Kansas High School Football News

It's not often that a highly recruited high school football player cancels a campus visit to Michigan and then commits to Kansas.

Offensive lineman Eric Kush, a sixth-round pick from California University of Pennsylvania, and linebacker Mike Catapano, a seventh-round pick from Princeton, reached deals.

Garden City High School's girls soccer team closed out its regular season by claiming a 2-1 victory on Tuesday at Liberal with the hope that it is good enough to earn them a home game in next week's first round of the Class 6A regional tournament.

Lawyer, politician, banker, rancher, entrepreneur, college athlete and pilot, Winton Allen Winter Sr., 82, died Saturday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

With its narrow 35-27 vote a week ago, the Board of Directors of the Kansas State High School Activities Association have given the green light to 64 schools in Kansas, all Class 4A, to separate into two divisions.

Sophomore Blaine Wertz ran a personal-best 11.18 seconds to win the 100-meter dash at the Logan Invitational on Tuesday.

NINE FORMER KU PLAYERS HEADED TO NFL ROOKIE CAMPS: Nine former Jayhawks will be headed to NFL rookie camps, including three with the Chiefs and two with the Chicago Bears.

There are only a handful of people who have played, coached and seen as much baseball in Kansas as Emporia State coach Bob Fornelli.

Former Wichita Northwest running back Tyrone Phillips, who held the City League's single-season rushing record for 14 years, died Friday morning of a heart attack in Wichita.

Rich Krol's legacy isn't the baseball field that will officially be named in his honor today.

Wichita has had its bright spots in NFL Draft history. Three times — 1979, 1989 and 1992 — two players from the city were taken in the NFL Draft.

The 89-year-old former U.S. senator from Kansas speaks slowly these days, but the intellect and dry wit of the man who led the Republican Party in the Senate for 11 years remain.