The state of Arizona is becoming more and more of a second home for the Kansas football team. In one sense the transition is quite purposeful, as KU’s coaches — particularly co-defensive coordinator Jordan Peterson and even head coach Lance Leipold — are rapidly becoming better ...
Nick Timberlake was already positioned well to defend Yale’s fast break with three minutes left, but what he actually managed to do to the Bulldogs’ 7-foot center Danny Wolf exceeded any and all expectations. With the two players initially running stride for stride, Timberlake was able to ...
The Kansas football team used the transfer portal to rebuild its most vulnerable position group last offseason, and so the defensive line, which appeared a glaring weakness entering the year, ended up becoming a fairly consistent strength. Defensive end Austin Booker, who barely played at ...
Kansas running back Devin Neal was omitted Nov. 21 from the list of semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award, given to the best running back in the country, much to the dismay of his teammates and fans. That list of 10 featured four other Big 12 Conference running backs. One of those four ...
Fifteen years, five sponsors and one field ago, the Kansas football team earned its last bowl win in Arizona. Todd Reesing threw five touchdown passes, including three straight after the halftime break, as the Jayhawks beat Minnesota 42-21 on New Year’s Eve in the 2008 Insight Bowl at Sun ...
In the fourth quarter of Kansas’ season opener against Missouri State, which started as an unexpectedly close game but developed into a 31-point blowout, the Jayhawks let redshirt sophomore kicker Owen Piepergerdes attempt a late extra point. He made it. The development wasn’t especially ...
Champaign, Ill. — Neither former Illinois coach Bill Self nor former Michigan center Hunter Dickinson experienced an ideal return to the State Farm Center, but at least Self got to reunite with eight or nine of his former Illini players from the three years he spent in Champaign, and received ...
We have reached the halfway point of the Kansas football season, if you can believe it, though the Jayhawks have a chance to displace the midpoint a little further if they can pick up one more win. Yes, KU is not far away from adding a bowl game to its schedule for the second straight year. ...
