VOLLEYBALL

Kelsey Chipman led Kansas State with 12 kills as the Wildcats defeated Colorado 25-21, 25-15, 25-16 on Saturday at Manhattan. Soriana Pacheco added 26 assists for K-State.

* Ninth-ranked Nebraska had 50 kills to 26 for Kansas in a 25-15, 25-12, 25-18 win over the Jayhawks at Lawrence. Allison Mayfield led Kansas with 10 kills.

* Cowley College rallied from two sets down to force a fifth set but fell to top-seeded Illinois Central 25-21, 25-19, 23-25, 22-25, 15-7 in the NJCAA Division II championship game at Wisconsin Dells, Wis., on Saturday. It was the Tigers second runner-up finish in five years.

* Friends fell to No. 12 Bellevue (Neb.) 25-18, 25-13, 25-21 in the first round of the NAIA playoffs at Bellevue, Neb.

* Hutchinson Community College defeated San Jacinto 25-23, 26-24, 25-19, 26-24, in the ninth-place match at the NJCAA Division I Tournament in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Kate Morrell led the Blue Dragons with 15 kills.

BASKETBALL

Al Harrington and Danilo Gallinari each scored 17 points, and the New York Knicks beat the winless New Jersey Nets 98-91. David Lee added 16 points and 12 rebounds, while Wilson Chandler and Larry Hughes each finished with 13 points. The Knicks (3-9) won their second straight and proved that worse basketball is played a mere 10 miles away.

The Nets fell to 0-13, inching closer to the NBA record of 17 straight losses to start a season, held by Miami and matched by the Los Angeles Clippers. They'll try to avoid it during a difficult four-game trip out West that starts with back-to-back games at Denver and Portland, capped by a visit to the Lakers.

Chris Douglas-Roberts scored 24 points, and Brook Lopez had 18 points and 12 rebounds for the Nets, who shot only 4 of 18 from 3-point range and barely broke 90 points against one of the NBA's worst defensive teams.... LeBron James scored 32 points, Mo Williams added 18 and Cleveland Cavaliers clamped down defensively in the fourth quarter, holding Philadelphia to 10 points over the final 12 minutes in a 97-91 victory.

* Chris Jackson led the Friends men's team with 36 points as the Falcons defeated Bacone 77-65 in Wichita. Avery Richardson added 12 points for Friends.

* Bjonee Reaves led the Neosho County women with 16 points in a 73-70 win over Butler at El Dorado. Alysia Hart of Goddard led the Grizzlies with 21 points and Bishop Carroll's Abby Fawcett added 11.

FOOTBALL

Former Seattle and Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren is interested in working for the struggling Cleveland Browns.

' 'It takes a tremendous amount of energy, but there is a certain appeal there,'' the 61-year-old Holmgren. ''There's something in my personality, too, that taking on those types of projects, th at kind of gets me going. But there's a lot of work to do."

Cleveland coach Eric Mangini, struggling in his first season with the Browns, refused to comment on reports that Holmgren was on Lerner's wish list.

' 'Randy's really handling that, so I'll let him talk about that,'' Mangini said this week.

HOCKEY

Jarome Iginla scored a goal in each period to lead the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.... Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored on Detroit's first two shootout attempts to lift the Red Wings to a 3-2 win over Montreal.... Tuomo Ruutu and Jussi Jokinen scored second-period goals, and Manny Legace made 20 saves for Carolina in a 3-1 win over Tampa....Phil Kessel and Niklas Hagman scored shootout goals to give Toronto a 2-1 win over Washington.... Nathan Horton, Jordan Leopold and Steven Reinprecht scored goals and Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves for streaking Florida in a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers.