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NCAA FOOTBALL
HORNED FROGS LEAP BACK TO WIN WILD ALAMO BOWL
SAN ANTONIO — Bram Kohlhausen’s eight-yard touchdown run in the third overtime carried No. 11 TCU to a wild 47-41 victory over No. 15 Oregon in the Alamo Bowl on Saturday night as the Horned Frogs stormed back from a 31-0 halftime deficit behind a backup quarterback.
The 31-point comeback to win tied the record for a bowl game, matching Texas Tech’s comeback in the 2006 Insight Bowl against Minnesota in 2006.
Oregon stormed to the big lead early behind quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., but he was knocked out of the game late in the second quarter after taking a hard hit to the head.
Kohlhausen started in place of TCU’s Trevone Boykin, who was suspended after a bar fight two days earlier. Kohlhausen passed for 351 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two more scores.
HOGS RUN WILD, ROLL OVER KANSAS STATE IN LIBERTY BOWL
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Alex Collins ran for 185 yards and three touchdowns and Arkansas capped its late-season surge with a 45-23 win over Kansas State Saturday in the Liberty Bowl.
Ranked 18th to open the season, Arkansas stumbled through a 1-3 start that knocked the Razorbacks out of the Top 25. The Hogs (8-5) won six of their last seven games.
Collins had touchdown runs of 22 yards and 13 yards in the first 17 minutes. He also had a 68-yard burst on his first kickoff return of the season, which set up Jared Cornelius’ 13-yard touchdown.
In the Taxslayer Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., Terry Godwin threw a touchdown pass on a trick play and later caught one, helping Georgia beat Penn State 24-17.
The Bulldogs (10-3) won their fifth straight game to end the season.
Penn State (7-6) played more than half the game without quarterback Christian Hackenberg, who landed awkwardly on his throwing shoulder early in the second quarter.
SKIING
CANADA’S ALEX HARVEY SEVENTH IN SWISS RACE
LENZERHEIDE, SWITZERLAND — Canadian Alex Harvey was seventh Saturday in the second stage of the eight-race Tour de Ski competition.
Harvey, of St-Ferreol-les-Neiges, Que., posted a time of one hour 15 minutes 42.7 seconds in the men’s 30-kilometre classic.
Norway’s Martin Johnsrud Sundby won the race in 1:14:48.
CRICKET
STOKES HELPS ENGLAND REGAIN MOMENTUM
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA — Ben Stokes’ half-century put England on top at 317-5 over South Africa at stumps on the first day of the second test Saturday. Stokes made a rapid 74 not out with 11 fours and a six.
BOXING
OLYMPIC BOXING CHAMPION HOWARD DAVIS JR. DEAD AT 59
MIAMI — Olympic champion boxer Howard Davis Jr., who won the 1976 lightweight gold medal and was named over teammate Sugar Ray Leonard as the most outstanding fighter in the Montreal Summer Games, has died of cancer, his wife said Friday. Davis, 59, died Wednesday, surrounded by family, Karla Guadamuz-Davis said. His diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer in February just before his birthday came as a shock because he had never smoked, she said. The cancer then spread to his liver, and the family chose to discontinue treatment in a hospital this week.