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K-State Downed in the Desert on Wednesday Night

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Hughes, Players Preview 2026 Season at Annual Media Day

Feb 4

Chikomba Named Big 12 Men’s Athlete of the Week

Feb 4

Mansfield Signs Carter for 2026 Season

Feb 4

K-State Signs Five More for 2026

Feb 4

Finding Success Against Some of the World’s Best

Feb 4

K-State Men’s Track Ranked Number One in NCAA

Feb 3

K-State Athletics to Present Brown with IMPACT Award

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Feb 3

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K-State Men's Basketball | Honoring Coach Jack Hartman

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Feb 4

Finding Success Against Some of the World’s Best

There is a young boy. His name is Tah Chikomba. He lives in Zimbabwe with his mother, Vonai Siwela, and his siblings on the countryside. Friends have been shot, others killed for illegal acts such as stealing. Young boys, they don't have much, they join gangs, and this becomes the game they play. They play with their lives.

Feb 3

Everything Clicked for Mercera

The Country of Curacao is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located in the southern Caribbean Sea. Curacao has a population of about 150,000, and you can drive around the island in less than two hours. Curacao joins Aruba and other Dutch islands of the Caribbean to form the Dutch Caribbean.

Feb 2

An Attacking Mindset

During his first full weekend in Manhattan, Mekhi Mason fought through windchills of 16 degrees below zero. One day, he struggled to navigate his car through snow on the way to practice. Another day, he took a brisk walk with teammates to the indoor practice facility wearing only his gray t-shirt and purple shorts. Each morning, there were two-hour workouts, conditioning exercises, and school.

Jan 30

‘This Place Has Blessed Me’

It's 9:03 a.m. as Cayden Phillips begins to talk. He has a coaching staff meeting in 57 minutes at Tointon Family Stadium, but time isn't of the essence — not when you're recalling the start of the journey, that kid in Amarillo, Texas, who had no idea what was in store; not when you're recounting the drive up Interstate-35 and on to the Little Apple, the friendliness of coaches and players — the vibe — so contagious that they feel like old friends; and not when four years with the Kansas State baseball program nearly turns into five, except for the tug of a lifetime, the whisper inside his head, that it is, in fact, time to embark on the next chapter, so raw, as Phillips sniffles into his phone, wondering what those final words might be to K-State head coach Pete Hughes, who took Phillips in like a father, built him into a Big 12 Conference catcher.