Reservations are due Monday for the Topeka Area Catbackers barbecue, scheduled for June 18 at the Kansas Expocentre.
Catbackers members can purchase tickets in advance for $15 or buy them at the door for $18. Prices for nonmembers are $18 and $23.
Kansas State center B.J. Finney was one of 50 players named to the Rimington Trophy watch list.
Finney, a former walk-on from Andale, started 13 games last year as a freshman and was selected as a team captain for 2012.
KSU mourns Topekan
Kansas State athletic director John Currie and rowing coach Patrick Sweeney expressed condolences to the family of Brenna Morgart, a Seaman graduate killed Friday in a hit-and-run accident.
Rodeo
SHRINE RODEO
RESULTS FRIDAY AT TONGANOXIE
NOTABLE KANSANS' RESULTS
STEER WRESTLING
2 Kyle Harlow, Mound City; 4 Zac Parrington, Hoyt.
TEAM ROPING
1 tie Tyler Johnson, Mound City and Jason Arndt, Ft. Scott, 5.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Thomas Taylor allowed three runs in a complete-game effort, lifting Kansas to a 5-3 win over Texas A&M on Friday in the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament.
Ojeleye earnsAshe award
Kansas State forward Victor Ojeleye will receive the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award after being chosen from a pool of more than 600 candidates.
The award honors a minority athlete who maintains a grade-point average of 3.
It's good to be the Big 12.
Nine months ago your embarrassing pictures were showing up on TMZ, and well, look at you now. The envy of the neighborhood. The conference holding all the cards.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Big 12 player of the year Josh Ludy hit two home runs and drove in six runs to lead top-seeded Baylor to an 11-1 victory against Kansas State in the conference tournament.
EX-ROYALS ON MLB ALL-STAR CELEBRITY SOFTBALL ROSTER: There will definitely be a Kansas City Royals flavor to the All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball game which will be played on July 8 at Kauffman Stadium.
Musings at the mid-week:
■ Do not expect expansion to come to fruition this week at the Big 12 spring meetings.
■ Could be that the gathering in Kansas City is rather tame for once, complete with a deserving salute to interim commissioner Chuck Neinas. Read More
MAYETTA - When you make a career out of playing a lifetime sport, it can be tough to predict just where that career might take you.
For Notah Begay, golf offered another new wrinkle last week. Read More
MAYETTA - With a fierce wind blowing hard enough at Firekeeper Golf Course to almost steer a mishit back into your face, Tony Finau could not get enough of the range. Read More
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