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An autograph was more than enough.

A photograph would have been perfect.

Watching Darnell Jackson jack up three-pointers? A bonus.

Jackson and five other Kansas seniors -- Sasha Kaun, Russell Robinson, Jeremy Case, Brad Witherspoon and an injured Rodrick Stewart -- stopped by East High on Friday for the latest leg of the annual barnstorming tour, a trek that will whisk the national champion Jayhawks who have exhausted their collegiate eligibility around the Sunflower State and allow most to earn their first check for playing basketball.

None of that mattered to approximately 3,000 fans who paid $10 a ticket to wedge themselves into a high school gym on a Friday evening. Officially, there was a "game" -- an exhibition pitting the KU quintet against the Wichita All-Stars, a group led by former Shockers such as P.J. Couisnard and Paul Miller -- but that's not what Friday was about.

Wichita State lost control of Friday's game and lightning and rain took advantage.

WSU's game against Indiana State was suspended until today at noon with the Shockers leading 8-7 in the ninth. A storm rolled into Terre Haute during the ninth inning and nearby lightning strikes cleared players from the field and fans from the aluminum bleachers. The Shockers will have two runners on base and Kenny Williams at the plate with a 1-0 count when the game resumes today.

"It's nothing really new, especially this spring," WSU shortstop Dusty Coleman said. "We've had a bunch of weather problems. We'll be able to come out and finish this game up and win the next one."

Today's regularly scheduled game will follow the completion of Friday's game. No doubt the 14th-ranked Shockers feel as if they should have ended the series opener ahead of the bad weather.

WSU led 8-3 entering the eighth inning. That seemed safe until control problems hit three Shockers pitchers. Starter Rob Musgrave walked the leadoff hitter and hit the next batter. Reliever Khol Nanney walked his first batter on four pitches.

When her first IndyCar victory finally came, as Danica Patrick always knew it would, everything was in place to take full advantage of the moment.

"You want to make the most of this event for everybody: the team, the sponsors, the league and everybody," Patrick said Friday at Kansas Speedway, where she will try to make it two wins in a row on Sunday.

Patrick appeared relaxed and confident after a whirlwind of publicity following her win in Japan last weekend. The frenetic week included a series of TV appearances, dozens of interviews, attending a movie premiere and an outpouring of adulation from her fans and the general public.

"Yeah, I worked my butt off for a week," Patrick said, grinning. "I feel pretty good, though. I think that everything happens for a reason and, if this would have come three years ago on the heels of Indy or something like that, maybe I wouldn't have been so calm and prepared."

The then-22-year-old Patrick exploded into the consciousness of the American public as an IRL IndyCar Series rookie in 2005 when she qualified second and finished fourth at a race in Motegi, Japan. She then qualified fourth for the Indianapolis 500 and led the race before finishing fourth -- all firsts for a woman at the famed Brickyard.

Indians 6, Yankees 4 -- Jhonny Peralta hit a three-run homer off Andy Pettitte in the fifth inning, and Cleveland won its fourth straight.

• Peralta's big shot off Pettitte (3-2) put the Indians ahead 4-3, and Franklin Gutierrez followed with a homer off the lefty. Peralta finished with four RBIs and Jamey Carroll had a run-scoring single and stole two bases for the Indians.... Interim closer Rafael Betancourt worked a perfect ninth for his second save in two nights.

Angels 4, Tigers 3 -- Vladimir Guerrero homered to highlight a four-run fourth inning as the Angels held off Detroit, ending the Tigers' four-game winning streak.

• The Tigers were coming off a three-game sweep of Texas in which they scored 37 runs, but didn't have nearly as much success against Ervin Santana (4-0).... Santana pitched 6 1/3 innings, allowing three runs and six hits. Justin Speier escaped jams in the seventh and eighth innings, and Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth for his 10th save in 11 tries.... Nate Robertson (0-3) took the loss for Detroit, allowing four runs in seven innings.

Rays 5, Red Sox 4 (11) --Nathan Haynes singled with no outs in the 11th inning, driving in Carl Crawford from second base and helping Tampa Bay win its fourth straight.

Big 12 Championship

At Whispering Pines, Trinity, Texas

Team scores--1. Oklahoma State 285-282--567; 2. Texas 288-294--582; 3. Texas A&M 299-284--583; 4. Texas Tech 302-282--584; 5. Oklahoma 295-297--592; 6. Baylor 298-296--594; 7. Kansas 303-295--598; 8. Nebraska 303-300--603; 9. Kansas State 297-307--604; 10. Iowa State 298-313--611; 11. Colorado 311-303--614; 12. Missouri 312-304--616.

Top individuals--T1. Rickie Fowler, OSU, 72-68--140; T1. Kevin Tway, OSU, 72-68--140; T3. Charlie Holland, UT, 70-71--141; T3. Tyler Rody, OU, 70-71--141; T3. Chris Ward, TT, 72-69--141.

KU individuals--T11. Brad Hopfinger 75-70--145; 15. Walt Koebel 74-72--146; T32. Nate Barbee 76-76--152; T40. Patrick Roth 78-77--155; 60. Zach Pederson 81-85--166.

Bishop Carroll's baseball team has learned a lot during its win streak. But the Golden Eagles may have learned the most important lesson of the year Friday against Heights at West Side Athletic Field.

Against the Falcons, Carroll learned the value of resiliency, coming from behind in the sixth inning to defeat Heights 5-4. The win was Carroll's seventh in a row.

"We had to gain confidence," Carroll coach Charlie Ebright said. "We're on a nice run and right now we are feeling real good about ourselves."

Down 4-3 in the sixth inning with a runner on third, Carroll's Zach Stucky beat out a ground ball that was bobbled by Heights third baseman Dustin Jones, allowing the tying run to score. Matt Jacobs gave the Golden Eagles the lead, blasting a double into left-center field that scored Stucky.

With the lead, Carroll (9-4, 9-2 City League) turned to its ace, Aston Hoffman, to bring the game home.

The depth of the Kapaun Mount Carmel golf team continues to pay off.

At the Hutchinson Invitational on Friday, it was sophomore Max Lazzo's turn to lead the Crusaders, firing a 75 to place sixth in windy conditions at Carey Park.

"The good thing about our team is that all of our players have the ability and talent to play really well and post some good scores," coach Blake Wells said. "Time will tell as the season progresses, but I think it was a good experience to play in that tournament."

Kapaun finished fifth as a team in the largest regular season tournament in the state, featuring 36 teams and over 180 golfers. Manhattan shot a 309, defending its team championship.

Lazzo was able to fight through windy conditions by staying mentally strong over the course of his five-hour round. Consistency was key in a day that featured several long delays.

Longtime Hanston football coach Jerry Slaton died Thursday night after battling cancer for several years.

Slaton, 62, is survived by two daughters, two sons and 10 grandchildren.

Slaton was one of the winningest coaches in Kansas history. His 250 career victories, 234 at Hanston, rank 14th in the state.

"The big thing I remember that he used to tell us is, 'I just love that cool fall air and that Star Spangled Banner,' " Little River football coach Shane Cordell recalled on Friday.

In Slaton's final season in 2004, Hanston was 13-0 and outscored its opponents 676-120. Hanston was 49-1 in Slaton's last four seasons, winning three 8-Man II championships. Slaton won five state championships.

Baseball

Goddard 7, Hutchinson 3

Goddard 4, Hutchinson 1

Understatement of the month: If you want to advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you have to protect three-goal leads.

The Rangers couldn't Friday night, as the Penguins scored four consecutive goals -- in two sudden strikes 14 seconds apart in the second period and 20 seconds apart in the third -- to erase that margin. Although Scott Gomez's blast tied the score, Sidney Crosby's one-timer from the right boards on a power play hit Evgeni Malkin's leg and flew past Henrik Lundqvist with 1:41 left for the Game 1 winner.

With the 5-4 victory in an up-and-down game that featured dozens of giveaways, the Penguins took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinals. Game 2 is here Sunday afternoon.

Malkin's goal came with Martin Straka in the box at 16:40 of the third period, the only penalty of the period, for interfering with Crosby along the right side.

The Rangers need to answer numerous questions before Sunday's game.

Oklahoma State's Kevin Tway and Rickie Fowler each shot 4-under-par 140 Friday to help the Cowboys build a 15-shot lead over Texas after 36 holes of the Big 12 Men's Championship at Trinity, Texas.

The Cowboys posted four-man scores of 285 and 282 for a 9-under 567 total. Big 12 South teams occupied the top six spots in the standings heading into today's third round of the 72-hole tournament.

Kansas is seventh at 598 and Kansas State is ninth at 604. Oklahoma, which is fifth, was led by sophomore Tyler Rody. The Andover Central product is tied for third individually at 141, one shot behind Tway and Fowler.

• Oklahoma State shot 303 for a 12-stroke lead after the first round of the Big 12 Women's Championship at Stillwater's Karsten Creek. Kansas was seventh at 333 and K-State was tied for ninth at 335. Michelle Regan was tied for fourth individually for the Wildcats after carding a 77.

• Adam Scott shot a second-round 67 on Friday at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship to take the lead at 5-under 135.

Kid Rock wears many hats, and not just of the fedora and cowboy varieties he displays in public and during his concerts.

Kid has songs describing himself as a cowboy, lowlife, American bad guy and cocky. The last one may be deserved since he's a world-famous musician who was once married to blonde beauty Pamela Anderson.

Kid brought his cockiness - and the rest of his self-described personas - to the Kansas Coliseum on Friday night, playing a three-hour show and displaying his knack for performing songs in the hip hop, country and rock 'n' roll genres.

Kid, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, was joined for the show by J. Geils Band lead singer Peter Wolf, who would place high in a Mick Jagger sound-alike contest, and iconic rapper Rev Run, member of the group Run DMC.

The show was scheduled to start at 8 p.m. but Kid took the stage 28 minutes later wearing a white suit with a black shirt, white tie, black fedora and his trademark sunglasses.

Event

Midwest Winefest

The Midwest Winefest, an annual event that celebrates all things wine, will be a night event this year. The grand tasting, which features samples of wines from around the world and gourmet appetizers, will be from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. today at Century II Exhibition Hall and will include silent and live auctions, cooking demonstrations, seminars and wine-related vendors. Tickets to the tasting are $50, available at the door. Proceeds benefit Guadalupe Health Foundation.

Stage

'Gridiron'

Hard poker rule: You must be able to put an opponent on a hand or a range of hands in order to know how to bet, even if it's the wrong read.

At the World Series of Poker $10,000-buy-in main event at Las Vegas' Rio Hotel in 2007, Gavin Griffin drew A-7 suited in late position. With blinds at $100-$200, Griffin saw the player under the gun raise to $600 and decided to call.

"I don't always call with that hand," said Griffin, who won the $3,000-buy-in pot-limit hold 'em event at the 2004 WSOP, becoming at 22 the youngest-ever bracelet winner at the time. "It depends who I'm playing against. The guy who made the raise seemed like he was steaming and didn't seem like he was in the best state mentally.

"I'm not necessarily trying to make a pair of aces. With a hand like A-7 of hearts, I want to flop a big draw. If he checks, I'm usually going to bet to see if I can win the pot right there."

The flop came 8-4-9, two spades.

Stevie Nicks began an abbreviated schedule of late spring and summer solo dates April 18 in Pennsylvania, hoping to continue the string of generally glowing reviews she received for her 2007 dates both with Chris Isaak and on her own.

In recent weeks, however, most of the chatter has been not about Nicks or her tour, but the band she sings with, Fleetwood Mac.

Late last month, the veteran rock group's plans to tour in the first half of 2009 became known when Sheryl Crow, who is close friends with Nicks, announced she might be joining the Mac lineup on the road.

Singer Lindsay Buckingham has confirmed that Mac is planning to tour, but says Crow's involvement is not a done deal.

"I think we were all a little surprised she (Crow) was announcing that to the world with such certainty," Buckingham told Billboard magazine. "We have talked about the possibility of bringing another woman into the scene to kind of give Stevie a sort of foil and shake it up a little bit. She /(Crow/) was certainly a name that has come up. We'll have to see."

The ramp-up to the Run for the Roses will be a little longer this year. NBC's coverage of the most famous two minutes in horse racing will clock in at a whopping 2 ½ hours.

Beginning at 3 p.m. May 3, the network will air "Access at the Kentucky Derby," which producer Sam Flood describes as "a vehicle to take you places you can't normally go on Derby day, from the jocks' room to the barns."

Flood, producing his third consecutive Derby program, said he plans features on pre-Derby parties and the Churchill Downs infield crowd, as well as horses, trainers and owners.

A red carpet segment, hosted by Billy Bush of "Access Hollywood," will focus on the famous faces at the race.

"You'll see a lot of celebrities, and a lot of hats," Flood said, referring to the traditionally outlandish headgear favored by many female Derby-goers.

A simple twist of fate spun Chris Altice's life in ways he could never imagine. The Manassas, Va., man should have boarded the Washington state-based USS Carl Vinson after naval training school, but a delay sent him to Southern California and a tour of duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.

Within a few short months, Altice, then 20, fell in love with a young woman who became pregnant with their child just before he deployed to the Persian Gulf from May 7 to Nov. 8, 2005. His long-distance relationship under stressful conditions is among the stories chronicled in "Carrier," a 10-hour documentary series on PBS.

"I never thought it would be such a big part of the film," Altice said. "But what I was going through was just what a lot of the guys on the ship go through."

The Nimitz is a floating city that stands 24 stories high and is three football fields long. It carries 85 military aircraft and more than 5,000 Navy personnel with an average age of 19.

Executive producer Maro Chermayeff said it was a long and difficult process to get access to film, but once that was accomplished there was no interference. The filmmakers embedded on the ship got unprecedented access to film the crew, who gave unfiltered interviews about everything from how the war on terrorism was being fought to gays in the military.