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Lance Leipold, a six-time National Champion, a five-time conference coach of the year and the fastest coach in NCAA history to reach 100 career wins, has been named the 41st head coach in Kansas Football history, Director of Athletics Travis Goff announced Friday. The two sides agreed to a six-year contract. Leipold addressed the media in ...

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Tristan Devane (FR/Frostproof, Fla.) and the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes were in a jam. A really big jam. Southwestern had scored twice in the seventh inning to trim KWU's lead to 6-4, had runners and first and second with no outs and leadoff batter London Penland was at the plate. The threat and the inning, though, ended in six seconds ...

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WINFIELD – Kansas Wesleyan Track and Field continues to improve heading into next week's Kansas Conference Championships in Ottawa. The Coyotes saw another NAIA Nationals qualifier, and set several new school records and flirted with some others at the Southwestern Invitational at Jantz Stadium. Erik Kyser won the long jump with a jump of 7.29m, setting not ...

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With the series on the line against an American League Central opponent, the Royals went into Sunday afternoon’s rubber game against the Twins knowing it could be close and they would need to take advantage of any mistakes. In the 13-4 loss at Target Field, Minnesota ended up as the one taking advantage of the mistakes. Kansas City ended ...

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The special occasion wasn't too big for Kaden Sitzman (SR/McCook, Neb.). Given the ball at the start of Kansas Wesleyan's second game against Southwestern on Saturday Sitzman didn't flinch despite everything going on – Senior Day, his last appearance at Dean Evans Stadium and the Coyotes badly needing to win after losing the opener. Sitzman responded a with a ...

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Round 4 Pick 39 (144) Joshua Kaindoh DE Florida State 6-5 258 LBS Compensatory Selection Kaindoh (pronounced cane-dough) was tabbed as one of the top defensive end prospects in the country and a USA Today first-team All-American after spending his senior season at IMG Academy. The Baltimore native flashed talent in his first two years in Tallahassee, earning playing time in all 13 games ...

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State defensive end Wyatt Hubert saw his NFL dream come true on Saturday afternoon as he was selected in the 2021 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. Hubert, who was chosen with the seventh pick of the seventh round (No. 235 overall), is the fifth Wildcat all-time to be selected by Cincinnati. The last was another ...

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By the end of the first inning against the Twins, the Royals had already doubled their run total from Friday night with two runs home. "This is a team that in the past we've had trouble beating, and after last night, they just beat us down and beat us up,” manager Mike Matheny said. “For us ...

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Boys Golf Hutchinson Invitational Kapaun 291, Bishop Carroll 299, Sacred Heart 307, Washburn Rural 308, Shawnee Heights 320, Manhattan 321, Eisenhower 325, Wamego 331, Hutchinson 337, McPherson 341, Derby 341, Buhler 346, Ark City 351, Salina Central 367, Wichita Heights 379, Maize 382, Salina South 388, Newton 402, Wichita Northwest 404, Junction City 409, Campus 435 Sacred Heart ...

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Round 2 Pick 26 (58) Nick Bolton LB Missouri 6-0 232 LBS From Ravens Bolton played in all 13 games as a true freshman (22 tackles, one sack) after earning Dallas Morning News first-team all-state honors at Lone Star High School (130 tackles, 16 for loss, five interceptions). He went from promising youngster to SEC star in 2019, earning first-team all-conference honors after leading ...

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Brady Singer exited Friday night’s 9-1 loss to the Twins after the second inning ended on a double-play ball that first struck the Royals' right-hander on the left heel. It was announced that he is day to day with a contusion. With the bases loaded, Twins slugger Josh Donaldson’s 105.5 mph line drive came back to hit Singer in ...