Kurtis Townsend, assistant coach to Bill Self since 2004, is such a nice guy it’s difficult for recruits to tell him no, which makes him very good at that part of his job. The former Western Kentucky point guard, whose brother Ray played for John Wooden’s final national-championship team ...

Freshmen are eligible to play college basketball, so they should be eligible for All-America status. But maybe it's time to pick two preseason All-America squads: A veteran squad and a freshman one. I didn't include any freshmen on the electronic ballot I sent to the Associated Press, which ...

The Kansas University basketball team does not have a single returning starter and half of the 12 scholarship players eligible this season are freshmen, but that didn’t keep the national media from ranking the Jayhawks fifth in the Associated Press preseason college basketball ...

Tune your television to the Golf Channel at 6:30 p.m. Central time today and you can see the future. Sort of. Former Kansas University golfer Gary Woodland and Ryan Moore are scheduled to tee off then, which is 7:30 a.m. Monday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They tied for the lead at 14-under in ...

Charlie Weis doesn’t coach like a guy on the hot seat and with good reason. His seat won’t heat up until next season and even then only if no signs of significant progress are visible on offense. Weis has been conservative about not ripping red shirts off of players he believes will ...

Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis has shown he’s not afraid to shuffle the deck if something’s not working. His depth chart frequently changes and his offensive game plan shifts week to week, based on the strengths of the opposing defense. After last season, he tweaked the roles ...

**1:30 p.m. Update** **Pittsford, N.Y.** — Rob Horak, a local club golf professional who served as a marker (non-competing playing partner) to Gary Woodland, received big ovations from friends, family and Rochesterians with a healthy does of civic pride, and had nothing but thumbs-up about ...

Gary Woodland, who withdrew last week with a sore back after one round, appears to be healthy again. That means I’m not. My blood pressure skyrockets, thanks to stress, with every bogey and again with every sub-par hole, thanks to excitement. Nothing in sports is more nerve-wracking than ...