The Kansas football team’s bye week has arrived, and not a moment too soon. The precise positioning of this year’s bye at the season’s midpoint could be a significant gift for the Jayhawks, if not for the fact that they get a second open date this season on Nov. 2 after just two more ...
Tempe, Ariz. — As head coach Lance Leipold put it on Saturday, no one will feel sorry for Kansas that it’s “thin in some spots” at this point in the season. Even if, as he noted, the Jayhawks are in some cases giving significant time to players who “didn’t even travel in the last ...
Tempe, Ariz. — The stars were aligning for Kansas to have its first good end-of-half sequence in a month. Mello Dotson had forced a fumble on the first play out of the two-minute warning. KU, already leading 14-7, would get the ball to open the second half. With a successful sequence the ...
Tempe, Ariz. — Ten months ago, Kansas defensive end DJ Warner played his final football game with Desert Edge High School at Mountain America Stadium. Desert Edge, which had 16 players ejected due to a fight late in the first half and had come back from four touchdowns behind, had put the ...
It may not have always looked this way over the course of the last month, but to hear Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham tell it, the Kansas football team is “the same team that was predicted to potentially win the league to start the season.” “This is a really good football team that ...
For the first time this season, there's a new No. 1 in the Big 12 power rankings. Iowa State (4-0) took over the top spot this week, receiving nine first-place votes and 246 points in total from a panel of media who regularly cover the Big 12. BYU (5-0), the Big 12's only other remaining ...
Kansas City, Mo. — When a reporter asked Lance Leipold about an officiating decision after Kansas lost at Illinois on Sept. 7, Leipold joked, “You’re going to try to get me fined, aren’t you? I’ll split the money with you if you let me say it. You’re in for five grand?” He then ...
Kansas City, Mo. — By the time Kansas’ game against TCU on Saturday kicked off at 2:30 p.m., Taiwan Berryhill Jr. had already been awake for more than 12 hours. It wasn’t pregame jitters, or anything like that. Berryhill had spent the previous night at his mother’s wedding in ...
