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Nickens announces he will leave KU, switch to basketball

Jaden Nickens announced on Thursday night that he is leaving Kansas and switching to playing exclusively basketball. His departure brings to an end a tenure at the university in which Nickens arrived as a two-sport athlete but never appeared in a game for either KU’s football or men’s ...

KU softball enters home stretch with postseason berth at stake

To achieve a 30-win season for the first time as a collegiate head coach, Jennifer McFalls admits, has taken a bit longer than she would have thought. KU hired McFalls, a longtime Texas assistant, in the fall of 2018. The Jayhawks struggled early and got disrupted, like so many programs, by ...

A thought experiment: What if Kansas doesn’t get Tyran Stokes?

To be clear, I’m not saying Kansas is not going to get Tyran Stokes. That caveat has to go at the top because Stokes’ recruitment has been the sort of high-scrutiny, high-stakes affair in which the mere brand of athletic apparel he wears in an Instagram story can send three fan bases into ...

KU Athletics board approves implementation of larger line of credit

The Kansas Athletics board of directors on Thursday evening approved a resolution to replace its current $35 million line of credit with a new $50 million line. The refinancing was authorized through a special digital meeting of the board that was conducted via email between Monday and ...

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, ...

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 ...