COLLEGES
Nebraska cruises to a win over Kansas State as their 99-year series comes to an end
Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez rushed for 242 yards and four touchdowns Thursday night and the seventh-ranked Cornhuskers ended a 99-year rivalry with Kansas State in the same lopsided fashion it began, thrashing the Wildcats 48-13 at Manhattan, Kan.
Martinez, a redshirt freshman who has rushed for 737 yards in his first five games for the Huskers (5-0), also threw a 79-yard touchdown pass to Kyler Reed for a 38-6 lead in the third quarter. His rushing total broke Jammal Lord’s Nebraska record for a quarterback and his four rushing TDs tied the team quarterback mark.
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Courtney Harnais scored in the first minute of her first start this season to give the University of Maine (6-4, 2-1 America East) a 1-0 win over the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (2-10-1, 1-3) at Baltimore.
Nikki Misener set up the play that resulted in Harnais’ third goal of the season.
The Black Bears held UMBC to four shots in the first half and just one in the second to help secure the shutout. Goalie Meagan Price-Liebenzeder had three saves.
GOLF
PGA: Tom Kite shot a 3-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead over fellow early starters Mark O’Meara, Michael Allen and Joe Ozaki in the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship at Potomac, Md.
SKINS TOURNAMENT: Tiger Woods will play in a one-day skins tournament in Bangkok next month. Paul Casey of England, Camilo Villegas of Colombia and Thailand’s top player, Thongchai Jaidee, will also compete for total prize money of $300,000.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: A person with knowledge of the test results said a urine sample taken from Tour de France winner Alberto Contador showed abnormally high levels of plastic residues.
The finding could indicate he received a transfusion of his own blood during this year’s race.
Contador was provisionally suspended by the international cycling federation last week after the banned drug clenbuterol was discovered in one of his samples. He has previously denied having a blood transfusion.
TENNIS
WTA: Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark took over the world’s top ranking from Serena Williams with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic at the China Open in Beijing. Wozniacki is the top seed in Beijing, where Williams pulled out because of injury.
Williams, however, will return to the WTA Tour at next week’s Generali Ladies Linz after being sidelined since July by a cut on her foot.
SOCCER
MLS: Edson Buddle scored his league-leading 16th goal, converting a corner kick from David Beckham, and the Los Angeles Galaxy defeated the Philadelphia Union 1-0 at Chester, Pa.
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