Kansas quarterback Dayne Crist stood out on the National team, coached by Dick Vermeil, in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif. on Saturday. Crist scored the first touchdown of the game early in the second quarter after taking the ball to the end zone himself on a one-yard run. Soon after his rushing touchdown, [...]
Kansas quarterback Dayne Crist made an impact for the National team, coached by Dick Vermeil, in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif. on Saturday. Crist scored the first touchdown of the game early in the second quarter after taking the ball to the end zone himself on a one-yard run. Soon after his rushing [...]
The Kansas swimming and diving team completed its trip to Honolulu with a victory over host school Hawai’i.The Jayhawks won the meet 162-138. Senior diver Christy Cash qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving championship with her 226 score in three-meter platform diving. Many Jayhawks helped the team to victory with top-three finishes, as there was [...]
The No. 23 Kansas Jayhawks look to end a streak of consecutive losses as they travel to Lubbock, Tex. to face Texas Tech at 7 p.m. in the fifth Big 12 game of the season. Texas Tech has some confidence as they host the Jayhawks, after beating Texas. It was the first time the Lady [...]
AUSTIN, TEXAS – The pleading Longhorn crowd had been raucous only minutes earlier, fully prepared for its struggling 8-8 team to grab a signature win that could springboard an NCAA Tournament run. Now, it’s stunned, having absorbed a blow that seemed unfathomable only 10 minutes earlier and losing to Kansas 64-59. With the Jayhawks’ guards [...]
The Kansas Jayhawks (16-1, 4-0) traveled to Austin, Tex. on Saturday, Jan. 19, to play the Texas Longhorns (8-9, 0-4) for its fourth conference game this season. The Jayhawks struggled the whole game to hold a lead, but a comeback from an 11-point deficit in the second half helped the team get back into the [...]
Kansas head football coach Charlie Weis announced Saturday that sophomore quarterback Turner Baty will leave the football program to return to his previous school, City College of San Francisco. Baty did not play during the 2012 season. “With Jake Heaps and Michael Cummings both competing for time at the quarterback position, I have decided it [...]
Kansas defeated Texas 64-59 after battling back from an 11 point deficit early in the second half. Redshirt freshman Ben McLemore committed two key turnovers early in the second half, keying a 12-0 Texas run to give them a 42-31 lead. But Kansas battled back behind McLemore’s 16 points. He broke away for a couple [...]
Kansas football coach Charlie Weis released a statement on Ben Heeney’s recent battery charges Saturday. The junior Linebacker was cited for misdemeanor battery at Tonic Night club 728 Massachusetts St., in downtown Lawrence on Sunday Jan. 13. “We are fully aware of the situation involving Ben,” Weis said in a Saturday press release. “We have [...]
Perry Ellis will be the first to say he’s not a vocal guy. No, Ellis doesn’t run his mouth, or act obnoxious and he’s certainly not noisy. He just lets his play speak for himself, and that should be loud enough. “He’s a quiet kid,” Kansas coach Bill Self said of Ellis. “How much he [...]
Redshirt freshman guard Ben McLemore participated in all of Kansas’ practice Thursday afternoon and said he will be fine for Saturday’s tilt against Texas in Austin. According to his estimate, his right ankle feels about 85 percent healthy, but will feel better by Saturday’s 1 p.m. tipoff. “That’s my first time spraining my right ankle,” [...]
Senior center Jeff Withey rarely saunters onto a basketball court to find a player taller than his 7-foot frame. Tipping off against the Baylor Bears Monday night, Withey found himself paired in a battle of marquee Big 12 big men with freshman Isaiah Austin, who stands 7-foot-1-inch. And that’s the way Withey wanted it. “I [...]
For the second time in as many games at Allen Fieldhouse Ben McLemore silenced the audience near the end of the game. This instance wasn’t as much fun. As McLemore grabbed his ankle and slapped the ground in pain with time winding down in Kansas’ 61-44 victory over Baylor, every fan wished they were witnessing [...]
The men’s basketball team took on Baylor Monday, Jan. 14 in Allen Fieldhouse. The last time the Jayhawks faced Baylor was March 2012 when they lost in the semifinals round of the Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
At first glance it did not look good. Kansas’ star player squirming on the ground in pain struggling to deal with the sharp shock that comes from an ankle bending the wrong direction. With 2:44 remaining in Kansas’ 61-44 victory over Baylor, Ben McLemore laid on Allen Fieldhouse holding his right ankle, but managed to [...]
