<table> </table> <strong><span class="subhead">Kansas, K-State women win</span></strong></p><p>Behind a stifling defense and the scoring combination of juniors <strong>Danielle McCray</strong> and <strong>Sade Morris</strong>, the Kansas women&#8217;s basketball team dominated Fort Hays State 93-37 in an exhibition opener Sunday in Lawrence.</p><p>Meanwhile, Kansas State&#8217;s strong second half broke open a tight game as the Wildcats beat Washburn 66-47 in an exhibition game in Manhattan.</p><p>McCray led all Jayhawks in scoring with 20 points. The Olathe native also chipped in seven rebounds and four steals. Morris added 14 points.</p><p>For the Wildcats, junior <strong>Ashley Sweat</strong> had 17 points and senior <strong>Shalee Lehning</strong> added 14.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Lance is looking good</span></strong></p><p><strong>Lance Armstrong</strong> looks ready to come out of retirement right now.</p><p>Armstrong won the individual time trial of the 25th annual Tour de Gruene, covering 16 miles in 33 minutes, 14 seconds to finish nearly two minutes ahead of runner-up <strong>Erick Benz</strong> in the race along the Guadalupe River on Saturday in Texas.</p><p>Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion, announced in September that he was ending a three-year retirement to draw more attention to his global campaign to fight cancer. But a lukewarm response from organizers and renewed rumors about doping have cooled his enthusiasm. He will race the Giro d&#8217;Italia in May.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Mare sells for record $14 million</span></strong></p><p>Better Than Honour was even better than advertised Sunday night at Fasig-Tipton&#8217;s thoroughbred sale, shattering the all-time sales record for a broodmare.</p><p>Southern Equine&#8217;s <strong>Michael Moreno</strong>, who owned 70 percent of the 2007 broodmare of the year, bid $14 million to keep her &#8212; a price that eclipsed the previous broodmare record by $3.5 million.</p><p>Earlier during the sale at Lexington, Ky., <strong>Michael Iavarone</strong>, the owner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, added the nation&#8217;s top juvenile filly to his stable with a $5.7 million purchase of Stardom Bound.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">An honor for Ballesteros</span></strong></p><p>The European Tour is looking to pay tribute to the ailing <strong>Seve Ballesteros</strong>.</p><p>European Tour chief executive <strong>George O&#8217;Grady</strong> said that a player of the year award voted by players was being discussed, while the tour was also keen for the Seve Trophy tournament to be hosted in Spain in 2009.</p><p>Ballesteros remains in stable condition in the intensive care unit of Madrid&#8217;s La Paz hospital after undergoing three operations on a cancerous brain tumor.