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You, me and McGeeHard to believe that Texas A&M, struggling mightily this fall, owns back-to-back victories over high flying Texas. Quarterback Stephen McGee, who has missed most of this season with shoulder woes, ran for 95 yards in the Aggies’ 12-7 win over the Longhorns in 2006 and ...

No. 5 Sooners slaughter No. 2 Tech, 65-21

Norman, Okla. ? Make way for a Sooners surge.Sam Bradford and Oklahoma are on their way up in the national championship race, and Texas Tech sure came down with a mighty fall.Bradford threw for 304 yards and four touchdowns, and DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown combined to run for five more ...

Stakes high at OU-Tech

Norman, Okla. ? Sam Bradford has all the impressive numbers that go along with a Heisman Trophy campaign: a few dozen touchdown passes, an impeccable quarterback rating and right around two miles worth of passing yards.Graham Harrell has all that, too, plus a couple of late-season marquee ...

Two Texas players de-commit from Kansas

Kansas recruits Euless (Texas) Trinity linebacker Earnest Norman and Flower Mound (Texas) Marcus offensive lineman Ty Cloud have both backed out of their commitments to play for the Jayhawks next season, according to the recruiting Web site rivals.com.Norman, who plays for one of the ...

Jacobs, Jayhawks eat Hawkeyes’ lunch

Hmmm … maybe Kansas University’s women have a quality point guard after all.LaChelda Jacobs was clearly the catalyst in the Jayhawks’ 76-55 basketball bashing of Iowa on Tuesday morning and afternoon in Allen Fieldhouse.“She’s a kid,” KU coach Bonnie Henrickson said of Jacobs, ...

Big 12 Women: Texas rolls to easy win

Austin, Texas ? Brittainey Raven scored Texas’ first 12 points and finished with 20, and the No. 14 Longhorns routed No. 25 Old Dominion, 78-44, on Monday night to win the World Vision Classic.Kathleen Nash finished with 15 points and had eight rebounds for Texas (3-0). She scored on a layup ...

No. 19 Baylor stuns Stanford

No. 19 Baylor 81, No. 2 Stanford 65Waco, Texas - Rachel Allison scored 20 of her 25 points in the first half to help Baylor upset Stanford.No. 11 Texas A&M 56, Pittsburgh 50Baton Rouge, La. - Tyra White scored 13 points to help Texas A&M beat Pittsburgh in the State Farm Women's ...

NU: Athletes broke rules

Lincoln, Neb. ? Two wrestlers kicked off Nebraska's team after appearing on a pornographic Web site broke NCAA rules twice in five months, athletic director Tom Osborne said. Osborne, saying he wanted to respond to criticism of the dismissals, made public a March incident in which Paul Donahoe ...