Manchester United's Hargreaves out for season

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11/11/2008 - Manchester, England (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Manchester United's Owen Hargreaves will miss the rest of the season, it was learned Tuesday.

Hargreaves flew to the United States to try and get to the bottom of ongoing knee problems, and faces an operation on his left knee in a couple of weeks' time. The 27-year-old England international has already undergone surgery on his right knee.

Hargreaves had featured just three times this season, with United boss Sir Alex Ferguson becoming increasingly worried by his player's problems.

"What we're trying to do now is to get to the root of it. He's been frustrated and patient, but we've never really got to the bottom of it," Ferguson had earlier said. "We really need to speed that up now, which is why we're sending him to the best people available to try and get a general opinion of where to go from there.

"He's in pain when he runs. Tendinitis is a problem when he gets involved in football-related training, that's when it resurfaces.

"He came back last season and played in a number of very important games, but now he's out again.

"It's difficult and frustrating for the lad and we want to help him."

(Courtesy of sportbox.tv)

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Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.