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The Washington State-Baylor football game has been moved up to Friday night to avoid complications with Hurricane Ike on the Texas coast this weekend.

The game was originally scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday to be broadcast on FSN. Kickoff is now scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

Friday night. Baylor officials said the approaching hurricane would cause travel problems for Washington State fans, as well FSN...

Hurricane Ike has pushed back the Arkansas-Texas football game to Sept. 27. The hurricane is on a course for landfall in Texas this weekend.

Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said the university believes the best thing to do is postpone the game, which had been set for Saturday in Austin.

LSU has postponed its football game against Troy after Hurricane Gustav rolled through Louisiana this week.

A person with direct knowledge of athletic scheduling at LSU told The Associated Press the Tigers' game versus the Trojans will be played Nov. 15.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not been formally notified yet.

Terry Francona watched Boston's 10-run lead disappear and was searching for a new strategy as the numbers on the scoreboard started to resemble a football game.

"At some point," the Red Sox manager said, "you're thinking about going for a field goal." That's the type of night it was - it was hard for anyone to keep track of anything.

A rented sports utility vehicle is apparently involved in the November shooting of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor at his Miami home.

Court documents released Monday say the mother of a teenage girl rented a black Toyota Highlander, thinking the girl and a friend planned to attend a football game in Orlando.

The mother told prosecutors she didn't know the girls would allow young men they knew to use the vehicle.

Her daughter, identified as R.L.