Football

Leipold provides update on injured Wheeler; linebacker missed practice Monday

After suffering an injury in the final minutes of Kansas' loss to West Virginia on Saturday, starting middle linebacker Cornell Wheeler missed practice on Monday, head coach Lance Leipold said. “We’ll see where it progresses with him," Leipold added. During West Virginia's penultimate ...

Whole KU squad to share responsibility of holding team together

Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team’s season has gotten off to an unexpectedly poor 1-3 start, culminating in Saturday’s conference-opening loss at West Virginia. As the Jayhawks’ vaunted class of seniors looks to keep the team together and get the year back on track, though, ...

Notebook: Weather delay disrupts fourth quarter of KU-WVU game

Morgantown, W.Va. — As Kansas and West Virginia entered the home stretch of a hotly contested Big 12 opener on Saturday, Mother Nature intervened. With KU leading 21-17 and 10 minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the game, the public-address announcer at Milan Puskar Stadium declared a severe ...

Preview: Daniels, KU offense have opportunity against struggling WVU secondary

West Virginia coach Neal Brown agreed on Monday with a reporter’s suggestion that “Jalon Daniels’ biggest strengths are the things that you’ve struggled with so far.” “That’s fair,” Brown said. “He’s probably pretty excited.” The Mountaineers, who like Kansas have ...

KU marks stadium construction milestone

Kansas Athletics held a topping-out ceremony for its stadium renovation project on Thursday afternoon, marking a significant milestone as it continues on track toward the August 2025 deadline for the project’s first phase. The last of about 6,500 total pieces of steel required for phase one, ...