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Same Passion, New Role for Ilalio

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Two Wildcat Runners-Up After Day One of Big 12 Championship

May 14

Five-Run Seventh Inning Hurts K-State in Opener

May 14

Kennedy Voted Semifinalist for Golden Spikes, Dick Howser Awards

May 14

Ross Leads Young Rowing Squad

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K-State Heads into Final Big 12 Weekend in Orlando

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K-State’s Season Comes to a Close in NCAA Louisville Regional

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Wildcats Start Postseason with Big 12 Championship in Tucson

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Same Passion, New Role for Ilalio

The contagious smile, the one that the team captain wore time and time again while encouraging his Kansas State teammates during a trying 2025 football season, is ever-present as former defensive tackle Damian Ilalio slides onto a black leather couch in the fourth-floor lobby of the Vanier Family Football Complex over the 2 o'clock hour on Tuesday in sunny Manhattan.

May 13

A Veteran Leader of a Close Brotherhood

Sterling Lockett doesn't remember the specific game or year. All that he remembers is that he was with older brother Tyler Lockett prior to a Kansas State football game when he was introduced to the 6-foot-5, 226-pound quarterback who was powering the Wildcats to victories again and again and again.

May 12

Addressing the Catbackers for the First Time as Head Coach

He saunters through the west parking lot doors of the West Ridge Mall in Topeka, Kansas, wearing his black Kansas State Ring of Honor polo shirt, gray slacks, and bearing smiles and hearty handshakes for the first dozen or so awaiting purple-clad greeters near the glass doors. He arrives at 5:54 p.m. for the 6:00 p.m. Topeka Catbackers event. For 17 years, Cat Time has been a part of his mantra.

May 11

The Time is Now

For the 2025-26 Kansas State women's golf team, the time is now. On Monday, K-State head coach Stew Burke, who took a veteran K-State team to its first-ever National Championship a year ago, brings the youngest team at K-State to the 2026 NCAA Louisville Regional — a defiant bunch of Wildcats out to prove that they're better than a No. 7 seed in the regional — to compete against the likes of No. 1 seed Arkansas, No. 2 seed Auburn, and No. 3 seed and Big 12 Champion Iowa State.