Polacy organizują dużą galę w USA. Powalczą Szpilka

Bardzo ciekawie z perspektywy polskich fanów boksu zapowiada się planowana na 24 marca gala bokserska w Atlantic City.



W walce wieczoru wystąpi Mariusz Wach, który będzie bronić pasa WBC International w starciu z Tyem Fieldsem. Wcześniej do ringu mają wyjść m.in.: Artur Szpilka, Przemysław Majewski, Kamil Łaszczyk.

Budzący największe emocje "Szpila" skrzyżuje rękawice z Terrance'm Marbrą. To ten sam pięściarz, z którym Polak miał się bić w lutym w Las Vegas, ale zrezygnowano z tego pomysłu. Oficjalny powód? Promotorzy Polaka przekonywali, że impreza odbywałaby się w hali zbyt małej, aby pomieścić jego fanów.

W Atlantic City z tym problemów już na pewno nie będzie. Organizatorzy gali - Global Boxing, 12 Round KnockOut Promotions oraz Frank Maloney Promotions (dwie polskie grupy zjednoczyły siły ze znanym brytyjskim promotorem) - zapowiadają, że będzie to wielkie wydarzenie, które zapadnie w pamięci kibiców.

Uważamy, że ten pomysł ożywi wagę ciężką i wprowadzi kilka nowych twarzy na międzynarodowy rynek. Liczymy, że kibice z chęcią obejrzą kilka gal, podczas których mocne ciosy oraz emocje są po prostu zagwarantowane - cytuje Mariusza Kołodzieja, promotora Wacha i właściciela Global Boxing, portal ringpolska..pl.

To będzie pierwsza, ale nie ostatnia gala, na której wspólnie wystąpią Wach, Szpilka i reprezentowany przez Franka Maloneya Brytyjczyk David Price. Ustalono bowiem, że będą co najmniej trzy takie imprezy.
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Track and Field News ; Track & Field continue Indoor Season at Rod McCravy Memorial

USA Sports News : The Muray State women's track & field team will continue its record location season at the Rod McCravy Memorial hosted by Kentucky, Jan. 27-28 at the Nutter Field House in Lexington, Ky.

 Rod McCravy Memorial

Racers will be one of 17 teams at the assemble from 10 different conferences. MSU will be one of two teams from the Ohio Valley Conference, with Eastern Kentucky also participate. The SEC will be represent by the host Wildcats, Mississippi, South Carolina and Vanderbilt. Conference USA will be represent by Memphis and Central Florida; with the Sun Belt have teams from Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky. Also at the get together will be Cincinnati (Big East), Chattanooga (SoCon), Georgia Tech (ACC), Southern Illinois (Missouri valley), Ohio State (Big 10) and Miami (Ohio) (Mid-America).

Junior Alexis Love will be looking to get better on her record-setting time in the 60 and her top-ranking OVC time in the 200. Love is currently ranked No. 52 in the NCAA for her 24.31 come to an end in the 200 and 54th in the 60 (7.54-MSU school record).

The get jointly will get under way at 6 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27, with the weight throw, pole vault, and high jump and long jump events. Saturday's field events will start at 10:30 a.m. and run throughout noon, with track events running from 12:30 to 5 p.m.

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USA Sports News: Model files sex lawsuit next to Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya

Boxing News: Angelica Cecora, a 25-year-old model, has filed a lawsuit in New York alongside former boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya.

She is claiming the boxer try to force her into "disgusting" sex act in his hotel room last March.

The boxer's lawyer claims the meet was consensual and called the charges "offensive and frivolous."

Cecora admit the sex was consensual but claimed De La Hoya's performance and later requests were next to her will and things "took a wild turn that I didn't sign up for."

She is asking for $5 million for moving distress, false custody, and assault and battery.

"Once 12 o'clock hit that night, he just started doing more and more drugs and wanted me to do more and more things," she said.

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USA Sports News : Wounded Solo practice before U.S. women's Olympic qualifier

Athletic News : Hope Solo stood in the net, lean forward and grimace. She had just dive to her right to make a save, and her wounded leg was feeling the effects.

Hope Solo stood

The goalkeeper for the U.S. women's soccer team was back on the perform field Thursday, one day before the game that will decide whether the Americans go to the Olympics. Whether she'll really play was still in doubt.

"We still have quite some time to figure that out," Solo said after practice. "I have rehab planned right (now), another rehab session tonight, so we're just going to have to wait and see."

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Sonnen puts focus back on fighting for Bisping

Count on Chael Sonnen to subvert expectations in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
He's ridiculed the jiu-jitsu skills of proven submission experts. Dismissed stars of Pride Fighting Championships as frauds. Described a former titleholder as a champion manufactured by UFC's marketing machine. Derided the most dominant UFC champion of all time as an effeminate coward.


Yet for this weekend's fight against middleweight Michael Bisping, Sonnen offers a different kind of verbal surprise: Respect.

"How you could ever deny Bisping?" Sonnen says. "I'm just not on that bandwagon. I plan to do everything I can do to stop him. But I'm not going to sit here and act as though the guy's not a great fighter. He is."

They'll square off Saturday in the co-main event of UFC on Fox 2 (8 p.m. ET, Fox) in Chicago. Zuffa promises the winner a UFC title fight against 185-pound champion Anderson Silva later this year.

Matchmakers have been trying to put together a rematch between Sonnen and Silva since their dramatic showdown in August 2010, when the champ pulled off a late submission after being dominated by the challenger for most of five rounds. But with a four-fight win streak and a No. 9 spot in the USA TODAY/MMA Nation consensus rankings for middleweights, Bisping has his own case to make for a title shot.

"Chael's widely regarded as probably No. 2 in the division," Bisping says. "People do say that I haven't been fighting the top guys. Well, here we are."

Bisping and Sonnen got only a fraction of the time they would normally dedicate to training for any particular fight, let alone a title eliminator. Sonnen's originally scheduled opponent, Mark Munoz, underwent elbow surgery less than two weeks before the Chicago show; UFC chose Bisping as a replacement.

With such a small window to get ready for each other, they have little time for promotional work outside of UFC's basic requirements and a few relatively mild verbal jabs at each other.

"The fight was only made a few days ago," Bisping says. "I've got to put all my energy into preparing for that fight."

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Macon to Host Georgia's Best Fighters

The Bishop Frank Ray Boxing Arena in downtown Macon turns one this weekend. In celebration of the anniversary, fighters from around the state will put on the gloves in Central Georgia's home for the sweet science.


The arena on sixth street is hosting the Georgia USA Boxing Championships beginning Thursday. The three-day amateur tournament includes boxers of various ages and experience levels. For the first time the bouts will include local female fighters.

The stakes will be high in the Open Division, where seven spots in Nationals are up for grabs. Of the up-and-coming fighters that call the Macon gym home are the Montgomery brothers - Mikhail, Maliek, and Michael - are the star pupils. The lessons they've learned extend beyond the ring.

"It teached me hard work, period," Maliek said. "If you don't work hard at the sport you're not gonna be that good at the sport. You just got to work. You put in the hours in the gym and it pays off."

"People walking around in our schools they don't have no discipline," Michael said. "Then when they come to this they come out a different person."

Michael will have a chance to earn a spot in Nationals this weekend. The fights start Thursday at 6:00 p.m., with championship bouts beginning Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

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'Money' talks: Mayweather phones Pacquiao to discuss fight

The promoters don't seem to be making much headway in arrange the highly probable Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight.


So Mayweather it seems that took matters into his own hands, calling Pacquiao, throughout Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, in the Philippines on Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines) to ask him directly regarding fighting on May 5th in Las Vegas.

"I told him we should do the fight as long as he agree to 50-50 sharing," Pacquiao told the Philippine Star during an awards dinner in Manila on Thursday.

As for a probable fight date, Pacquiao said, "We did not talk about the date (of the fight)."

Mayweather, 34, has insist on May 5 as a fight date, since he got his 87-day jail ruling pushed back to June 1 to house a May 5 fight, leaving enough time to heal from possible injuries from the fight before he begins serving his sentence.

Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter and chairman of Top Rank, has said they would need to do the fight at the end of May or early June, to give Pacquiao time to heal from a 29-stitch cut he suffer in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, and also to get a 45,000-seat provisional outdoor arena built.

Arum has said if that cannot be arranged, they could work something out for a mega fight in November in Las Vegas.

On Thursday May weather talked to the media after donating $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity as part of his assure to his sentence judge, about facing Pacquiao.

"There is no fight I want more than the Manny Pacquiao fight," he said. "I guess he said he agreed to fight. The only thing that is stopping this fight right now, which I truly believe is stop the fight, is Bob Arum."

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U.S. Olympic Committee visit Eugene for Track Town 2012 planning


Eugene (KMTR) - Members of the U.S. Olympic Committee and U.S.A. Track & Field are visiting Eugene this week for preparation meetings; there's a lot to do before 1,000 hopeful athletes arrive in Lane County. University of Oregon's Track & Field Director Vin Lananna, and Chester Wheeler from the U.S.O.C. exposed a few details about what fans can expect this summer. They're rolling out a London theme, pub included. A lot of the new features will be geared toward young people, in hopes of attract them to the sport, and ongoing the Track Town legacy. One of the new items is a cell phone app, where fans can track the results of events live as they unfold on the track.

Speaking to the community impact, the U.S.O.C. already has 11,000 hotel room nights booked for the trials. Organizers wait for about 20,000 fans inside Hayward Field each day, and the free festival outside the track will likely be back this year, attract thousands more.

The countdown is at 156 days to “Track Town 2012.” Stay tuned over the next couple months for more surprises to be exposed about what's new inside and outside Hayward Field this summer.

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Salido, Lopez place for featherweight title rematch in March

Salido, Lopez Rematch

Orlando Salido surprised the boxing world when he stopped up Juan Manuel Lopez in the eighth round last April, handing the increasing Puerto Rican star his first loss and taking "Juanma's" WBO featherweight belt.

Lopez (31-1, 28 KOs) will try to win back that belt when he take on Salido (37-11-2, 25 KOs) in a highly predictable 12-round featherweight title rematch on March 10 (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET) in Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, P.R.

The rematch was officially announced during a press meeting in San Juan on Tuesday. Salido, from Mexico, has fight twice since his upset win, winning both by strike over Asian journeymen Kenichi Yamaguchi and Weng Haya.

Lopez, 28, scored a second-round TKO beside overmatched American Mike Oliver last October in Bayamon, P.R. in his only fight since the loss.

"I am very happy to have the chance to fight in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum where my idol Tito Trinidad had so many fights and this is a vision come true for me," Lopez said Tuesday.

"I want to thank Salido for approaching back to Puerto Rico and giving me this opportunity. I knew Salido was a hard fighter and he came ready and beat me and I accessible no excuses."

Salido, 31, says he expect a different fight in some ways this time around. "I know he will be better than last time," Salido said. "But I don't see him varying much. He might try in the start to fight in a different style but he will come back to his strengths. He is going to feel that he is the better and stronger man, and that he is not."

Salido says he wants to confirm that his win last April was no fluke.

"I came back to fight in Puerto Rico because he gave the chance to me to fight for a world championship here and I have never had any difficulty winning in an opponent home base," he said.

Fighting on the under card is undefeated No. 1 featherweight competitor Mikey Garcia (27-0, 23 KOs), in a 10-round featherweight bout next to an opponent to be named.

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USA sports news : Boxing Schedule - 2012

Fight
Location
Date
Daily News Golden Gloves Tournament BB King Blues Club,


New York, NY
January 19, 2012

Thursday
Ramos vs Rigondeaux Palms,

Las Vegas, NV
January 20, 2012

Friday
Battle at the Boat 85 Emerald Queen,

Tacoma, WA
January 21, 2012

Saturday
Broadway Boxing Roseland Ballroom,


New York, NY
January 21, 2012

Saturday
Buffalo Golden Gloves Tournament Burt Flickinger Athletic Center,

Buffalo, NY
January 21, 2012

Saturday
Liakhovich vs TBA Asylum Arena,

Philadelphia, PA
January 21, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights Northern Quest Casino,


Airway Heights, WA
January 27, 2012

Friday
Pro Boxing Turning Stone,

Verona, NY
January 28, 2012

Saturday
Spinks vs Powell Shrine Mosque,

Springfield, MO
January 28, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights

Chilemba vs Miranda
Texas Station,


Las Vegas, NV
February 3, 2012

Friday
Chavez vs Rubio

Donaire vs Vazquez
Alamodome,

San Antonio, TX
February 4, 2012


Saturday
Star Boxing Times Union Center,

Albany, NY
February 4, 2012

Saturday
Tacoma Golden Gloves Tournament Tacoma Dome,


Tacoma, WA
February 4, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights Mohegan Sun,

Uncasville, CT
February 10, 2012

Friday
Jimmy Lange Boxing Patriot Center,

Fairfax, VA
February 11, 2012

Saturday
Ortiz vs Berto II

Lara vs Hearns
MGM Grand,


Las Vegas, NV
February 11, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights UTA College Park Center,

Arlington, TX
February 17, 2012

Friday
Williams vs Ishida AmericanBank Center,

Corpus Christi, TX
February 18, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights USC Galen Center,


Los Angeles, CA
February 24, 2012

Friday
Windy City Fight Night 21 UIC Pavilion,

Chicago, IL
February 24, 2012

Friday
Maidana vs Alexander Scottrade Center,

Saint Louis, MO
February 25, 2012

Saturday
ESPN Friday Night Fights

Holt vs Coleman
Morongo,


Cabazon, CA
March 16, 2012

Friday
Martinez vs Macklin Madison Square Garden,

New York, NY
March 17, 2012

Saturday
Windy City Fight Night 22 UIC Pavilion,

Chicago, IL
March 17, 2012

Saturday
Morales vs Garcia

Kirkland vs Molina
Reliant Arena,


Houston, TX
March 24, 2012

Saturday
Battle at the Boat 86 Emerald Queen,

Tacoma, WA
March 31, 2012

Saturday
2012 Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions CasaBlanca Resort Event Center,

Mesquite, NV
April 28, 2012 - May 5, 2012
Floyd Mayweather Jr vs TBA MGM Grand,

Las Vegas, NV
May 5, 2012


Saturday
Battle at the Boat 87 Emerald Queen,

Tacoma, WA
June 2, 2012

Saturday
Battle at the Boat 88 Emerald Queen,


Tacoma, WA
August 28, 2012

Saturday
Guns N Hoses Emerald Queen,

Tacoma, WA
September 15, 2012

Saturday
Battle at the Boat 89 Emerald Queen,

Tacoma, WA
November 3, 2012

Saturday
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Moiben succeed at mumbai marathon

Kenya's Laban Moiben won the Mumbai Marathon in a spectacular photo finish ahead of Ethiopia's Raji Assefa. Both men clocked a time of two hours 10 minutes 48 seconds, but the photo gave the triumph to Moiben. Ethiopia's John Kyui was third, just six seconds further back.

In the women's race, Ethiopian Netsanet Abeyo won in a time of 2:26.10, over four minutes clear of compatriots Fatuma Sado (2:30.20) and (2:30.47).In the men's race Indian athlete Ram Singh Yadav protected a spot in the 2012 Olympics as he beat his individual best on the course by over a minute with a 2:16.59.

The top winners in the two categories got prize money of USD 36,000 each. Tanzania's Dickson Marwa and Simon Kasimili were the early pace setters as they exchanged go ahead position during the first 15 km stretch. However, after the initial surge, Marwa fell behind and it was here that Kyui and Moiben began their domination. It was at about the 30km stretch that Moiben took the lead which he held throughout.
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Noemi Bosques to Make Pro Debut

WBAN has established a press release on a future boxing event that will take place on February 10, 212, at the Ker's WingHouse Bar & Grill. The event is encouragement by Fight Night Productions and Ker's.


Headlining the occasion will feature Florida's Super Middleweight Champion, Jose “Cheloman” Alonzo (13-0-0).

Cheloman,” from Spring Hill, Florida, won the Florida State Super Middleweight Title at the final “WingHouse Fight Night” show of 2011, earn a hard-fought decision over Sarasota’s Adam Jaco. February 10th will mark Alonzo’s third fight back since taking an eight-year hiatus from the sport. The winner of the 1994 region (Palm Bay) Golden Gloves in the 165-pound division has fight 12 of his 13 professional fight in the state, including his last seven fights in-front of a Tampa crowd.

Co-headlining the card will feature Daniel “El Alacran” Lozano (10-0-0, 7 KOs).

In one more bout, Alphonso Black (2-0-0, 2 KOs) will look to continue his winning ways in front of his home crowd.

Also, two will be making their pro debut Kenny “Right Hook” Lacy and female boxer Noemi Bosques.

Bosques, a resident of Pinellas Park, Florida, had a well bedecked amateur career competed in 2011 USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado at 112-pounds.

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Easy win for Asbel Kiprop and Fionnuala Britton

Kenya's world and Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop easiness to a relaxed victory in the men's 3km event at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country race. He clocked nine minutes, 20 seconds to beat Britain's Jonny Hay (9.25), with Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele well down. Ireland's European cross country champion Fionnuala Britton won the women's 6km race in 21.32 ahead of Britain's Gemma Steel and Elle Baker. "It is nice to feel strong and run like that," Britton told. Kiprop beat fellow Kenyan Brimin Kipruto, who won Olympic gold in the 3,000m steeplechase, and Ethiopian legend Bekele, who both finished well down the field.

We must go back 11 years for the last time Kenenisa Bekele completed outside the top 10 in any race, and that was in the 2001 Oslo 5,000m when he was still a junior. One wonders if his bubble has burst, since he's now lost four of his last five races. But remember the one he did win was last September's Brussels 10,000m, which was highly important as he ran the fastest time in the world in 2011 and almost guaranteed his selection for London in that event. Olympic Park on 4 August will be a far cry from Holyrood Park on 7 January.

Bekele, who won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m in Beijing in 2008, is regarded as the biggest rival to Britain's Mo Farah at the 2012 London Olympics but he struggled with the pace. Kiprop, 22, said: "I expected a very tough contest from them.”I am excited having won here today after being second last year." Britton beat a quality field at Holyrood Park to win by an inspiring 20 seconds. The 27-year-old said: "It is a big event and I knew I was the person everyone would try to chase down so I knew I had to have a good race.
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Tulane drops C-USA opener at UCF, 60-53



Green Wave fell behind early in could never catch up in 60-53 loss
ORLANDO, Fla. – Tulane’s men’s basketball team fell behind early and could never catch up to UCF Wednesday night in the Conference USA opener, falling 60-53, at UCF Arena.

The Green Wave (12-3, 0-1 C-USA) trailed by nine in the first nine minutes of the game and never got closer than six the rest of the way. The Knights (11-3, 1-0 C-USA) took the lead for good less than two minutes in and led by as many as 17, including a 29-21 lead at the break.

“We did not play as well as we needed to, especially early, and UCF did a number on us on the boards,” Tulane head coach Ed Conroy said. “The first half we did not do the job we needed to boxing out and we need to make sure that doesn’t happen again. We’ve been pretty good on the boards, but tonight we didn’t match their effort.”

Jordan Callahan led Tulane with 18 points, seven rebounds, three assists, a block and a steal, while Kendall Timmons missed his second straight double double with 12 points and nine rebounds, and Ricky Tarrant added 12 points, five rebounds and four assists.

Tulane led 4-3 after a dunk by Timmons with 18:48 left in the opening half, but Marcus Jordan, who led UCF with a game-high 19 points, knocked down a jumper 20 seconds later that gave the Knights the lead for good. The Green Wave was held scoreless for over a four minute stretch in the first half and UCF used that time to build a 27-13 lead, the largest of the half.

Tulane scored first to open the second half the cut the deficit to six on a Callahan lay-up, but a 3-pointer by A.J. Rompza for UCF ignited a 10-2 run for the Knights who pulled away to a 17 point lead, 44-27, with 12:49 left. The Green Wave did fight back and used a 16-7 run to cut the UCF lead back down to eight, 54-46, with 3:40 remaining, before Jordan hit a jumper and a pair of free throws to all but seal the victory.

“The second half was a tale of not making shots and finishing plays,” Conroy added. “The first half was not satisfactory in the way we need to execute and move the ball.”

Josh Davis added eight points and five boards for Tulane, who hit just 23 of 48 shots from the floor in the game, including four of 10 for 3-point range. The Green Wave struggled from long range early as well, missing the first nine attempts before Callahan knocked one down eight minutes into the second half.

UCF did shoot well either, hitting 23 of 58 shots from the floor as well, but the Knights won the rebound battle, 43-32, including grabbing 15 offensive boards and turning that into 14 points.

Tulane’s defense forced 12 turnovers and collected seven steals that resulted in 11 points.

The Green Wave, who has played the last three games on the road, return to Fogelman Arena Saturday when they host Southern Miss at 3 p.m. CT.

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No. 5 Baylor skips past Texas A&M

Perry Jones III had 14 points with 12 rebounds, and the Bears remained undefeated with a 61-52 victory over Texas A&M on Monday night for their first 14-game winning streak in school history.


After moving up two spots to No. 4 in the new Associated Press poll earlier Monday, the Bears (14-0) scored the first eight points of the game and lead throughout against the Aggies (9-4).

BOX SCORE: Baylor 61, LSU 52

"I make sure, being the captain of the team, that we don't pay attention to that," senior Quincy Acy said. "It's good to have it, but we want more. … Just make sure that we don't pay attention to that, and we go out every night and play like we have something to lose."

Part of Baylor's opening spurt was Pierre Jackson's half-court alley-oop pass to Jones for a slam dunk

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"Actually, that was the first time he's ever thrown me an alley-oop that far," Jones said. "But you've got to be ready for anything when he's on the floor."

It was the first double-double of the season for Jones, the Big 12's preseason player of the year. Jones, a 6-foot-11 sophomore who bypassed the chance to be a high NBA draft pick last summer, missed the first five games this season while completing a six-game NCAA suspension for accepting improper benefits before he got to Baylor.

The Bears had already matched the school-record winning streak of 13 in a row set in 1946 by winning their 13 non-conference games. Baylor has won five consecutive Big 12 openers.

Acy added 13 points for Baylor, while freshman Quincy Miller had 11 points with eight rebounds in his first Big 12 game. A.J. Walton had 10 points.

This was the 204th meeting for the Texas teams from along the Brazos River. Baylor has won four in a row, but A&M still leads the series 127-77.

It was the last Big 12 matchup between the two teams in Waco with A&M's pending move to the Southeastern Conference after this season. They play again Feb. 1 at College Station.

"Obviously like everyone else I wish they were still in the Big 12, but we've got a pretty good league, and there's a reason the last four years RPI-wise the Big 12's been the best conference in basketball," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "It's outstanding basketball. We know the future's very bright for the Big 12."

Elston Turner had 21 points for the Aggies, who have lost three of its last four games. Khris Middleton had 14 points.

Turner's 3-pointer got Texas A&M within 10 with 5 minutes left before consecutive turnovers that Baylor turned into baskets.

After Anthony Jones forced an A&M turnover, Cory Jefferson made a jumper. Jackson then had a steal that led to Walton's baseline jumper in the front of the Baylor bench.

"I wasn't real pleased with that play," Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said. "He made a tough shot."

Turner hit another 3-pointer with 2:25 left to get the Aggies within 57-48, but they never got closer.

Texas A&M made only 18 of 63 field goals (29 percent) overall, but that was actually an improvement after making only 6-of-28 (21 percent) in the first half.

There was an 8-minute stretch for Texas A&M with 10 consecutive missed shots. After Turner's jumper with 9:39 left in the first half, when Baylor led 17-9, the Aggies didn't make another field goal until Middleton's 3-pointer with 1:39 left when they still trailed 28-14.

Aggies guard David Loubeau had three fouls while playing only 2 minutes in the first half, when Middleton was limited to only 10 minutes because of two early fouls.

Baylor had an 18-4 run in the first half that Jones started with a turnaround 15-footer and ended with a long jumper. The Bears had a 30-17 halftime lead, then scored the first five points of the second half.

"Defensively, I'm proud of our guys. We did a good enough job defensively," Kennedy said. "But when you go 6-for-28 in the first half and you've got two of your best players on the bench not playing, it's going to be tough."

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