KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs released cornerback Brandon Flowers on Friday, shortly after finishing up three weeks of voluntary workouts in which the former starter was conspicuously absent.

Kansas City has been bumping up against the salary cap, so the move to part ways with Flowers was largely expected. He was due to make $5.25 million this season, and the former starter carried a salary cap number of $10.5 million next season.

The decision to release Flowers will save the Chiefs about $7.25 million this season and $7.5 million next season. That money could be used to help the Chiefs sign quarterback Alex Smith and linebacker Justin Houston to contract extensions.

Both of them are in the final year of their contracts.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — In Iowa for a “Field of Dreams” 25th anniversary celebration, actor Kevin Costner did the obvious. He played a little baseball Friday, this time with his two young sons. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports  hundreds of onlookers watched as Costner played catch with his boys, 7-year-old Cayden and 5-year-old Hayes. The movie fans clapped when the boys made a play, prompting Costner to note, “We don’t usually have this many people when we do this.”

Costner and other actors traveled to the field near Dyersville in northeast Iowa to celebrate the 1989 movie about an Iowa farmer who carved a baseball field out of his corn crop. About 11,000 people were expected to join in events at the site Friday and Saturday.

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SOFTBALL SCORES:

A-H-S-T, Avoca 7, Griswold 0
Atlantic 10, Shenandoah 0
Atlantic 5, Shenandoah 2
Carlisle 1, Winterset 0
Charter Oak-Ute 5, Denison-Schleswig 4
Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 11, Sioux City, West 2
Creston 17, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 1
Creston 21, Kuemper Catholic, Carroll 5
Des Moines Christian 15, West Central Valley, Stuart 3
Earlham 4, Woodward-Granger 1
Fremont-Mills 12, Nishnabotna 0
Nodaway Valley 7, Mount Ayr 6 (8)
Ogden 13, Panorama 7
Prairie Valley 5, Coon Rapids-Bayard 4
Southwest Valley 17, East Union 11
Southwest Valley 17, East Union 11
Van Meter 14, Guthrie Center 7
Westwood, Sloan 11, West Harrison 7
Whiting 8, West Monona 7

BASEBALL SCORES:

CAM, Anita 21, Essex 12
Carroll 23, Greene County 11
Coon Rapids-Bayard 6, East Sac County 5
Des Moines Christian 4, West Central Valley, Stuart 2
Earlham 9, Woodward-Granger 3
East Union, Afton 2, Southwest Valley 1
Harlan 8, Clarinda 0
Lamoni 5, Orient-Macksburg 4
Lenox 22, Bedford 0
Lewis Central 4, Glenwood 1
Nodaway Valley 6, Mount Ayr 5
Ogden 6, Panorama, Panora 5
Sioux City, West 7, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 5
Sioux City, West 7, Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln 6
St. Albert, Council Bluffs 9, Red Oak 2
Stanton 30, Clarinda Academy 7
Underwood 12, Treynor 8
Van Meter 15, Guthrie Center 0
West Harrison, Mondamin 8, Westwood, Sloan 2

Harrison Barnes will be returning to the building he won two state championships in high school. The Ames native and his Golden State Warriors will play the Denver Nuggets in an NBA exhibition game October 16th at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Barnes says his first experience with the NBA was an exhibition between the same two teams back in 1993 at Veterans Auditorium. Barnes says he is thrilled with the opportunity to play in his home state.

Arena general manager Chris Connolly says they have been working on this game for several months. It will be the first time Wells Fargo Arena has hosted an NBA exhibition game since it opened in 2005. Connolly says tickets to the general public go on sale next week.

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Softball Scores:
Ar-We-Va 11, CAM 8
Charter Oak-Ute 13, Coon Rapids-Bayard 3
C.Bluffs/T.J. 16, C.Bluffs/St. Albert 6
Denison-Schleswig 7, Harlan 4
Earlham 11, West Central Valley, Stuart 0
Exira-EHK 12, Adair-Casey 0
IKM-Manning 9, A-H-S-T, Avoca 0
Lenox 13, East Union 7
Missouri Valley 8, Logan-Magnolia 6
Oakland-Riverside 9, Audubon 2
Sioux City, East 7, Glenwood 3
Southwest Valley 12, Red Oak 0
Stanton 21, Orient-Macksburg 0
Tri-Center 6, Underwood 4
West Harrison 17, Glidden-Ralston 3
Winterset 3, Ballard 1

Baseball Scores:
Ar-We-Va 7, CAM 6
Audubon 5, Riverside, Oakland 3
Carroll 3, Boone 1
Clarke, Osceola 17, Southwest Valley 7
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, Guthrie Center 2
Denison-Schleswig 10, Treynor 9 (9 innings)
Exira-EHK 17, Adair-Casey 6
IKM-Manning 6, A-H-S-T, Avoca 4
Lenox 12, East Union 2 (6 innings)
Lewis Central 12, C. Bluffs/Abe Lincoln 11
Madrid 8, West Central Valley, Stuart 1
Missouri Valley 5, Logan-Magnolia 3
OA-BCIG 15, West Monona, Onawa 4
Orient-Macksburg 16, Stanton 0
SE Polk 15, Creston 1
Underwood 12, Tri-Center, Neola 5
Van Meter 17, Earlham 1

UNDATED (AP) – Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright returned to St. Louis Wednesday for tests on his sore right elbow, although the team is optimistic the situation isn’t serious.
Wainwright became the NL’s first nine-game winner by pitching seven innings in last night’s 1-0 win at Tampa Bay. Wainwright had elbow ligament replacement surgery four years ago, but Cardinals manager Mike Matheny says the discomfort was on the other side of the elbow.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Desmond Jennings had a two-run single during a four-run fourth inning and the Tampa Bay Rays snapped a club-record 31-inning scoring drought en route to beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 Wednesday night.
Tampa Bay won for just the second time in 16 games after having been shutout in its previous three contests. The Rays had scored 35 runs over the previous 15 games. Yadier Molina had two RBIs for the Cardinals, who entered with three consecutive shutout pitching performances. The Rays’ big fourth inning came against Michael Wacha (4-5).
Juan Carlos Oviedo (2-2) went 1 1-3 inning for the win. Grant Balfour threw the final 2 1-3 innings for his 10th save.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Iowa defensive back Nico Law is leaving the program after being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct last weekend in Iowa City. Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz says on Wednesday that Law has decided to transfer.

Law would have been a senior this fall. He competed for the top spot at strong safety with incumbent starter John Lowdermilk during spring practice. Law played in 13 games last season and made five tackles, though his role was likely to expand in 2014.