KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Yuniesky Betancourt is back with the Kansas City Royals after agreeing to a one-year contract. The deal was announced Tuesday. Betancourt, who played for the Royals from 2009-10, started at shortstop for the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers last season, batting .252 with 13 homers and 68 RBIs. Kansas City has Alcides Escobar at shortstop, so Betancourt will provide versatility and experience off the bench. He will back up Escobar while providing a right-handed bat behind Mike Moustakas at third base. Milwaukee declined a $6 million option on Betancourt for next season.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The NCAA has hit Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and other penalties for a scandal that involved players taking cash and tattoos in exchange for jerseys, rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia The university had previously offered to vacate the 2010 season, return bowl money, go on two years of NCAA probation and use five fewer football scholarships over the next three years But the NCAA on Tuesday banned the Buckeyes from playing in a bowl in Urban Meyer’s first year as head coach in 2012, further reduced the number of scholarships and tacked on…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) LSU’s Les Miles is The Associated Press college football coach of the year after guiding the top-ranked Tigers to a spot in the BCS championship game Miles received 30 votes from AP poll voters to beat out Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, who got 16 votes Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy was third with six votes, Michigan’s Brady Hoke received three votes and Southern California’s Lane Kiffin got one Miles won the award, which has been given out since 1998, for the first time. He’s the second LSU coach to win the award, joining Alabama coach…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Kansas State was unable to overcome a sluggish offensive performance against UNLV in the final game of the BTI Invitational on Tuesday night, as the Lady Rebels defeated the Wildcats 44-38. The loss ended K-State’s five-game winning streak. The Wildcats (8-3) were paced by senior forward Jalana Childs with 12 points. Joining Childs in double figures was Brittany Chambers with 11 points. UNLV (10-3) was led by Markiell Styles with a game-high 15 points while also adding seven rebounds. Adding to the Lady Rebels performance was a double-double from Jamie Smith with 10 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Both teams…
Manhattan is quickly becoming a haven for bio-science research, and that aim was put forward a little further last night at the Manhattan City Commission meeting. An Indian company, Pratistha International came forward for a second consideration, applying for economic development funds to set up a Manhattan-based arm of their company. The proposal, which passed unanimously, will allow Pratistha to set up a research facility in an old armory building near Manhattan Regional Airport. Commissioners also were given the guaranteed maximum price on the construction of the new Traffic Operations Facility. While the price was presented, along with it…
Monday evening Daniel Brewer was sentenced to two concurrent prison terms of 12 to 20 years for two rapes that occurred in 1981. On Tuesday Morning Brewer defense attorney Larry McRell filed a motion for probation and or downward modification of the two prison sentences. McRell states in the motion that it is consistent with the plea agreement reached between Brewer and the state among other reasons. The motion goes on to state that prosecutor Christine Ladner acknowledged that the office of the Kansas State Attorney General believed suspending the sentence was in the best interest of the state, the…
Micheal Blake Layne appeared by video from Riley County jail in Riley County District court Tuesday afternoon to set a preliminary court date. 19 year old Layne is charged with the 1st degree murder of 31 year old Steve R. Freel, and is scheduled to appear on the 10th of February at 1pm in Judge William Malcolm’s magistrate court. Layne’s case is tied into at least five other ongoing cases under investigation, and in the early trial phases, were also heard on Tuesday afternoon. 41 year old Domingo Alfredo Soto is charged with conspiracy to commit 1st degree murder of…
Unemployment numbers show a slight increase in Manhattan with the latest numbers, which show 4.1 percent in the city for November, compared to 3.9 percent in October. That’s still well below the 4.7 percent from last year at the same time. The Manhattan Metro- area, which includes Riley, Pottawatomie, and Geary counties shows five percent, also up from 4.9 percent in October but lower than 5.5 percent the same time last year. County numbers for November include Riley with 4.2 percent, Pottawatomie county with 4.5 percent, Clay had 4.2 percent , and Geary County, which always tends to be a bit…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – With a sterling performance in the first half and a combined 47 points fromBrittany Chambers and Jalana Childs, Kansas State distanced itself from Northwestern to register a 64-45 win at the BTI Invitational for its fifth straight victory. Kansas State (8-2) entered the contest ranked eighth in the nation in scoring defense (49.3 ppg) and seventh in the country in field goal percentage defense (.312). The Wildcats held Northwestern to 26 points below their season average of 71 points. This was the seventh time in 10 games that K-State has held an opponent to 49-points or less. K-State was…