We just saw the 28th and 29th players of the Bill Self era get drafted into the NBA, and sports media is already speculating about who could be the 30th. Typical. I have to be honest, though — I do find excessively early mock drafts pretty compelling in the NBA, where players can go ...

At a recent press conference, after Kansas football moved each of its first two games of 2023, at home against Missouri State and Illinois, to Fridays, Kansas football coach Lance Leipold predicted further growth in this domain. “In today’s world of where it’s going in TV contracts and ...

If you view a college athletic conference primarily as a bundle of brand equity and disparate assets to be auctioned off to the highest media-rights bidder, you probably love the direction the current conference-realignment cycle seems to be headed. If you place a certain emphasis on regional ...

In a world of increasingly outlandish conference realignment rumors — many of which, indeed, seem totally ridiculous until they come to fruition — the latest bit of gossip to take the nation by storm has a refreshing familiarity. The University of Colorado has been floated, discussed and ...

I spent the summer after my junior year of college interning at a sports tech company by day and sleeping in a converted office in a home in the Troostwood neighborhood of Kansas City by night. When I was free from work on the weekend and desperate for entertainment, I used to walk down in the ...