“The only advantage that we have over Oklahoma State going into the ballgame,” Patterson said, “is that we’ve had to be in two battles and basically they’ve had only to play until halftime.” MORE: Mason Rudolph is gunning for Baker Mayfield, Heisman True enough, No. 16 TCU (3-0) has been tested this season: The Horned Frogs held a slim 14-7 lead over Arkansas on Sept. 9 before scoring twice in the final minutes in a 28-7 victory....

Now we see the Cowboys’ full schedule, and where Smart and Co. will have their toughest games. Jan. 18 at Kansas? Check. And it's on CBS. Feb. 17 at Baylor? Another biggie. What will be fun is when the Jayhawks make their trip to Stillwater in March and the Bears make their pilgramage to OSU on Feb. 1. Sporting News ranks the Cowboys No. 10 in its early rankings for 2013-14....

Gundy’s 46-word statement was distributed to media Saturday afternoon (CBS Sports’ Kyle Boone provided a link on Twitter): “I have been made aware that comments from my press conference have offended some. It was never my intention to offend anyone and I apologize. My first priority is and will always be the student-athletes and doing what is best for the program and the university.” DeCOURCY: Not all college coaches are as foolish as Gundy...

Lefty added a sixth major victory to his career at the 2021 PGA Championship, making him golf’s oldest major winner in history. Mickelson had an up-and-down final round at the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, S.C., trading the lead with partner Brooks Koepka for a good part of the front nine. But he overcame his six bogeys with five birdies, holding off Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen (4 under) for a two-stroke lead....

The Rebels upset Alabama 23-17 in 2014, and now No. 15 Ole Miss will try to win in Tuscaloosa for the first time since 1988. The Rebels put up 76 points against UT-Martin and 73 points against Fresno State in their first two games. Hugh Freeze found a quarterback in Chad Kelly, who averages 278.5 passing yards per game. MORE: This week’s SN Power Rankings | Week 3 college football picks...

More than two and a half years after avenging his first career defeat when he outpointed Andy Ruiz Jr in Saudi Arabia, Joshua (24-3) was unable to make lightning strike twice against the masterful Usyk. Afterwards, a battered and clearly devastated Joshua spoke and behaved erratically in the ring, taking some of the plaudits away from his display over the 12 rounds, where Usyk was awarded verdicts of 116-112 and 115-113 set against a more hard-to-explain 115-113 for the challenger....

The fight will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Ring heavyweight title is on the line following Tyson Fury’s retirement. Usyk made his pro debut in 2013. From 2017-2018 he competed in the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight tournament. By winning it all, he became undisputed cruiserweight champion. Usyk moved up to heavyweight in 2019. After beating Chazz Witherspoon and Derek Chisora, he overcame Joshua via a unanimous decision last September to become the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion....

Footage of the moment showed several runners quickly reach for a bottle from a hydration station before continuing the race in sweltering heat in Sapporo, Japan, on Sunday. But when it came to Amdouni, he managed to knock over almost an entire row of the bottles before grabbing the last one left on the table. Australian long-distance runner Ben St Lawrence tweeted an 8-second clip of the moment, which has amassed more than a million views so far....

Players Conventional Wisdom Nancy Will it be roses or neuroses for Kerrigan? Either way, big-$$ future. Tonya Even if she skates, the judges will knee-cap her despite the triple axels. Speed Bonnie Blair is always golden. And here’s to a happy end to Dan Jansen’s medal quest. Hockey Do you believe in miracles? Not this time. But love the cool Goalie-Cam. Skiing Snow-blind in alpine events, but our free-stylers are world-class hot-dogs....

At 10:46 this morning, Kate Phillips of the New York Times posted a video on the paper’s Caucus blog under the headline “Obama Aide: Neither Candidate Ready for 3 a.m. Call.” I’ve reposted it above. The clip shows Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, comparing her boss’s foreign policy experience to Hillary Clinton’s “against the tableau” of the latter’s attention-getting 3:00 a.m. ad, which sought to cast doubt on Obama’s readiness for office in the run-up to Texas and Ohio last week....

Elizabeth MacDonough is the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan advisor on how the congressional chamber’s rules and protocols are applied. MacDonough ruled that the policy violated the Byrd Rule—meaning it doesn’t qualify for passage via budget reconciliation. In a statement obtained by Newsweek, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that Biden was “disappointed” at the decision. “President Biden is disappointed in this outcome, as he proposed having the $15 minimum wage as part of the American Rescue Plan....

So much of what Wooten says he became as an athlete and a man, he owes to his close friend and former teammate — including chairing the Fritz Pollard Alliance to diversify the NFL’s coaching and front-office positions. MORE: Classic photos of Jim Brown | Best Browns of all time “All of this, so much of this, comes from Jim’s leadership,” Wooten said Tuesday from his Arlington, Texas, home. “He was so much of a community guy; his concentration was on community....

The Global Times, a Chinese nationalist tabloid, accused Vystrcil of being a “rule-breaker”—a label he should proudly embrace. China threatened economic revenge, canceling a 5 million Czech Crown (188,000 Euro) deal with piano manufacturer Petrof. Another Czech politician, European Parliament member Tomás Zdechovský, stepped up and arranged for the pianos to be purchased by a Czech billionaire and donated to public schools. These actions ought to inspire a Western public grown cynical after decades of accomodationism....

Fortunately, the Buddhist pilgrims from that period kept excellent travel records. Their accounts form the basis of the striking new exhibit “On the Nalanda Trial: Buddhism in India, China and Southeast Asia,” now on show at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (through March 23). Presented as a story, the exhibit relies heavily on artwork and artifacts, using delicately colored silk paintings and small terra cotta pieces to draw visitors along the Silk Road from Xian all the way to Nalanda, one of the world’s first great universities, located in what is now India’s Bihar state....

Aboard one chopper is Capt. Ellery Gray, a doctor who was appointed Florida’s “public-health czar” in the wake of Hurricane Andrew’s terrible romp. An emergency-response planner with the public-health service, Gray has helped lead relief efforts from Sudan to Armenia. His current assignment is to coordinate military, federal and local agencies aiding in cleanup, temporary housing and medical facilities. This morning, the destination is the Everglades Labor Camp, a poor and remote community of migrant workers flattened by the storm....

So true, in fact, that Nakamura used them as a rallying cry. At his presentation in Detroit, Nakamura brought a large stick out on the stage with the name Nissan emblazoned on it. “We must get rid of the stupid stick,” he said to the automotive crowd–and he broke the stick over his knee. Everyone cheered wildly. It was wonderful theater, but a stick shtik won’t save Nissan. The company has been making bad decisions for 10 years, which is why it is now in the final stages of a humiliating public auction....

This time it was Gillooly, trading in his brown leather jacket and frequent smirk for a double-breasted suit and the mien of a mercy seeker, whose story commanded the public’s attention. First he pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering for his role in the attack on Kerrigan, then he sent a heartfelt “message for Tonya.” It was delivered an hour later live on national television–in the grand ballroom of a Portland....

Many uses of force occur in a constitutional twilight area where the respective rights of the president and Congress are debatable. Most twilight cases should be resolved in favor of the president. But the military offensive that the United States may soon initiate against Iraq is not a twilight case. Constitutionally, Congress must authorize any launching, from a standing start, of one of the largest military operations in American history....

And once again, the NFL can either let it go, or try to make an example of Brown — and make itself look obtuse in the process. MORE: NFL playoff predictions, from wild-card round to Super Bowl Brown, as first reported by TMZ Sports, will don his latest pair Sunday against the Dolphins in the AFC wild-card round. They will honor the late Jasper Howard, a former University of Connecticut player — and, like Brown, a Miami native — who was stabbed to death in October 2009 after the Huskies’ homecoming victory over Louisville....

Juarez-Corro, who was added to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list on September 8, 2021, allegedly shot and killed two people and wounded three others during a picnic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 29, 2006. Hundreds were gathered in Milwaukee’s South Shore Park for a Memorial Day picnic when Juarez-Corro arrived. Juarez-Corro and his wife—who was at the park—“were reported to be in the final stages of their divorce,” the FBI wrote in a statement released on Friday....