Giants ace Tim Lincecum has won the NL Cy Young Award, becoming the first repeat winner in the major leagues since Randy Johnson was voted the prize four straight times from 1999-2002.Lincecum led the NL with 261 strikeouts and tied for the league lead with four complete games and two shutouts.Only 10 points separated the top three in one of the closest ballots in the award's history.
Former Kansas football players are speaking out about the treatment they received from embattled coach Mark Mangino.The university is investigating an unspecified personnel issue involving the eight-year coach of the Jayhawks.Former player Raymond Brown says he once dropped a pass in practice - and Mangino threatened to send him home, where he might be shot like his little brother had been only days earlier.