU’s returning linebackers have roles to play amid influx of new talent

The six spring practices the Kansas football team has staged thus far have featured an atmosphere of competition that strength coach Matt Gildersleeve has called “revitalizing” and “reinvigorating.” That’s not only because KU brought in upwards of 20 transfers to fill the void left ...