National Sports

Kansas City's schedule doesn't get easier in upcoming weeks. The Chiefs follow their trip to New Orleans with games against San Diego and Baltimore and then will visit Tampa Bay.

Chicago ended a six-game losing streak by defeating the Royals 5-4 Saturday. In the past two games against Kansas City, the White Sox have hit six home runs.

Sarah Castle, a four-time Paralympian, trained with the MU Men's Wheelchair Basketball team to prepare for this year's event in London.

The SEC once again features an array of hard-to-block pass rushers including the freakishly fast Barkevious Mingo at LSU, South Carolina's twin towers Jadeveon Clowney and Devin Taylor and Georgia All-American Jarvis Jones.

The former Missouri guard will provide depth for Detroit.

Once again, St. Louis is 6 games above .500 at the break.

Kearsten Peoples did not make the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, but her mark of 17.32 meters in the Friday's finals, earned her fourth place.

Missouri junior Kearsten Peoples ended up in eight place after Thursday's preliminaries and will move on to Friday evening's finals. 

Missouri senior Emily DiBenigno will be racing in the 200 breaststroke Friday for the last time at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. She will not continue competitive swimming, and will spend the coming school year abroad in Nice, France. 

Clemens was accused of perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress when he testified at a deposition and at a nationally-televised hearing in February 2008.

Junior Blake Brown said he will forgo his senior season and sign with the Braves organization.

Big Ten administrators would prefer a plus-one system over a four-team playoff to determine a national champion if the BCS can't be maintained in its current form. In the plus-one format, the bowl games would be played, and then the top two teams would meet for the title.

All the SEC schools had far more lenient drug policies than the NCAA, though the penalties varied widely.

Mark Emmert, NCAA president, spoke on a variety of issues Thursday, including the growing gulf between "haves" and "have nots," the loopholes that exist for student-athletes to transfer and the concussion epidemic at all levels of sports.

Those in charge can't decide on the toughest questions.

The rookie pitcher limited Kansas City to five hits.

Max Scherzer recorded the most strike outs by a Detroit pitcher in 40 years.

Los Angeles swept the three-game series against St. Louis. 

Defending champion Carl Edwards bowed out in the second segment Saturday night at the Charlotte Motor Speedway after the engine in the No. 99 Ford blew up.

The Southeastern Conference — which includes schools in the deep South such as Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina — is the only one of the six major BCS conferences that will have a majority of minority coaches next season in men's basketball when the league expands to 14 teams after adding Texas A&M and Missouri.