Kansas baseball coach Dan Fitzgerald and his staff do everything they can to get a sense from their MLB Draft-eligible players on how high they’ll need to get selected in order to leave KU and go pro. They then calibrate their personnel accordingly based on what they learn. But, as ...
Svi Mykhailiuk won a title as a member of the Boston Celtics on Monday night, becoming the fourth former Jayhawk to become an NBA champion as a player in the last five years. Mykhailiuk, who played one minute and recorded one rebound in the Celtics' 106-88 series-clinching victory over the ...
Two weeks have passed since the NBA Draft withdrawal deadline saw Johnny Furphy decide once and for all to forgo his remaining collegiate eligibility, and two more weeks remain until he hears his name called in the draft. He and Kevin McCullar Jr. are the two members of last year’s Kansas ...
Less than a month after she was selected by the Connecticut Sun at No. 19 overall, and less than two weeks after she began training camp with the team, former Kansas center Taiyanna Jackson has been waived. The Sun announced the news Friday morning, a day after Jackson made her first ...
Kansas basketball players Johnny Furphy and Kevin McCullar Jr. have officially been invited to participate in the NBA Draft Combine, the NBA announced Friday afternoon. The event, which provides an opportunity for NBA hopefuls to work out for and get evaluated by professional teams, will take ...
Sean McDermott remembers a piece of advice that Joe Marciano, his special teams coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, gave him and his fellow undrafted free agents back in 2001. The battle for an NFL roster, he recalled Marciano saying, is like a boxing match. A tie, in terms of on-field ...
