Through the Lens

The time has come to make full disclosure that today, Tuesday, June 30, is my final day as the staff…

The belief that Kansas is a pancake flat state is proven false by KU cross country runners nearly every day….

My 23-year career for Kansas Athletics would be incomplete without taking time to express my thanks to my best friend…

Swimmers need to feel the water as lap-after-lap build. Divers need to maintain the sense of movement required for somersaulting and twisting moves.

Ask any casual Kansas track & field fan what they remember the most about former Jayhawk pole vaulter Jordan Scott.

Imagine how Kansas head tennis coach Todd Chapman felt when he thanked three players on Senior Day in April 2019.

In our new world, the front line troops in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic are not soldiers.

There are many wondrous moments the COVID-19 virus and resulting isolation have robbed us of enjoying this spring.

Stephen Villines is another one of the exceptional student-athletes possessing a rare blend of DNA.

Watching Nicolai Ceban compete for KU in the discus from 2015-18 could be mesmerizing.

This portrait of former KU basketball player Jamari Traylor remains a personal favorite for a variety of reasons.

Last week, KU and Missouri announced they will renew their football rivalry for four games beginning in 2025.

In my youth, our family often visited the Native American Indian dwellings featuring rock art painted onto or etched into the sandstone in Colorado.

A women’s golf poster poses issues since the game of golf is played individually.

Every baseball team needs someone who is not afraid to get their hands dirty.

Singling out several student-athletes while writing these stories worries me.

What I am about to write may be viewed as blasphemy, but it has to be said.

Photographing any KU sport in the past 23 years has proven to me just how wondrously the human body was created and evolved to allow feats of strength, endurance, explosive power and grace.

One of my hard and fast rules when covering a baseball game is to make sure I am somewhere along the third-base line of a tie game entering the ninth inning.

This photograph of the 2016-17 swimming & diving seniors for their annual poster is an example of how things can work out just as planned and even exceed hopes.

If you ever see a herd of photographers all moving in one direction at a track meet, it must be steeplechase time.

In the second of three stories detailing photographs I have taken from past Kansas Relays, my attention is turned to what I believe to be the most beautiful singular move in sports, the high jump.

In our pre-COVID-19 world, the four days of the Kansas Relays would kick off today at Rock Chalk Park.

The results you see here came from a whirlwind of activity that proves again – the best-laid plans don’t always work out.

“‘Twas the night before an NCAA Women’s Soccer first-round match. …‘“

Decades ago, Ted and Kris Grinter planted sunflowers for bird seed on their farm northeast of Lawrence in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

Hoglund Ballpark on a spring afternoon as the sun falls towards the horizon provides amazing light that brings dramatic rich and full color and shadows that stretch out across the blue padding of the outfield fences.

The title of this photograph was “Enlightened Path” when it ran in the weekly Bird’s Eye View photos feature I produced for five years.

Granted, this is all speculation, the kind men’s basketball coach Bill Self would humbly try to eschew.