HENRICKSON HIRES AIR FORCE VET AS ASSISTANT: Bonnie Henrickson and the Kansas women’s basketball team announced the hiring of assistant coach Shay Robinson on Sunday. Robinson, replaces Terry Nooner, who took a similar position at Alabama.
Robinson, an Air Force veteran, spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at the Air Force Academy after serving eight years of active duty in the military.
The Big 12 is facing an identity crisis at quarterback, with a lot of different players preparing to take snaps this fall.
Seven of the league’s 10 teams had senior quarterbacks, providing for a lot of changes during spring practice.
“With new QBs, there are always question marks. I mean, you don’t really know until you know,” Baylor coach Art Briles said Tuesday. “The only way to know is to get out on the field with them in the heat of battle and find out how they respond. Yeah, it changes the dynamics of the league 100 percent.”
WICHITA — The previous attorney for a former University of Kansas athletics consultant is expected to testify Monday at an evidentiary hearing to determine whether he did a poor job in defending his client during the prosecution of a $2 million ticket scalping conspiracy.
LAWRENCE — On Jan. 22, 1974, Digger Phelps brought No. 1-ranked Notre Dame to face Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse.
Basketball fans might not recognize the date, but they’ll know what happened three days earlier.
That day — Jan. 19, 1974 — was the day Phelps and the Irish upset UCLA 71-70 to end the Bruins’ 88-game winning streak.
LAWRENCE — Before the basketball season began for Kansas, the keys were passed and Elijah Johnson was clearly at the wheel.
Nonetheless, coaches were hopeful a youngster could forge ahead and get through driver’s ed by now.
Yet Johnson is considere… Continue reading
TULSA, Okla. — When it comes to basketball, Danny Manning has done it all.
As a player, he experienced the best there is as an NCAA champion at Kansas and an NBA All-Star with the Los Angeles Clippers. He understands the worst there is, with three se… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — Charlie Weis and Tommy Tuberville once traveled across the ocean together in a cargo plane, so the two coaches know each other pretty well.
Weis and Tuberville were among a group of college coaches who visited U.S. troops in Iraq and Afgha… Continue reading
LAWRENCE — During the game’s final two minutes, the Kansas defense played like you might’ve expected — not so gracefully in allowing a game-winning drive from Texas backup quarterback Case McCoy.
But for the game’s first 58 minutes, the Jayha… Continue reading
KU-BAYLOR KICKOFF SET: Kickoff for Kansas’ Nov. 3 game at Baylor has been set for 2:30 p.m., the Big 12 announced Monday. The game will air on Fox Sports Net, which also will carry the broadcast of KU’s game against Texas at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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K-STATE WILDCATS
MATCHUP: Miami (1-0) at Kansas State (1-0)
KICKOFF: 11 a.m. Saturday, Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan
RADIO: KTOP-AM (102.9)
TV: FX
LINE: K-State by 7
BUZZWORD: Patchwork.
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