I’m Ciara with your KTXT Sports Update
The Red Raider basketball team looks to avenge their 81-36 lost against Oklahoma in January, taking on the Sooners at the USA Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Tech is currently on a four game losing streak, with their last being against Baylor at home, 54-49. The game will be streamed on ESPNews.
According to TexasTech.com, Lady Raider Minta Spears has been named to the academic All-Big 12 first team for the second consecutive season. She was nominated with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Spears and the Lady Raiders are also at home tomorrow, taking on Texas at the USA at 3:30 p.m.
Rangers prospect Jurickson Profar will have shoulder surgery and could miss the entire 2015 season. Profar tore a shoulder muscle last season and opted not to get surgery. The surgery is now necessary after rest and rehab have not helped. He sat out last season allowing the shoulder to heal. Profar was ranked as the top prospect in baseball as recently as two years ago. He likely would have began this season in the minors due to missing last year.
The Mavericks had no answer for Russell Westbrook, losing to Oklahoma City, 104-89, at the Chesapeake Energy Center. Dallas was down by 14 at halftime and came no closer than ten the rest of they way. Dirk Nowitzki scored 14 for Dallas, and Devin Harris added 13. Westbrook scored 34 points and had 10 assists for the Thunder. Dallas hosts the Rockets tonight at American Airlines Center. Newly acquired Amar’e Stoudemire did not play, but is expected to be ready Sunday.
And finally, according to ESPN.com, the Chelsea soccer club has issued an apology to a black man who was racially abused by club supporters on a Paris Metro Tuesday night. A commuter was blocked from entering the metro by a group of fans headed to the match. Three men identified in the video could be issued life bans from soccer.
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