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Former Wichita Wings captain Kim Roentved will coach the Missouri Comets this season in the Major Indoor Soccer League. Roentved, 50, who also played for the Kansas City Comets, will lead the team in its first year back, playing in the Independence Events Center beginning in November.
Andy Murray beat Roger Federer 7-5, 7-5 to defend his Rogers Cup title on Sunday at Toronto.
Derek Harrison, Jack Courington and Lars Haakonsen each shot rounds of 1-under 70 Saturday and share the lead after the first day of the City Stroke Play Championship at Terradyne Country Club.
Kansas State coach Brad Hill agreed to a new contract Friday. It runs through 2015 and has an average annual compensation of $235,000, which includes a retention incentive of $125,000 should Hill remain at K-State through the life of the agreement. Hill could also earn up to an additional $172,500 in annual performance incentives.
Kansas duck hunters were awarded the most liberal daily limits in more than 25 years during Thursday's Wildlife and Parks meeting in Mankato. This year's limit for ducks are up to six per day, of which there can be no more than five mallards, two hen mallards, three wood ducks, two pintails, two scaup, two redheads, and one canvasback.
Kansas' 2012 non-conference schedule, released Tuesday, will be home games against South Dakota State (Sept. 1) and Rice (Sept. 8) and a road game at Northern Illinois (Sept. 22).
Kansas State is closing in on a sellout for its season opener against UCLA. Less than 3,500 tickets remain for the Sept. 4 matchup at Snyder Family Stadium. Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. ABC will televise the game nationally.
Kansas State's Nick Russell scored a game-high 23 points and K-State teammate Jamar Samuels scored 13 to go with five rebounds, three steals and four blocks for the East Coast All-Stars in a 92-80 loss to the Swiss National Team on Sunday at Froeborg, Switzerland.
LeBron James finally thanked the fans in Cleveland on Saturday, when he made his first public appearance since he left the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat.
LeBron James finally thanked the fans in Cleveland on Saturday, when he made his first public appearance since he left the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat.
Phil Mickelson trails Retief Goosen by one shot after two rounds at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. Looking more inevitable is Mickelson supplanting Tiger Woods atop the world ranking. Goosen turned bogey into birdie by chipping in from 25 yards off the green at No. 4, sending him on his way to a 4-under 66 that gave him a one-shot lead over Mickelson and Justin Leonard (66) going into the weekend at Firestone.
A Kentucky woman was convicted Thursday of demanding millions of dollars from Rick Pitino to keep secret their one-night stand in a restaurant, then claiming the Louisville coach raped her after he reported the extortion.
Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and Brett Favre's agent, Bus Cook, said Wednesday that the veteran quarterback plans to return to the team if he is healthy.
The 54th Hutchinson Grand Nationals are 7 p.m. Saturday at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. The finals were originally rained out on July 3. Fireworks are scheduled after racing.
Wichita's Cathy DeSocio, vice president of the Bowling Proprietors' Association of American and president of the JOMA Co., has begun her term on the board of the U.S. Bowling Congress. Wichitan Marci Williams is the board's secretary.
Former Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, kicked off the team for a myriad of legal issues, has found a new football home at Mississippi.
AC Milan's coach doesn't expect David Beckham to return for a third stint with the Italian club.
AC Milan's coach doesn't expect David Beckham to return for a third stint with the Italian club.
Former Kansas State guard Denis Clemente has signed a one-year contract with Israeli team Maccabi Rishon LeZion, according to the Manhattan Mercury. Clemente signed a free-agent deal with the Charlotte Bobcats in June and averaged 1.3 points and 0.5 assists on their summer-league team.
Four teams from the Jayhawk Conference are in the NJCAA Top 25 preseason poll, led by Fort Scott Community College at No. 3. Fort Scott was the national runner-up last season. Butler is ranked No. 6, Hutchinson No. 11 and Coffeyville No. 18.
Newman University hired former Wichita State player Brandon Hall as an assistant coach. Hall spent last season as a volunteer assistant at WSU. He played catcher and third base at WSU from 2003- 06.
An extra night of racing has been added to this week's schedule at 81 Speedway. Tonight's action will feature racing in modified, AAA modified, rookie modified and street stock. On Thursday, cruisers, hornets and youth hornets will race. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. with racing at 7:30 each night. On Saturday, a full schedule including sprint cars begins at 7 p.m., and on Sunday the O'Reilly/NCRA late model series returns for the final time this year.
Oklahoma City's Jeff Coffman tied a Tallgrass Country Club record with an 8-under-par 63 during his Monday afternoon round and won a 36-hole qualifier to earn a spot in next month's U.S. Amateur. Coffman's 148 total (75-63) was four shots better than first alternate Charlie Saxon of Tulsa. Wichita's Spencer Christian (71-72--143) was the second alternate. The U.S. Amateur will be played Aug. 23-29 at Chambers Bay in Tacoma, Wash.
Carl Pettersson rallied to win the Canadian Open on Sunday for his fourth PGA Tour victory, closing with a 3-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Dean Wilson at Toronto.
Southern California coach Lane Kiffin has hired Tennessee Titans running back coach Kennedy Pola as his offensive coordinator. Before the move became official, Titans coach Jeff Fisher voiced his displeasure with Kiffin on Saturday to the Tennessean newspaper, saying the new USC coach hadn't made the customary courtesy phone call to tell the NFL team he was interested in hiring Pola. Tennessee Titans training camp opens in a week. Pola is a former USC player and assistant coach and so is Fisher. Kiffin issued a statement Saturday saying he first spoke to Pola on Friday, and then called Fisher after Pola called him back.
Southern California coach Lane Kiffin has hired Tennessee Titans running back coach Kennedy Pola as his offensive coordinator.
New Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley addressed the status of former Wichita East standout Bryce Brown in one of his first questions at SEC Media Days on Friday.
Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon offered Heights junior Perry Ellis a basketball scholarship Thursday by phone, Ellis' mother Fonda said. That makes eight schools that have offered scholarships, including Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kansas State, Wichita State, Wake Forest and Memphis.
Former winner Ben Bates is one of four players given sponsor exemptions to next month's Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open, the Nationwide Tour event at Crestview Country Club. Bates won the tournament in 1997. Other exemptions announced by the tournament Wednesday went to Pat Bates (five-time Nationwide winner), Mike Lavery and Michael Walton. A final exemption will come from the July 28 club pro tournament at Auburn Hills.
Two pairs of golfers shot a 1-under-par 71 Tuesday in the first round of the Women's Golf Association of Wichita four-ball tournament at Hidden Lakes. Katy Nugent and Sherrie Wynkoop, and Alex Beury and Patricia Sherwood, have a six-shot lead over the rest of the field heading into today's final round at MacDonald Park.
Andy Schleck lost the overall lead in the Tour de France to defending champion Alberto Contador on Monday after suffering a mechanical problem at a disastrous moment in a 15th stage won by Thomas Voeckler.
Matt Bettencourt chipped in for an eagle on the 11th hole, then held off Bob Heintz by a stroke to win the Reno-Tahoe Open for his first win on the PGA Tour. Bettencourt capped his 4-under 68 with a bogey on No. 18 after a birdie on 17, finishing at 11-under 277. After his eagle on the par-5 11th, he played the final seven holes in 1 over par.
Former Kansas track and cross country great Dick Wilson died Saturday in Lawrence. Wilson had been battling cancer and a brain tumor. He ran of Kansas' national champion cross country team in 1953 and was a member of a 4-mile relay team when it set an American record. He is a member of the KU Hall of Fame.
The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired former No. 2 overall draft choice Michael Beasley from the cash-strapped and All-Star-rich Miami Heat last week, hoping a change of scenery and a move to a young team will bring out the considerable talents he showed in his one year of college at Kansas State.
Wichita native Ted Gilmore, an assistant head coach and receivers coach at Nebraska, will be the guest speaker at the Kansas Cornhuskers picnic July 31 at Risen Savior Catholic Church, 6770 E. 34th Street North. Reservation deadline is July 26 and can be made by calling 316-744-2030 or go to www.kansascornhuskers.com.
Kansas offensive tackle Jeff Spikes will miss the 2010 season because of a lower leg injury. Spikes, a 6-foot-6, 325-pound junior, is a two-year starter. He redshirted in 2007, then started 13 games in 2008 and 10 in 2009, moving between right tackle and right guard.
The Kansas City Comets will return to the Major Indoor Soccer League for the first time since 2005, playing in the Independence (Mo.) Events Center. The Comets would be a sixth team in the league, joining the Milwaukee Wave, Baltimore Blast, Monterrey La RaZa, Philadelphia Kixx and Rockford Rampage.
Hank Conger hit a three-run homer and the United States, boosted by a pair of Angels up-and-comers, snapped a three-year losing streak in the Futures Game with a 9-1 win over the World squad at Anaheim, Calif.
Two Georgia players were jailed early Saturday morning on alcohol-related charges less than a week after an embarrassing drunken driving arrest prompted the university's athletic director to resign. Dontavius Jackson, listed as a sophomore tailback, and sophomore split end Tavarres King were in a Chevrolet Avalanche stopped on a campus road just before 3 a.m., UGA police chief Jimmy Williamson said. Jackson, 20, was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and other motor vehicle offenses. King, 19, was charged with underaged possession of alcohol as were two other passengers inside the Chevrolet.
Kansas State will be host to James Madison on Nov. 12 and Presbyterian on Nov. 18 in the first two games of the CBE Classic. K-State, Duke, Marquette and Gonzaga will advance to the tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
