Tiki Barber isn't about to take back negative comments he made recently about his former team, though he did clarify one of his remarks about head coach Tom Coughlin.

As the Shocker bowling teams look to add two more National Championship trophies, they will head down a slightly different path than last season.

Three 11-win seasons the past four years. A five-game winning streak against the Big 12. A perennial Top 25 team.

Michael Strahan increased his work load in practice on Thursday and said if he continues to feel good that he expects to play in the New York Giants season opener against the Dallas Cowboys.

After a week of action that contained four matches, No. 22 Kansas State (5-2) will return to Ahearn Field House to host Arkansas, Fresno State and Northern Iowa for the Varney’s Kansas State Invitational Friday and Saturday.

The Chip-N-Club Invitational will tee off on Monday, Sept. 10, with 36 holes and will get underway with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. The Tuesday, Sept. 11, final round pairings will be determined by the two rounds played Monday and will begin at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start. The low four individual scores will determine the team score for each round.

The University of Kansas men's golf team opens its 2007-08 season on Sept. 10-11 at the St. Mary's Invitational in Pebble Beach, Calif. The tournament will be conducted at Poppy Hills Golf Club which also serves host to the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on the PGA Tour.

After sweeping the Bob Timmons Invitational, the Kansas men's and women's cross country teams look to earn another pair of victories at the Kansas State vs. Kansas Duel Friday in Manhattan. The women will compete at 6:45 pm and the men will follow at 7:15 pm.

The University of Kansas' doubles team of senior Elizaveta Avdeeva and junior Edina Horvath has been selected to the qualifying draw of the ITA All-American Championships, and Avdeeva has also earned a spot in the pre-qualifying singles draw, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association announced Wednesday.

Stan Lee, 55, of Heber Springs, Ark., became the youngest USGA Senior Amateur winner in history with his 4-and-3 victory over Sam Farlow, 60, of Birmingham, Ala

Mike Sweeney has been named the Kansas City Royals recipient of the 2007 Roberto Clemente Award presented by Chevrolet.

With fan voting opening today, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced its continued support for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award,

The Kansas volleyball team hosts the Jayhawk Classic this weekend in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center. KU (4-3 overall) is slated to play Friday against St. Peter's (noon) and Wyoming (7 p.m.) and will wrap up the tournament Saturday in a noon match versus Morehead State.

On Thursday, September 13, 2007, Topeka West will induct six former Topeka West athletes, one coach, and one team into the Topeka West Sport’s Hall of Fame.

NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Clint Bowyer will return to Topeka September 26, 2007 to compete in the Capital City Clash on the dirt track at Heartland Park Topeka.

-- A battle between top 25 nationally-ranked teams highlights the third and final weekend of non-conference football action on the 2007 MIAA football schedule.

Vicente Padilla pitched two-hit shutout ball for six innings, Hank Blalock had two hits and two RBIs, and the Texas Rangers hung on to beat the Kansas City Royals 3-2 on Wednesday night.

Venus Williams got her Grand Slam groove back just in time. Way down Wednesday night, Williams turned her game on when she needed to, then got some help from a fading foe and beat No. 3-seeded Jelena Jankovic.

Rex Grossman sounded almost defiant. After an offseason in which he heard calls for a change, the inconsistent Chicago Bears' quarterback had a message for his critics: Bring it on.

Joe Gibbs Racing spent 16 seasons jockeying for position in the crowded General Motors camp, where three championships in five seasons wasn't enough to move the organization to the front of the pack.

Commissioner Roger Goodell has no knowledge that any other NFL personnel are involved in an Internet drug operation being investigated by the Albany (N.Y.) District Attorney's office.

Alex Rodriguez tested his sore right ankle with a few jogs in right field about an hour before game time, then ran toward the dugout, up a runway and into the New York Yankees' clubhouse.

The American media turned on Serena Williams on Wednesday, labelling the former world number one as "classless" and "graceless" after her sullen reaction to her U.S. Open exit at the hands of Justine Henin.

The Kansas State men’s and women’s cross country teams will renew their in-state rivalries as the University of Kansas teams travel up the river on Friday, Sept. 7, to Warner Park in Manhattan.

Kansas State junior pitcher Justin Murray, who recently earned Texas Collegiate League Pitcher of the Year honors following a stellar summer season, was named the No. 3 prospect of the league by Baseball America, the publication has announced.