Devil Rays tied with Red Sox entering final day for AL wild card

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The Tampa Bay Rays are loose and raring to go, ready to work overtime - if necessary - to win the AL wild card.

PRETENDERS OR CONTENDERS?

Kansas State and Iowa State got picked to finish near the bottom of the Big 12 standings. After undefeated starts in nonconference play, they will get a chance this week to show whether they're contenders or pretenders.

Jayhawks believe bye week has them Big 12 ready

LAWRENCE (AP) - Circle the wagons and rally the troops. The cliches rolled off the tongues of just about every member of the Kansas Jayhawks' football team Tuesday afternoon, and with good reason.

No. 12 Gators take aim to turn Tide in series

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Florida was essentially noncompetitive in its last two games against Alabama.

Chiefs show improvement, short-lived as it may be

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Leonard Pope cradled the touchdown pass from quarterback Matt Cassel with just less than 5 minutes left in the game, pulling the Kansas City Chiefs within a field goal of the San Diego Chargers in a critical game on the road.

PUNT, PASS & KICK

Cabrera gets 200th hit as Royals beat Minnesota, 7-3

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Melky Cabrera became the first Kansas City player in 11 years to get 200 hits and Mike Moustakas hit the go-ahead home run in a four-run sixth inning as the Royals topped the Minnesota Twins 7-3 on Monday night.

NFL capsules

PHILADELPHIA - With Michael Vick knocked out of another game, Eli Manning and the New York Giants wouldn't let the Philadelphia Eagles finish off their comeback. Manning threw four touchdown passes, including two to Victor Cruz, and the Giants beat the Eagles 29-16 Sunday.

Texas Tech comes from behind to beat Nevada 35-34

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville could tell his team was a "little shell shocked" at halftime.

Broyles leads No. 1 Sooners' rally for 38-28 win

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - For the first time, Landry Jones found himself leading Oklahoma on Owen Field with another team in the lead. As it turned out, it wasn't that much different than any other time the top-ranked Sooners play at home. Jones hooked up with All-American Ryan Broyles for 154 yards and three touchdowns, leading Oklahoma out of a rare deficit at home to beat Missouri 38-28 ...

Griffin, No. 17 Baylor beat Rice

WACO, Texas (AP) - Robert Griffin III continued his incredible feat of throwing more touchdown passes than incompletions, tossing for five scores and running for another to lead No. 17 Baylor to a 56-31 victory over Rice on Saturday night.

Prep football scores (Sept. 23)

Games involving Western Athletic Conference teams (Sept. 23) Wichita Heights 55, Great Bend 14 Garden City 24, Hays 21 Dodge City 30, Liberal 7 Area St. John 40, Pratt Skyline 22 Haven 32, Ellinwood 22 Central Plains 56, Goessel 6 Ingalls 48, Stafford 38 Beloit 80, Larned 21 Macksville 40, South Central 20 Thunder Ridge 44, Otis-Bison 28 Ulysses 34, Hoisington 13 Wichita City League Carroll 31, Northwest 7 Kapaun 56, West 8 (Thur.) South ...

Chargers host injury-plagued Chiefs today

SAN DIEGO (AP) - As disappointing as it was to commit four turnovers and lose to Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, the San Diego Chargers can at least tell themselves that things aren't as bad as they are with the Kansas City Chiefs.

AP Top 25 capsules

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The Crimson Tide scored on special teams, defense and using the old-fashioned power run to emphatically win the SEC West showdown.

Neinas takes reins of fractured Big 12

Needing someone strong and savvy to mend the Big 12, the league has turned to a former Big Eight commissioner who also helped usher in the era of college football as big business.

Pacers put down Knicks for 2-1 series lead

INDIANAPOLIS - Roy Hibbert had 24 points and 12 rebounds and Paul George had 14 points, eight rebounds and eight assist to lead the Pacers past New York 82-71 Saturday night in Game of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Pirates topple Mets

NEW YORK - Francisco Liriano struck out nine and pitched into the sixth inning to win his debut with Pittsburgh and help the Pirates beat the New York Mets 11-2.

Pettitte, Yankees edge Royals 3-2

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Andy Pettitte finally stopped beating himself up long enough to look at video of his past couple of outings, subpar efforts by any stretch and certainly his own lofty standards.

Cubs chase Strasburg in fifth en route to 8-2 win over Nationals

WASHINGTON - Stephen Strasburg fell apart after one of third baseman Ryan Zimmerman's two errors and wound up dropping his fifth consecutive decision as the Chicago Cubs beat the Washington Nationals 8-2 Saturday.

Lingmerth leads at Players Championship

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Tiger Woods was surrounded by four rows of fans who stood shoulder-to-shoulder, curious to see how he was going to escape from the trees on the second hole at The Players Championship. Cheers erupted when he pulled out a 5-wood, a risky shot off the pine straw through a 15-foot gap of pines.

Blue Jays take lead in ninth to beat Red Sox

BOSTON - Adam Lind hit a tiebreaking homer off Boston closer Junichi Tazawa leading off the ninth inning to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.

Grizzlies take 2-1 series lead over Thunder

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Grizzlies call it grit and grind, and it got them through another ugly game.