expectations are ramping up for the Kansas Jayhawks, and by one count — in the pages of a major preseason magazine — they are about twice as high as they were a year ago. The KU football team ...

The Jayhawk has been the University of Kansas’s beloved mascot for more than a century. But what’s the story behind the mythical bird, and why has it endured? In Rebecca Ozier Shulte’s new ...