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The 13th-ranked KU volleyball team went unscathed in one weekend of play, claiming three victories at the Duke Tournament.
The Kansas volleyball team opened its season in emphatic fashion over the weekend, claiming three wins in three matches at the Duke Tournament in Durham, North Carolina. KU dropped just one set — the opener against the host Blue Devils on Saturday — as it defeated South Carolina 3-0 on Friday, D...
KU's opening-week action provided some young players a chance to participate, including the Jayhawks' reserve quarterbacks.
A 48-3 season-opening win usually means good things for the entire winning team, and for Kansas’ 74 players who took to the field on Thursday night against Lindenwood, it meant players on the back of the depth chart got to make appearances. The Jayhawks held a 34-0 lead at halftime over their FCS ...
A promising local pitcher from Eudora recently announced her commitment to KU softball.
Even in a small sample size Thursday night, Dean Miller's offseason progression was on display against Lindenwood.
Kansas defensive end Dean Miller saw the effects of his offseason body transformation borne out in a couple ways on Thursday night. First, sartorially. “Our guys wear suits to the game, and he’s a guy that says ‘My suit doesn’t fit anymore,’” head coach Lance Leipold said. “And I said,...
Photos from KU-Lindenwood:
News Photo Gallery: KU football opens season with 48-3 blistering of Lindenwood By Staff Aug 29, 2024 Nick Krug Teammates celebrate with Kansas cornerback Mello Dotson (3) after Dotson’s interception returned for a touchdown during the second quarter on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024 at Children’...
The Jayhawks got the chance to experience both Children's Mercy Park and Arrowhead in the last week; plus, other notes from Thursday's game.
Kansas City, Kan. — The Jayhawks may have made their season debut at Children’s Mercy Park on Thursday, but the week of practice leading up to their victory over Lindenwood also gave them a glimpse of their next temporary home. Kansas practiced at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the...
KU dominated in its season opener, defeating Lindenwood 48-3 on Thursday night.
Kansas City, Kan. — Two early turnovers gave the initial impression of a sluggish start to the season by the Kansas football team, but three touchdowns in three minutes dispelled that perception quite quickly. KU scored all its classic ways — a Devin Neal rush, a Mello Dotson pick-six and, in a ...
The results of NFL roster cuts have split former Jayhawks between 53-man rosters, injured reserve, practice squads and free agency.
Four pro football players who finished their college careers at Kansas have made NFL rosters, two more are on injured reserve and at least one has caught on with a practice squad ahead of the 2024 season. Veterans Dorance Armstrong and Steven Sims and rookies Austin Booker and Dominick Puni were all...
Everything you need to know before KU starts its season against Lindenwood:
Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels said he “started to peek at” Lindenwood’s film months ago. But even if Thursday night will be a particularly long-awaited return to the field for Daniels, after his last season ended prematurely in September due to a back injury, that specific bit of advance pr...
Nutrition advice, including from veteran teammate Nolan Gorczyca, has helped Calvin Clements as he recovers from injury.
Calvin Clements had a better than average start to his college career. As a true freshman, the Lawrence native played in three games for Kansas, starting in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl against UNLV at left tackle. The experience granted him a chance to show that he belonged at this level. To do that, h...
A KU soccer match at Brown on Monday was canceled due to weather with the Jayhawks up 1-0 in the second half and will go down as a no contest. KU coach Nate Lie said his team wanted to resume the game later Monday or Tuesday but that Brown did not agree.
The Kansas soccer team was leading 1-0 on the road in the second half at Brown, looking to remain undefeated and knock off a squad that won a game in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. But weather rolled into Providence, Rhode Island, forcing a two-hour lightning delay that began around 2:20 p.m. Eastern Tim...
Here are the dozen players left off KU's season-opening depth chart that are most likely to make some sort of impact on the 2024 season.
Kansas head coach Lance Leipold opted to limit this year’s initial depth chart to a strict two-deep format, resulting in just 58 players — as opposed to the 70 included on last year’s season-opening edition. But what if we wanted to account for that difference in some way? Here’s a list of t...
The "rotational athlete" qualities that newly minted starting center Bryce Foster hones while throwing the shot put could help him out on the football field.
Bryce Foster is a football player, through and through. It’s the reason that he started his college career playing at Texas A&M, and it’s what brought him to Lawrence and the University of Kansas. But football season isn’t the only time Foster will represent the Jayhawks. In the spring, the ce...
With no instances of the word "or" on KU's first depth chart of the season, it provided a lot of clarity about several position battles. More:
The first Kansas football depth chart of the season, which was released on Monday, features a lot less ambiguity than usual. “This time, I tried to make a little decision on this to not list 75 guys,” head coach Lance Leipold told reporters, though he took care to add, “I might do it to you [....
KU football has released its first depth chart of the season.
Offense Quarterback: Jalon Daniels; Cole Ballard Running back: Devin Neal; Daniel Hishaw Jr. Wide receiver: Luke Grimm; Doug Emilien Wide receiver: Lawrence Arnold; Torry Locklin Wide receiver: Quentin Skinner; Trevor Wilson Tight end: Jared Casey; Trevor Kardell Left tackle: Bryce Cabeldue; Nolan G...
The KU volleyball team made its return to the court on Saturday for an exhibition match against Drake.
Returning five of its six starters from a 2023 team that made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the Jayhawks are primed to compete for a top spot in a Big 12 Conference that is now without Texas — which won the conference outright for the past four years. In the first […]
KU's placekickers are still competing ahead of the season.
The position battle for KU’s placekicker is still going on, with senior Tabor Allen, redshirt junior Owen Piepergerdes and redshirt sophomore Charlie Weinrich all in the mix. Piepergerdes saw the field in a few games last year, kicking six PATs and one field goal attempt, and in 2022, he made one ...
The quality that coaches value most about Tristian Fletcher, his communication, has him positioned for a backup spot in the linebacker group.
Tristian Fletcher’s long-term prospects at Kansas weren’t the brightest entering the 2024 campaign. As defensive coordinator Brian Borland put it, “he might have been on the outside looking in at some things.” Fletcher took just eight snaps during the 2023 season, according to Pro Football F...
Defensive end Ron McGee is back playing for KU this year in his seventh year of college football after missing last season with an ACL injury.
Ron McGee was slated to arrive at Kansas as a senior when he first transferred to the school. That was in the summer of 2021, and McGee was a defensive tackle. Three years later, he is still in Lawrence and ready to play one more year of college football as a defensive end. “You never […]
Jalon Daniels and his top three receivers recently practiced in full together for the first time since last season. It made the players think back to their freshman year.
The day Quentin Skinner arrived at KU in 2020 is still fresh in his mind, in part because he did it at the same time as fellow wideouts Lawrence Arnold and Luke Grimm and quarterback Jalon Daniels. “I remember that first day we moved in, cheesy, but like it was yesterday, man,” he said on […]
“Culture is a daily fistfight,” strength coach Matt Gildersleeve said. “People on the outside think … ‘Man, Kansas, they really got it going, they got a great culture, that thing probably runs itself.’ I cannot tell you how untrue that statement is.”
The Kansas football team has reaped the benefits of upgraded facilities during its fall training camp, and strength coach Matt Gildersleeve reckons it’s been by far the Jayhawks’ healthiest camp since he and Lance Leipold arrived on campus in 2021. Over the past three weeks in the renovated Ande...
A few true freshmen have gotten the bulk of the attention during fall camp, but here's what coaches and teammates have said about some of the Jayhawks' other new recruits.
Several true freshmen seized the spotlight during Kansas football’s fall camp. Defensive ends DJ Warner and Dakyus Brinkley have garnered plenty of attention because of their high ratings and their opportunity to play immediately given KU’s lack of depth at the pass-rush spot. Isaiah Marshall ha...
Much of the KU roster is settled, but there are a few players whose roles on next week's initial depth chart could be rather telling.
One can only read so much into the initial Kansas football depth chart. It’s filled with the word “or,” it can be arbitrary about how many backups it lists at given spots and it doesn’t necessarily reflect how some positions on the roster rotate more than others. It certainly won’t hold fi...
Several rookie Jayhawks have garnered widespread praise through two weeks of the NFL preseason.
The ranks of former Jayhawks going through their first NFL preseason have thinned considerably over the course of the month. Namely, the Seattle Seahawks released Mike Novitsky on Aug. 5 and the Los Angeles Rams parted ways with Kenny Logan Jr. the following day. Even with those losses, though — w...
Available in today's newspaper (and online in its individual components) is the KU fall sports preview!
Check it out for all you need to know about football, volleyball, soccer and cross-country. Here's the front page, and take a look at KUsports.com for more.
At the start of fall camp, defensive coordinator Brian Borland laid out several goals for his unit. At the end of camp, he provided updates on the team's progress toward those objectives.
Brian Borland did not mince words about his defense’s performance last year in the red zone. “We couldn’t be any worse than we were,” he said. He was quite literally correct. Kansas was 130th of 130 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the red zone during the 2023 season; given 50 opportunitie...
Defensive end Dean Miller's continued commitment to a rigorous nutritional weight-gain plan has him in position for a breakout season in 2024.
When the Kansas football team was going through spring practice, Dean Miller’s weight-gain plan included a requirement of consuming no fewer than 5,000 calories per day. “Now in fall camp,” he said recently, “I literally just eat ‘til I can’t eat no more.” Miller may have the most crit...
Zoey Burgess, the Big 12 preseason freshman of the year, has a chance to make her mark on a very experienced KU volleyball team.
Zoey Burgess had a conversation with her mother in early August in which she said one of her goals for the upcoming season was to win Big 12 freshman of the year. Imagine her surprise to learn, a few days later, that she had already earned the preseason edition of that award — something she […]
Two freshmen scored and the KU soccer team won its opener at South Dakota State under new coach Nate Lie.
It was a night of firsts for the Kansas soccer team on Thursday, as freshmen Jillian Gregorski and Shea Ryan each scored in their collegiate debut and the Jayhawks took down South Dakota State 2-1 in the season opener under new coach Nate Lie. KU goalie Sophie Dawe stopped all four shots on target f...
KU offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes isn't yet satisfied with his offensive line.
With fall camp drawing to a close, as he met reporters on Thursday for one of the final times before the season opener on Aug. 29 against Lindenwood, Kansas offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes held forth on a variety of topics. But his most informative answer was a single word uttered without hesitati...
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