Cripe powers Jayhawks to 6-5 victory over Houston in Big 12 tournament
Oklahoma City — Sophomore shortstop Hailey Cripe tied a Big 12 Conference record by driving in five runs, becoming just the fifth player to do so in the league’s softball tournament, and she ...
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Men's Basketball
Reports: Kugel won’t attend KU
Florida transfer wing Riley Kugel will not attend Kansas, according to multiple reports Wednesday afternoon. Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was first to report the news, which follows a comment by KU coach Bill Self in an interview with the NCAA Monday about the prospect of the long-committed ...
Defensive improvement, offensive consistency could be key for Dickinson and Storr
Kansas “caught a break” by getting Hunter Dickinson back for a fifth season, as head coach Bill Self put it Monday. Even though he hasn’t been a marquee professional prospect, the second-team All-American center already played four accomplished seasons in college, went through ...
Manning added to Colorado basketball staff
Kansas legend Danny Manning will be back in the Big 12 Conference next season. Manning has been hired as an assistant coach at Colorado, where his former KU teammate Tad Boyle is the head coach. The school announced the news Tuesday morning. "I'm very excited to join coach Boyle's staff," ...
Football
KU adds to tight end room with D-II transfer, Kansas native
The Kansas football coaching staff returned to the Division II ranks and added an intriguing transfer at a position of need. Leyton Cure, a native of Goodland who played at Fort Hays State, announced his commitment to KU Wednesday evening. Cure is a 6-foot-3, 235-pound tight end who had 26 ...
KU football secures commitment from transfer defensive end Bai Jobe
The Kansas football team added a sought-after player at perhaps its position of greatest need, earning the commitment of former Michigan State defensive end Bai Jobe. Jobe’s trainer, Sean Cooper, announced the decision in a post on X Tuesday ...
‘I just wasn’t going back home’: How past undrafted Jayhawks approached making it in the NFL
Sean McDermott remembers a piece of advice that Joe Marciano, his special teams coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, gave him and his fellow undrafted free agents back in 2001. The battle for an NFL roster, he recalled Marciano saying, is like a boxing match. A tie, in terms of on-field ...
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Cripe powers Jayhawks to 6-5 victory over Houston in Big 12 tournament
Oklahoma City — Sophomore shortstop Hailey Cripe tied a Big 12 Conference record by driving in five runs, becoming just the fifth player to do so in the league’s softball tournament, and she led the Kansas softball team to a 6-5 win over Houston at Devon Park on Wednesday night. Cripe hit ...
KU women’s golf finishes sixth in regional play
The Kansas women’s golf team finished sixth of 12 teams at the NCAA Cle Elum Regional in Washington state on Wednesday. The Jayhawks outperformed their No. 9 seed, but fell one place short of what they would have needed to make their first NCAA Championship in 10 years. "I am really proud ...
Sunflower Showdowns: KU drops baseball series to K-State, wins in rowing
The Kansas baseball team held narrow leads in a pair of road matchups at rival Kansas State on Friday and Sunday but dropped both, falling 2-1 to the Wildcats in a key late-season series in Manhattan. KU fell to 13-11 in Big 12 Conference play, tied for fifth with Cincinnati, and 27-17 ...
Henry in the Huddle
How should KU approach its scholarship situation?
The Kansas coaching staff has certainly not given the impression that it is done recruiting for its 2024-25 roster. But should it be? When KU was in the final days of recruiting Alabama wing Rylan Griffen, before he committed Friday, the school still made the top five for Dayton sharpshooter ...
Would any other Kansans in the portal make sense for KU women’s basketball?
The four players the Kansas women’s basketball team has added over the course of the last two transfer cycles have something in common: They are all from Kansas. This year’s additions so far, Sania Copeland (a Wisconsin transfer from Kansas City) and Brittany Harshaw (a Creighton transfer ...
With transfer haul, KU ensures it will leave spacing issues in the past
In the grand scheme of the 2023-24 Kansas men’s basketball season, the Border Showdown on Dec. 9 didn’t really leave much of an impression. It was a win over a rival, yes but a little too close for comfort for KU at 73-64 after 27- and 28-point victories the previous two years, and ...