Rockhurst hires men’s lacrosse coach

Kevin Kelley is the new men’s lacrosse coach at Rockhurst, which will begin the sport in spring 2014. Kelley, who played on Syracuse’s NCAA championship team in 2000, was the assistant varsity lacrosse coach at Shawnee Mission East for the past two years.

Southeastern Conference dominates in track, too

The Southeastern Conference has the nation’s top two teams and four of the top seven, and we’re not talking preseason football. The SEC dominates track and field as well, and some of the nation’s top athletes are at Missouri for the league championship that started on Thursday.

K-State basketball announces signing of point guard Nigel Johnson

Nigel Johnson, a 6-foot-1, 180-point guard from Upper Marlboro, Md., officially joined the Kansas State basketball team on Wednesday by signing a National Letter of Intent to play for the Wildcats next season. He figures to play meaningful minutes right as a freshman following the departure of former starting point guard Angel Rodriguez, who transferred to Miami.