College Football

OKLAHOMA CITY - Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday he remains "very much interested" in hosting the annual football game between Oklahoma State and Texas Tech after the NFL team's new $1 billion stadium opens in 2009.

Jones, who was in Oklahoma to promote an announcement involving Cox Communications and the NFL Network, said he has visited with officials from both Big 12 Conference schools in recent months to encourage them to move their game to the Dallas area. Jones serves as the chairman of the network's ownership committee.

Jones also said he continues to be interested in luring the annual Oklahoma-Texas game away from the Cotton Bowl. The Sooners and Longhorns have met each year in Dallas since 1929, with the game played at the Cotton Bowl since the stadium opened in 1932. The teams have agreed to continue playing the game at the aging stadium through 2015.

"North Texas is a tremendous hotbed of potential college football talent," Jones said. "There's no question Oklahoma has benefited over the years in getting great players out of north Texas, because their mothers and their grandmothers are going to get to watch their sons play a game there in Dallas, in the case of Oklahoma. Other schools want to do that."

Scheduled to open in 2009 with a capacity of 100,000 seats, the Cowboys' new stadium in Arlington already is scheduled to host the Super Bowl in 2011. Jones touts the facility as "the largest stadium ever built on the planet."

Men's College Basketball

Kansas 94, Pittsburg State 59: LAWRENCE, Kan. - Sherron Collins had 18 points and Mario Chalmers added 14 Thursday night as Kansas beat Division II Pittsburg State 94-59 in an exhibition game at Allen Fieldhouse.

Collins, who also had five assists and four steals, was 7-of-10 shooting from the field and 3 of 4 from behind the 3-point line. As a team, the Jayhawks shot 53 percent from the field and outscored the Gorillas 40-12 in the paint.

Colorado 70, Brock 56: BOULDER, Colo. - Jeff Bzdelik brought his trademark intensity with him to Colorado. The Buffaloes needed it every bit of it.

Richard Roby scored 23 points to lead Colorado past Brock University of Canada 70-56 on Thursday night in Bzdelik's exhibition debut as Colorado coach.

Brock, which has beaten two Division I teams this season, led for most of the first half. But a second half Colorado rally put the Badgers away.

Hopes are higher this year for the Buffs with Bzdelik at the helm. He led Air Force to the NIT semifinals last season and has also coached in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets. The Buffs were just 7-20 last year, the team's worst season since 1988-89.

NFL

HOUSTON - Houston's Matt Schaub will not start Sunday's game against Oakland after suffering a concussion from a helmet-to-helmet hit last week in San Diego.

With Schaub out, the Texans will go with Sage Rosenfels. It will be the third start of his career and his first since a 22-0 loss to Cleveland in 2005 when he was with Miami.

Rosenfels has played most of the second half of each of the last two games with Schaub injured and has thrown five interceptions and five touchdowns.

Schaub was injured on an illegal hit by Drayton Florence after throwing his second interception in Houston's loss to the Chargers. It was the second straight week he'd been knocked out of the game by a helmet-to-helmet blow. He injured his hip on the first one, but has recovered from that injury.

Craig Nall, who was signed on Tuesday, will be Houston's backup. Coach Gary Kubiak said Schaub could be used as Houston's emergency quarterback if necessary.

SAN DIEGO - Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence has been fined $15,000 by the NFL for his helmet-to-helmet hit that gave Houston quarterback Matt Schaub a concussion.

Florence hit Schaub after he threw his second interception of the game on Sunday. The Houston quarterback did not return. The Chargers won, 35-10.

It was the second straight week Schaub was knocked out of the game by a helmet-to-helmet blow. He won't start Sunday's game against Oakland.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.

"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.

"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.

Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.

O'Neill said that searches of the Reid family's house and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.

While police found only weapons and ammunition - and not drugs - at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.

He said both boys had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Suspended cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in New York on Friday about a possible early reinstatement.

Goodell suspended the Tennessee cornerback in April for the 2007 season and promised Jones' case could be reviewed after the Titans' 10th game, which is Nov. 19 in Denver. But Friday's meeting will come two days before the Titans' eighth game.

Golf

PGA Tour: LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - J.P. Hayes is feeling much better about his health than the last time he was in these parts on the PGA Tour. And thanks to a 7-under 65 on Thursday at Disney, his prospects for keeping his card are looking good, too.

Hayes turned a sloppy hole into a birdie on the par-5 10th at Magnolia, then ran off four more birdies in wet and windy conditions to build a one-shot lead in the Children's Miracle Network Classic.

Hayes is No. 123 on the money list with a $16,599 cushion. This is the final event of the PGA Tour season, and the way the Fall Series has gone, no one feels safe.

Cameron Beckman, who secured his card last week, played with a sore back but raced out to a bogey-free 66 in the morning on the longer, tougher Magnolia course. He was joined by Scott Verplank and Ryuji Imada, who played the Palm Course.

European PGA Tour: SOTOGRANDE, Spain - England's Justin Rose had a hole-in-one in his 1-under 70 in the first round of the Volvo Masters and was one stroke ahead of Ireland's Padraig Harrington in the Order of Merit race for the European season money title.

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell was the leader, shooting a 68 in swirling wind. Ireland's Paul McGinley, the 2005 winner at Valderrama was a stroke back.

Rose, who trails Harrington by $948, aced the third hole with a 6-iron.

Order of Merit leader Ernie Els is $313,892 in front of Harrington, last year's winner, but Els is playing in Singapore this week and Rose and Harrington are likely to pass him with their winnings at the Volvo Masters.

Singapore Open: SINGAPORE - Australians Gavin Flint and Kane Webber and South Korean-born American Jin Park and upstaged the big names at the Singapore Open, shooting 5-under 66s to share the first-round lead in the Asian Tour event.

The Philippines' Angelo Que opened with a 67, and Phil Mickelson and South Korean star K.J. Choi had 68s. Vijay Singh was four strokes back after a 70, and Ernie Els opened with a 72 on the Sentosa Golf Club's Serapong Course.

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