Posted: 9:21 PM It took five playoff games for the Houston Rockets to finally look like the team that won 22 straight games during the regular season.

Posted: 9:15 PM Pitcher Micah Owings' pinch-hit homer tied the game in the sixth and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied from four runs down to beat the Houston Astros 8-7 on Wednesday.

Posted: 9:10 PM Texas A&M men?s golfer Trey Todd (Abilene) and volleyball player Jen Moore (Allen) were named the Bill Erwin Scholar-Athletes of the Year on Wednesday afternoon at the 18th-annual CHAMPS Awards Banquet held at The Zone Club in Kyle Field.

Updated: 10:48 PM Senior Jamie Hinshaw was 3-for-3 for with a homerun and two runs scored as the fifth-ranked Texas A&M softball team earned a full point in State Farm Lone Star Showdown standings with a 2-1 victory and the series sweep of the Texas Longhorns Wednesday night at the Aggie Softball Complex.

Posted: 9:02 PM Following a very successful weekend at the Penn Relay Carnival, the Texas A&M men moved up a position to No. 2 in the recent rankings tabulated by the United States Track and Field Cross Country Coaches Association and the Aggie women remain locked into the No. 3 position.

Updated: 4:50 PM Add this to the lore of championship ceremonies at the White House: President Bush believes in the Jessica Simpson jinx.

Updated: 10:03 PM Fresh off an 18-1 month of April, the fifth-ranked Texas A&M baseball team begins the final stretch of the regular season on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. when the Aggies open a three-game series with Dallas Baptist at Olsen Field.

Posted: 3:53 PM Sam Houston State men's basketball has added a fourth name to its list of signings for the 2008-09 season. Corey Allmond, a 6 foot 1 inch, 180-pound guard from Howard College in Big Spring, Texas, will transfer to SHSU.

Posted: 3:18 PM The College World Series will be played in Omaha at least through 2030, under a "memorandum of understanding" reached by the city and NCAA.

Posted: 2:37 PM Unbeaten Big Brown and the filly Eight Belles are among a full field of 20 horses entered for the Kentucky Derby.

Updated: 2:38 PM Kevin Durant of the Seattle SuperSonics has been chosen as the NBA Rookie of Year, The Associated Press has learned.

Updated: 2:39 PM The Dallas Mavericks today fired coach Avery Johnson. The league's highest payroll produced a second straight first-round knockout from the playoffs.

Posted: 1:42 PM There will be no playoff for the BCS anytime soon.

Posted: 1:33 PM The Dallas Mavericks have fired coach Avery Johnson.

Posted: 11:04 PM Tracy McGrady scored 29 points, Luis Scola added 18 points and 12 rebounds, and the Houston Rockets staved off elimination Tuesday night by routing the Utah Jazz 95-69 in Game 5 of their first-round series.

Posted: 10:42 PM Mattias Norstrom has the Dallas Stars within a victory of the Western Conference finals.

Posted: 10:33 PM The New Orleans Hornets are in the Western Conference semifinals after Chris Paul recorded a triple-double in a 99-94 win over Dallas in Game 5 of the opening-round series.

Updated: 10:53 PM Brodie Greene scored the winning run on a two-out wild pitch in the top of the ninth inning to lift No. 5 Texas A&M to a 3-2 victory over TCU Tuesday night before an all-time record crowd of 4,294 fans at Lupton Stadium.

Updated: 10:55 PM Seth Hammock and Nick Zaleski hit run-scoring singles in the bottom of the eighth inning for the winning runs as Sam Houston State defeated Dallas Baptist 10-8 in a non-conference baseball game Tuesday night at Don Sanders Stadium.

Updated: 8:35 PM The 25th-ranked Texas A&M men’s tennis team will make an unprecedented 15th consecutive postseason appearance as the field of 64 teams for the upcoming 2008 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Team Championship was announced by the selection subcommittee on Tuesday.

Updated: 8:32 PM The Texas A&M women’s tennis team earned its ninth consecutive bid to the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships and will face the University of Washington in the first round, Friday, May 9 at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium on the University of Stanford campus in Stanford, Calif.

Updated: 8:29 PM As the Texas A&M baseball team makes its push into May and towards the postseason, only five regular-season home games remain at Olsen Field.

Updated: 8:24 PM The Iola Bulldogs may have a new head football coach. I.S.D. Superintendent Doug Devine said today that he'll take Robert Shiflett's name to the school board on Monday.

Updated: 8:28 PM Two former Sam Houston State football players have signed contracts to play in the National Football League.

Updated: 10:52 PM After clinching a share of the Big 12 title over the weekend, the fifth-ranked Texas A&M softball team returns home for the second round of the State Farm Lone Star Showdown against the Texas Longhorns on Wednesday.