After Major League Baseball suspended Rangers starter Vicente Padilla for seven games for his role in Sunday's bench-clearing brawl with Oakland, Torii Hunter drove in two runs to set his career high for a season, Silva threw six solid innings and the Twins again took advantage of shaky defense by Texas to beat the Rangers 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Ian Kinsler misplayed Jason Bartlett's popup with two outs in the ninth inning, allowing Lew Ford to score the winning run as the Minnesota Twins rallied past the Texas Rangers 5-4 on Monday night.
Terrell Owens burned the Miami Dolphins, mocked the New England Patriots and savored a 2-0 start by the Dallas Cowboys.
Clint Bowyer was seeded last in the Chase for the championship field. With zero Nextel Cup wins and hardly any laps led, he went off as a 30-to-1 long shot to win the series title.
Tiger Woods never paid much attention to the FedEx Cup until it was shining before him on a pedestal on the 18th green Sunday at East Lake. He always figured his name would be the first engraved on the new trophy as long as he kept winning.
Since Sam Bradford took over as quarterback, winning sure seems simple for No. 3 Oklahoma.
Thanks to Central Florida, it may be a while before Texas accepts another offer to open someone's new stadium.
Omar Haugabook passed for a career-high 371 yards and a touchdown and ran for 49 yards and two scores as Troy upset Oklahoma State 41-23 in a dominating performance Friday night.
Graham Harrell threw a personal best six touchdown passes, three to freshman Michael Crabtree, and Texas Tech scored 35 unanswered points for a 59-24 victory over the Rice Owls Saturday in a battle of former Southwest Conference rivals.
This week's A+ Athlete is Matt Rome of Sherman High School. Rome, who carries a 3.8 GPA, is taking three college courses in this, his senior year. He was nominated for the Circle of Success, is a member of the student council, and also was named physics student of the year.
Dallas Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn is still hopeful of playing this season after having arthroscopic surgery on his right knee for the second time in six weeks Thursday.
Magglio Ordonez hit a three-run home run, Gary Sheffield had a two-run homer and Justin Verlander allowed only a run to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Texas Rangers 5-1 Wednesday night.
DALLAS -- Tony Romo and Jason Witten have taken different paths to being Pro Bowl players for the Dallas Cowboys.
The Southeastern Oklahoma State baseball team will host 22 home contests, including four Lone Star Conference opponents in the 2008 baseball season.
The Tigers gave up 13 runs in the first game of a day-night doubleheader with the Texas Rangers, but allowed only one in the second to gain a split.
After opening the season with the highest ranking in school history at No. 14, the Austin College volleyball team swept through each of its first two early season invitational tournaments to open the 2007 season with a perfect 9-0 record.
Oklahoma (2-0) climbed two spots to third following a 51-13 thrashing of Miami, and Texas (2-0) moved up one spot to sixth courtesy of a 34-13 triumph over then-No. 19 Texas Christian.
Here is The Associated Press' Oklahoma high school football poll.
Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Jason Ferguson is out for the season after tearing his right biceps in the opening game.
The juiced-up defense that Wade Phillips supposedly is bringing to the Dallas Cowboys isn't here yet. Luckily for him, Tony Romo, Terrell Owens and Marion Barber are still around.
Somewhere, Michael Vick must have been shaking his head. Joey Harrington just shrugged off Atlanta's season opener as a stroke of bad luck, but this was a troubling start.
The field has five series champions, the reigning Daytona 500 winner, three of NASCAR's rising stars, two newcomers and a 14-year veteran searching for his first title.
Colt McCoy passed for a touchdown, set up another with a long run, and a dominant performance by the Texas defense carried the No.7 Longhorns to a 34-13 win over No. 19 TCU Saturday night.
By the time Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford threw his school record-tying fifth touchdown pass, the bad memories from past Miami games were long gone.
Texas A&M blew a 19-point lead, had a game-winning play negated by a penalty, then needed Jorvorskie Lane's power and one last defensive stand to finally put away Fresno State on Saturday.
