It may only be mid-February, but spring might as well have arrived because baseball is back. First pitch for the second season of Kansas baseball under Dan Fitzgerald is set for 3 p.m. Friday, as the Jayhawks take on Illinois-Chicago. It’s the first installment in a three-game neutral-site ...
In his first season at the helm of Kansas baseball, Dan Fitzgerald found it difficult at first to cope with losing even one game. “My incredible wife, Kelly, last year said something like — after a game I was despondent — and she’s like ‘What’s up?’ and I’m like, ‘Well, we ...
The year 2023 featured a conference championship in men’s basketball, a Women’s National Invitation Tournament title in women’s basketball, broken records in women’s golf, a football bowl victory and plenty more. What will 2024 have in store? As usual, the Kansas athletic department ...
The Kansas baseball team didn't earn any selections in the draft, but has now had two players sign with MLB teams since it concluded. KU announced Tuesday that catcher and first baseman Cole Elvis, who started every game for the Jayhawks in 2023 after four seasons at Cal, has signed a contract ...
Missouri will have to wait a little longer to certify its next lawyer. Kansas right-handed pitcher Collin Baumgartner has been signed as an undrafted free agent by the Colorado Rockies after one season in Lawrence, KU announced in a press release Wednesday. Baumgartner, who already has an ...
The Big 12 Conference has for years neither been especially big nor contained 12 schools. From 2012 until now it survived with just 10, a number that made it one of the smallest leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision. As a result of a move nearly two years in the making, however, it will ...
Just over three weeks removed from the end of its debut season under Dan Fitzgerald, the Kansas baseball program has already had a busy offseason. The Jayhawks, who brought in a whopping 18 transfers in Fitzgerald’s first year, have continued to be active in the portal. Between Tuesday and ...
A former Jayhawk has been named the next head baseball coach at Emporia State. Brad Hill, who served former KU baseball coach Dave Bingham as an assistant from 1991 to 1994, was formally introduced as the Hornets’ new skipper on Thursday after accepting the job last month. He’s the fifth ...
