Touting it as one of the biggest single donations in the history of college sports, the University of Kansas athletic department announced on Wednesday morning that it had received a gift of $300 million from donor David Booth. The donation, which is also the largest ever to the university, ...
For the University of Kansas’ Gateway project — the $750 million renovation and redevelopment of the football stadium and the area around it — there are big stakes on the horizon. Now, there is a big new private donation on the books, as well. KU on Wednesday announced that Paul and ...
The Kansas athletic department is asking sincerely when it calls the nation’s top programs for advice on its coaching searches, athletic director Travis Goff says. It just turns out that some of those programs’ head coaches become interested in KU themselves. Excluding football coach ...
Frisco, Texas — The announcement of Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald’s amended six-year contract in June provided some insight into KU’s future plans in the wake of the House v. NCAA settlement by suggesting that the baseball program would receive “an increase in ...
The house has come down on college athletics. Named after a suing student-athlete, the class action lawsuit commonly known as House v. NCAA had its long-awaited settlement approved earlier this month. Beginning July 1, college athletic programs can start handing out about $20.5 million worth ...
A federal judge has approved terms of a sprawling $2.8 billion antitrust settlement that will upend the way college sports have been run for more than a century. In short, schools can now directly pay players through licensing deals — a concept that goes against the foundation of amateurism ...
A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that ...
Updated 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 6: The Kansas athletic department is on track to be “right around budget” for the fiscal year 2025 that concludes at the end of June, Chief Financial Officer Pat Kaufman told members of the board of directors on Friday. It’s a significant shift from KU ...
