The Kansas State Women’s Basketball team won its third consecutive game as they used a smothering defense and timely shooting to down South Dakota State 63-46 Saturday evening in Brookings, S.D. K-State tied a school record by allowing the Jackrabbits to make only two first half field goals as the Wildcats raced to a 31-14 lead at intermission. Brittany Chambers, playing close to her Minnesota home and with many family members in the stands led three Wildcats in double figures with a game-high 18 points. Branshea Brown added 13 points and Mariah White chipped in with 10 points. With the…
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Robert Griffin III became the first Football player from Baylor University to win the Heisman Trophy when the award was announced Saturday Night at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City. Griffin, who led Baylor to its best regular season in 25 years received 405 first place votes and a total of 1,687 points beating out Stanford Quarterback Andrew Luck who received 1,407 points and became the fourth player in history to finish as a runner-up in the voting in consecutive seasons, he is the first since Darren McFadden of Arkansas in 2006 and 2007. Finishing third was Alabama…
HONOLULU, HAWAII – Kansas State’s season came to an end on Friday night in Hawai’i as the Wildcats were swept by the Pepperdine Waves in the Regional Semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. K-State could not find a way to slow down Pepperdine’s top player, and the Wildcats could not get its own offense moving fast enough to put pressure on the Waves. K-State (22-11) fell 18-25, 12-25, 23-25 ending a successful season after being selected to finish eighth in the Big 12 Conference in the preseason. The Wildcats saw junior opposite Kathleen Ludwig shine as she tallied 12 kills on…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State has hired Iowa State assistant Tom Herman to be its new quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator under Urban Meyer. Athletic director Gene Smith confirmed the hiring on Friday. Herman, 35, has served as Iowa State’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach the past three seasons. Herman favors a spread attack, also the preferred offense of Meyer. Herman is the first confirmed member of Meyer’s new staff. “Tom Herman has one of the bright young minds in college football,” Meyer said in a statement released by Ohio State.“His philosophies are very similar to those of my…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina’s board of trustees has approved a 7-year contract for new football coach Larry Fedora. Trustees met for about 30 minutes Friday morning to approve the deal, which will pay more than $1.7 million annually. The deal includes several bonuses, including for winning a division or conference championship, reaching a BCS bowl and high graduation rates. The deal also includes annual retention bonuses ranging from $100,000 to $350,000 beginning in 2015. The school has scheduled Fedora’s first news conference for Friday afternoon. Fedora had spent four seasons at Southern Mississippi, leading the No. 22…
A million books is a lot–and U-S Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas was in Manhattan Friday to pack the millionth book for the “Help Us Learn, Give Us Hope” organization. More than 950,000 pounds of supplies and 1.25 million books have been donated recently, with supplies providing for an estimated 492,000 children and thousands of teachers in Afghanistan. Moran placed the symbolic millionth book into a box, which happened to be a geometry book, while speaking to the many volunteers for their efforts at the National Guard Armory . Moran says while our military has done so much, the ability…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Former Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis has been hired at Kansas. Weis will be introduced during a news conference Friday on campus, where he’ll try to rebuild a program that won the Orange Bowl just a few years ago but floundered under Turner Gill. Weis is wrapping up his first season as offensive coordinator at Florida after spending one season directing the Kansas City Chiefs’ offense. But his most extensive college experience came with the Fighting Irish, where he went 35-27 in five seasons. The 55-year-old former New England Patriots assistant has also spent time with…
While Prathista International has been generating a lot of attention at Manhattan City Commission meetings lately, the topic moved to Riley County commissioners Thursday, with an update by Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President Lyle Butler. Manhattan City Commissioners have been trying to decide whether to allocate economic development funds to Prathista or to improvements downtown. Riley County Commissioners had several questions Thursday regarding what has become a somewhat controversial discussion on whether Prathista International should receive a $500,000 economic development package from the city. The company does not receive that money–it would be used to refurbish the Armory by…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett and Nigel Malone were named to the 2011 Walter Camp All-America Team in a vote of the nation’s head coaches and sports information directors, the Walter Camp Foundation announced during the Home Depot College Football Awards Show Thursday night. Lockett was named the first team kickoff returner, while Malone was a second team cornerback. It was the first All-America honor for both players, while they became the seventh and eighth players in school history to be named a Walter Camp All-American. Lockett is the first kick returner in school history named to the team, while Malone is the…
For full video wrap-up with game highlights and interviews click here. What a game. The Wildcat fans who packed Wichita’s Intrust Bank Arena for the match up between Frank Martin and former K-State Head Coach and mentor Bob Huggins got not one, but two overtime sessions. When the dust cleared from the tournament intensity game it was the Mountaineers who were left standing 85-80 in double OT. The Cats were paced by Rodney McGruder’s 20 points. The junior forced double OT with a late jumper, but couldn’t connect on a late 3 to force a 3rd OT session. Highlights, Post…