Jerrance Howard joins Kansas basketball staff; Doc Sadler leaves for Iowa State
Kansas coach Bill Self filled one opening on his basketball staff on Friday, just as another job had become vacant.
Kansas coach Bill Self filled one opening on his basketball staff on Friday, just as another job had become vacant.
During his first season at Kansas, a disappointing 1-11 campaign, coach Charlie Weis outlined his recruiting strategy in pretty clear terms.
Chris Martin, a junior defensive end on the Kansas football team, was arrested Wednesday in connection with a May 13 armed robbery in southwest Lawrence.
Southern Methodist assistant Jerrance Howard is in position to join Bill Self’s staff at Kansas, filling the vacancy created when former assistant Joe Dooley took the head coaching job at Florida Gulf Coast on April 17.
When freshman running back Darrian Miller left Kansas in January 2012, KU coach Charlie Weis made it clear that Miller was being booted from the program for off-the-field issues.
After three days of upsets, the Kansas baseball team’s run at the Big 12 Tournament finally came to an end Sunday at Bricktown Ballpark.
The Jayhawks had just won the Big 12 Tournament and were headed to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 12 years. It was a moment Price, who is now in his 10th season at Kansas, will never forget.
It was the first week of April, just days after another agonizing NCAA Tournament loss, and Kansas coach Bill Self was forced to attend the Final Four in Atlanta.
The No. 6 seed Jayhawks downed the No. 2 seed Oklahoma State Cowboys 5-3 for their second straight victory at the Big 12 Tournament on Friday at Bricktown Ballpark. They are now one win away from playing for an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Paris Daniels just hated the idea of going to Kansas. She was a Missouri girl for one, raised in St. Louis, and after spending two years on the track team at Coffeyville Community College, Daniels was ready to get the heck out of Dodge.
For years, the routine was the same. Baseball game. Then a phone call. Kevin Kuntz knew no other way.
Sitting in the lobby of the Ramada Convention Center on Wednesday evening, Kansas football coach Charlie Weis was getting eager to announce his latest addition to the Kansas football program.
The Kansas baseball team was supposed to have a day off on Tuesday, a day to rest before the scheduled start of the Big 12 tournament in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. But with the tournament pushed back to Thursday after a deadly tornado struck Moore, Okla., on Monday, the Jayhawks used the day to join the relief effort and gather money and supplies for the area’s storm victims.
Kansas has added another big body to a burgeoning roster overhaul.
Former KU guard Ben McLemore spoke Thursday at the NBA Combine in Chicago about AAU coach Darius Cobb’s revelation that he accepted $10,000 in cash payments to steer McLemore toward Rodney Blackstock, a middleman with connections to agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.
In Charlie Weis, fans of the Kansas football program see hope.
It’s not often that a highly recruited high school football player cancels a campus visit to Michigan and then commits to Kansas. But that’s what Kyron Watson, a 6-foot, 226-pound linebacker, did on Tuesday.
The lines of communication had been dead for weeks. Andrew Wiggins had been in his own world, processing information, school by school, guarding his secret from a curious basketball world.
Kansas State beat Kansas 4-3 on Friday night in Lawrence and moved into sole possession of first place in the Big 12 baseball standings.
You probably know some of the natural disadvantages that curb the baseball programs at Kansas and K-State. Cold weather is one, of course. So is history. And so is the fact that four Big 12 rivals ply their trade in baseball-rich Texas.