First team all-Big 12 performers John Hubert and Ty Zimmerman both were named to preseason watch list for national awards given to the best player in the country. Hubert rushed for 947 yards and 15 touchdowns on 189 carries last season, and was nominated for the Maxwell Award, which recognizes the nation’s best player. Collin Klein was a finalist for the Maxwell last season, which was handed out to Notre Dame’s Manti Te’o. Hubert is one of six Big 12 players up for the award. Zimmerman led the Big 12 with five interceptions during league play last season to go with 50 tackles, and was tabbed…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Josh Reddick homered and drove in four runs to cap a big series for Oakland, Jed Lowrie and Eric Sogard also went deep and the Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 10-4 on Sunday. A.J. Griffin rebounded from a miserable start against the Cubs to go five innings for the A’s. The only damage he allowed came on solo homers by George Kottaras and Alex Gordon. Jesse Chavez earned his first career save with four scoreless innings of relief. Luis Mendoza allowed five runs in the second inning for the Royals, and was yanked to a…
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) Benny Feilhaber and Graham Zusi scored in the first eight minutes, and Sporting Kansas City beat the Chicago Fire 2-1 on Sunday, snapping Chicago’s three-match winning streak. The victory was only Kansas City’s second in the last seven matches, giving SKC 30 points. Kansas City’s two goals were scored 2 minutes 14 seconds apart. Feilhaber scored his first of the season in the sixth minute, hammering a right-footed shot from 16 yards when a throw-in by defender Matt Besler deflected off two players and ended up at his feet. Chicago goalkeeper Paulo Tornaghi couldn’t stop that…
Federal officials say the plane that crashed in San Francisco Saturday was cleared for a visual approach. This means that it was cleared to approach the runway based on the pilot’s view, without using instruments. Two people died in the crash.
Nine passengers and one pilot died on Sunday, when a small plane crashed at an airport in Alaska. The crash happened in Soldotna, about 75 miles from Anchorage.
As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway train derailed, igniting explosions and fires that destroyed downtown.
Shi Da, 39, a product manager at an Internet company in Hangzhou, China was traveling with wife and teenage son aboard the Asiana Airlines 777 that crash-landed Saturday. He asked that his face be partially obscured.
Updated: 4:20 p.m. Sunday Power was restored to Riley and Pottawatomie County Westar customers about 35 minutes after the reported problem. Westar Spokeswoman Gina Penzig tells KMAN the problem was due to a breaker going out. More than 1,800 customers were impacted during the brief outage, with traffic lights at several busy intersections in Manhattan impacted. #### A power outage was reported just before four Sunday afternoon, affecting 217 Riley County Westar customers, and 1,602 Pottawatomie County customers. In addition traffic lights are not functioning on Tuttle Creek Boulevard from Bluemont to Poyntz Avenue. Motorists are urged to use caution…
Rodney McGruder made the most of his NBA summer league debut with the Orlando Magic, scoring 11 points in just 11 minutes of action during Orlando’s 95-88 win over the Boston Celtics Sunday afternoon. McGruder made three of five shots from the floor, including two three pointers, and connected on all three of his free throw attempts. Former Oklahoma Sooner Romero Osby tied for the Orlando scoring lead with 18 points in 24 minutes. The Magic will play the Oklahoma City Thunder at 10:00 AM Monday. Jordan Henriquez did not see the floor in the Houston Rockets first summer league…
Hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi gathered outside the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo on Sunday calling for the release of the former president.