Texas
Kansas State basketball to take on Texas in Big 12 Tournament after first-round bye
MANHATTAN — With its 65-58 upset victory over No. 6-ranked Iowa State in the regular-season finale Saturday at Bramlage Coliseum, Kansas State basketball earned the No. 10 seed in the Big 12 Tournament and a second-round matchup with No. 7 seed Texas.
By knocking off Iowa State, the Wildcats stayed out of the bottom four and received a first-round bye. They will face Texas at 6 p.m. Wednesday at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
Texas wrapped up its regular Saturday by beating Oklahoma, 94-80, to improve to 20-11 overall with a 9-9 league record. K-State comes in at 18-13 and 8-10 in the Big 12.
Beating Iowa State gives the Wildcats a glimmer of hope of an NCAA Tournament at-large bid, providing they beat Texas. A couple of victories this week could put them back on the bubble, though their only sure path is to win the Big 12 championship and get an automatic bid.
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It has been an uneven season for K-State, which snapped a two-game losing streak with its marquee win over Iowa State on senior day. Texas also has been up and down, but did beat the Wildcats, 62-56, on Feb. 19 in their lone regular-season matchup in Austin.
The Kansas State-Texas winner will take on Wednesday’s winner between Kansas and either Cincinnati or West Virginia at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Houston, in its first Big 12 season, captured the regular-season title and is the No. 1 seed, followed by Iowa State at No. 2, Baylor at No. 3 and Texas Tech at No. 4.
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Men’s Big 12 Tournament schedule
Tuesday, March 12Game 1: No. 12 UCF vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State,11:30 a.m.Game 2: No. 11 Cincinnati vs. No. 14 West Virginia 2 p.m.Wednesday, March 13Game 3: No. 5 BYU vs. Game 1 winner 11:30 a.m.Game 4: No. 8 TCU vs. No. 9 Oklahoma, 2 p.m.Game 5: No. 7 Texas vs. No. 10 Kansas State, 6 p.m.Game 6: No. 6 Kansas vs. Game 2 winner, 8:30 p.m.Thursday, March 14Game 7: No. 4 Texas Tech vs. Game 3 winner, 11:30 a.m.Game 8: No. 1 Houston vs. Game 4 winner, 2 p.m.Game 9: No. 2 Iowa State vs. Game 5 winner, 6 p.m.Game 10: No. 3 Baylor vs. Game 6 winner, 8:30 p.m.Friday, March 15Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 6 p.m.Game 12: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 8:30 p.m.Saturday, March 16Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner, 5 p.m.
Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.
Texas
Trump takes credit for Toyota moving some truck production from Mexico to Texas: ‘That’s what tariffs do’
Toyota is planning a $3.6 billion expansion of its Texas truck assembly plant. President Donald Trump took credit for the investment.
On Monday, the automaker announced the multibillion-dollar investment to add a second vehicle assembly line at its San Antonio manufacturing campus to support production of the Tacoma pickup. Toyota said the expansion project would shift some of the midsize truck’s production from its Mexico plants to San Antonio over roughly 4 years. Toyota will still build some Tacoma models and the Corolla in Mexico.
While Toyota did not attribute the expansion to tariffs in its announcement and the company is not fully exiting production in Mexico, Trump said the fresh investment was a sign that his tariffs were working.
“It came over the wires that Toyota is moving out of Mexico into the United States, and building one of the biggest truck and car plants ever built,” Trump said on Tuesday during a visit to Ankara, Turkey. “It’s amazing. That’s what tariffs do, properly used.”
Toyota said the investment will create 2,000 jobs and add 2.5 million square feet to the site, doubling the company’s Texas footprint by 2030.
Toyota
On Monday, Ted Ogawa, president and CEO of Toyota Motor North America, said the investment reflected the company’s “confidence in the region’s workforce, innovation, and long-term growth potential.”
The move gives Trump a high-profile example of a well-recognized company creating manufacturing jobs. His administration has argued that tariffs incentivize companies — particularly automakers — to reshore manufacturing in America and reduce reliance on foreign production.
Toyota’s announcement also comes amid major uncertainty for automakers with plants in North America. The USMCA — the trilateral free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico struck during Trump’s first term — is under review after the US declined to renew the treaty in its current form on July 1. The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to change the agreement so 50% of all automotive parts and manufacturing would happen in the US.
Toyota also nodded to that trade uncertainty in its release, saying it remained committed to operations in all three countries while encouraging “a quick resolution to USMCA” to keep North America globally competitive.
Texas
Supreme Court won’t block Texas from enforcing a law requiring age verification for app downloads
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to block Texas from enforcing a state law that requires apps stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors seeking to download apps or make in-app purchases on mobile phones.
Justice Samuel Alito, in a pair of one-sentence orders, denied petitions by plaintiffs who claim that the Texas App Store Accountability Act violates users’ constitutional rights to free speech.
Last month, a three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law can take effect. The panel suspended a district court’s ruling last December that the law is unconstitutional.
The plaintiffs suing to block the law include the Computer & Communications Industry Association and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a defendant in both cases.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers argued that the law impermissibly seeks to limit access to content protected by the First Amendment, including news and educational material.
“Equity and the public interest support relief because protecting First Amendment rights — and parents’ rights to supervise their children as they see fit, not as the government tells them they should — is always in the public interest,” wrote attorneys for Students Engaged in Advancing Texas.
Attorneys from Paxton’s office argued that the law protects children from “dangerous modern products.”
“A child with access to an app store and a mobile device (such as a tablet or smartphone) can potentially download any number of software applications, potentially agreeing to invasions of the child’s privacy and sale of the child’s data and be exposed to any conceivable content without parental consent or even parental knowledge,” they wrote.
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Texas
Texas Rescuers Save Woman From Sewage-Filled Ravine
A passerby’s curiosity may have saved a life behind a Dallas high school. Police say that around 5:25pm on June 28, a young man followed faint cries coming from a wooded area and discovered a young woman stuck in a steep ravine, mired in mud and sewage after being trapped for days, Fox News reports. Dallas police and fire crews mounted a joint rescue in 104-degree heat, trekking about a quarter-mile over rough ground to reach her. They hauled her out and rushed her to a hospital, where she was treated for severe dehydration, extended sun exposure, and other injuries.
Police did not release the woman’s identity or say how she ended up in the ravine, WFAA reports. In a Facebook post Monday, the Dallas Police Department credited the “collaborative effort” of officers, firefighters, and paramedics whose quick work “saved a young woman who was in desperate need of help.” “The well-being of the Dallas community is not something that’s handled by a single agency,” the department said.”It takes a collaborative effort from multiple teams and organizations working side-by-side to ensure every person’s safety.”
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