Tag: college football

There’s tension between my view that it’s wrong for colleges to ask unpaid athletes to take the field during the novel coronavirus pandemic and my anxiety about what fewer football games means for a sportswriter…

College football now has an official timetable for the start of the season — whatever way, shape or form that takes. The NCAA Division I Council officially approved Wednesday the long-expected ramp-up to the college…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The interim president of the University of Texas said Monday he is scheduling meetings with student groups after dozens of Longhorns athletes said they wanted the school to ditch “The Eyes…

After the pandemic wiped out spring practice for most major college football teams, an NCAA plan to extend the preseason by two weeks could help coaches and players make up for the lost time. The…

College football is scheduled to kick off in less than three months and there are plenty of reasons to be hopeful that games will be played Labor Day weekend. Universities across the country are taking…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Empty seats have been the norm the past few years at the University of Kansas, where a succession of football coaches has failed to turn around the flailing fortunes of the…

All 10 schools in the Big 12 Conference expect their campuses to be open in the fall, a key step toward launching fall sports. The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered sports at all levels, and conference…

If you are a local high school sports fan (like me) and take a scroll through Twitter, more than likely you’ll stumble upon the ongoing football helmet frenzy. Currently, the Kansas Helmet Project page (@kshelmetproject)…

A Microsoft engineer who designed an app to track North Dakota State University football fans on their annual trek to Texas for the national championship has taken that concept and applied it to contact tracing…

Senior Casen Barker sits alongside parents Missy and Sterling Barker. Casen signed his national letter of intent to continue his football career at Kansas Wesleyan University on Wednesday afternoon at Iola High.