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The remainder - FIU at Texas Tech (Big 12 Now on RANGERS REPORT of the season’s selections will be ESPN+), 6:00 p.m. CT 5 BY DIC HUMPHREY announced on a 12-day or six-day notice Friday, November 26 GOLF, ETC via Big12Sports.com and the Conference’s - Kansas State at Texas (FOX), 11:00 a.m. 7 BY TOM WARD official digital platforms. - TCU at Iowa State (FOX or FS1), 3 or CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE Big 12 Football Early Season and 3:30 p.m. CT 8 BY PGATOUR.COM Big 12 Football Early Season and Special Date Selections BENT GRASS CAN SURVIVE IN Special Date Games Announced Friday, September 3 TEXAS Big 12 partners ESPN and FOX Sports South Dakota at Kansas (Big 12 Now on 9 BY PGATOUR.COM have announced early season and special ESPN+), 7:00 p.m. CT COLONIAL HOLE BY HOLE date football selections across their linear Saturday, September 4 BY PGATOUR.COM 10 and digital platforms. - Stanford vs. Kansas State (FS1), 11:00 Opening weekend of the season gets a.m. CT (AT&T Stadium, Arlington) GOLD NEWS AND NOTES 12 BY STAFF underway on Friday, September 3 as - Northern Iowa at Iowa State (Big 12 Kansas hosts South Dakota on Big 12 Now Now on ESPN+), 2:30 p.m. CT Dallas Mavericks announce additional COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF on ESPN+. 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Miami Grizzlies Grizzlies Grizzlies SportsPage Weekly, take more than one copy of each SportsPage Weekly issue. 25. Nebraska 25. South Carolina 8:10 8:10 2:10 4 May 28, 2021 - June 3, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 40 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com RANGERS WITH DIC HUMPHREY Assessing the Rangers rebuilding effort middle infield positions has become evi- dent. Kiner-Falefa and Solack have concen- trated on getting better without the pressure of looking over their shoulder to see if they would be replaced. Kiner-Falefa has been brilliant essential- ly from day one. There are a host of topflight shortstops that could become free agents this winter, such as Carlos Correa, Javier Baez, Corey Seager and Trevor Story. It was assumed that the Rangers would be hot to land one of them to have a good hitter for the batting order in years to come. When asked about it, IFK simply said, “Let it be me.” He has played brilliantly at shortstop and has been a steady offensive player. Last week by one estimation of WAR (wins above replacement), the holy grail statistic of comparing players, he ranked second among American League position players to Minnesota’s Byron Buxton. IKF and Solack have also shown improved power at the plate where both Adolis is the biggest positive surprise on the team and will likely be the A.