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Kansas Jayhawk News
Kansas Football 2025 Opponent Preview: Fresno State Bulldogs
The Kansas Jayhawks kick off the 2025 campaign against Fresno State in the earliest season-opener in franchise history. It will mark the first time KU officially takes the field in the renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
Kansas Basketball Transfer Noah Shelby Commits to SEC School in Portal The McKinney,
Texas, native is not the only former Jayhawk to have transferred to A&M in the current portal cycle. Shelby will join former teammate Rylan Griffen, who also made the decision to transfer to the Aggies.
Kansas Volleyball Hosts Alumni Match to Open 2025 Season - University of Kansas
Kansas women's volleyball will open its 2025 season with an alumni match at 1 p.m. CT on Aug. 9 at Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. The event will feature a showdown between former Kansas standouts and the current 2025 roster.
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NFLPA elects David White as interim executive director - ESPN
White is the CEO of 3CG Ventures, an executive coaching and strategic firm, and he serves as the board chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has extensive labor experience, having served as the leader of the SAG-AFTRA union, with 160,000 members who work in the entertainment industry, from 2009 to 2021.
Cameron Young wins elusive first PGA Tour title at Wyndham - ESPN
Cameron Young finally got his first PGA Tour victory Sunday after seven runner-up finishes, and he made it look easy. He had five straight birdies early to build a nine-shot lead and coasted home to a two-under 68 to win the Wyndham Championship by six shots.
Noah Lyles shoved by Kenny Bednarek after 200m win at nationals - ESPN
The U.S. track championships turned physical Sunday, with Lyles and Bednarek getting involved in a shoving and shouting match as they crossed the finish line of a hotly contested 200-meter final at Hayward Field.
The Migration Generation: Inside the Transfer Portal Phenomenon
Today’s college athletes, like AJ Storr, use transfers like free agency—in search of money and playing time. Is that in their best interests?
Iowa State, Matt Campbell finalize extension through 2032 - ESPN
Iowa State and coach Matt Campbell have finalized a contract extension through 2032 after the winningest coach in program history led the Cyclones to their first-ever 11-win season in 2024.
‘A gun to a knife fight’: Democrats' chief pledges a more pugnacious party in more states • Kansas Reflector
The day after Texas Republicans released a map of proposed new congressional districts in a rare mid-decade redistricting effort that could net them five more U.S. House seats, Martin implied he would support blue-state leaders who retaliated with their own maps to give Democrats an advantage — even as he disparaged the move by Republicans.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly abandons national governors group as political crisis spirals • Kansas Reflector
The Atlantic first reported that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would be leaving the National Governors Association. The bipartisan group claims that it serves as “the voice of the nation’s Governors and a leading forum for bipartisan policy solutions.” Democrats Kelly and Walz apparently didn’t see it that way.
QOTD: Lets talk tattoos. Do you have any? Do you have many? Do you have any you regret or don’t like? It seems like over the last 10-15 years the trend has been that once somebody gets A tattoo, ten more will follow. My wife has a couple from before we met and was planning to get one this fall that she hinted might turn into three over the weekend. I do not have any but the idea of getting one is in the back of my mind.
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