NORMAN, Okla. — Trudging into the locker room for Saturday’s halftime, Kansas State was left to reckon with what had transpired in the first two quarters of its game against No. 3 Oklahoma.

NORMAN, Okla. — As Oklahoma’s lead grew Saturday, Chris Klieman didn’t panic. Leaning on an old coaching adage, Klieman said he’s never been one to view any lead as too commanding nor any deficit as insurmountable.

With 80 wins and four FCS national championships in eight years as a head coach under his belt, Chris Klieman has plenty of victories he could reminisce over and designate as among the best in his career. Now in his second season as Kansas State’s head coach, it didn’t take Klieman long to n…

As the Big Ten gears up to have a shortened football season next month, players in the league will undergo daily antigen testing for the coronavirus. Assuming the Pac-12 also reverses course and decides to hold an abbreviated season of its own — the league’s chancellors and presidents are se…

The Kansas State volleyball team enters the 2020 season with a young and inexperienced roster that includes 12 freshmen and sophomores, three juniors and one senior.

Kansas State soccer’s October slate underwent a makeover Tuesday.

Demarrquese Hayes’ time at Kansas State didn’t even last a year.

Kansas State football finally will have a chance to play later in the day.

For the second time this season, a Kansas State soccer match is being pushed back.

The Kansas State football program’s tussle with the coronavirus continues to be a seesaw battle. During his time on the Big 12 coaches teleconference Monday, Chris Klieman said last week started on a positive note: Two days after a 35-31 loss to Arkansas State, 12 players were cleared to ret…

In his first game in a Kansas State uniform, Briley Moore had one of the team’s best performances. Though K-State lost to Arkansas State 35-31 last week, Moore acquitted himself well. A graduate transfer tight end who began his career at Northern Iowa, Moore had a team-high six catches for 5…

After numerous members of the Kansas State football roster were sidelined for undisclosed reasons — varying between injuries, positive coronavirus tests and close contacts to those active cases — last weekend, head coach Chris Klieman said he’s hopeful those who sat out will be cleared in ti…

Editor’s note: In the first of a weekly, season-long series, Mercury sports editor and Kansas State beat writer Ryan Black will offer a trio of thoughts on the Wildcat football team’s latest game. The most recent was Saturday’s opener, which K-State lost to Arkansas State 35-31 at Bill Snyde…

Fan attendance at Saturday’s K-State football game was well below the 25% limit, but an athletics officials said they really didn’t have any issues with people following the new rules related to the coronavirus.

For the umpteenth time Saturday, Skylar Thompson found himself on the ground.

Kansas State defensive back Wayne Jones suffered an injury after a collision with Arkansas State running back Jamal Jones late in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game. Jones, K-State’s starting strong safety, remained down on the field for an extended period of time, as the team’s medical s…

Saturday was supposed to represent a myriad of things for Kansas State’s football program. A semblance of normalcy, playing a game in the middle of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (even if attendance was capped at 25% because of said pandemic). A chance for players and coaches to get the bi…

Construction on Kimball and College Avenues will alter traffic patterns and parking on game days for Kansas State football during the 2020 season.

As Kansas State prepares to begin one of the strangest college football seasons in history, let’s make one point perfectly clear: Anyone who says they know what will happen in 2020 is either deluded or lying. Yet one can try to piece together just how different things will look for the Wildc…

As part of its ongoing plan to raise social justice awareness, K-State designated Saturday as a “Unity” game for the football program.

Long before the Big 12 Conference last week announced roster thresholds and positional minimums required for games to occur this fall, the league’s coaches talked among themselves. As July gave way to August, coaches had what Kansas State’s Chris Klieman called “preliminary” conversations, c…

Kansas State football’s 2020 season-opening game time is moving up. K-State’s contest against Arkansas State on Saturday initially was slated to kick off at 2:30 p.m. and air on FS1. But K-State received word Tuesday night that the game will now begin at 11 a.m., with Fox carrying the broadcast.

When Kansas State announced its seven team captains for the 2020 football season last week, most of the names were easily recognizable to even the casual observer.

The unusual has become the usual for the Kansas State football program for the last six months. Much like life outside the Vanier Family Football Complex, there’s no manual the coaching staff can turn to for advice during a pandemic. For now, players and coaches are adapting as best they can.

At nearly any other college football program, the loss of a starting punter likely wouldn’t garner much attention. Kansas State is an exception. The Wildcats, owning as proud a special teams lineage as one might come across, enter the 2020 season in search of a new punter following the gradu…

For college football coaches, summers normally are set aside for travel. There’s work (to camps, scouting players who might one day suit up for their programs) and leisure (family vacations, squeezed in during one of the few fairly quiet times of the year). Especially with players off-limits…

Last season marked the first time since 2010 that Sean Snyder wasn’t Kansas State’s special teams coordinator. Though he still helped out where he could as a special teams analyst, he was not allowed to coach on gamedays. When it comes to kickoff returns, at least, the Wildcats showed no drop off.

When Kansas State signed Keenan Garber, it was a coup of sorts. The Wildcats not only signed one of the best players in Kansas in the 2019 class, but they stuck it to their in-state rival, too, as Garber was an all-purpose, two-way star at Free State High in Lawrence. Try as they might, the …

Kansas State knows Skylar Thompson will start at quarterback this fall. Beyond that, nothing is certain.

Every time Robert Hentz II started making some headway, Kansas State had to hit the pause button. The first time came in March.

Entering Year 1 working alongside Joe Klanderman last season, Van Malone described the situation being like “two cooks in the kitchen” at the same time. Klanderman is responsible for coaching Kansas State’s safeties; Malone tutors the cornerbacks. While there could be potential for the “cook…

In the midst of challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, Harry Trotter has had to get creative at times to stay healthy and maintain his workout routine. When many businesses — gyms among them — shut down earlier this year, Trotter resorted to using what was available. Hills. Sand pits.

Kansas State baseball standout pitcher Jordan Wicks gained national recognition for his summer season performance, winning D1Baseball.com’s 2020 Summer Breakout Prospect Award. Wicks played for the Rockford (Illinois) Rivets in the Northwoods League and Perfect Timing Red in the Perfect Timi…

Kansas State football’s first two games will kick off in the daytime.

The numbers are going in the wrong direction for Kansas State’s football program, as 10 players have active cases of the coronavirus. That’s an increase of three from Friday, when K-State announced seven players came up positive during the most recent round of testing.

Mike Dibbini is bracing for a new normal heading into his fifth season as the head coach of Kansas State soccer.

When Chris Klieman last spoke with reporters — virtually, of course, as nearly all media availabilities seem to be these days, precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic — he said he hadn’t had a chance to do a deep dive into the NCAA’s decision to grant a year of eligibility relief to all fal…

The seats that will comprise the south end zone at Bill Snyder Family Stadium officially have a name. The south end zone project, which is still under construction, will be known as the Shamrock Zone. The name is derived from the Shamrock Trading Corporation; the families of Bill Ryan and Ma…

The schedule for Kansas State volleyball will look quite different than it has in previous years.

After more than a month without positive coronavirus tests, the Kansas State football team’s good luck has come to an end: A spokesman told The Mercury on Friday that the Wildcats now have seven active cases after the latest round of testing.

Kansas State’s soccer program won’t have any time to work its way into form this season. In the reworked, conference-only schedule prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, K-State will open the 2020 campaign against Texas Tech — the preseason pick to win the Big 12 — at 7 p.m. Sept. 11. The lea…