Former Jayhawk Opurum signs with Chiefs
Former Kansas player Toben Opurum signed a contract with the Chiefs on Friday as an undrafted rookie.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Former Kansas player Toben Opurum signed a contract with the Chiefs on Friday as an undrafted rookie.





Central Missouri rallied for seven runs in the final two innings for a 7-3 win over Missouri Southern in an NCAA Division II Central Regional elimination game on Friday afternoon in Mankato, Minn.

Kansas State officially announced the addition of 6-foot-10 Georgetown transfer Brandon Bolden to the Wildcats’ men’s basketball team Friday.

Former Kansas basketball player Zach Peters will get a fresh start at Arizona. Peters, 6-foot-9 forward, made his transfer public on Sunday after leaving Kansas last fall while dealing with health issues during his freshman season.
K-State sophomore Mitch Meyer had a career-high three RBIs as the Wildcats topped rival Kansas 7-3 and completed a three-game sweep on Sunday in the Sunflower Showdown.
K-State won the second game in a three-game series against Kansas on Saturday and is in first place in the Big 12.
This weekend’s three-game series in Lawrence, which begins on Friday, is one of the most intriguing in the recent history of the Sunflower Showdown: Baseball Edition. K-State, 34-15 overall and 11-7 in the Big 12, is tied atop the conference standings with Oklahoma and West Virginia, while the Jayhawks, 31-18 overall and 12-9 in the Big 12, have won six straight games and sit just a half-game out of first.

Darius Cobb, the former AAU coach of Ben McLemore, repeated on Monday the allegations that he received $10,000 in cash payments to steer McLemore toward Rodney Blackstock, a middleman with connections to agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.

Sitting on an unprecedented nine straight Big 12 league titles, Kansas will now do something it hasnt done in five years: Increase season-ticket prices.
Kansas sprinter Diamond Dixon owns a gold medal from the London Olympics for her participation on a relay team. But Sunday, when Dixon helped the Jayhawks women win their first Big 12 championship for outdoor track, the feeling of satisfaction was just as strong.

Kansas officials confirmed Saturday that they were reviewing a report that Ben McLemores former AAU coach accepted cash payments from a middleman who was attempting to attract the KU freshman on behalf of sports agents and financial advisers in Los Angeles.

The college basketball offseason is getting shorter. The NCAA on Friday passed a proposal that will allow mens teams to begin practice two weeks earlier than in the past. Programs will now be able to conduct 30 practices in the six weeks before the first regular-season game, while in the past, those practices were folded into a four-week period before the first game.

It may be the most daunting non-conference schedule that KU coach Bill Self has ever maneuvered. Duke. Florida. Georgetown. And a month-long span without a game at Allen Fieldhouse in November and December. Here's a breakdown of the Jayhawks' non-conference slate.
Let’s get this straight: Kansas coach Bill Self says he didn’t intentionally schedule what he calls maybe the toughest nonconference slate of his KU tenure.

When Kansas freshman Ben McLemore declared for the NBA Draft on April 9, he became just the third Jayhawk to leave school after just one season in Lawrence.

Three years after he left school early for the NBA Draft, Aldrich will dress up in a cap and gown later this month and take the traditional walk down the hill with the KU student body and pick up his degree in communications.

The Cincinnati Bengals were impressed enough with former KU player Tanner Hawkinson’s character and intangibles — in addition to his potential on the offensive line — to select him with the 23rd pick in the fifth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday.

In addition to landing Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson, who’ll have to sit out a year, Kansas is slated to add a five-man freshman class in 2013-14, including four players ranked in the top 40 of Rivals’ top 150 rankings. And there are a few big fishes remaining, namely top overall recruit Andrew Wiggins, who is still considering Kansas, Kentucky, Florida State and North Carolina.

The Kansas basketball program has landed Arkansas transfer Hunter Mickelson on Thursday. Mickelson, a 6-foot-10 sophomore forward, will sit out a year before being eligible to play his final two seasons at KU, beginning with the 2014-15 season.