NEW YORK (AP) Michael Beasley shoved a heckler in the face with his hand during a playground game. In the second half of a summer league game at Dyckman Park in Washington Heights, Beasley was jawing back and forth with a fan who was getting on his case. Then Beasley shoved the fan’s face and security intervened. A guard and teammates led the former K-State star away from the fan, though Beasley later shook the fan’s hand. Adris De Leon, a neighborhood legend known as ‘2 Hard 2 Guard’ and who plays for Team Nike, thought Beasley was out…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Alex Gordon matched his career-high with four hits and Yamaico Navarro drove in three runs to the lead the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 9-4 on Thursday night. The Royals sent 11 men to the plate in a six-run sixth inning to break open the game. The inning included eight hits with Navarro doubling home two runs and Chris Getz stroking a two-run single. Melky Cabrera and Billy Butler added run-producing singles in the inning. The Royals had 17 hits with every starter having at least one. Gordon, Cabrera and Butler, the first…
.KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have purchased the contract of Johnny Giavotella from Triple-A Omaha. The club announced the move after Thursday night’s 9-4 win over the Orioles. Giavotella, a second-round pick in 2008 out of the University of New Orleans, hit .398 in June and .383 in July in the Pacific Coast League. His season totals with Omaha include a .338 average with nine home runs, 33 doubles, two triples, 73 RBIs and a .479 slugging percentage.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) Third-round draft pick Justin Houston has agreed to a $2.78 million, four-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. The deal includes a $671,000 signing bonus. Houston was the 70th overall pick out of Georgia and among the last rookies to sign. The 6-foot-3, 270-pound defensive end is expected to bolster the Chiefs’ pass rush. Starting cornerback Brandon Carr also signed his free agent tender on Thursday and joined most of the rest of the Chiefs in training camp.
At Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting, appraiser Greg McHenry told commissioners the number of building permits through July 31st is slightly higher than the number seen the first seven months of 2010. Also, the number of residential home sales is approximately the number seen in the first seven months of 2010. Additionally, enhancements were recently completed on the county’s Parcel Search website, which will allow for the website to be refreshed daily. Any changes in property data will now be reflected the next day on the website, which was previously refreshed only once a week. Safety simulation training videos were shown to the…
Its been over 36 years since the Vietnam War ended and with time the homeland has changed. Ken Embers was a helicopter pilot in the Army’s 61st Assault Helicopter Company in the late 1960s and now after getting permission to do so, he is helping the construction of a library for the area. “We plan a two-story building, it will be several thousand feet,” Embers says. “In Vietnam, they don’t have the concept of the library, so we thought this would be a great thing to have as a learning center not…
Three juveniles have been arrested in Clay County in connection with farm imiplement criminal damage in the north part of the county. 17-year-old James Schulze and 15-year-olds Kody Gregory and Daniel Graves, all of Clay Center, are charged with burglary, felony criminal damage, and felony theft. The three were taken to juvenile detention to await first appearance. The approximate total damage is $68,000. As reported the end of last week, the damage to farm equipment was reported overnight Wednesday at several locations in the northern part of the county. A news release from the Clay County Sheriff’s office indicates the…
The 18-game double round robin schedule in the new Big 12 will be a nine-week grind each winter. The K-State men will start the new format in the gym most unkind to visitors; Allen Field House against rival KU. The Cats and Jayhawks will meet at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, January 4th in Lawrence, which will not be on ESPN, but the syndicated Big 12 Network. K-State and KU will play on the four-letter network in a previously announced Big Monday tilt on February 13th at Bramlage Coliseum. The Cats will make their Big 12 home debut on Saturday, January…
The new era of the ten-team Big 12 will begin with a preseason #1 ranked team as Oklahoma sits atop the USA Today coaches’ poll, released on Thursday. The Sooners received 42 of 59 first place votes, with #2 Alabama receiving 13 of the remaining nods. #3 Oregon and #4 LSU split the other four first place votes, and Florida State rounds out the top five. The Big 12 has four other ranked teams, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M are #8 and #9, Missouri is pegged at #21, and Texas is #24 despite a 5-7 season a year ago.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) Cowboys cornerback and former K-State star Terence Newman likely will miss the entire preseason for the second time in four seasons because of a groin injury. Newman got hurt in practice Wednesday when he got tangled with a receiver during pass coverage drills. He later posted on his Twitter account, “A little groin pull and be back for the Jets!” The Cowboys’ season opener is Sept. 11 at New York. Newman, going into his ninth NFL season, missed all four preseason games in 2008 because of a groin injury. He returned for the season opener, but later…