IRVING, Texas, May 7 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * Cincinnati, Kansas State and Oklahoma State Collect Big 12 Baseball Weekly Awards Cincinnati's Kerrington Cross (player), Oklahoma State's Harrison Bodendorf (pitcher) and Kansas State's Keegan O'Connor (newcomer) were tabbed as recipients of the Big 12 Baseball weekly awards for games ending May 4. Cross led the Bearcats to a sweep over then-No. 25 Kansas including a 10-RBI game to  more

IRVING, Texas, May 7 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * UCF's Vega and ARIZ's Stewart Claim Final 2025 Big 12 SB Weekly Accolades UCF's Isabella Vega (pitcher) and Arizona's Sydney Stewart (player) secured the final Big 12 softball weekly awards to end the 2025 regular season. Vega opened last week's series at Kansas with her first career no-hitter as the Knights won 7-0 in Lawrence. She closed in Saturday's game, where she held the Jayh  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, May 7 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Profit motivation of social media companies may compel them to inject bias and create polarization, study finds Social media companies thrive on the subtle influencing of users' behavior. Nudging, so to speak. "It is of interest to social media companies to nudge users in such a way that their engagement level increases, but as a result, echo chambers are created and the level of polarization increases," sai  more