Oct 11

Sports poll: Predict the Pokes’ point total vs. KU

The Oklahoma State Cowboys come to KU’s Memorial Stadium on Saturday as the most potent offensive team in college football, leading the nation in points (nearly 56 a game) and total offense (659 total yards an outing).It wasn’t pretty a year ago when t… Continue reading

Oct 10

New coach, same season outcome

bear caveWeis-coached teams don’t make halftime adjustments  By Andrew Curtis We’ve seen this movie before. Going into the half with all the momentum it could muster, the Kansas Jayhawks went into halftime down just one possession to their heavily favored in-state rival, the Kansas State Wildcats. K-State played as bad as it could and Kansas brought its A-game in the first half. K-State failed to reach the endzone in the closing seconds due to poor clock management and still led the game by 7 points. Then, the Wildcats pounced on the Jayhawks with no mercy in the 2nd half, outscoring KU 35-2. The only points Kansas was able to come up with was from a safety,… Continue reading

Oct 08

In 1 year, Big 12 goes from turmoil to terrific

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In the span of a year, the Big 12 has gone from turmoil to terrific on television once again.
A conference whose football future was uncertain with the defections of Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M and Missouri over the past two… Continue reading

Apr 23

Big 12 spring football roundup

The Big 12’s spring football season concludes Saturday with scrimmages at Kansas and Kansas State. Monday, coaches provided their progress reports during the league’s spring conference call.
TEXAS – Will 2012 be the year the Longhorns officially r… Continue reading

Dec 14

Weis signs 5-year, $12.5M deal at KU

LAWRENCE — Kansas has committed $12.5 million to its new football coach, and the old one is getting $6 million to coach somewhere else.
This is the cost of doing business, athletic director Sheahon Zenger said, or least the kind of business KU wants … Continue reading