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Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Sep 27, 2008

Local & state: WU volleyball swept at No. 15 Central Missouri

The Lady Blues volleyball team lost for only the second time Friday night at Warrensburg, Mo by the score of 25-22, 25-16, 25- 20.

The Washburn women hit just .134 and were swept for just the second time in the last two years as they fell to 14-2 overall and 3- 2 in the MIAA.

The Washburn volleyball team will next play at 11:30 a.m. Friday against East Central as part of the Lady Blues Fall Classic.

The No. 18 ranked Jayhawk soccer team lost 2-1 in double overtime at Nebraska Friday night.

After getting out to a 1-0 halftime lead, the Jayhawks lost in the 107th minute, dropping the team to 6-3 on the season and 0-1 in Big 12 play.

NFL: Former Chiefs All-Proinducted into Saints Hall

Former All-Pro tackle Willie Roaf on Friday was inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame.

Roaf, a Louisiana Tech graduate, was the eighth overall pick of the 1993 draft and his induction will be highlighted during halftime of Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers in the Louisiana Superdome.

Roaf, a six-time All-Pro and seven-time Pro Bowl selection for the Saints from 1993 to 2001, is the Hall's most-decorated inductee.

Over Roaf's career, the Saints compiled a 57-87 record and one winning season. Still, the offensive lineman excelled and was considered the premier tackle in the league. In 2001 Roaf tore the ACL in his right knee and missed the final nine games on injured reserve.

He was traded before the 2002 season to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he earned four more All-Pro honors and four Pro Bowl bids. At age 36 he abruptly retired before the Chiefs' training camp in 2006, saying his body no longer recovered quickly after each game.

Colts safety Bob Sanders, already out with a sprained right ankle, has had arthroscopic surgery on a knee.

The NFL Defensive Player of the Year last season injured his ankle Sept. 14 at Minnesota and was initially expected to miss four to six weeks. Colts owner Jim Irsay said the recovery period for the sprain would likely be longer than that for the knee, so the surgery was scheduled during his absence.

Denver Broncos Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is engaged to a former Oakland Raiders cheerleader.

The Rocky Mountain News reported Friday that the two-time Super Bowl winner proposed to 41-year-old Paige Green during a trip to Italy last week.

General: Kim leads Tour Championship after 36 holes

Anthony Kim and Sergio Garcia did enough Friday at the Tour Championship to set up a Ryder Cup rematch.

Kim had to settle for a 1-under 69 on Friday, making bogey from the bunker on the final hole, to take a two-shot lead over Sergio Garcia and put them in the final pairing just six days after their leadoff singles match at the Ryder Cup.

Kim was at 7-under 133, and while he will have a 2-up lead of sorts on Saturday at East Lake, the momentum might lie with Garcia. He was 4 over through his first six holes of the tournament, rallied for a 70, then followed with a 65.

Phil Mickelson birdied five of the last seven holes for a 68 that put him three shots behind.

Lorena Ochoa, recharged after a month off, shot her second straight 5-under 67 to move within a stroke of leader Janice Moodie halfway through the Navistar LPGA Classic.

The top-ranked Ochoa is making her first start since tying for sixth in the Safeway Classic on Aug. 24, her fourth top-seven finish in a row, but seventh straight winless start. She opened the year with six wins in nine starts, including four straight.

Moodie followed her opening 66 with a 67 on the links-style Senator Course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex.

Bruce Fleisher, Dana Quigley, Eduardo Romero, Andy Bean, Don Pooley and Chip Beck shot 4-under 68s to share the first-round lead in the SAS Championship.

Tom Kite, Loren Roberts and Kirk Hanefeld were a stroke back on the Prestonwood Country Club course, and Larry Mize opened with a 70 in his Champions Tour debut. The 1987 Masters champion turned 50 on Tuesday.

European Ryder Cup player Lee Westwood shot a 2-under 70 for share of the second-round lead in the suspended British Masters.

The Englishman, 0-2-2 in Europe's loss last weekend, had a 6- under 138 total. India's Jeev Milka Singh also was 6 under with six holes to play in the round that was delayed by fog and suspended because of darkness. He aced the 186-yard seventh.

Gilbert Arenas and the Washington Wizards were fined $15,000 apiece by the NBA on Friday after he ducked out of the team's annual preseason media day, avoiding any discussion of his third left knee operation in 1 1/2 years.

Jason Williams announced his retirement Friday, ending his 10- year NBA career less than two months after signing with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Williams, who helped the Miami Heat to the NBA title in 2006, averaged 11.4 points, 6.3 assists and shot 39.6 percent from the floor in 679 games.

From staff and wire reports