Here are some things to watch in the Big 12 Conference in Week 8:GAME OF THE WEEKTCU (4-2, 2-1 Big 12) at No. 12 West Virginia (5-0, 2-0). This will be the third meeting in Morgantown for the teams that came into the Big 12 together in 2012. TCU won each of the previous two games there by one point -- in overtime four years ago and on a game-ending field goal in 2014, while WVU won in overtime in Fort Worth between those games. The Mountaineers have won 10 of their last 11 games since a 30-point loss at TCU last October. West Virginia quarterback Skyler Howard (eighth nationally with 357 total yards per game) is a Fort Worth native.BEST MATCHUPOklahoma QB Baker Mayfield vs. Texas Tech. Mayfield plays in Lubbock for the first time since he was a Red Raider in 2013, the season he became the first true freshman walk-on quarterback to start a season opener for an FBS team. Mayfield transferred to Oklahoma after that season, and was redshirting when the No. 16 Sooners last played in Lubbock in 2014. In last years 63-27 win in Norman, Mayfield threw for 212 yards and two touchdowns. Texas Tech junior QB Patrick Mahomes is the national leader with 2,579 yards passing, and is fifth with 21 TDs.INSIDE THE NUMBERSKansas State is 8-4 against Texas since the inception of the Big 12, including wins the last four meetings in Manhattan, where the teams play Saturday. ... Texas had a season-high eight sacks and didnt allow a touchdown in last weeks 27-6 win over Iowa State. The six points were the fewest scored by a Big 12 team in conference play this season. ... No. 9 Baylor has its second open date in three weeks. The a href(equals)https://apnews.com/c9ec1dcd860c41d4b37be...t-VirginiaBears are the only FBS team to be 6-0/a for the fourth consecutive season. ... Iowa State WR Allen Lazard has a reception in 30 consecutive games, a school record. ... K-State has scored on its last 53 trips into the red zone, the longest active FBS streak.LONG SHOTKansas is a nearly four-touchdown underdog at home against Oklahoma State. The Cowboys have won six straight in the series, winning those games by an average margin of 29 points -- even though their last two trips to Lawrence were wins of 27-20 and 20-14. The Jayhawks are coming off a 49-7 loss at Baylor, which came a week after Kansas missed three field goals in the fourth quarter of a 24-23 home loss to TCU.IMPACT PERFORMEROklahoma senior Dede Westbrook has eight touchdown catches in the last three games, a stretch when he has 26 catches for 574 yards. Six of those touchdowns are 40 yards or longer, including an 88-yarder last week against Kansas State.---Compiled by AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Fort Worth, Texas.---AP College Football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org Axel Witsel Dortmund Jersey . 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He joined Paul Molitor as the only players whose 3,000th hit was a triple.Miami players came out of the dugout to congratulate Suzuki, and he waved his helmet to acknowledge the cheers.Hitting coach Barry Bonds gave him a hug as the celebration at third base ended, and Suzuki got another round of applause when he scored on Jeff Mathis single, as well as a hug from manager Don Mattingly.Suzuki gave the crowd a wave as he went into the dugout. He batted again in the ninth and drew a walk.Suzuki was hitless in his first three at-bats of the game before the big hit against Chris Rusin.The Japanese star launched a long drive to right field that carried just beyond the reach of leaping Gerardo Parra. Suzuki breezed into third standing up.Suzuki is in his 16th season in the majors. He got 1,278 hits while playing nine years in Japan before becoming the American League Rookie of the Year and MVP with Seattle in 2001.Suzuki was greeted with cheers every time he came to bat. He struck out in thhe first inning, hit a comebacker in the third and grounded out to short in the fourth.ddddddddddddAt 42 years, 290 days he is the second-oldest player by three days over Ricky Henderson to reach the milestone. Only Cap Anson, who was 45 when he got his 3,000th hit in 1897, was older.Congratulations to my friend and teammate Ichiro on joining the 3,000-hit club, former Yankees star Derek Jeter said in a statement.I was fortunate to have both the pleasure of competing against him and the honor of playing alongside him. Baseball is more than a game to him, it is a craft, which he works at tirelessly with intense discipline.Suzuki got his 2,999th hit Saturday night as a pinch-hitter. He stayed in the game and grounded out in the ninth.Suzuki played for Seattle until getting traded to the Yankees during the 2012 season.Prior to Ichiros first game for the Mariners in 2001, the late Pancho Ito, a Japanese baseball broadcaster and historian, said, `He is a genius with the bat. Mr. Ito was absolutely correct, Mariners chairman Howard Lincoln said in a statement.A tip of the Mariners cap to Ichiro, he said. ' ' '