SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Zach Calzada threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another — all in the first half — to help Incarnate Word rout NAIA-member North American University 63-3 on Saturday night. Incarnate Word (3-1) extended its win streak at Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium to 13 games. The Incarnate Word defense held
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas’ final tour through the Big 12 drew a nighttime sellout crowd that booed the visiting band. The Longhorns had the place emptying out by the fourth quarter. Jonathon Brooks ran for 106 yards and two touchdowns and No. 3 Texas got a dominant game
Continue Reading NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — Jevon Jackson ran for 197 yards, including the tying touchdown in the fourth quarter, Austin Peay scored the winning points on an unusual safety, and the Governors defeated Stephen F. Austin 22-20 on Saturday night. After Jackson tied the score at 20 with a 24-yard touchdown run, the Govs (2-2, 1-0
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Donovan Smith threw for 294 yards and a touchdown, Parker Jenkins had 105 yards rushing and three touchdowns and Houston beat Sam Houston 38-7 on Saturday night. Smith finished 31-of-40 passing, and Jenkins had rushing touchdowns of 4, 1 and 2 yards in the first half as the Cougars (2-2) built a
Continue Reading By JOSHUA KOCH Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Jordan Lyles gave up just two hits in five innings, Bobby Witt Jr. drove in his 93rd run of the season and the Kansas City Royals beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Saturday night. “It’s like groundhog day,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. “We’re playing hard, they’re
Continue Reading LORMAN, Miss. (AP) — Carlos Villagomez booted a 50-yard field goal with one second remaining to lift Prairie View A&M to a 23-20 victory over Alcorn State on Saturday. Ahmad Antoine’s 4-yard touchdown run gave the Panthers (2-2, 2-0 Southwestern Athletic Conference) a 20-13 lead with 6:50 left to play. Aaron Allen capped a six-play
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Trade-deadline acquisition Jordan Montgomery is settling in nicely during this playoff chase with the Texas Rangers, who have a lot of positive momentum with eight games left in the regular season. Montgomery threw seven scoreless innings for the second time in his last three starts
Continue Reading GRAMBLING, LA. (AP) — Myles Crawley threw two touchdowns and Floyd Chalk IV ran for two scores and Grambling beat Texas Southern 35-23 on Saturday in a Southwestern Conference opener for Grambling. Crawley threw for 195 yards and Lyndon Rash was the recipient of his two scores. Chalk carried it 17 times for 88 yards
Continue Reading TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Byrum Brown threw for 435 yards and accounted for three touchdowns to lead South Florida to a 42-29 victory over Rice on Saturday in the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams. Brown’s 1-yard touchdown run gave South Florida a 20-14 lead about a minute into the third quarter. He added
Continue Reading NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Jack Shields threw for 258 yards and a touchdown and a failed two-point conversion at the end preserved Old Dominion’s 10-9 win over Texas A&M-Commerce on Saturday. Texas A&M-Commerce quarterback Josh Magana led an 11-play, 75-yard drive that lasted almost six minutes and ended with a 2-yard scoring pass to Keith
Continue Reading By AL LESAR Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Joe Milton III threw for 156 yards and ran for 89 in the first half, leading No. 23 Tennessee to a 45-14 victory over UTSA on Saturday. Milton played a key role in three early touchdowns for the Volunteers (3-1) — an 81-yard scoring run on
Continue Reading FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — John Hunter Nemechek moved into the round of eight of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a win at Texas, where he took the final lead after front-running Justin Allgaier got moved up the track on the 195th of 200 laps on Saturday. It was the seventh win of the season
Continue Reading By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Nicco Marchiol’s first career start was full of hiccups, oversights and mistakes. The West Virginia quarterback sure was happy about how it turned out. “Ecstatic to come out victorious,” Marchiol said. The redshirt freshman threw a touchdown pass in place of the injured Garrett Greene,
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — TCU coach Sonny Dykes had already ripped the officials with unsolicited comments when he was asked about the rivalry with his former school, SMU, being one step closer to a pause. “Hooray,” a smirking Dykes deadpanned without elaborating as another reporter started asking an
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Max Johnson threw for 123 yards and two second-half touchdowns after taking over for an injured Conner Weigman to lead Texas A&M to a 27-10 win over Auburn Saturday. “We won the game and still didn’t play close to what we’re capable of,” coach
Continue Reading FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Bubba Wallace will start from the pole at Texas, the first race after he just made the cut to get into the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Wallace turned a lap of 188.337 mph in the final round of qualifying Saturday, finishing ahead of fellow playoff contenders and RFK Racing
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Chandler Morris threw for three touchdowns, Emani Bailey ran for 126 yards and a score and TCU wore down SMU in the second half of a 34-17 victory in the Dallas-Fort Worth rivalry Saturday. The Horned Frogs (3-1) intercepted Preston Stone twice after halftime
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans have placed cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. on the injured reserve with a hamstring injury and said Saturday that left tackle Laremy Tunsil won’t travel to Jacksonville because of a knee injury. Stingley, the third overall pick in the 2022 draft, was injured in
Continue Reading By DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer Even after escalating its strike against Detroit automakers on Friday, the United Auto Workers union still has plenty of leverage in its effort to force the companies to agree to significant increases in pay and benefits. Only about 12% of the union’s membership is so far taking part in
Continue Reading By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturday against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. Darryl George, 17,
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — The family of a Black student sues Texas’ governor and attorney general over ongoing suspension for his hairstyle.
Continue Reading By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He couldn’t sleep, barely ate and relied on painkillers to get by. The 67-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, could not afford to see a dentist on the $1,300-a-month his family gets in Social Security and
Continue Reading By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — During the weeks it took Yeison and Niko to migrate from Venezuela toward the U.S., they navigated dangerous jungles and over a dead body. The two are so inseparable that Yeison sold his phone so both had enough bus money to continue their journey. Now as
Continue Reading By REGINA GARCIA CANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — From a White House podium in May, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined new legal pathways to the United States for Venezuelans and others, along with a “very clear” message for those who come illegally. “Our borders are not open. People
Continue Reading By CHEVEL JOHNSON RODRIGUE Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R.L. Boyce are among nine 2023 National Heritage Fellows set to be celebrated later this month by the National Endowment for the Arts, one of the nation’s highest honors in the folk and traditional arts. Spitzer and
Continue Reading HOUSTON (AP) — Cole Ragans gave up three hits and two runs over six strong innings and the Kansas City Royals used two big innings to defeat Houston 7-5 on Friday night, knocking the Astros out of first place in the AL West. Houston, which has lost seven of its last 10 games, dropped a
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Corey Seager and the Texas Rangers have talked all season about being resilient. There have been all of those injuries to their All-Stars, the loss of two starting pitchers with multiple Cy Young Awards and a late-season slide that knocked them out of first place.
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials pledged Friday to set up checkpoints to “dissuade” migrants from hopping freight trains to the U.S. border. The announcement came Friday at a meeting that Mexican security and immigration officials had with a representative of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. So many
Continue Reading ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Two-time American League MVP Juan González received his Texas Rangers Hall of Fame jacket in a pregame ceremony Friday night, eight years after his induction and 20 years after his last game for the team. One of baseball’s best sluggers in the 1990s, González is still the Texas career leader with
Continue Reading PHOENIX (AP) — Two federal lawsuits filed over former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s decision last year to place thousands of shipping containers along the U.S.-Mexico border have been dismissed after the state said it would pay the U.S. Forest Service $2.1 million to repair environmental damage. The Sept. 15 dismissal of the cases in U.S.
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