LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Football signees announced Wednesday by Kansas, with name, position, height, weight, school and hometown.

Corey Avery, s, 5-10, 170, Carter HS, Dallas

Matthew Boateng, cb, 5-11, 175, IMG Acad., Toronto, Ontario

Jacob Bragg, ol, 6-4, 305, Nacogdoches (Texas) HS

Darious Crawley, wr, 5-11, 183, Cypress Ridge HS, Houston

Ronnie Davis, cb, 6-0, 181, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M JC

Joe Dineen, s, 6-2, 208, Free State HS, Lawrence, Kan.

Josh Ehambe, lb, 6-3, 232, Prime Prep Acad., Arlington, Texas

Kapil Fletcher, dl, 6-4, 232, Hartnell (Calif.) CC

Bobby Hartzog Jr., wr, 5-11, 180, Westside HS, Houston, Texas

Keyon Haughton, ol, 6-2, 309, Georgia Military Acad., Baltimore

Lay-Trion Jones, dl, 6-3, 297, Garland (Texas) HS

De’Andre Mann, rb, 5-9, 195, Hartnell (Calif.) CC

T.J. Millweard, qb, 6-3, 210, UCLA

Damani Mosby, dl, 6-3, 228, Mesa (Ariz.) CC

Derrick Neal, wr, 5-10, 155, Lincoln HS, Dallas

Anthony Olobia, dl, 6-5, 241, Arizona Western CC

Tyler Patrick, wr, 6-0, 170, The Woodlands (Texas) HS

Anthony Smithson, s, 5-11, 185 Hartnell (Calif.) CC

Kent Taylor, te, 6-5, 238, Florida

Apa Visinia Jr., ol, 6-4, 380, Grandview (Mo.) HS

Kyron Watson, lb, 6-0, 220, East St. Louis (Ill.) HS

D.J. Williams, dl, 6-5, 288, Lufkin (Texas) HS

Devon Williams, ol, 6-4, 340, Georgia Military Acad., St. Augustine, Fla.

Daniel Wise, dl, 6-2, 242, Hebron HS, Lewisville, Texas

Traevohn Wrench, rb, 6-0, 180 Gardner-Edgerton (Kan.) HS

 

Wakefield High school junior Trey Adams had a big week for the Wakefield Bomber Basketball team.

He scored 22 points in a 61-59 overtime victory over Blue Valley Randolph, and t hen stepped up and scored 26 points in a 69-59 win over Centre.

In recognition of his play Trey Adams is the McDonald’s Athlete of the Week. He will receive a framed certificate, recognition on display boards at the two McDonald’s Restaurants in Junction City, and on both KJCK AM, The Talk of JC, and online at JCPost.com.

The K-State Wildcats Baseball team has has been selected as the preseason favorite to win the  the Big 12 title. The vote is taken by the league’s head coaches, and the Wildcats received five first-place votes. Previously the Wildcats have never been picked higher than fifth in the Coaches’ Poll.

According to Big12sports.com, only six points separated the first through fourth place teams. For the first time in league history four different teams received first-place votes.

K-State was followed in the poll by Oklahoma State with two votes, with TCU and Texas following with one vote each.

WACO, Texas (AP) – Naadir Tharpe scored 22 points, nine in a go-ahead run for No. 8 Kansas before halftime, and the Big 12-leading Jayhawks rebounded from their first league loss with a 69-52 victory at Baylor on Tuesday night.

Andrew Wiggins overcame a slow start to score 14 points, while Perry Ellis had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Kansas.

Wiggins, the Big 12’s top scoring freshman, finished 4-of-13 shooting and didn’t make his first basket until a half-court shot to beat the buzzer going into halftime. That capped a 14-3 run over the final 5 minutes for a 35-27 lead.

Early on, there were three ties and nine lead changes. Tharpe’s short jumper with 3 1/2 minutes left in the half broke a 25-all tie and put the Jayhawks (17-5, 8-1 Big 12) ahead to stay.

Cory Jefferson had 14 points to lead Baylor (14-8, 2-7), which lost its fourth consecutive game at the Ferrell Center.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has congratulated the Seattle Seahawks for defeating the Denver Broncos and winning Super Bowl XLVIII.

The White House says Obama spoke with Seattle head coach Pete Carroll on Tuesday and commended Carroll and his team for a great game.

Obama said he looks forward to congratulating Carroll and the team at the White House later this year.

The president had avoided picking sides in Sunday’s matchup, saying he didn’t want to offend either city.

Obama predicted a final score of 24-21, but the Seahawks dominated the championship game from the opening kickoff and went on to crush Denver 43-8.

 

Kansas State University finalized its 2014 football schedule Monday and includes six teams who were bowl eligible last year including a Thursday prime time home match up with Auburn on September 18^th.

The Wildcats will have seven home match ups including four Big 12 games against Texas Tech, Texas, Oklahoma State and Kansas.

Instead of opening the season with three straight non-conference match ups this year the Wildcats will open up conference play in week two when they travel to Iowa State to take on the Cyclones on September 6^th.

The first of three bye weeks this season will be during week three followed by the primetime match up with Auburn at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in week four.

UTEP will come to Manhattan in week five followed by Texas Tech in week six.

Week seven will be the second of the three bye weeks leading into a key matchup at Oklahoma in Week eight.

K-State will return home in weeks nine and ten against Texas and Oklahoma State.

The Wildcats head back out on the road in week eleven to take on TCU in Fort Worth, Texas before having their third and final bye week in week twelve.

Out of the bye week K-State goes on the road to Morgantown, WV to take on the West Virginia Mountaineers.

The Wildcats return home on November 29^th to take on in state foe Kansas in week 14. They will round out the regular season in Waco, Texas when they take on the Baylor Bears on December 6^th.

Game times along with ticket information and promotional schedules will be announced in the coming weeks. Kansas State is looking to continue its current home sellout streak of 13 straight games and another season ticket sellout is expected.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – The Kansas City Royals have canceled Tuesday’s Royals Caravan visits to Manhattan and Fort Riley because of the impending winter storm.

The team said Monday it’s not certain if the trip will be rescheduled.

Tuesday’s northeast Kansas trip was billed as a Salute to the Military. The Royals have been partnering with USO chapters at Fort Riley and in Missouri throughout the caravan to collect items for service members overseas and returning from duty.

The Royals Caravan has visited 18 communities throughout the Midwest. Tuesday’s northeast Kansas trip was the last leg of the tour.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) – The blowout Super Bowl made a return Sunday – Seattle Seahawks 43, Denver Broncos 8. Russell Wilson tossed a pair of TD passes and the Seahawks capitalized on a host of Broncos mistakes in their stunningly easy upset.

Twelve seconds into the game, the Seahawks scored on a safety. Twelve seconds into the second half, Percy Harvin crossed the goal line to cap an 87-yard kickoff return.

In the most lopsided Super Bowl in 21 years, the Seahawks breezed to their first NFL championship since entering the league as a 2-12 expansion team in 1976. It’s Seattle’s first major sports championship since the old NBA SuperSonics won it all in 1979.

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson tossed threw a pair of touchdown passes in directing an efficient Seattle offense that scored three touchdowns directly off Denver mistakes.

The Seahawks scored touchdowns running and receiving, returning a kickoff and also with an interception return, as well with two field goals and a safety to start the game.

NFC teams now have won five of the last seven Super Bowls.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Isaiah Taylor scored 23 points, Jonathan Holmes had 22 and No. 25 Texas rolled over No. 6 Kansas 81-69 on Saturday for its sixth consecutive victory.

Texas, which lost its top four scorers from last year’s 16-18 squad, has been the surprise of the Big 12. The Longhorns have four consecutive wins over Top 25 opponents and now sit in second place after dominating a team that had been playing as well as anyone in the country in recent weeks.

The Longhorns (17-4, 6-2) thumped the Jayhawks (16-5, 7-1) with suffocating defense that held the Big 12’s best shooting team to 39 percent from the floor. Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins, who averaged 24 points over the previous three games, scored seven before fouling out late.

 

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Juwan Staten had a career day with 35 points as West Virginia knocked off Kansas State 81-71 on Saturday.

It was the second straight league win for the Mountaineers (13-9, 5-4 Big 12) and third in the last four games. Kansas State (15-7, 5-4) lost for the third time in four contests.

Staten had four rebounds and five assists, and connected on 8 of 13 field goals and 18 of 21 from the line – both free throw marks career bests. Terry Henderson had 13 points, Eron Harris scored 11 and Remi Dibo had 10.

The Wildcats got 20 points from Marcus Foster and 19 from Thomas Gipson.

Those two KSU players connected on 18 of 27 shots, but Staten provided much of what the Mountaineers needed to avenge a 78-56 defeat in Manhattan on Jan. 18, which has proved to be West Virginia’s worst loss of the season.