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Kansas University recruit and former Plano East fullback Toben Opurum makes a move against a defender in this contributed file photo in Plano, Texas. Opurum leads a promising 2009 recruiting class for KU, but as history shows, the players’ impact on the field next season will be relatively unknown.

Kansas football rookies adjusting

Freshmen getting crash course in rigors of Div. I ball

Huldon Tharp and Tyrone Sellers Jr. are learning quickly what it takes to compete at the Div. I level.

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Getting a leg up

Jayhawks punter Rojas spends time studying returners

Often lost in the enduring images that come to mind when recalling the Kansas University football team’s 40-37 victory over Missouri in the 2008 Border War — the sky spitting snowflakes, KU quarterback Todd Reesing’s game-winning lob to receiver Kerry Meier with less than a minute to go — is the scene of a frustrated and dejected Jeremy Maclin making his way from the field after another unsuccessful punt return.

Keegan: Ten KU football players to watch in preseason

Golfers who walked instead of rode this past week nearly broke their arms patting themselves on the back for having the courage and toughness to gut out the heat and humidity.

Jayhawks reportedly land Juco linebacker

Various recruiting web sites are reporting that the Kansas University football team has added a Juco linebacker.

KU releases GPAs for spring semester

Eleven Kansas University athletics teams posted grade-point averages of 3.0 or better, leading KU student-athletes to an overall GPA of 2.95 during the 2009 spring semester, KU athletic department officials announced Thursday.

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Quigley’s crash course

Senior leans on mom’s support in transition to LB

Not long ago, as he sat slouched in a chair in the Parrott Athletic Center on the Kansas University campus, Angus Quigley was talking about his mom.

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O-lineman finds new life at Kansas

Though it’s eight feet away from him, Brad Thorson immediately recognizes the video on the computer across the room.

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Extreme makeover: Stadium edition

New turf going in at KU’s Memorial Stadium

New turf is being installed at Kansas University’s Memorial Stadium, and a new scoreboard might be in the works, too.

KU great Sayers joins another Hall of Fame

Gale Sayers was inducted into the John McLendon Minority Athletics Administrators Hall of Fame.

KU has new food vendor for games

Centerplate signs 10-year concession contract

Centerplate has a new contract to provide concessions at all Kansas Athletics events next season, replacing Mid-America Concessions, which had the contract since 1990.

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Football camp attracts national prospects

Years from now, when the names on Saturday’s Super Jayhawk Camp football prospect roster are looked back upon and their football accomplishments are researched, then it can be determined how much talent worked out on the two practice fields southeast of Memorial Stadium.

MU to test for sickle cell

University of Missouri athletes will face mandatory sickle cell tests in a change spurred by the 2005 preseason death of a 19-year-old football player. The change comes less than three months after the school agreed to pay $2 million to the family of reserve linebacker Aaron O’Neal. The redshirt freshman collapsed and later died during a voluntary summer workout.

Owens to be inducted in Kansas Hall of Fame

Former Kansas University basketball coach Ted Owens is one of 14 individuals to be inducted in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 4.

KU releases 2010 football schedule

A non-conference home game against Georgia Tech is one of the highlights of the 2010 Kansas football schedule released Wednesday by the university.

KU-Southern Miss football start time moved up

Game will begin at 11 a.m.

FSN has changed the start time of the Kansas-Southern Miss football game on Sept. 26, moving it up to 11 a.m.

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