In the aftermath of an NCAA Tournament meltdown, and the loss of five starters from a Sweet 16 team, KU basketball coach Bill Self added the final pieces to what could be considered his finest recruiting class in Lawrence. Here’s what Andrew Wiggins, Tarik Black and the rest of the class bring to the Jayhawks and a stab at a starting lineup for next season.
No. 6 seed Kansas snapped a six-game losing streak by winning its Big 12 tournament opener 7-2 over No. 3 West Virginia.
Sprinter Paris Daniels, a Missouri girl raised in St. Louis, is leading a women’s track renaissance at KU.
The Huskies post timely hits against Thomas, the Tigers’ ace, and the MU defense has crucial miscues in the 2-1 Washington win. Mizzou needs to sweep Friday to move to the Women’s College World Series.
It’s been a calendar year since Missouri’s softball season ended against LSU in the NCAA super regional round. But if you think the blow has been softened by a fourth consecutive trip to the same round this year — the Tigers play host to Washington in a best-of-three series starting Thursday night at University Field — you’d be dead wrong.
In tornado-ravaged Oklahoma, Wildcats maintain focus and beat Texas Tech 4-3 on the first day of the Big 12 baseball tournament.
The Big 12 baseball tournament, which starts Thursday, is usually Kansas State’s final opportunity to prove it is worthy of an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. Things are different this year. The Wildcats have something bigger to play for: a chance to play host to NCAA Tournament games in Manhattan.
In the wake of the tornado devastation in Oklahoma earlier this week, the Big 12 will donate $200,000 from proceeds of this week’s conference baseball tournament to the America Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
Big 12 baseball champion Kansas State took home top individuals honors by the conference on Tuesday, led by player of the year Ross Kivett.
Kansas will play at Florida, West Virginia will play at Missouri and Mississippi will play at Kansas State this fall in the inaugural Big 12/SEC men’s basketball challenge.
Star pitcher Chelsea Thomas pitched No. 7 Missouri to an 8-0 run-rule win over No. 22 Arkansas in a SEC tournament quarterfinal gam Thursday in Lexington, Ky. Thomas pitched a complete game, allowing only two hits with one walk while striking out five in the five-inning game.
Iowa baseball coach Jack Dahm is out after 10 seasons with the Hawkeyes.
Former Arkansas quarterback Brandon Mitchell says he is transferring to North Carolina State to play his final season.
Memphis forward Tarik Black is transferring to Kansas and will be eligible to play immediately.
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team doctor was replaced.
Brady Hoke was talking the way football coaches do, the way university presidents can't. Imagine, if you will, the snickering in academia if Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, a biochemist by trade, accused her counterparts at Notre Dame of chickening out on a science fair.
TCU defensive end Devonte Fields has been suspended for the first two games of the 2013 season due to an unspecified violation of "university and team policy."
Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb and former Buffaloes offensive lineman Alexander Lewis were both charged with second-degree assault on Wednesday after prosecutors alleged they knocked a man unconscious in a weekend brawl.
Rutgers named Julie Hermann its new athletic director Wednesday, and the former No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville promised a restart for the scandal-scarred program following the ouster of its men's basketball coach and the resignation of other officials.
Top prep basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins told a small gathering of family and friends at his high school gym Tuesday that he will play at Kansas.
Tennessee plans to honor former Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt by building an on-campus statue in her honor.
The University of Alaska Anchorage is investigating an allegation that its former hockey coach struck a player with a hockey stick, another black mark for the beleaguered program which suspended a search for a new coach after naming four finalists earlier this month.
Hawaii's athletic department is scrapping a plan to drop the word "Rainbow" from its men's teams' nicknames.
Lane Kiffin has an idea.
New Rutgers basketball coach Eddie Jordan is not a graduate of the university as the school had claimed, another embarrassment for an athletic program still smarting from the firing of previous coach Mike Rice.
