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Longhorns’ Young declares for draft

Austin, Texas ? Vince Young is headed to the NFL.The Texas quarterback, who led the Longhorns to their first national championship in 36 years, announced Sunday he would make himself eligible for the April NFL Draft.Young maintained during the season that he would like to return for his senior ...

McCray’s three stops OU

LINCOLN, NEB. ? Joe McCray made Oklahoma's Terrell Everett pay for his mistake.With the Sooners trying to protect a two-point lead in the late going Saturday, Everett succumbed to Nebraska's pressure defense and threw a pass right to the Cornhuskers' Wes Wilkinson in the Oklahoma end.That set ...

Sooners, NCAA to meet

Norman, Okla. ? Oklahoma will meet with NCAA officials in April regarding an investigation into the school's men's basketball and gymnastics programs, the school said Wednesday.Athletic director Joe Castiglione said Oklahoma had been working with the NCAA and, along with NCAA enforcement staff, ...

Allen ‘hungry’ for new job

SPRINGFIELD, MO. ? New Missouri State football coach Terry Allen believes in omens.A sign that Allen is the right man, in the right place at the right time? In the lobby of a downtown hotel on Tuesday, he crossed paths with John Q. Hammons."It certainly was a pleasure to meet him, and I took it ...

Knight as intense as always

Lubbock, Texas ? It's been quite an unusual 40th season for Texas Tech coach Bob Knight so far: His successor already has been picked, he's off to his worst start in a decade, but he's still got the same intensity that helped him win three national championships with Indiana."I'm still ...

Ho, hum: No. 2 UConn routs ‘Cats

Hartford, Conn. ? No surprises here.Connecticut put the squeeze on overmatched New Hampshire early, and the second-ranked and unbeaten Huskies cruised to another lopsided victory.Rudy Gay had 22 points and three steals, and Ed Nelson dominated down low with 11 rebounds in UConn's 86-44 victory ...

CU picks next coach

Denver ? Boise State coach Dan Hawkins was close to completing a deal that would bring him to Colorado to replace Gary Barnett.A person familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because a deal is still pending, told the Associated Press that the school hoped to ...

As coaches’ salaries rise, schools race to keep up

Tom Davis didn't go into coaching to get rich; it just happened that way."It probably was good timing, to some degree," the Drake men's basketball coach said last week.Davis got his first big-time job at Boston College in 1977, just as college basketball was starting its climb into the ...