Updated 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025: The Big 12 Conference has removed an officiating crew from its next scheduled assignment as a result of an error made during Saturday’s game between Kansas and Missouri. According to a statement issued by the conference on Tuesday morning, the crew’s ...
Kansas football players undoubtedly heard all sorts of things from the sold-out Missouri crowd as they prepared to battle the Tigers on Saturday. One thing tight end DeShawn Hanika heard was a fan asking him if he even plays. “To be honest, I love it,” Hanika said. “I heard him. I had ...
One of the telltale signs that basketball season is on the horizon revealed itself on Monday, as the Kansas men’s basketball team began its annual boot camp, kicking off a period of intense conditioning that helps prepare the Jayhawks for the upcoming season. The boot camp's duration varies ...
Columbia, Mo. — DeShawn Hanika tells his fellow tight ends, “We like to live in hell.” It’s a shorthand for a mindset that he and his teammates will have to adopt over the course of the next week and a half, as they embrace the opportunity to battle through their first major adversity ...
Kansas and West Virginia will meet for their Week 4 football game at 5 p.m. on Sept. 20, the Big 12 Conference announced on Monday. It will be the first league matchup contested at the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, and the third straight evening game there after KU ...
 
                Each week during the University of Kansas’ sports seasons, the Journal-World staff will select one athlete from a KU men’s sports team and one from a women’s sports team as athletes of the week. For the week of Sept. 1-7, the selections are DeShawn Hanika and Rhian Swanson. DeShawn ...