Author: KMAN Staff

DETROIT (AP) — Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez kept his eye on the ball. He tried to, anyway, and wound up making a game-saving play. Perez tagged out Prince Fielder at the plate, preserving the Royals’ 1-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night. “We had to win this ballgame and the manner in which we did it was just exciting,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. Ervin Santana (9-9) and the Royals moved up on the two teams ahead them in the race for the second AL wild-card spot, with the Yankees and Orioles both losing. Tampa Bay…

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Jake Waters passed for 115 yards and two touchdowns and John Hubert broke the 100-yard rushing barrier for the first time this season and added a receiving touchdown as Kansas State overcame a sluggish start to down Massachusetts 37-7 before a Band Day crowd of 52,958 Saturday evening at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. It didn’t take long for K-State to get on the scoreboard when on the first series for the Minutemen, Defensive Back Kip Daily stepped in front of an A.J. Doyle pass for a 38-yard interception return for a touchdown. A bad snap on the extra point resulted…

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On a night with a title fight in Las Vegas between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez, K-State volleyball literally won a championship belt in Berkeley, CA on Saturday afternoon as they bested #23 Cal on their home floor in five sets 16-25, 25-22, 25-22, 19-25, and 15-9 in the Hilton Garden Inn Invitational.  Tournament MVP Kaitlynn Pelger was awarded a belt worthy of a prize fight after she posted 16 kills, 15 digs, and six blocks against the Golden Bears. Dakota Kaufman with 12 kills and Taylor Johnson with 11 joined her in double figures. Tristan McCarty also made the…

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas agency says it was “reprehensible” for one of its former social workers to refuse to act on behalf of a toddler who was later beaten to death. The Kansas Department for Children and Families commented Friday, one day after a federal judge ruled that Linda Gillen was entitled to immunity in a lawsuit by the girl’s grandparents. Twenty-three-month-old Brooklyn Coons, of Coffeyville, died in 2008. Her father’s girlfriend is serving life in prison for her death. Brooklyn’s grandparents contend Gillen refused to investigate their reports that the toddler was being abused. The judge ruled for…

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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — NASCAR added Jeff Gordon to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field Friday, a stunning and unprecedented step in the fallout from at least two attempts to manipulate the results at the season-ending race at Richmond last weekend. NASCAR chairman Brian France said he had the authority to expand the field to 13 drivers for the first time since the format was implemented 10 years ago. Front Row Motorsports asked for a deal from Penske Racing in the closing laps of at Richmond and then helped make sure Penske’s Joey Logano made the Chase field…

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