Geno Smith, West Virginia outlast Baylor in historic Big 12 shootout

here’s a strong temptation right about now, with the Milan Puskar Stadium scoreboard still sparking and heaving from West Virginia’s 70-63 win over Baylor, to just start listing broken records. But we promise to curate carefully. So many records were snapped that to behold them all at once is to risk desensitization. West Virginia’s and Baylor’s 180 combined plays were a new stadium high. Both teams also set stadium production records with WVU’s 807 yards and Baylor’s tidy 700 (bit of a cowlick on the round number, there). Geno Smith broke the Mountaineers’ single-game scoring record with eight touchdown passes, the school’s consecutive completions record with 14 in a row and a national passing efficiency record previously held by Colt Brennan — Smith completed 88 percent of his passes (45-of-51), the most of any quarterback with at least 50 attempts — which is how you know he’s in rarefied air. His aerial yards (656) and total completions (45) are also new school records, both breaking the mark Smith set last year against LSU. Stedman Bailey is now the Mountaineers’ career leader in receiving touchdowns with 26, surpassing his pal Tavon Austin with 24. Not to be outdone, Austin is now WVU’s all-time leading receiver; he has 2,684 yards to his name. Bailey’s 303 receiving yards on the day are a school record, and Austin’s 215 are second on that list. Austin, J.D. Woods (13 catches, 114 yards) and Andrew Buie (25 carries, 82 yards) all had career days in both touches and yardage. Bailey and Austin are also the NCAA’s first receiving tandem to each surpass the 200-yard plateau since Texas Tech’s Danny Amendola and Michael Crabtree did so in 2007. (TRIVIA! Guess who their coordinator and position coach was at that time?)

RICK ROSS & YOUNG JEEZY Brawl at BET Awards SHOTS FIRED

A fight broke out backstage at the BET Hip Hop Awards tonight between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy that resulted in shots being fired .. sources at the awards tell TMZ. According to our sources, Ross and Jeezy exchanged words backstage and started pushing and shoving each other. We're told BET security and bodyguards for each of the rappers eventually separated the two. Our sources on the scene say that after the fight had been broken up, a member of Rick Ross' entourage pulled out a gun while in the parking lot and shots were fired. It is unclear if the man was arrested. We're told Jeezy and Ross are still at the awards, which are being taped tonight in Atlanta and air next month.

Manchester United 2-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs party like it's 1989

Andre Villas-Boas showed that he can slug it out with Sir Alex Ferguson – and emerge a winner. Tottenham’s new boss twice felt the full force of Ferguson’s all-out attacking philosophy last season as his first taste of Premier League management was brought to a premature end after less than eight months at Chelsea. But last night, the 34-year-old Portuguese showed the old master he is back with a vengeance. Goals by Jan Vertonghen, Gareth Bale and Clint Dempsey gave Spurs their first victory on United soil since 1989 when Terry Venables’ men won with a Gary Lineker goal. Villas-Boas’ men were magnificent going forward, but had to withstand a furious United onslaught that brought goals for Nani and Shinji Kagawa. Just over a year ago Villas-Boas’s first visit to Old Trafford ended in Chelsea’s 3-1 defeat. Four months later, he was given another painful lesson when United fought back from 3-0 down to take a point from Stamford Bridge – which marked the beginning of the end for him under Roman Abramovich. At times it was like deja vu for Villas-Boas as he paced the touchline in torment while United pressed for parity. Spurs, who had not beaten United at Old Trafford in 20 previous Premier League meetings, losing 17 of those and conceding 42 goals in the process, were irresistible in the first half, scoring twice with pass-and-move classics. There may have been an element of good fortune with Vertonghen’s second-minute opener, the Dutchman’s shot beating Anders Lindegaard with the help of a huge deflection off Jonny Evans’ hand.