K-State has 11 former players on NFL rosters after teams made trimmed their final rosters to 53 players this weekend. Two undrafted rookie free agents, Cornelius Lucas with the Lions and Ty Zimmerman (injured reserve) with the Saints, made it from last year’s Buffalo Wild Wings bowl championship team. Terence Newman, Darren Sproles and Jeromey Clary are the longest tenured Wildcats in the NFL. Wildcats in the NFL: Arthur Brown – Baltimore Ravens – 2nd season Bryce Brown – Buffalo Bills – 3rd season Jeromey Clary – San Diego Chargers – 8th season Emmanuel Lamur – Cincinnati Bengals – 3rd…
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The Kansas City Chiefs put to rest the Alex Smith contract talks with an extension signed for four years, worth roughly $17 million per season. Smith had one year left on his contract going into this season and he was scheduled to make just over $7 million. Thanks to the extension, Smith will get $30 million up front in 2014. The extension will expire in 2018. The Chiefs open up the regular season on September 7th in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium against the Tennessee Titans, the kickoff is at noon.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The race for the AL Central title got another wrinkle Sunday night when Cleveland’s game at Kansas City was suspended in the 10th inning. Lonnie Chisenhall’s two-out, two-run double gave the Indians a 4-2 lead before rain led to a delay before the bottom half of the inning. The teams never took the field again. The game will resume on Sept. 22 in Cleveland before the start of the last scheduled series between the teams. Kansas City (74-61) and Detroit were tied for the division lead coming into the day, with Cleveland (70-64) just 3 1/2…
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) Officials have announced an $11 million plan to demolish a mostly unused Great Bend hospital building and remodel nearby buildings. The Hutchinson News reports that the changes are coming more than three years after the Central Kansas Medical Center converted into an outpatient care center, called the St. Rose Ambulatory and Surgery Center. The project will reduce the campus from 240,000 square feet to a little more than 30,000 square feet. The plan is to remodel a medical office building and move into it any medical operations still in the hospital building. Besides tearing down the…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics GREEN BAY, Wisc. – A Wildcat offense that hit .345 for the entire match led the K-State volleyball team to its second straight sweep to open the season as the Wildcats beat South Dakota 3-0 (25-9, 25-20, 25-16) at Kress Events Center on Saturday morning. Sophomore Brooke Sassin led the Wildcats with 11 kills on a .611 hitting percentage while redshirt seniors Chelsea Keating and Natali Jones had seven and six kills, respectively. Jones was efficient with her six kills on seven errorless attempts, hitting .857 for the match.…
Thousands of anti-government protesters tried to raid the official residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, sparking clashes with police that killed three people and wounded nearly 400, officials said Sunday.
A suicide bomber in a truck blew himself up at an intelligence headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least two people and setting off an intense firefight with security forces, officials said.
Jake Waters passed for 223 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for two more scores as 20th ranked Kansas State rolled to a 55-16 win over Stephen F. Austin to begin the 2014 season before a sellout crowd of 52,830 Saturday night at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. K-State jumped out to a 21-0 lead with 11:13 left in the second quarter starting with a nine-yard pass from Waters to Tyler Lockett who did not play the rest of the game presumably for precautionary reasons as he has been said to be dealing with some minor injuries. Waters also scored on…
Brooke Sassin contributed 11 kills as the K-State volleyball team swept South Dakota 25-9, 25-20, and 25-16 on Saturday morning in the Country Inn & Suites Tournament in Green Bay, WI. The Mississippi State transfer hit .611 in her first double-digit kill effort as a Wildcat. Redshirt senior opposite Chelsea Keating added seven kills and nine digs. Katie Brand posted 28 assists, nine digs, and a team-high five blocks. Sophomore Kersten Kober, in her first career start at libero, led K-State (2-0) with ten digs. South Dakota (0-2) was topped by Kendall Kritenbrink’s 13 kills, as she became the Coyotes’ all-time…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new report says Kansas collected $4 million less in taxes than expected in August. The Department of Revenue said Friday the state took in $421 million in taxes, about 1 percent below the official forecast of $425 million. The department called revenues flat but said there are signs of economic growth in the figures. Corporate income tax collections exceeded expectations for the month.