Welcome to Blue Wings Rising: Your New Kansas Jayhawks Coverage Destination

Blue Wings Rising is your new home for Kansas Jayhawks coverage on Sports Illustrated's FanNation.

Welcome to Blue Wings Rising, your brand new home for the Kansas Jayhawks here on Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation Network. 

It's a fantastic time to be covering the Jayhawks, as there are plenty of stories to tell. Lance Leipold just put the finishing touches on his first recruiting class. Brandon Schneider and the women's basketball team are having arguably their best season in a decade. Bill Self has the men's basketball team in first place in the Big 12 despite another brutal conference slate. We plan to cover these and more as we gear up for the crazy season that is March Madness.

For those that don't know me, I'm Andy Mitts, and I am the editor-in-chief and publisher here at Blue Wings Rising. You might be familiar with my work covering the Jayhawks over at Rock Chalk Talk for the last 8 years. Or you may have listened to  the Rock Chalk Podcast at any point in the last 5+ years. It very well could be the very first time you are seeing any of my work (if that's the case, welcome!). Regardless of how familiar you are with me or my staff, I'm glad you are here for the beginning of this new community of Jayhawks that we are building as a part of FanNation.

To help me on this journey, I've enlisted the help of some great analysts, including: David Potter, Derek Noll, Kyle Davis, Brendan Dzwierzynksi and Steve Fetch, all of whom have years of experience covering the Jayhawks. Plus we have some great help behind the scenes running our Twitter account and Discord Server

In addition to the team we have assembled, we are always looking to add more voices to our coverage, especially in the areas of recruiting, Olympic sports, and women's basketball. If you are interested in joining our team, please message me directly on Twitter with a sample your work (either written or video) and what kind of coverage you want to bring to the team. 

To get us started, Derek has his latest edition of the Player Ratings after the Iowa State game. Plus, in light of the blowout loss against Kentucky on Saturday, Kyle takes a look at the what blowout losses tell us about postseason chances.    

In addition to our print articles, Blue Wings Rising is the new home for the Rock Chalk Podcast, where I'll bring you analysis every weekday covering EVERY program in the Kansas Athletic Department. To start you off, I've put together a preview of the new-look Rock Chalk Podcast coverage that you can look forward to every day with a recap of the episodes that were made available this week.

Again, thank you for joining us as at the beginning our journey here at Blue Wings Rising. We can't wait to build the premier community of Jayhawks on the internet with you.