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Week 5 preview: 2022 blowout loss to Texas still stings for motivated KU squad

Lance Leipold and his Jayhawks weren’t especially interested this week in revisiting their stunning upset win at Texas in 2021, ahead of a rematch that finds both programs in dramatically different spots. Newly ranked No. 24 Kansas has plenty to say, though, about its 55-14 home loss to the ...

Former KU athletic director Lew Perkins dies at 78

Lew Perkins, a longtime basketball coach and athletics administrator who served as the University of Kansas' athletic director from 2003 to 2010, died Tuesday of side effects related to Parkinson's disease, his daughter Holly confirmed to the Journal-World Wednesday night. He was 78. Perkins' ...

KU rowing comes up short in defense of Kansas Cup versus Kansas State

It wasn’t quite smooth sailing for the Kansas rowing team in the Sunflower Showdown versus Kansas State this weekend. KU rowers fell to the Wildcats at the Sunflower Showdown meet at Wyandotte Lake in Kansas City, Kansas, on Saturday. The Wildcats won three of the five races to take the ...

Snyder says he was told he would be fired

Columbia, Mo. ? In his long-delayed farewell address Tuesday, Quin Snyder said he stepped down as Missouri's basketball coach after a university official sent by athletic director Mike Alden told him the entire administration had agreed to terminate his contract after this season.Snyder's ...

6Sports video: Several conference coaches leave team

It's a bad time in general to be a men's basketball head coach in the Big 12. In the last week, three conference coaches have left their teams for various reasons. Oklahoma state leader Eddie Sutton is done for the year, following his KUI citation over the weekend. In manhattan a bulging disc ...

Players defend Snyder

Columbia, Mo. ? Missouri players are adamant: Quin Snyder did not bail out on them."I know he didn't quit," point guard Jason Horton said Sunday. "I know he's not that type of person. I know that."Snyder's resignation was made official Sunday morning, and the Tigers played their first game ...