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Texas A&M is No.1 Big 12 football venue
5. FOLSOM FIELD UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
The Buffaloes' stadium isn't any more spectacular than every other Big 12 football stadium. Folsom Field, however, benefits from a beautiful backdrop with the Rocky Mountains overlooking the venue.
4. MEMORIAL STADIUM UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
Few venues in the country are more intimidating than Memorial Stadium, which is filled with 81,000 Cornhusker fans on game day. The team, however, hasn't lived up to its high expectations recently and the program has gone through three head coaches in five years.
3. GAYLORD FAMILY OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL STADIUM, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
The six Sooner home games are practically national holidays for fans every year. Surrounded by die-hard college football enthusiasts, Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial
Stadium has an atmosphere unlike anywhere else in the country.
2. DARRELL K. ROYAL-TEXAS MEMORIAL STADIUM, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
The Longhorns pack more fans into their stadium than any other Big 12 school. The stadium is also accompanied by the best football facility in the conference and the "Godzillatron," one of the biggest video screens in America at 55 feet tall and 134 feet wide.
1.KYLE FIELD TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
It's not the biggest or most fancy stadium in the conference but it's the most passionate. Kyle Field is the only venue in the Big 12 that could pass as a Southeastern Conference football team's stadium with its noise level. Aggie fans literally make the entire place shake before games when they chant the "Aggie War Hymn."
Case Keefer
THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Nadal beats Federer takes Wimbledon crown
WIMBLEDON, England — With darkness enveloping Centre Court and the clock showing 9:15 p.m., Rafael Nadal watched as Roger Federer's errant forehand settled into the net, ending what might have been the greatest men's final on the greatest stage in tennis.
With that, Nadal flopped onto his back on the worn-out lawn as champion of Wimbledon for the first time and conqueror of the five-time winner and grass-court master.
After five riveting sets and 4 hours, 48 minutes of play, there was a changing of the guard at Wimbledon on Sunday when Nadal held off Federer's stirring comeback to win 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 (8), 9-7.
"It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment." Nadal said after receiving the winner's trophy from the Duke of Kent. "Just very, very happy to win this title. For me, (it) is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this."
Nadal now has five career grand-slam titles to Federer's 12.
The next grand-slam event is the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, NY, in late August and early September.
Sisters rule at Wimbledon Venus handles Serena
WIMBLEDON, England — Venus Williams won her fifth Wimbledon singles title Saturday, beating younger sister Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4 in the final.
Defending champion Venus is 5-2 in Wimbledon finals, losing only to Serena in 2002 and '03. The win at the All England Club gave Venus her seventh major title.
The match was the seventh Grand Slam final between the American sisters,with Serena leading 5-2. They are now 8-8 overall.
CC, say your goodbyes; Sabathia to Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE — Reigning AL Cy Young Award winner CC Sabathia was traded Monday from the Cleveland Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers for four prospects.
Sabathia, eligible for free agency after the season, went 19-7 with a 3.21 ERA last season and gives the Brewers another power pitcher to pair with Ben Sheets as Milwaukee tries to make the playoffs for the first time since 1982.
Sabathia will make two starts before the All-Star break — Tuesday against Colorado and Sunday against Cincinnati. Both are home games.
Milwaukee sent Cleveland left fielder Matt LaPorta, pitchers Rob Bryson and Zach Jackson and a player to be named.
Track star falls at trials loses spot in 200 meters
EUGENE, Ore. — Tyson Gay accelerated through the first curve. Then, he started flying.
Not in the figurative sense,but in an all-too-real way a shocking sprawl to the ground that cost America's best sprinter an Olympic spot in the 200 meters and made him look like less than a sure thing, health-wise at least,with the Beijing Games five weeks away.
Gay suffered what his manager called a severe cramp in his left hamstring at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials Saturday and had to be carted off the track. He was at his hotel later, being treated with ice.
"It was just one of those things," Gay said in a statement released through USA Track and Field.
Gay already has qualified for the Olympics in the 100 meters, but his chances at doubling are gone. Now, the nervous wait begins to see if it was, indeed, just a cramp, and how that affects his training over the next month.
Associated Press, compiled by Case Keefer
SPORTS BRIEF
China scrambles to finish preparation for Olympics
The government needs to meet its pledge to deliver clean air in one of the world's most polluted cities,
BEIJING — With one month to go before the Olympics open on Aug.8, China's work is hardly complete.
and must finish two new subway lines and a railway line. The 31 venues in Beijing are ready, and most have been for months.
But the most difficult promise to keep for the authoritarian government might be allowing reporters—as many as 30,000 are expected—to work freely as they have in other Olympics.
Associated Press
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