NEW YORK (AP) – A full postseason share for the World Series champion Giants was worth a record $388,606, topping the previous mark of $370,873 set by San Francisco two years ago.

San Francisco’s total was up from $307,323 for the Boston Red Sox last year. The players’ pool of $62 million was down from $62.7 million last year and a record $65.4 million in 2012.
The Giants split $22.3 million into 47 full shares, partial shares equivalent to another 9.65 and 17 cash awards, the commissioner’s office said Monday.

A full share on the AL champion Kansas City Royals was worth $230,700, up from $228,300 for St. Louis last year and down from $284,275 for 2012 AL champion Detroit.

The players’ pool included 50 percent of the gate receipts from the two wild-card games, and 60 percent from the first three games of each division series and the first four games of each league championship series and the World Series.

Full shares were worth $125,288 for Baltimore, $115,481 for St. Louis, $31,544 for Detroit, $31,543 for the Los Angeles Dodgers, $29,845 for the Los Angeles Angels, $29,418 for Washington, $16,556 for Pittsburgh and $15,266 for Oakland.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State’s Dec. 6, contest at Baylor has been placed on the six-day wait list as ABC/ESPN and FOX Sports will make their selections for the final day of the regular season after play this weekend.

 

The possible game times and network designations for Dec. 6 are: 11 a.m., on ABC or ESPN; 2:30 p.m., on FOX Sports 1; 6:45 p.m., on ESPN or 7 p.m., on ABC. Aside from the K-State at Baylor game, the other two Big 12 games slated for that day are Iowa State at TCU and Oklahoma State at Oklahoma.

 

The Big 12 did announce that it anticipates it will know kickoff times and television designations after all games have been completed this Saturday.

 

No. 11 Kansas State takes on Kansas in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown this Saturday at 3 p.m., in Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The 112^th edition of the in-state rivalry, which also serves as the Wildcats’ Senior Day, will be shown to a national audience on FOX Sports 1.

 

Scattered singles and standing-room only tickets are available for the KU game and may be purchased through the K-State Athletics Ticket office online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum.

 

Downey Wood was named Offensive Player of the Year, and Tyrik Nas-Carmickle

Defensive Player of the Year for the 2014 Junction City Blue Jay football team.

Numerous awards were presented to Blue Jays during a postseason assembly at Junction City High School Sunday evening.

Wayne Shirley was named the Special Teams Player of the Year, Lonnie Autry Scout Team Offensive Player of the Year, and Austin Lussier was the Scout Team Defensive Player of the Year.

Several individual memorial awards were presented:

–Ron Lowry Memorial Award……Jaylen Brooks

–Malcolm Tibbets Award ( to the most inspirational player)…Raye Wilson

–Joseph Sinegal Memorial Award…Xavier DeGuzman and Tate Zimmerman

–Coach Al Simpler Memorial Award…Grant Whaley and Christian Ozores

–Elijah Carter / Salisbury Memorial Award…Angeleau Scott

–The Black Lion Award….Tyrik Nas-Carmickle

The 2014 Blue Jay football team won both District and Regional championships, and advanced to the Sectional ( second ) round of the Class 6A postseason playoffs. The Blue Jays finished with a final record of 8-3.

 

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – The Oklahoma-Kansas start time has been pushed back at least 90 minutes due to lightning.

An Oklahoma spokesman said the school consulted with meteorologists, and the decision was made to start the game no earlier than 12:30 p.m. Central, rather than the scheduled 11 a.m. start.

The spokesman said the school is trying to avoid stopping and starting, and is trying to fit the game in before another wave of anticipated storms hits.

Kansas State used a size advantage over visiting Hampton Friday to defeat the Lady Pirates, 66-46, in Bramlage Coliseum for the Wildcats’ third straight 20-plus margin win to open the 2014 season.

K-State ( 3-0 ) out-rebounded Hampton, ( 0-3 ) 50-32, and out-scored the Lady Pirates in the paint, 32-10.

Sophomore Breanna Lewis matched her season-high with 13 points and seven rebounds, while senior Ashia Woods paced the Wildcats in rebounds with nine, and assists with five.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Branford Jones scored 14 points, Mike Caffey had 13 and Long Beach State beat Kansas State 69-60 on Friday night.

The 49ers (2-2) never trailed and held the Wildcats (2-1) to 33 percent shooting. David Samuels had 10 points and 10 rebounds and Eric McKnight had eight points.

Thomas Gipson led Kansas State with 13 points and Nino Williams had 12. The Wildcats shot 3-for-21 from 3-point range.

Gipson twice closed Kansas State’s deficit to four points in the final 1:09, including a basket inside with 48.5 seconds left. Jevon Thomas missed on a drive after Long Beach State missed a free throw and Kansas State was forced to foul.

Jones made four free throws in the final minute to seal the win for the 49ers in front of a packed home arena. Kansas State’s leading scorer, Marcus Foster, had five points on 1-for-13 shooting.

— Chiefs Media Relations —

The Kansas City Chiefs announced on Friday that the club has signed free agent wide receiver Jason Avant. The team has placed wide receiver A.J. Jenkins on injured reserve.

Avant (6-0, 210) has played in 127 games (52 starts) in nine NFL seasons with the Carolina Panthers (2014) and Philadelphia Eagles (2006-13). His career numbers include 318 receptions for 3,847 yards (12.1 avg.) with 13 touchdowns. Avant spent seven seasons with Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid in Philadelphia while Reid served as the Eagles head coach (2006-12). He owns 57 catches of 20-plus yards and has produced 197 first down grabs in his career.

He originally entered the NFL as a fourth-round draft pick (109th overall) of the Eagles in the 2006 NFL Draft. Avant played collegiately at Michigan where he finished third in school history with 169 receptions for 2,247 yards and 13 touchdowns. He prepped at Carver High School in Chicago, Illinois.

 

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP

Kansas State (2-0/0-0 Big 12)

G – #1 Jevon Thomas

G – #2 Marcus Foster

G – #14 Justin Edwards

F – #41 Stephen Hurt

F – #42 Thomas Gipson

 

Long Beach State (1-2/0-0 Big West)

G – #5 Mike Caffey

G – #1 Tyler Lamb

G – #31 McKay LaSalle

F – #11 David Samuels

F – #12 Eric McKnight

 

INSIDE THE SERIES

Overall: K-State leads 6-2 (dates back to 1978)

1. Big West: K-State leads 15-3 (3-1 on the road)

In Manhattan: K-State leads 3-1 (last meeting: 11/17/2013)

In Long Beach: Tied 1-1 (last meeting: 12/12/1998)

Current Streak: K-State, 3

Last Meeting: K-State won 52-38 in San Juan, P.R. (11/24/2013)

Weber vs. Monson: Weber leads 7-0

 

LAST GAME SUMMARY

K-State 83, UMKC 73

Game 2  *  Bramlage Coliseum  *  November 17, 2014

Senior Thomas Gipson led four players in double figures with a game-high 21 points, as K-State moved to 2-0 on the season with an 83-73 win over UMKC on Monday night in the opening game of the EA Sports Maui Invitational. Down by as many as 11 points in the first half, the Wildcats took the lead at 48-46 with 16:04 left in the game and built as much as an 11-point advantage behind a torrid 68.2 percent (15-of-22) shooting. It marked the second straight game that K-State has shot better than 65 percent from the field in the second half, as the squad is averaging 50.5 points on 67.4 percent shooting after halftime this season. In addition to Gipson’s fifth 20-point outing to go with his team-leading nine rebounds, K-State got double-digit scoring efforts from Marcus Foster (16), Justin Edwards (15) and Nigel Johnson (12) and Jevon Thomas had nine assists.

 

GAME 3 – QUICK HITTERS

• K-State begins a nine-day road trip on Friday, as the Wildcats travel to Long Beach, Calif., to face perennial Big West contender Long Beach State (1-2, 0-0 Big West) at the Walter Pyramid at 9:30 p.m. CT. It will be the first of four games in a six-day stretch, which includes the Championship Round of the EA Sports Maui Invitational, Nov. 24-26.
• K-State is off to a 2-0 start to the season for the 11th time in the last 12 seasons after wins over Southern Utah (98-68) and UMKC (83-73).
• Head coach Bruce Weber will be going for his 50th win at K-State on Friday at LBSU. A win would match Lon Kruger (1986-90) for the second-fastest mark to 50 wins in school history (71 games). Zora Clevenger won 50 games in just 59 attempts for the fastest mark from 1916-20.
• The 181 points scored are the seventh-most after two games in school history and the most since posting 184 to start the 2008-09 season. The 98 points vs. Southern Utah were the most in an opener since scoring 103 vs. Texas-San Antonio in 1991 and most in any game since 2010.
• K-State leads the Big 12 in scoring offense (90.5 ppg.), field goal percentage (58.5), 3-point field goal percentage (58.1) and assists (20.5).
• Friday’s contest is the first true road non-conference game since a 65-62 win at George Washington on Dec. 8, 2012 and the 13th overall since the 2006-07 season. It will also be the first of two true road contests in non-conference play, along with Tennessee on Saturday, Dec. 6.
• K-State has had success on the road in non-conference play with wins in seven of their last eight games, including five straight wins. The Wildcats are 8-4 in true road non-conference games since 2006-07 after posting a dismal 2-15 mark in such contests from 1999 to 2005.
• Overall, K-State is 92-21 (.814) in non-conference play since the 2006-07 season, including double-digit wins in each of the last six seasons. The Wildcats are 23-5 (.821) in non-conference play under Bruce Weber.
• K-State and Long Beach State will be meeting for the ninth time on the hardwood, including the third time in the last two seasons. Last year, the Wildcats earned a 71-58 win over the 49ers at home on Nov. 17 in the first game of the home-and-home series before posting a 52-38 victory in the consolation bracket of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off on Nov. 24.
• K-State will be making its third trip to Long Beach State and first since 1998. The Wildcats have split their previous two road match-ups, losing 75-69 on Dec. 23, 1978 and winning 90-77 on Dec. 12, 1998.

Release by Tom Gilbert,  Associate Director / Athletics Communications

K-State 26 West Virginia 20.

K-State coach Bill Snyder was asked about the performance of his quarterback Jake Waters in the Wildcats’ 26-20 win over West Virginia Thursday night.

“He really played well in the first half, threw the ball extremely well. I think he was 11-14 in the first half, something like that. We were negative-three yards rushing in the first half, and the only yardage we had was throwing the football. And he made good decisions, and put the ball in the right spots. Second half left a little to be desired I think.”

Waters threw for a career-high 400 yards and a touchdown in the win.

On other topics in his postgame comments:

–Snyder noted Kansas State was penalized dramatically  in the first half. “Was very costly, and then we had the major penalty on Tyler down here in the second half. We just did not have that discipline that we’ve come to count on so much.”

–Snyder noted he had no earthly right to take away the victory from the young people in the program, but if K-State stays true to form and remains consistent in what they do it’s about trying to make weekly improvement. “There’s probably some areas where we did, but for the most part we certainly didn’t.”

Kansas State improved to 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the Big 12 with the win. They are tied with TCU for first place in the conference standings, and Baylor can make it a three-way tie with a win over Oklahoma State Saturday.

Kansas State will host Kansas November 29 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

 

 

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Jake Waters threw for a career-high 400 yards and a touchdown, Tyler Lockett returned a punt for a score and No. 12 Kansas State beat sloppy West Virginia 26-20 on Thursday night.

Kansas State (8-2, 6-1 Big 12, No. 12 CFP) rebounded from a blowout loss at TCU to move into a first-place tie with the idle Horned Frogs with two weeks left in the regular season. No. 6 Baylor can make it a three-way tie Saturday against Oklahoma State.

Kansas State built a 17-3 halftime lead and held on. Lockett caught 10 passes for 196 yards, and Matthew McCrane kicked four field goals.

West Virginia (6-5, 4-4) committed four turnovers in its third straight loss. Skyler Howard threw two TD passes after Clint Trickett left in the third quarter with an undisclosed injury.