By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications FORT WORTH, Texas – K-State erased a two-set deficit on Saturday at TCU, but the Horned Frogs hit .368 in the fifth to stave off the comeback attempt as the Wildcats fell, 3-2 (25-23, 25-19, 21-25, 17-25, 15-9), at the University Recreational Center. It was the fifth time the Wildcats (9-6, 1-2 Big 12) played a five-set match this year and first time since November 2014 that they forced a fifth set after dropping the first two. However, starting with last year’s November match against West Virginia, K-State has lost five of its last…
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP)– The Minnesota Twins’ surprising run for a playoff spot came down to the final innings on the next to last day of season. Minnesota was eliminated from the AL wild-card race Saturday, getting stifled by Yordano Ventura for seven innings in a 5-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals. Blaine Boyer (3-6) allowed two runs, one earned, while getting two outs for the Twins (83-78), who weren’t expected to contend this season with a young squad led by rookie manager Paul Molitor. But Minnesota began play Saturday two games back of Houston for the second wild-card spot. “I…
STILLWATER, Okla-The schedule will show Kansas State lost to Oklahoma State, 36-34, Saturday afternoon. In reality, the Wildcats’ true opponent may have been their own bodies. Plagued by injuries coming into the game and challenged by more of them during it, K-State (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) led most of the way before falling just short of ending a 16-year drought at Boone Pickens Stadium. OSU’s Ben Grogan nailed a 37-yard field goal with 32 seconds left to hand the Wildcats their first loss of the season. Starting quarterback Joe Hubener exited on K-State’s first drive after a nasty collision that buried…
The North Carolina State Climate Office has received numerous reports of damage and flash flooding as a result of the torrential rains moving through the state.
Officials on Friday released the names, ages and brief biographical information about the nine dead in Thursday’s shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College. The victims ranged in age from 18 to 67 and included a teacher.
An adaptive athlete from Belarus ran for faith, hope, and love in the C. Clyde Run 5K on Saturday. It was in first receiving those things however, that now has her sharing them with others Tanya Khvitsko met C. Clyde Jones, the first dean of the Kansas State College of Business, when she was 5 years old. The two met through Project Restoration, and organization that provides physical, emotional, and spiritual assistance in the Republic of Belarus – the country most affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. As a result of the nuclear event, Tanya was born with deformed fingers and missing…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins clubhouse, clouded so often this season by fog machines for the post-victory dance parties, was crystal clear and eerily quiet following the 160th game on the schedule. This postseason bid by the upstart Twins took a big hit. Ben Zobrist hit an RBI double in the eighth inning against struggling All-Star Glen Perkins, and the Kansas City Royals topped the Twins 3-1 on Friday night behind a strong start from Chris Young. “You can feel it,” Twins manager Paul Molitor said. “It’s deflating for sure.” Perkins, hampered by neck and back trouble that led…
President Barack Obama slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin, Friday for his strategy in Syria, saying his support for the Assad regime does not act in the interest of the majority of the Syrian people.
The Coast Guard is pulling out the stops in searching for a freighter with 33 crew members that’s gone missing near the center of Hurricane Joaquin. Officials say the ship went out of radio contact near the eye of the storm.
The atmosphere was solemn Friday as the clock struck noon and rang out on the Riley County Courthouse Plaza. The clock’s bells reverberated off the metal of a dozen red silhouettes of domestic violence victims, each with a plaque around their necks describing why they’re represented by art instead of their living physical bodies. For years the Riley County Domestic Violence Task Force has performed this ceremony every October, which also happens to be National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It also comes 24 hours after the country was shaken by another mass shooting — another violent act — that took the…