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Dugan Arnett’s quick hits

The game was over when… Kansas quarterback Todd Reesing fumbled late in the first half with the Jayhawks trailing by 14.

Game balls & Gassers

Daymond Patterson fumbled the only punt he fielded.

Big 12 Roundup: Texas survives scare

Sooners sustain 21-point KSU rally

Top-ranked Texas was put to its toughest test yet and came through unbeaten.

KU secondary shaken up

Thornton, Harris change positions to shore up unit

Justin Thornton said he didn’t mind being moved from safety to cornerback Saturday. He just wished he’d have felt a little more comfortable in his new setting. “I’ve just got to get my feet under me,” Thornton said after KU’s 63-21 loss to Texas Tech at Memorial Stadium. “It’s different when you only practice corner for three days and you’ve got to go out against the No. 1 offense in the country.”

Top 25 Roundup: Penn St. snaps 30-year winless streak at OSU

Pat Devlin came off the bench for injured starting quarterback Daryll Clark in the fourth quarter, leading two scoring drives and sneaking in for the go-ahead touchdown to give Penn State its first victory at Ohio State in 30 years.

KU loses in three sets

The Kansas University volleyball team’s defense featured three players with double-digit digs, but the Jayhawks fell in three sets (25-17, 25-14, 25-23) to Texas A&M on Saturday.

Pickens plans OSU gift

Texas oil tycoon and Oklahoma State University alum T. Boone Pickens said he plans to announce another major financial gift to his alma mater.

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Now that was ugly

Raiders have way with KU

It is not an easy thing to put a positive spin on a 42-point college football loss. It is even more difficult, one would imagine, to do this if the loss occurred at home - during a weekend in which a university’s alumni are in town to celebrate said university’s history and tradition. So Saturday, after his team had endured a 63-21 drubbing at the hands of visiting Texas Tech on homecoming weekend, Kansas University coach Mark Mangino didn’t try.

Wright option exercised

The New Orleans Hornets have exercised one-year team options on former first-round draft picks Julian Wright and Hilton Armstrong.

Keegan: Keegan: Lopsided loss came as a surprise to many

It was supposed to be a close game, one that would leave the 50,000-plus spectators turning their heads back and forth as if watching a tennis match. They were supposed to be treated to a pair of great passing offenses. The last team to score wins. That sort of a game. That game still might happen, but not until next weekend, when Kansas State brings its pass-happy offense and slapped-silly defense to Memorial Stadium for what suddenly seems like a tough game to forecast, the way Texas Tech-Kansas shaped up as a difficult call, at least until the second quarter arrived.

FIU’s Galindo injured

Florida International University senior forward Alex Galindo recently suffered a dislocated ankle during individual workouts and will be lost for a minimum of eight to 10 weeks.

KU football notes

While it is unlikely that Kerry Meier will be eligible to participate in this year’s Heisman Trophy voting, the Kansas junior receiver knows whom he’d pick if he were. “He’s sure got my Heisman vote,” said Meier of Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell.

KU golf in ninth place

Sophomore Meghna Bal shot a one-over-par 73 Saturday to help the Kansas women’s golf team move into ninth place in The Derby.

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Tech QB stunned by margin

Confident in himself and his teammates, Graham Harrell expected a Texas Tech victory Saturday at Memorial Stadium. But 63-21? A rout so convincing Harrell, Tech’s senior quarterback, would be able to sit out the final 12 minutes, 48 seconds?

(Expletive) chant remains

The University Daily Kansan’s effort to bring a new kickoff chant to Memorial Stadium succeeded Saturday, but the effort to rid the old obscene chant failed.

Coaches gather at clinic

Kevin Boyle, who has led St. Patrick High School to six New Jersey state titles in the past 11 years, shared some of his secrets of success with the 400 or so coaches in town for Bill Self’s basketball clinic Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.

Commentary: Ugly exit can’t spoil Olson’s legacy

In 1982-1983, the University of Arizona men’s basketball team finished 4-24. Its only victories were over Florida International, Northern Arizona University, San Diego State and Stanford. “The program was a joke,” former Arizona State coach Bill Frieder said.