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All of the preliminaries are over, and its time for Big 12 coaches to focus on trying to win a conference title.Thats the fun part about conference. It doesnt matter what you do those first three games, Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Monday. Its all about what you do moving forward.With all the non-conference games completed, there will be only head-to-head matchups in the Big 12 over the last 10 weekends of the regular season.Six teams -- No. 22 Texas, West Virginia, Kansas State, Texas Tech, Kansas and Oklahoma -- will play their conference openers this week. While the league is already in a precarious position in trying to get back into four-team College Football Playoff for the second year in a row, there could still be a wide-open race to the Big 12 title.Oklahoma (1-2), which made it into the CFP last season, already has losses to top-10 teams Houston and Ohio State, and is one of four league teams coming off an open date. But the Sooners are 0-0 in the quest to repeat as Big 12 champions and win the league for the 10th time under coach Bob Stoops.Thats a big deal to us, and weve done it a fair amount, Stoops said during the weekly Big 12 coaches teleconference. Thats been the frustration for me is I dont feel weve played up to what were capable of. And we may not still have won, I get that, but you want to be able to at least play the way youre capable of. Were only three games into it and weve got to be able to do that here this week, and start doing that going through the Big 12.The first full week of Big 12 play gets an early start with Kansas (1-2) playing at Texas Tech (2-1) on Thursday night.Then on Saturday, No. 13 Baylor (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) goes to Iowa State (1-3, 0-1); No. 21 TCU (3-1, 1-0) hosts Oklahoma; No. 22 Texas (2-1) is at Oklahoma State (2-2, 0-1); and Kansas State (2-1) plays at West Virginia (3-0).With Baylor the leagues highest-ranked team and the only one with four wins so far, acting head coach Jim Grobe was asked if he felt like the Bears were the early conference favorite.Oh no, not at all, Grobe said. I dont think anybody really feels comfortable or knows how their teams going to be in the next two or three games. I think once you get about a little over halfway through the season, things start to sort out a little bit. But its way too early to have any sense of where you stand in the league.Some other notes from the weekly Big 12 call:- Oklahoma States Justice Hill ran for 122 yards and a touchdown in his first career start; it was the most yards for an Oklahoma State true freshman against a Big 12 opponent since the league was formed in 1996. But the leagues newcomer of the week also had two fumbles Saturday that led to Baylor touchdowns. The last one came at the end of a 12-yard run in the fourth quarter when the Cowboys were down only 28-24. The Bears recovered at their 1, drove the length of the field and won 35-24 .Hes a young talent, Cowboys coach Mike Gundy said. Youve got to let him play because he has the ability to turn a short gain into a big gain.- Texas coach Charlie Strong said adjustments made on defense during the open date, after giving up 50 points at California, were not with personnel. Its about tweaking it and making sure we put guys in position where they can be successful, he said.- Coach Matt Campbell said Iowa State got into a rhythm using quarterbacks Joel Lanning and Jacob Park in a 44-10 home win over San Jose State, after both also played in the Big 12 opener at TCU. Campbell said he felt it might be in our best interest to give both of those guys the opportunity to play after both progressed late in fall camp and early in the season.Wholesale Air Max From China . The Islanders dealt Thomas Vanek to the Montreal Canadiens after less than a year on Long Island. Meanwhile, the Oilers dealt long-time sniper Ales hemsky to the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in 2014 and a third-rounder in 2015. Cheap Air Max Authentic . Down by seven with 90 seconds left in regulation, thats where they looked comfortable. http://www.cheapairmaxshoesfreeshipping.com/ . 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He finished a disappointing campaign just 14-13 with a career-worst 4.Jordan Spieth admitted that his second round score was a couple of strokes higher than he was aiming for at Augusta.The defending champion held a two-stroke lead after the first round but has seen his advantage cut to a single shot following a round of 74, leaving him four under for the tournament.After two birdies in his first three holes, Spieth double bogeyed the fifth and despite further gains at eight and 15, he twice carded back-to-back bogeys - at nine and 10 and 16 and 17 - and now has Rory McIlroy (-3) breathing down his neck. Spieth holds a one-shot lead after the second round at Augusta I thought it was it was couple of strokes higher than what I was looking for, I thought even par was a good score today, Spieth told Sky Sports.Especially playing 11 and 12, getting two pars there on two of the harder holes on the golf course and being a couple under early, I thought it was a couple higher than the goal.Its a bit disappointing in that sense running off but its pretty much a brand new tournament coming our way the last two rounds.The 22-year-old American felt that conditions got significantly more difficult as his round progressed and said that he found it difficult to keep a cool head on the back nine. Spieth carded 74 in his second round Today was my learning experience for the week, said Spieth. It was really, really tough to hold it together on that back nine.Even when I was trying to lag putts, I still had three or four feet, and when the greens are crusty and one hundred people have walked on them that day and theyre that fast, its so difficult even to make those two or three footers.It was just a grind on each hole and emotionally that just gets you going a little and its very difficult to just keeping thinking that its okay with a smile on your face.I think the person who walks the tallest is going to end up winning these next couple of days, Ive obviously got Rory, who has proven himself in major championships, right on my heels and a bunch of other major contenders at Augusta.dddddddddddd Amateur Bryson DeChambeau said he has no doubt in his mind that he can win the Masters, after outplaying partner Jordan Spieth during their second round Amateur Bryson DeChambeau played alongside Spieth and despite a triple bogey seven on the last, finds himself just four shots off the lead, saying he had no doubt that he could win the Green Jacket.Its not a score you want on the last hole but I just hit a couple of bad drives and thats what led up to it, he said.Ive been driving the ball good all day, pretty much, and unfortunately I messed up at the last but thats golf. Im not worried about it, Im looking forward to the weekend too.Ive always enjoyed Jordans company out there and, again, he was a gentleman and I enjoyed it thoroughly out there with him.I learnt a lot from him out there I think, patience, being comfortable out there and just going and executing a golf shot - it was quite fun out there.Its impossible to know just how much this experience is going to help and I think going forward itll definitely help, I just dont know how much.Also See:Rory cuts Spieths lead to oneMcIlroy: Best position in yearsWillett: Its brutal out thereDay: Conditions very tricky ' ' '