KMAN has learned that K-State signee Marquez Clark will not become a Wildcat. Clark, a four-star wide receiver according to Rivals.com, caught 98 passes for 1,639 yards and 15 touchdowns for Navarro Junior College. Clark said on Twitter on Tuesday night that he will not be going to K-State, but will be attending the University of Central Oklahoma, a Division II school.
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K-State president Kirk Schulz has been appointed to a prestigous four-year term on the NCAA Division I Board of Directors. The board is made up of presidents and chancellors, and Schulz will serve as the Big 12 representative among the association’s 11 football conferences. The NCAA board of directors is responsible for electing schools to Division I membership, overseeing the Academic Progress Rate, and assuring gender and ethnic diversity in the leadership structure. The board meets four times a year, including in conjunction with the NCAA convention in April. Schulz’s first board meeting will be August 2nd.
Two of the biggest games on the Big 12 schedule of Bruce Weber’s first tenure at K-State will be on ESPN’s “Big Monday”. The Cats’ trip to Allen Fieldhouse to face the Kansas Jayhawks will be played on February 11th at 8:00pm. The first return trip to Manhattan of former K-State coach Bob Huggins will be shown on Big Monday, the following week, February 18th as West Virginia travels to Bramlage Coliseum. KU leads the Big 12 in “Big Monday” appearances with four. The Mountaineers, Texas, and Baylor will each get the prime time slot three times. K-State will be on…
Speaking at the Global Diaspora Forum Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Syria’s government is waging a war against its own people. She also recognized the efforts of the Syrian diaspora for ‘shining a light’ on the crisis.
On June 2, 2009, an apartment superintendent in New Brunswick, N.J., stumbled upon what he thought was a terrorist hideout and called 911. It was really an NYPD operation to conduct surveillance well outside its jurisdiction.
London’s Olympic medals went on show, two days before the opening ceremony. Officials said approximately 2,100 medals will be given out across the games.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Will Smith pitched two-hit ball over seven innings in the longest of his five major league starts, Lorenzo Cain hit a two-run homer in the first, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-1 on Tuesday night. Smith (2-3) allowed a run, struck out four and walked four against the club that drafted him in 2007 and traded him to Kansas City in 2010. The only hits against the 23-year-old left-hander came in the first inning a line-drive single through the box by Torii Hunter and an RBI single by Mark Trumbo…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Veteran catcher Jason Kendall, a three-time All-Star, has retired. The 38-year-old Kendall announced his retirement Tuesday, less than a week after signing a minor league contract with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. Kendall was a career .288 hitter in 2,085 games for Pittsburgh (1996-2004), Oakland (2005-07), Chicago Cubs (2007), Milwaukee (2008-09) and Kansas City (2010). He ranks fifth all-time in baseball history with 2,025 games caught. He made the All-Star game in 1996, 1998 and 2000, all when he played for the Pirates. He missed the final month…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Emanuel Herrera scored twice in the second half to lead defending French champion Montpellier to a 3-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City in an exhibition match on Tuesday night. Gaetan Charbonnier also scored for Montpellier, which held Sporting without a shot on goal and snapped the home side’s three-match unbeaten streak in international exhibitions. Herrera, who moved to Montpellier in the offseason after scoring 38 goals over his last two seasons in Chile, scored in the 72nd minute off an assist from Anthony Mounier to put Montpellier up 2-0. He added another goal in…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Three former TCU football players who were among more than a dozen students arrested during a drug sting have been sentenced to probation on marijuana delivery charges. Melody McDonald, a spokeswoman for Tarrant County prosecutors, says 21-year-old D.J. Yendrey pleaded guilty last week and was sentenced to three years of probation. Yendrey, who is listed as David Yendry in court records, was fined $300 on each charge. Tanner Brock and Tyler Horn, both 21, pleaded guilty to the same charges last month. Brock received four years’ probation and was fined $1,200. Horn was sentenced…