“THE SCOREBOARD”
ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL POLLS
CLASS 6A
1. BEN DAVIS (7) 1-0 292
2. CATHEDRAL (4) 1-0 274
3. CENTER GROVE (4) 0-1 258
4. HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN (2) 1-0 248
5. BROWNSBURG – 1-0 216
6. WESTFIELD – 1-0 160
7. CARMEL – 1-0 124
8. FISHERS – 1-0 98
9. PENN – 1-0 82
10. CROWN POINT 1-0 46
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) 36. HOMESTEAD 14. LAWRENCE CENTRAL 10. WARSAW 8. LAWRENCE NORTH 2. NOBLESVILLE 2.
CLASS 5A
1. FT. WAYNE SNIDER (13) 1-0 326
2. WHITELAND (2) 1-0 306
3. MERRILLVILLE (2) 1-0 268
4. BLOOMINGTON SOUTH 1-0 236
5. MISHAWAKA – 1-0 196
6. LAFAYETTE HARRISON 1-0 158
7. VALPARAISO (1) 0-1 136
8. DECATUR CENTRAL 1-0 108
9. BLOOMINGTON NORTH 1-0 58
10. CONCORD – 1-0 44
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: FRANKLIN 38. PLAINFIELD 38. EV. NORTH 34. FT. WAYNE NORTH 26. LAPORTE 4. FT. WAYNE DWENGER 2. CASTLE 2.
CLASS 4A
1. EAST CENTRAL (13) 1-0 350
2. RONCALLI (3) 1-0 316
3. EV. REITZ – 1-0 262
4. NORTHWOOD (2) 1-0 222
5. KOKOMO – 1-0 184
6. NEW PALESTINE – 0-1 170
7. EV. MEMORIAL – 1-0 122
8. NORTHRIDGE – 1-0 86
9. COLUMBIA CITY – 1-0 72
10. GREENFIELD – 1-0 46
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: HOBART 38. BREBEUF JESUIT 34. NEW PRAIRIE 24. LEO 14. MARTINSVILLE 14. E. NOBLE 8. MISSISSINEWA 6. MOORESVILLE 6. NORTHVIEW 6.
CLASS 3A
1. BISHOP CHATARD (18) 1-0 360
2. GUERIN CATHOLIC – 1-0 274
3. TRI-WEST – 1-0 228
4. WESTERN BOONE – 1-0 168
5. LAWRENCEBURG – 0-1 152
6. W. LAFAYETTE – 0-1 144
7. HANOVER CENTRAL – 1-0 142
8. HERITAGE HILLS – 1-0 124
9. GIBSON SOUTHERN – 0-1 116
10. OAK HILL – 1-0 94
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: YORKTOWN 58. DANVILLE 30. OWEN VALLEY 24. PERU 14. MONROVIA 14. SOUTHRIDGE 12. DELTA 8. CHARLESTOWN 8. KNOX 8. FAIRFIELD 2.
CLASS 2A
1. EV. MATER DEI (15) 1-0 340
2. TRITON CENTRAL (3) 1-0 288
3. LAFAYETTE CATHOLIC 1-0 224
4. LINTON – 1-0 220
5. SCECINA – 1-0 206
6. EASTBROOK 1-0 184
7. BROWNSTOWN 1-0 110
8. ANDREAN – 0-1 104
9. LAVILLE – 1-0 70
10. FT. WAYNE LUERS 0-1 58
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: ROCHESTER 46. HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 44. N. POSEY 36. BLUFFTON 26. EASTSIDE 16. S. VERMILLION 6. SULLIVAN 2.
CLASS A
1. LUTHERAN (17) 1-0 340
2. ADAMS CENTRAL – 1-0 306
3. N. JUDSON – 1-0 250
4. N. DECATUR – 1-0 216
5. CARROLL (FLORA) – 1-0 180
6. S. PUTNAM – 1-0 150
7. PROVIDENCE – 1-0 104
8. S. ADAMS – 1-0 102
9. PARK TUDOR – 1-0 90
10. SHERIDAN – 0-1 52
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES: TRITON 30. TRI 26. W. WASHINGTON 8. PIONEER 6. MADISON-GRANT 6. COVENANT CHRISTIAN 4.
INDIANA SRN FOOTBALL POWER POLLS WEEK 2
6A
- CENTER GROVE
- BEN DAVIS
- BROWNSBURG
- CATHEDRAL
- HAMILTON SE
- WESTFIELD
- FISHERS
- FW CARROLL
- CARMEL
- LAWRENCE CENTRAL
5A
- FW SNIDER
- MERRILLVILLE
- WHITELAND
- HARRISON
- BLOOMINTON SOUTH
- FRANKLIN
- PLAINFIELD
- VALPO
- EVANSVILLE NORTH
- FW NORTH
4A
- EAST CENTRAL
- NEW PALESTINE
- EVANSVILLE REITZ
- RONCALLI
- BREBEUF
- GREENFIELD CENTRAL
- COLUMBIA CITY
- EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL
- KOKOMO
- NORTHWOOD
3A
- BISHOP CHATARD
- GIBSON SOUTHERN
- TRI WEST
- NORWELL
- WESTERN BOONE
- LAWRENCEBURG
- WEST LAFAYETTE
- OAK HILL
- GUERIN CATHOLIC
- YORKTOWN
2A
- TRITON CENTRAL
- SCECINA
- EVANSVILLE MATER DEI
- ANDREAN
- LAVILLE
- LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC
- ROCHESTER
- NORTH POSEY
- HERITAGE CHRISTIAN
- LINTON STOCKTON
1A
- INDY LUTHERAN
- ADAMS CENTRAL
- NORTH JUDSON
- SOUTH PUTNAM
- SOUTH ADAMS
- SHERIDAN
- NORTH DECATUR
- MADISON GRANT
- CARROLL FLORA
- PARK TUDOR
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE WEEK 2
(FRIDAY)
ADAMS CENTRAL (1-0) AT EASTSIDE (1-0)
ALEXANDRIA (1-0) AT WABASH (0-1)
ANGOLA (0-1) AT LEO (0-1)
AVON (0-1) AT BEN DAVIS (1-0)
BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE (0-1) AT BLOOMINGTON NORTH (1-0)
BELLMONT (0-1) AT SOUTH ADAMS (1-0)
BENTON CENTRAL (1-0) AT SEEGER (0-1)
BOONE GROVE (0-1) AT SOUTH BEND CLAY (0-1)
BOONVILLE (1-0) AT SOUTHRIDGE (0-1)
BOWMAN ACADEMY (0-0) AT IC CATHOLIC PREP (ILL.)
BREMEN (0-1) AT SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON (0-1)
BROWN COUNTY (0-1) AT JENNINGS COUNTY (1-0)
BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL (1-0) AT CHARLESTOWN (1-0)
CASCADE (0-1) AT BEECH GROVE (0-1)
CASTON (0-1) AT NORTH JUDSON (1-0)
CENTERVILLE (1-0) AT HAGERSTOWN (1-0)
CENTRAL NOBLE (0-1) AT WOODLAN (0-1)
CHICAGO TAFT (ILL.) AT CROWN POINT (1-0)
CHRISTEL HOUSE MANUAL (1-0) AT PURDUE POLYTECHNIC (0-1)
CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (KY.) AT NEW ALBANY (0-1)
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS (MO.) AT CARMEL (1-0)
CHURUBUSCO (0-1) AT LAKELAND (1-0)
CLINTON PRAIRIE (1-0) AT FRANKFORT (1-0)
COLUMBUS NORTH (0-1) AT COLUMBUS EAST (0-1)
CRAWFORDSVILLE (0-1) AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL (0-1)
CULVER (0-1) AT SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) (0-1)
GAME TIME: 6:30 PM CT, SOUTH CENTRAL.
CULVER ACADEMY (1-0) AT MISHAWAKA MARIAN (0-1)
DECATUR ST. TERESA (ILL.) AT LINTON-STOCKTON (1-0)
DEKALB (1-0) AT GARRETT (0-1)
EASTBROOK (1-0) AT FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA (0-1)
EASTERN (GREENTOWN) (0-1) AT NORTHWESTERN (0-1)
EASTERN (PEKIN) (0-1) AT CRAWFORD COUNTY (0-1)
EDGEWOOD (1-0) AT WASHINGTON (0-1)
EDINBURGH (0-1) AT CLOVERDALE (0-1)
ELKHART (0-1) AT NORTHRIDGE (1-0)
ELWOOD (0-1) AT TIPTON (0-1)
EVANSVILLE BOSSE (0-1) AT EVANSVILLE CENTRAL (0-1)
EVANSVILLE MATER DEI (1-0) AT CASTLE (0-1)
EVANSVILLE NORTH (1-0) AT EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL (1-0)
FAIRFIELD (1-0) AT HERITAGE (1-0)
FISHERS (1-0) AT PIKE (0-1)
FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK (0-1) AT TAYLOR (0-1)
FORT WAYNE DWENGER (0-1) AT CINCINNATI MOELLER (OHIO)
FORT WAYNE NORTH (0-1) AT LAWRENCE NORTH (1-0)
FORT WAYNE SNIDER (1-0) AT EAST NOBLE (1-0)
FORT WAYNE WAYNE (1-0) AT FORT WAYNE NORTHROP (0-1)
FRANKLIN (1-0) AT MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE) (0-1)
FRANKLIN COUNTY (0-1) AT CONNERSVILLE (1-0)
FRANKTON (0-1) AT LAPEL (0-1)
FREMONT (0-1) AT BLACKFORD (0-1)
GIBSON SOUTHERN (0-1) AT MOUNT CARMEL (ILL.)
GOSHEN (0-1) AT NEW PRAIRIE (0-1)
GREENCASTLE (0-1) AT NORTHVIEW (1-0)
GREENFIELD-CENTRAL (1-0) AT GREENSBURG (0-1)
GREENWOOD (1-0) AT INDIAN CREEK (0-1)
GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN (0-1) AT COVENANT CHRISTIAN (0-1)
HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN (1-0) AT NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) (0-1)
HAMMOND MORTON (1-0) AT HANOVER CENTRAL (1-0)
HARRISON (OHIO) AT EAST CENTRAL (1-0)
HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) (1-0) AT PLAINFIELD (1-0)
HIGHLAND (1-0) AT WHITING (1-0)
HOBART (1-0) AT MERRILLVILLE (1-0)
HOMESTEAD (0-1) AT NOBLESVILLE (1-0)
INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL (1-0) AT BROWNSBURG (1-0)
INDIANAPOLIS CHATARD (1-0) AT INDIANAPOLIS TECH (0-1)
INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN (1-0) AT INDIANAPOLIS RITTER (0-1)
INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI (1-0) AT FRANKLIN CENTRAL (1-0)
INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA (1-0) AT SPEEDWAY (1-0)
INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE (1-0) AT INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON (0-1)
INDIANAPOLIS TINDLEY (1-0) AT PARK TUDOR (1-0)
IRVINGTON PREP ACADEMY (0-1) AT SOUTH DECATUR (0-1)
JASPER (0-1) AT EVANSVILLE HARRISON (0-1)
JAY COUNTY (1-0) AT HUNTINGTON NORTH (0-1)
JIMTOWN (0-1) AT CONCORD (1-0)
KNIGHTSTOWN (0-1) AT WINCHESTER (1-0)
KNOX (1-0) AT MACONAQUAH (1-0)
KOKOMO (1-0) AT WHITELAND (1-0)
LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (1-0) AT GUERIN CATHOLIC (1-0)
LAKE STATION (0-1) AT WEST CENTRAL (1-0)
LAPORTE (1-0) AT LOWELL (0-1)
LAWRENCEBURG (0-1) AT TAYLOR (OHIO)
LOUISVILLE HOLY CROSS (KY.) AT PROVIDENCE (1-0)
MADISON (0-1) AT SOUTH DEARBORN (0-1)
MANCHESTER (1-0) AT BLUFFTON (1-0)
MARION (1-0) AT MISSISSINEWA (1-0)
MARTINSVILLE (1-0) AT BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (1-0)
MCCUTCHEON (0-1) AT WEST LAFAYETTE (0-1)
MICHIGAN CITY (0-1) AT LAFAYETTE JEFF (0-1)
MILAN (1-0) AT BATESVILLE (1-0)
MISHAWAKA (1-0) AT PENN (1-0)
MOORESVILLE (0-1) AT DANVILLE (1-0)
MOUNT VERNON (POSEY) (0-1) AT SOUTH SPENCER (1-0)
MUNSTER (0-1) AT GRIFFITH (0-1)
NEW CASTLE (1-0) AT TRITON CENTRAL (1-0)
NEW HAVEN (1-0) AT FORT WAYNE LUERS (0-1)
NEW PALESTINE (0-1) AT DECATUR CENTRAL (1-0)
NORTH DAVIESS (1-0) AT NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG) (0-1)
NORTH DECATUR (1-0) AT EASTERN HANCOCK (1-0)
NORTH HARRISON (1-0) AT SCOTTSBURG (1-0)
NORTH KNOX (0-1) AT EASTERN GREENE (0-1)
NORTH MIAMI (0-1) AT SHERIDAN (0-1)
NORTH MONTGOMERY (1-0) AT HAMILTON HEIGHTS (1-0)
NORTH POSEY (1-0) AT PRINCETON (0-1)
NORTH VERMILLION (1-0) AT PARIS (ILL.)
NORTH WHITE (1-0) AT FRONTIER (0-1)
NORTHFIELD (0-1) AT LEWIS CASS (0-1)
NORTHWOOD (1-0) AT PORTAGE (0-1)
NORWELL (0-1) AT DELTA (1-0)
OAKLAND (TENN.) AT CENTER GROVE (0-1)
OSCEOLA GRACE AT HAMMOND NOLL (1-0)
OWEN VALLEY (1-0) AT SOUTH PUTNAM (1-0)
PAOLI (0-1) AT CORYDON CENTRAL (0-1)
PARKE HERITAGE (0-1) AT WEST VIGO (0-1)
PENDLETON HEIGHTS (1-0) AT ANDERSON (0-1)
PERRY CENTRAL (0-1) AT FOREST PARK (1-0)
PERRY MERIDIAN (0-1) AT SOUTHPORT (0-1)
PHALEN ACADEMY (1-0) AT MONROVIA (1-0)
PIONEER (1-0) AT WINAMAC (0-1)
PLYMOUTH (1-0) AT COLUMBIA CITY (1-0)
PRAIRIE HEIGHTS (0-1) AT BRONSON (MICH.)
PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC (ILL.) AT LAKE CENTRAL (1-0)
RENSSELAER CENTRAL (1-0) AT NORTH NEWTON (0-1)
RICHMOND (0-1) AT EATON (OHIO)
RIVER FOREST (1-0) AT CALUMET (0-1)
RIVERTON PARKE (1-0) AT CARROLL (FLORA) (1-0)
RUSHVILLE (0-1) AT SHELBYVILLE (1-0)
SEYMOUR (0-1) AT JEFFERSONVILLE (0-1)
SHENANDOAH (1-0) AT HERITAGE CHRISTIAN (1-0)
SILVER CREEK (0-1) AT SALEM (0-1)
SOUTH BEND ADAMS (0-1) AT LOGANSPORT (0-1)
SOUTH BEND RILEY (1-0) AT JOHN GLENN (1-0)
SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (0-1) AT FORT WAYNE SOUTH (0-1)
SOUTH NEWTON (1-0) AT COVINGTON (1-0)
SOUTHERN WELLS (1-0) AT MADISON-GRANT (1-0)
SOUTHMONT (1-0) AT NORTH PUTNAM (0-1)
SOUTHWOOD (0-1) AT OAK HILL (1-0)
SPRINGS VALLEY (1-0) AT MITCHELL (0-1)
SULLIVAN (1-0) AT SOUTH VERMILLION (1-0)
SWITZERLAND COUNTY (1-0) AT GALLATIN COUNTY (KY.)
TECUMSEH (0-1) AT PIKE CENTRAL (0-1)
TELL CITY (1-0) AT HERITAGE HILLS (1-0)
TERRE HAUTE NORTH (0-1) AT INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS (0-1)
TERRE HAUTE SOUTH (0-1) AT FLOYD CENTRAL (0-1)
THORNTON FRACTIONAL SOUTH (ILL.) AT HAMMOND CENTRAL (1-0)
TIPPECANOE VALLEY (1-0) AT ROCHESTER (1-0)
TRI (1-0) AT NORTHEASTERN (1-0)
TRI-CENTRAL (0-1) AT WES-DEL (0-1)
TRI-COUNTY (0-1) AT ATTICA (0-1)
TRITON (1-0) AT LAVILLE (1-0)
TRI-WEST (1-0) AT BREBEUF JESUIT (0-1)
TWIN LAKES (1-0) AT DELPHI (0-1)
UNION CITY (0-1) AT MONROE CENTRAL (0-1)
UNION COUNTY (0-1) AT CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN (0-1)
VALPARAISO (0-1) AT ANDREAN (0-1)
VINCENNES LINCOLN (1-0) AT EVANSVILLE REITZ (1-0)
WARREN CENTRAL (0-1) AT CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) (0-1)
WARSAW (1-0) AT CHESTERTON (0-1)
WAWASEE (0-1) AT WEST NOBLE (1-0)
WEST WASHINGTON (1-0) AT CLARKSVILLE (0-1)
WESTERN BOONE (1-0) AT WESTERN (0-1)
WESTFIELD (1-0) AT LAWRENCE CENTRAL (1-0)
WHEELER (0-1) AT KANKAKEE VALLEY (0-1)
WHITKO (1-0) AT PERU (1-0)
YORKTOWN (1-0) AT MUNCIE CENTRAL (0-1)
ZIONSVILLE (1-0) AT LEBANON (0-1)
(SATURDAY)
GARY WEST (0-1) AT EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL (0-1)
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL SCORES
CASTON 3 PERU 1
PORTAGE 3 MICHIGAN CITY 1
SOUTH NEWTON 3 WEST CENTRAL 0
INDIANA DEAF 3 INDIANAPOLIS TECH 0
ANDREAN 3 HANOVER CENTRAL 0
LOWELL 3 HIGHLAND 0
PROVIDENCE 3 BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL 0
LAWRENCEBURG 3 GREENSBURG 1
SOUTH KNOX 3 WOOD MEMORIAL 0
MONROVIA 3 EMINENCE 0
LINTON STOCKTON 3 LOOGOOTEE 0
LAKE CENTRAL 3 VALPARAISO 2
BREBEUF 3 BISHOP CHATARD 1
WEST LAFAYETTE 3 LAFAYETTE JEFF 0
BLOOMFIELD 3 BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 2
JAY COUNTY 3 WINCHESTER 0
WESTERN 3 CARROLL 0
SOUTHWESTERN 3 SALEM 2
PIONEER 3 LAVILLE 0
NORTHFIELD 3 MISSISSINEWA 0
SEEGER 3 FOUNTAIN CENTRAL 0
BORDEN 3 N. HARRISON 0
LEBANON 3 SHERIDAN 0
OLDENBURG ACADEMY 3 RISING SUN 1
MADISON GRANT 3 MUNCIE CENTRAL 0
FRANKTON 3 TRI-CENTRAL 0
PLEASANT VIEW CHRISTIAN 3 MEDORA 0
NORTH DAVIESS 3 PIKE CENTRAL 2
LAPEL 3 COWAN 0
HAMILTON HEIGHTS 3 TIPTON 0
NEW ALBANY 3 JENNINGS COUNTY 2
BLUFFTON 3 BLACKFORD 1
ORLEANS 3 CARUTHERSVILLE 0
EASTERN HANCOCK 3 CENTERVILLE 1
PIKE 3 BEN DAVIS 0
TRITON CENTRAL 3 BEECH GROVE 0
CROSSPOINTE CHRISTIAN 3 CALVARY CHRISTIAN 0
PARIS 3 N. VERMILLION 1
AVON 3 CARMEL 0
SOUTH-CENTRAL 3 KOUTS 0
ILLIANA CHRISTIAN 3 WHITING 0
BOONE GROVE 3 OREGON DAVIS 0
MORGAN TWP. 3 KNOX 0
TRITON 3 BREMEN 0
TRINITY LUTHERAN 3 COLUMBUS NORTH 0
ZIONSVILLE 3 WESTERN BOONE 2
RONCALLI 3 COVENANT CHRISTIAN 0
FORT WAYNE NORTHRUP 3 DEKALB 2
PARKWAY 3 ADAMS CENTRAL 1
NORTHRIDGE 3 SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH 2
MOUNT VERNON 3 GUERIN CATHOLIC 0
RIVERTON PARKE 3 CRAWFORDSVILLE 0
PLAINFIELD 3 MARTINSVILLE 0
BELLMONT 3 FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA 0
LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC 3 LOGANSPORT 1
FAITH CHRISTIAN 3 CLINTON PRAIRIE 0
YORKTOWN 3 DELTA 2
FORT WAYNE DWENGER 3 LEO 0
HUNTINGTON NORTH 3 FORT WAYNE LUERS 0
HARRISON 3 FRONTIER 0
COVINGTON 3 W. VIGO 0
ANDERSON HOMESCHOOL 3 FORT WAYNE FALCONS 0
FRANKLIN 3 DECATUR CENTRAL 0
SOUTH ADAMS 3 EASTBROOK 0
FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK 3 FORT WAYNE SOUTH 0
LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN 3 FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY 0
COLUMBIA CITY 3 GARRETT 2
CATHEDRAL 3 CENTER GROVE 1
OAK HILL 3 WABASH 1
SETON CATHOLIC 3 CONNERSVILLE 1
ANGOLA 3 NEW HAVEN 0
INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE 3 CHRISTEL HOUSE 1
CARROLL 3 HERITAGE 0
NORTHWOOD 3 FAIRFIELD 1
JASPER 3 HERITAGE HILLS 0
DUPONT MANUAL 3 FLOYD CENTRAL 0
CASTLE 3 VINCENNES LINCOLN 0
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER
ROCHESTER 2 LAVILLE 0
MUNCIE BURRIS 6 LIBERTY CHRISTIAN 0
HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 2 GUERIN CATHOLIC 1
HERITAGE HILLS 2 FOREST PARK 1
NEW PRAIRIE 5 MORGAN TWP. 1
GREENWOOD CHRISTIAN 1 INTERNATIONAL 1
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 5 MARQUETTE CATHOLIC 1
JAC CEN DEL 4 HAUSER 0
LAKELAND CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 1 LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN 0
WAPAHANI 5 DALEVILLE 1
DEMOTTE CHRISTIAN 7 RENSSELAER CENTRAL 0
PRAIRIE HEIGHTS 4 CENTRAL NOBLE 1
CARROLL 10 EASTERN 0
UNIVERSITY 7 BETHESDA CHRISTIAN 1
GARRETT 5 WOODLAN 0
WEST NOBLE 6 ANGOLA 1
GREENSBURG 8 FRANKLIN COUNTY 0
WESTERN BOONE 3 ROSSVILLE 1
INDIANAPOLIS TECH 5 SHORTRIDGE 2
BETHANY CHRISTIAN 8 WAWASEE 0
MCCUTCHEON 3 FRANKFORT 1
SPEEDWAY 3 RITTER 0
OAK HILL 2 EASTBROOK 1
SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH 3 TRINITY 1
TRINITY LUTHERAN 10 AUSTIN 1
MARTINSVILLE 5 SHELBYVILLE 0
DELTA 2 MOUNT VERNON 0
TIPPECANOE VALLEY 4 WABASH 1
GREENWOOD 6 TRI-WEST 2
SOUTHRIDGE 8 TELL CITY 1
WARSAW 6 HUNTINGTON NORTH 0
GREENCASTLE 3 CRAWFORDSVILLE 2
CARROLL 6 FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY 0
TIPTON 8 DELPHI 0
GOSHEN 5 WESTVIEW 0
ANDERSON 2 YORKTOWN 2
HAMILTON HEIGHTS 4 PARK TUDOR 2
COVENANT CHRISTIAN 4 LEBANON 0
COLUMBUS NORTH 4 NEW ALBANY 1
LAWRENCE NORTH 1 N. CENTRAL 1
MISSISSINEWA 5 SHERIDAN 1
NORTHRIDGE 1 SOUTH BEND ADAMS 1
PIKE CENTRAL 10 WARREN CENTRAL 2
HARRISON 4 KOKOMO 0
NEW CASTLE 1 JAY COUNTY 1
ELKHART CHRISTIAN 2 ARGOS 1
BLOOMINGTON SOUTH 5 BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 0
HOBART 7 HAMMOND CENTRAL 1
WEST LAFAYETTE 4 LOGANSPORT 2
PENDLETON HEIGHTS 2 MUNCIE CENTRAL 0
CARMEL 11 GREENFIELD CENTRAL 0
FORT WAYNE SOUTH 2 FORT WAYNE SNIDER 1
CASTLE 3 EVANSVILLE HARRISON 1
BOONE GROVE 3 GRIFFITH 0
BREBEUF 5 RONCALLI 1
WESTFIELD 1 FRANKLIN CENTRAL 0
NOBLESVILLE 6 AVON 0
BROWNSBURG 4 HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN 4
INDIANA GIRLS SOCCER
BOONE GROVE 4 M TWP. 3
UNIVERSITY 5 SHORTRIDGE 1
ARGOS 4 ELKHART CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 3
TWIN LAKES 5 N. WHITE 0
VICTORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 9 RIVER FOREST 0
ROSSVILLE 4 TAYLOR 2
PORTAGE 10 MERRILLVILLE 2
CASCADE 1 WESTERN BOONE 0
EAST NOBLE 3 FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK 1
WARSAW 9 PLYMOUTH 0
TRINITY 12 OREGON DAVIS 0
FORT WAYNE WAYNE 3 FORT WAYNE NORTH 1
WABASH 2 ROCHESTER 0
HERITAGE 7 LAKEWOOD PARK CHRISTIAN 1
ANGOLA 4 W. NOBLE 1
FORT WAYNE CANTERBURY 9 S. ADAMS 0
MISHAWAKA MARIAN 5 GLENN 2
MONROVIA 7 RITTER 0
FLOYD CENTRAL 9 BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE 0
KOKOMO 7 MARION 1
VALPARAISO 9 LAPORTE 0
MANCHESTER 3 WAWASEE 0
LAPEL 7 ANDERSON 1
LEBANON 5 SOUTHMONT 2
FRANKLIN COUNTY 8 NEW CASTLE 0
JASPER 6 EVANSVILLE HARRISON 0
CROWN POINT 2 LAKE CENTRAL 1
MUNSTER 2 LOWELL 0
OLDENBURG ACADEMY 8 MILAN 0
CHESTERTON 10 MICHIGAN CITY 0
HANOVER CENTRAL 4 ANDREAN 0
PENN 7 CONCORD 0
BELLMONT 1 FORT WAYNE DWENGER 1
HIGHLAND 3 ILLIANA CHRISTIAN 1
FORT WAYNE SNIDER 9 FORT WAYNE SOUTH 0
MCCUTCHEON 8 LOGANSPORT 1
BREBEUF 2 BISHOP CHATARD 2
RUSHVILLE 4 UNION COUNTY 1
PROVIDENCE 3 FOREST PARK 1
BATESVILLE 4 CONNERSVILLE 0
NORTHRIDGE 5 ELKHART 1
NEW ALBANY 4 N. HARRISON 0
WEST LAFAYETTE 8 KANKAKEE VALLEY 0
EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL 3 EVANSVILLE MATER DEI 0
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
DETROIT 8 CHICAGO CUBS 6
TAMPA BAY 12 COLORADO 4
WASHINGTON 2 NY YANKEES 1
CLEVELAND 8 LA DODGERS 3
MILWAUKEE 7 MINNESOTA 3
CINCINNATI 4 LA ANGELS 3
ARIZONA 6 TEXAS 3
TORONTO 6 BALTIMORE 3 (10)
SEATTLE 6 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 3
HOUSTON 7 BOSTON 3
OAKLAND 5 KANSAS CITY 4
PHILADELPHIA 4 SAN FRANCISCO 3
PITTSBURGH 6 ST. LOUIS 3
ATLANTA 3 NY METS 2
MIAMI 3 SAN DIEGO 0
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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
IOWA 10 INDIANAPOLIS 4
SOUTH BEND 6 CEDAR RAPIDS 3
GREAT LAKES 5 FORT WAYNE 2
WNBA
LAS VEGAS 112 ATLANTA 100
CONNECTICUT 68 WASHINGTON 64
CHICAGO 100 TO SEATTLE 79
MINNESOTA 91 DALLAS 86
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
NO GAMES SCHEDULED
TUESDAY’S TRANSACTIONS
BASEBALL
Major League Baseball
MLB — Placed Tampa Bay SS Wander Franco on administrative leave.
American League
NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated CF Greg Allen for assignment. Reinstated LHP Carlos Rodon from the 15-day IL. Recalled SS Oswald Peraza and OF Everson Pereira from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Placed OF Billy McKinney on the 10-day IL, retroactive to August 21.
TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reinstated C Francisco Mejia from the 10-day IL and designated him for assignment.
National League
ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled LHP Jared Shuster from Gwinnett. Optioned RHP Allan Winans to Gwinnett.
LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Blake Treinen to the Arizona Complex League on a rehab assignment. Recalled INF Michael Busch from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed DH J.D. Martinez on the 10-day IL.
MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Tommy Nance to Jacksonville (IL) on a rehab assignment.
NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Dennis Santana outright to Syracuse (IL).
ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed LHP Matthew Liberatore on the 15-day IL, retroactive to August 19. Selected the contract of RHP Jacob Barnes from Memphis (IL).
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent RHP John Brebbia to the Arizona Complex League (ACL) on a rehab assignment.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned SS Jeter Downs to Rochester (IL). Agreed to terms with manager Dave Martinez on a multi-year contract extension.
Minor League Baseball
Atlantic League
LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed and activated OF Scott Kelly. Placed OF Boog Powell on the IL, retroactive to August 20.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
NBA — Fined Philadelphia G James Harden an undisclosed amount for public trade demands made on August 14th and 17th.
Women’s National Basketball Association
PHOENIX MERCURY — Signed G Madi Williams to a hardship contract.
FOOTBALL
National Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed LB Zach McCloud.
BUFFALO BILLS — Signed LB DaShaun White.
DENVER BRONCOS — Signed WR Josh Hammond. Placed WR Jalen Virgil on injured reserve.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Reinstated TE Tanner Conner from the active/physically unable to perform (PUP) list.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived WR Dazz Newsome. Signed WR Anthony Miller.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed S Ricard LeCounte III.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed K Michael Badgley. Waived Ks Caleb Shudak and Trey Wolff.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed F Brandon Hagel to an eight-year contract extension.
BIG 10 WEEKLY FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
WEEK 1
MINNESOTA VS. NEBRASKA
THURSDAY, AUG. 31
WISCONSIN VS. BUFFALO
MICHIGAN STATE VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN VS. EAST CAROLINA
PURDUE VS. FRESNO STATE
RUTGERS VS. NORTHWESTERN
INDIANA VS. OHIO STATE
ILLINOIS VS. TOLEDO
MARYLAND VS. TOWSON
IOWA VS. UTAH STATE
PENN STATE VS. WEST VIRGINIA
COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
WEEK 0
SATURDAY, AUG. 26
NOTRE DAME VS. NAVY (DUBLIN, IRELAND) | 2:30 P.M. | NBC
MERCER VS. NORTH ALABAMA (MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA) | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN
JACKSONVILLE STATE VS. UTEP | 5:30 P.M. | CBSSN
NEW MEXICO STATE VS. UMASS | 7 P.M. | ESPN
SAN DIEGO STATE VS. OHIO | 7 P.M. | FS1
VANDERBILT VS. HAWAI’I | 7:30 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
JACKSON STATE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE (ATLANTA, GEORGIA) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC
USC VS. SAN JOSE STATE | 8 P.M. | PAC-12 NETWORK
LOUISIANA TECH VS. FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL | 9 P.M. | CBSSN
WEEK 1
THURSDAY, AUG. 31
WAKE FOREST VS. ELON | 7 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
UCF VS. KENT STATE | 7 P.M. | FS1
GEORGIA STATE VS. RHODE ISLAND | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
WESTERN MICHIGAN VS. ST. FRANCIS (PA) | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
UCONN VS. NC STATE | 7:30 P.M. | CBSSN
MINNESOTA VS. NEBRASKA | 8 P.M. | FOX
MISSOURI VS. SOUTH DAKOTA | 8 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
UTAH VS. FLORIDA | 8 P.M. | ESPN
TULSA VS. ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF | 8 P.M. | ESPN+
UAB VS. NORTH CAROLINA A&T | 8 P.M. | ESPN+
ARIZONA STATE VS. SOUTHERN UTAH | 10 P.M. | PAC-12 NETWORK
FRIDAY, SEPT. 1
EASTERN MICHIGAN VS. HOWARD | 6:30 P.M. | ESPN+
MICHIGAN STATE VS. CENTRAL MICHIGAN | 7 P.M. | FS1
MIAMI (FLA.) VS. MIAMI (OHIO) | 7 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
GEORGIA TECH VS. LOUISVILLE (MERCEDES-BENZ STADIUM IN ATLANTA) | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN
KANSAS VS. MISSOURI STATE | 8 P.M. | ESPN+
HAWAI’I VS. STANFORD | 11 P.M. | CBSSN
SATURDAY, SEPT. 2
IOWA VS. UTAH STATE | 12 P.M. | FS1
KENTUCKY VS. BALL STATE | 12 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
LIBERTY VS. BOWLING GREEN | 12 P.M. | CBSSN
MICHIGAN VS. EAST CAROLINA | 12 P.M. | PEACOCK
PURDUE VS. FRESNO STATE | 12 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
SMU VS. LOUISIANA TECH | 12 P.M. | ESPNU
TENNESSEE VS. VIRGINIA (NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE) | 12 P.M. | ABC
TCU VS. COLORADO | 12 P.M. | FOX
BOSTON COLLEGE VS. NORTHERN ILLINOIS | 12 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
OKLAHOMA VS. ARKANSAS STATE | 12 P.M. | ESPN
OLE MISS VS. MERCER | 2 P.M. | ESPN+/SECN+
IOWA STATE VS. UNI | 2 P.M. | ESPN+
TEMPLE VS. AKRON | 2 P.M. | ESPN+
OHIO VS. LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY | 2 P.M. | ESPN+
AIR FORCE VS. ROBERT MORRIS | 2 P.M. | ALTITUDE SPORTS
OREGON VS. PORTLAND STATE | 3 P.M. | PAC-12 NETWORK
INDIANA VS. OHIO STATE | 3:30 P.M. | CBS
AUBURN VS. UMASS | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN
MARYLAND VS. TOWSON | 3:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
WISCONSIN VS. BUFFALO | 3:30 P.M. | FS1
WESTERN KENTUCKY VS. SOUTH FLORIDA | 3:30 P.M. | CBSSN
WASHINGTON VS. BOISE STATE | 3:30 P.M. | ABC
NOTRE DAME VS. TENNESSEE STATE | 3:30 P.M. | NBC
PITT VS. WOFFORD | 3:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
CINCINNATI VS. EASTERN KENTUCKY | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+
TEXAS VS. RICE | 3:30 P.M. | FOX
APPALACHIAN STATE VS. GARDNER-WEBB | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+
ARKANSAS VS. WESTERN CAROLINA | 4 P.M. | ESPN+/SECN+
MISSISSIPPI STATE VS. SE LOUISIANA | 4 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
NORTH TEXAS VS. CAL | 4 P.M. | ESPNU
SYRACUSE VS. COLGATE | 4 P.M. | ESPN+/ACCNX
GEORGIA VS. UT MARTIN | 6 P.M. | ESPN+/SECN+
CHARLOTTE VS. SOUTH CAROLINA STATE | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
FLORIDA ATLANTIC VS. MONMOUTH | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
GEORGIA SOUTHERN VS. THE CITADEL | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
JAMES MADISON VS. BUCKNELL | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
MARSHALL VS. ALBANY | 6 P.M. | ESPN+
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL VS. MAINE | 6:30 P.M. | ESPN+
USC VS. NEVADA | 6:30 P.M. | PAC-12 NETWORK
TEXAS A&M VS. NEW MEXICO | 7 P.M. | ESPN
UL MONROE VS. ARMY | 7 P.M. | NFL NETWORK
VANDERBILT VS. ALABAMA A&M | 7 P.M. | ESPN+/SECN+
COLORADO STATE VS. WASHINGTON STATE | 7 P.M. | CBSSN
BAYLOR VS. TEXAS STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
HOUSTON VS. UTSA | 7 P.M. | FS1
KANSAS STATE VS. SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
OKLAHOMA STATE VS. CENTRAL ARKANSAS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
MEMPHIS VS. BETHUNE-COOKMAN | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
SOUTHERN MISS VS. ALCORN STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
TROY VS. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN | 7 P.M. | ESPN+
ALABAMA VS. MIDDLE TENNESSEE | 7:30 P.M. | SEC NETWORK
ILLINOIS VS. TOLEDO | 7:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK
SOUTH CAROLINA VS. NORTH CAROLINA (CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC
PENN STATE VS. WEST VIRGINIA | 7:30 P.M. | NBC
WYOMING VS. TEXAS TECH | 7:30 P.M. | CBS
LOUISIANA VS. NORTHWESTERN STATE | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN+
VIRGINIA TECH VS. OLD DOMINION | 8 P.M. | ACC NETWORK
TULANE VS. SOUTH ALABAMA | 8 P.M. | ESPNU
NEW MEXICO STATE VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS | 9 P.M. | ESPN+
UTEP VS. UIW | 9 P.M. | ESPN+
ARIZONA VS. NORTHERN ARIZONA | 10 P.M. | PAC-12 NETWORK
BYU VS. SAM HOUSTON | 10:15 P.M. | FS1
UCLA VS. COASTAL CAROLINA | 10:30 P.M. | ESPN
SAN DIEGO STATE VS. IDAHO STATE | 10:30 P.M. | CBSSN
SUNDAY, SEPT. 3
RUTGERS VS. NORTHWESTERN | 12 P.M. | CBS
SAN JOSE STATE VS. OREGON STATE | 3:30 P.M. | CBS
FLORIDA STATE VS. LSU (ORLANDO, FLORIDA) | 7:30 P.M. | ABC
MONDAY, SEPT. 4
DUKE VS. CLEMSON | 8 P.M. | ESPN
NFL PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE
WEEK 3
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24
PITTSBURGH AT ATLANTA, 7:30
INDIANAPOLIS AT PHILADELPHIA (PRIME VIDEO), 8:00
FRIDAY, AUGUST 25
DETROIT AT CAROLINA (CBS), 8:00
NEW ENGLAND AT TENNESSEE, 8:15
L.A. CHARGERS AT SAN FRANCISCO, 10:00
SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
BUFFALO AT CHICAGO, 1:00
SEATTLE AT GREEN BAY, 1:00
CLEVELAND AT KANSAS CITY, 1:00
ARIZONA AT MINNESOTA, 1:00
N.Y. JETS AT N.Y. GIANTS, 6:00
CINCINNATI AT WASHINGTON, 6:05
MIAMI AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:00
BALTIMORE AT TAMPA BAY, 7:00
LAS VEGAS AT DALLAS, 8:00
L.A. RAMS AT DENVER, 9:00
SUNDAY, AUGUST 27
HOUSTON AT NEW ORLEANS (FOX), 8:00
WEEK 1 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
DETROIT LIONS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (THU) 7:20P (CT) 8:20P NBC
CAROLINA PANTHERS AT ATLANTA FALCONS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P FOX
HOUSTON TEXANS AT BALTIMORE RAVENS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P CBS
CINCINNATI BENGALS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P CBS
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P FOX
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT MINNESOTA VIKINGS 12:00P (CT) 1:00P CBS
TENNESSEE TITANS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS 12:00P (CT) 1:00P CBS
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AT PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P FOX
ARIZONA CARDINALS AT WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 1:00P (ET) 1:00P FOX
GREEN BAY PACKERS AT CHICAGO BEARS 3:25P (CT) 4:25P FOX
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT DENVER BRONCOS 2:25P (MT) 4:25P CBS
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT LOS ANGELES CHARGERS 1:25P (PT) 4:25P CBS
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 4:25P (ET) 4:25P CBS
LOS ANGELES RAMS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS 1:25P (PT) 4:25P FOX
DALLAS COWBOYS AT NEW YORK GIANTS 8:20P (ET) 8:20P NBC
BUFFALO BILLS AT NEW YORK JETS (MON) 8:15P (ET) 8:15P ESPN/ABC
TOP NATIONAL RELEASES/HEADLINES
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
MLB ROUNDUP: M’S DOWN WHITE SOX FOR 8TH STRAIGHT WIN
Josh Rojas hit a two-run homer and Mike Ford and Teoscar Hernandez each had two hits to help the Seattle Mariners defeat the host Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Tuesday and extend their winning streak to eight games.
Seattle won for the 16th time in 19 games. Justin Topa (3-3) earned the victory with 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, and Andres Munoz recorded the final out for his eighth save.
Andrew Vaughn’s first-inning RBI single gave Chicago a 1-0 lead, but the Mariners responded with two runs in the second via run-scoring singles from Ford and J.P. Crawford. Rojas’ fourth-inning blast made it 4-1, and Seattle added two runs in the sixth.
Clevinger (5-6) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. Yoan Moncada and Vaughn each had two hits as the White Sox lost for the eighth time in 10 games.
Nationals 2, Yankees 1
CJ Abrams hit a tiebreaking homer with two outs in the eighth inning as visiting Washington recorded a victory over New York, which is on its first nine-game losing streak since September 1982.
Abrams snapped a 1-1 tie by hitting a first-pitch changeup from Tommy Kahnle (1-2) off the right field foul pole. Carter Kieboom homered in the third in his season debut. Mason Thompson (4-4) earned the win, and Kyle Finnegan tossed a scoreless ninth inning for his 22nd save.
Ben Rortvedt homered and had both hits for the Yankees, who dropped to 12-27 since getting to 10 games over .500 on July 4.
Brewers 7, Twins 3
Milwaukee bunched six singles for five runs in the sixth inning to rally over visiting Minnesota in the opener of the two-game interleague series between division leaders.
After mustering two runs through five innings off starter Bailey Ober, Milwaukee scored five in the sixth off Dylan Floro (4-6) without an extra-base hit to erase a 3-2 deficit. Brian Anderson’s two-run single capped the uprising.
Willy Adames hit a two-run homer for the Brewers, who got two innings of scoreless relief from Bryse Wilson (5-0). Christian Vazquez homered and Kyle Farmer had two hits and an RBIs for the Twins.
Braves 3, Mets 2
Eddie Rosario became the seventh Atlanta batter to hit 20 home runs this season and Bryce Elder earned his 10th win as the Braves defeated visiting New York to even a three-game series.
Rosario hit a two-run shot in the second inning to give the Braves a lead they never relinquished. Marcell Ozuna added a solo homer in the fifth inning, Atlanta’s major-league-leading 239th round-tripper of the season.
Elder (10-4) pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed one run on two hits. New York starter Tylor Megill (7-7) was removed after 4 2/3 innings. He allowed three runs on eight hits — two of them homers — and threw four wild pitches.
Astros 7, Red Sox 3
Justin Verlander tossed six scoreless innings, Kyle Tucker hit a first-inning home run and Houston pulled away late for a victory over visiting Boston.
Verlander (9-6) allowed five hits and issued only one walk while producing a season-high nine strikeouts. The Astros blew the game open with four runs in the seventh, capped by Jon Singleton’s two-run double.
The Red Sox started 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position before Justin Turner stroked a two-run single in the ninth off Astros reliever Rafael Montero. Boston’s Adam Duvall homered for the second day in a row.
Blue Jays 6, Orioles 3 (10 innings)
Brandon Belt led off the 10th inning with a two-run home run and visiting Toronto beat Baltimore.
With Bo Bichette on second base as the automatic runner, Belt hit the first pitch from Mike Baumann (9-1) out to right-center. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. followed with a double, went to third on a flyout and scored on a two-out wild pitch. Daulton Varsho also homered for Toronto, which has won three straight.
Adley Rutschman and Jordan Westburg each had two hits for Baltimore, which had won three in a row. Baltimore was 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position. Ryan Mountcastle walked to increase his on-base streak to 27 games.
Guardians 8, Dodgers 3
Kole Calhoun’s three-run homer capped a five-run seventh inning that helped Cleveland rally past visiting Los Angeles.
Trailing 3-0, Cleveland scored two in the fourth then plated five runs on four hits in the seventh off Bobby Miller (7-3) and Caleb Ferguson. Will Brennan finished with three hits for the Guardians, Andres Gimenez and Myles Straw had two hits apiece and Oscar Gonzalez homered.
Cleveland’s Sam Hentges (2-2), Trevor Stephan and Emmanuel Clase each pitched a scoreless inning in relief of Noah Syndergaard. Will Smith hit a two-run homer for Los Angeles, which lost for just the third time in 20 games this month.
Tigers 8, Cubs 6
Andy Ibanez homered twice and drove in four runs as host Detroit defeated Chicago.
Kerry Carpenter drove in two runs and Parker Meadows, playing in his second career game, had two hits and scored twice. Tyler Holton (3-2) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief and was credited with the win. Alex Lange recorded his 19th save.
Dansby Swanson homered and drove in four runs for the Cubs. Jeimer Candelario added a two-run homer. Detroit starter Reese Olson allowed six runs in 4 2/3 innings. Cubs starter Drew Smyly (9-9) surrendered seven runs in 3 2/3 innings.
Phillies 4, Giants 3
Trea Turner hit a walk-off, two-run single with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as Philadelphia rallied past visiting San Francisco.
Philadelphia starter Taijuan Walker — despite taking a line drive off the arm that was caught by Turner at shortstop for an out in the fourth inning — gave up six hits and three runs, two earned in five innings. Craig Kimbrel (7-3) earned the win after pitching a scoreless top of the ninth.
Giants starter Kyle Harrison lasted 3 1/3 innings in his major league debut. He allowed five hits and two runs with five strikeouts and one walk. San Francisco All-Star closer Camilo Doval (5-4) allowed both runs in the ninth.
Rays 12, Rockies 4
American League-leading hitter Yandy Diaz had a go-ahead RBI single and rookie Osleivis Basabe slugged a grand slam in a nine-run, eighth-inning rally, rocketing Tampa Bay to a win over Colorado in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Diaz went 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs to boost his average to .328. Randy Arozarena went 2-for-3 with two runs, two RBIs and two walks for the Rays. Basabe’s slam was his first big-league homer. Andrew Kittredge (1-0) pitched a scoreless relief inning for the win.
Michael Toglia slugged a solo homer for the Rockies, and Elias Diaz went 2-for-4 with an RBI. Brent Suter (4-1) allowed five runs in one-third of an inning.
Pirates 6, Cardinals 3
Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run home run and Bryan Reynolds had a two-run double to lift host Pittsburgh to a win over struggling St. Louis.
Connor Joe added an RBI single for the Pirates, who have won two straight and three of four. Pittsburgh starter Johan Oviedo (7-13) allowed one run and four hits in five innings. David Bednar pitched the ninth for his 27th save.
Richie Palacios homered, Willson Conteras added an RBI double and Alec Burleson had an RBI single for the Cardinals, who have lost six of seven. St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright (3-9) gave up six runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX FIRE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT KEN WILLIAMS AND GENERAL MANAGER RICK HAHN
CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago White Sox fired executive vice president Ken Williams and general manager Rick Hahn on Tuesday, cutting ties with their baseball leadership amid another disappointing season.
Williams, who originally joined the White Sox front office in 1992 as a scout, was in his 11th season as executive vice president after serving as the club’s general manager for 12 years. He was one of baseball’s most prominent Black executives. Hahn joined the organization in 2000 and had been the GM since October 2012.
Williams and Hahn helped Chicago to the 2005 World Series title. The White Sox also won the AL Central in 2008 and made the playoffs in 2020 and 2021, but the franchise has fallen on hard times of late.
After going 81-81 last year, Chicago has dropped eight of 10 and 22 of 31 overall to fall to 49-77. It has been outscored 50-21 in its last five games.
“While we have enjoyed successes as an organization and were optimistic heading into the competitive window of this rebuild, this year has proven to be very disappointing for us all on many levels,” White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in a release. “This has led me to the conclusion that the best decision for the organization moving forward is to make a change in our baseball department leadership.”
The 87-year-old Reinsdorf, one of the most loyal owners in sports, called the dismissal of Williams and Hahn “an incredibly difficult decision.” He described Williams as “like a son to me.”
White Sox slugger Eloy Jiménez said he was surprised by the changes. Williams and Hahn “were really good to me,” he said.
“They helped me to get to this point and that’s why it really surprised me,” he said. “But like I say it’s business. It’s crazy sometimes.”
In the release announcing the changes, the White Sox said they anticipate having a new leader of baseball operations in place by the end of the season. The timeline indicates Reinsdorf could have a short list already in mind.
Assistant general managers Jeremy Haber and Chris Getz could take on more prominent roles in a new-look front office, but it’s hard to imagine either one moving into the top spot.
The upheaval with baseball operations raises questions about the future of manager Pedro Grifol, who was hired in November.
“Obviously I’m not going to sit here and lie and tell you you don’t think about it, but I’m not going to get caught up in it,” Grifol said after Chicago’s 6-3 loss to Seattle. “Why? Because I have a responsibility to those guys in there. To do my job, do it as a professional, come in every day and to the coaching staff and to this organization to come in and prepare to win a baseball game. That’s my job.”
The 59-year-old Williams was selected by Chicago in the third round of the 1982 amateur draft. The outfielder played for the White Sox, Tigers, Blue Jays and Montreal Expos while spending parts of six seasons in the majors.
In a statement put out by the team, Williams thanked Reinsdorf and White Sox fans, and he called Hahn “one of the smartest people I know.”
“At my inaugural presser, I spoke of winning multiple championships,” Williams said. “That was my goal, our goal, and we failed. I am a bottom-line guy, and the bottom line is we didn’t get it done. This is what happens as a result.”
Hahn said in his statement that he will “forever be indebted” to Reinsdorf and Williams for giving him the opportunity to realize his dream of working for a big league club.
“I will be rooting for the Sox to win that next championship soon – as loyal White Sox fans deserve nothing less,” Hahn said.
RAYS’ WANDER FRANCO MOVED TO ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE WHILE MLB, DOMINICAN AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE
NEW YORK. (AP) — Wander Franco was placed on administrative leave indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Tuesday while authorities in the Dominican Republic investigate the Tampa Bay Rays’ All-Star shortstop for an alleged relationship with a minor.
The 22-year-old will be paid and receive service time while on administrative leave under an agreement with the players’ association that did not set a timetable for a decision on whether he will be disciplined.
Franco was placed on the restricted list for a week on Aug. 14 while MLB launched an investigation following social media posts suggesting he was in a relationship with a minor. The AP has not been able to verify the reported posts.
MLB said the shift to administrative leave was not disciplinary under the sport’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. The administrative leave did not have the usual seven-day limit under the policy, so it is possible Franco will not return this season.
Ángel Darío Tejeda Fabal, a prosecutor in the Dominican Republic province of Peravia, said last week an investigation into Franco was open under a division specializing in minors and gender violence.
MLB is likely to wait until that investigation is concluded before deciding whether there will be any discipline, a person familiar with the probe told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because that was not announced.
Franco was held out of the Rays’ lineup on Aug. 13 in what manager Kevin Cash said was a day off, then missed a six-game West Coast trip while on the restricted list. The Rays issued a statement Tuesday supporting the administrative leave decision.
MLB and the union agreed to the joint domestic violence policy in 2015. A player continues to receive pay and accrue major league service while on administrative leave.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was on administrative leave from July 2, 2021, until the following April 29, when he was suspended for 324 games. The penalty was reduced by an arbitrator to 194 games. Bauer was accused of assault, an accusation he has repeatedly denied.
Franco has salaries of $2 million this season and next as part of a $182 million, 11-year contract that started in 2022.
He is in his third big league season and is hitting .281 with 17 homers, 58 RBIs and 30 stolen bases in 40 attempts over 112 games.
Eighteen players have been disciplined by MLB under the domestic violence policy. The latest was New York Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero, who agreed on July 5 to a suspension for the final 76 games of the season.
STRUGGLING YANKEES PROMOTE OF PEREIRA, INF PERAZA FROM TRIPLE-A; ACTIVATE LHP RODÓN
NEW YORK (AP) — Mired in their first eight-game losing streak since 1995, the New York Yankees added some youth by recalling outfielder Everson Pereira and infielder Oswald Peraza from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre on Tuesday.
New York also activated Carlos Rodón from the 15-day injured list to start the opener of a three-game series against Washington after the left-hander missed two weeks with a strained left hamstring.
To make room for Pereira and Peraza, outfielder Billy McKinney was on the 10-day injured list with a lower back spasm and outfielder Greg Allen was designated for assignment.
Also, outfielder Jasson Dominguez, New York’s No. 2 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, was promoted from Double-A Somerset to Scranton.
Pereira, the Yankees’ No. 3 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, is expected to play regularly in left field.
Since being promoted from Somerset to Triple-A last month, Pereira batted .312 with eight homers and 33 RBIs in 31 games. At two levels this season, he is .300 with 18 homers and 64 RBIs in 81 games.
Peraza made his major league debut last season and started at shortstop in Game 2 of the ALCS in Houston.
Peraza batted .173 in 19 games with the Yankees earlier this year. At Triple-A he is hitting .268 with 14 homers and 36 RBIs.
NATS ANNOUNCE MULTI-YEAR EXTENSION FOR DAVE MARTINEZ
The Washington Nationals officially agreed to terms with manager Dave Martinez on a multi-year contract extension on Tuesday.
While the team did not reveal a specific number of seasons, The Athletic reported Monday that Martinez’s extension was for two years. The outlet also reported that he is receiving a club option for a third year.
“Dave Martinez represents the Washington Nationals organization with class on and off the field, and we are thrilled that he will continue to serve as manager,” said Mark D. Lerner, Nationals managing principal owner.
“We are especially proud of the way the club has played since the end of June, and the team’s play is a direct reflection of Davey’s leadership. He is determined, passionate and the right person to lead our current group of players as well as the next wave of talent coming to Washington, D.C.”
Martinez, 58, managed the Nationals to a World Series championship in 2019.
The Nationals seem to be turning a corner, having won seven of their last eight games and 12 of 17 since Aug. 2.
Martinez took over Washington’s managerial duties in 2018 and has posted a 378-455 record despite losing several stars over the past few seasons. Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon left via free agency, and the Nationals dealt away Max Scherzer, Trea Turner and Juan Soto at recent trade deadlines.
REPORTS: GIANTS SIGN SS PAUL DEJONG
The San Francisco Giants signed free agent shortstop Paul DeJong to a major league contract, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday.
DeJong, 30, was designated for assignment by the Toronto Blue Jays this past weekend. The Blue Jays acquired DeJong from the St. Louis Cardinals on Aug. 1 in exchange for pitching prospect Matt Svanson.
DeJong struggled mightily in 13 games with Toronto, batting .068 (3-for-44) with one RBI. He is hitting .211 with 13 homers and 33 RBIs in 94 games this season with the Cardinals and Blue Jays.
The 2019 All-Star is a career .230 hitter with 115 homers and 339 RBIs in 711 games. He was drafted by the Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2015 draft.
DODGERS PLACE DH J.D. MARTINEZ (GROIN) ON IL
The Los Angeles Dodgers placed All-Star designated hitter J.D. Martinez on the 10-day injured list Tuesday because of groin tightness, as he continues to struggle with lower abdomen and leg discomfort.
In a corresponding move, the Dodgers recalled infielder Michael Busch from Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Martinez, 36, has been bothered most of the past month with what has been described as anywhere from groin to hamstring to lower back discomfort. Martinez referenced his adductors in a recent interview.
One of four All-Stars at the top of the Dodgers’ order, Martinez is batting .256 with 25 home runs and 78 RBIs in 92 games this season. He is batting .262 with three home runs and 16 RBIs since the All-Star break, while playing in 19 of the Dodgers’ 34 games in the second half.
In 13 major league seasons, the six-time All-Star is a career .286 hitter with 307 home runs and 977 RBIs in 1,501 games for the Houston Astros (2011-13), Detroit Tigers (2014-17), Arizona Diamondbacks (2017), Boston Red Sox (2018-22) and Dodgers.
Busch, 25, batted .200 with four RBIs in 15 games for the Dodgers earlier this season after making his major league debut April 25. In 88 games at Oklahoma City this season, he is batting .323 with 24 home runs and 82 RBIs.
The Dodgers also sent right-hander Blake Treinen on a rehab assignment to the Arizona Complex League. Treinen, 35, has not pitched this season after shoulder surgery in November. In nine seasons, he is 36-31 with a 2.86 ERA and 79 saves in 449 appearances (seven starts) with three teams.
BRAVES RECALL LHP JARED SHUSTER IN SWAP OF ROOKIES
The Atlanta Braves recalled left-hander Jared Shuster from Triple-A Gwinnett and optioned right-hander Allan Winans to Triple-A.
Shuster, 25, is 4-2 with a 5.00 ERA in nine starts for the Braves this season after making his major league debut April 2. In 13 starts at Gwinnett, the club’s 2020 first-round draft pick went 4-5 with a 5.77 ERA.
Winans, 28, was sent down one day after he was recalled. He gave up seven runs on nine hits in 4 1/3 innings in Monday’s start against the New York Mets. In three career starts, after making his major league debut July 22, Winans is 1-1 with a 5.17 ERA.
NFL NEWS
PACKERS ADVANCE LB RASHAN GARY TO 11-ON-11 DRILLS
Green Bay Packers linebacker Rashan Gary participated in 11-on-11 drills Tuesday for the first time since tearing his right ACL last November.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur welcomed Gary back to the field as cornerback Eric Stokes took a step in the opposite direction. Stokes and Gary both suffered knee injuries Nov. 6 against the Detroit Lions.
Gary was activated from the physically unable to perform list on Aug. 7 and has been participating in individual drills, however Stokes still has not been cleared and could be headed for the PUP list to begin the regular season.
LaFleur said the decision on a roster designation for Stokes, a first-round pick in 2021, was “out of my wheelhouse.”
The Packers begin the regular season on Sept. 10 at Chicago.
Gary, 25, posted 32 tackles (seven for loss) along with 12 quarterback hits, six sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery in nine games before the injury last season. The Packers’ 2019 first-round pick (No. 12 overall) out of Michigan has recorded 22.5 sacks and 135 tackles in 56 games (29 starts).
ROBERT SALEH ON PLAYING AARON RODGERS: ‘CAN’T COACH SCARED’
New York Jets coach Robert Saleh has no qualms about playing veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers in the team’s final preseason game.
“You can’t coach scared, you can’t play scared,” Saleh said Tuesday about his plans for Saturday’s game against the New York Giants in East Rutherford, N.J.
“You can slip out of your car and have something happen to you. Knock on wood, it will be fine. It’s not uncommon (to play first-string players in the preseason), you can always play the hindsight, fearful game. It’s in the best interest of our team to go out together and prepare for the season.
Rodgers, 39, hasn’t played in a preseason game since 2018 — and that includes the Jets’ three contests this month. The four-time NFL MVP said early in training camp that he would play this summer if that was in line with what Saleh wanted.
“I wouldn’t mind playing in the preseason,” Rodgers said at the time, per the New York Post. “I wouldn’t mind if Robert said, ‘Hey, we are going to go. Let’s do it.’ Most coaches have that fear where they want to get you to Week 1 and not risk it, but I believe there is a chance for the last one.”
Saleh made it clear on Tuesday that he wanted Rodgers to get his feet wet before the season opener.
“For us as an organization, he’s new, though he’s been in the league a long time,” Saleh told reporters. “We didn’t want Sept. 11 (the regular-season opener against the visiting Buffalo Bills) to be the first time he stepped into MetLife. Giants-Jets, whether in the preseason or regular season, we expect a good turnout and anticipation in the building. We didn’t want his first time in new team colors, with new teammates and in a new stadium to be on Sept. 11 for the first time.”
Rodgers enters his 19th NFL season with 59,055 career yards, 475 touchdown passes and a 147-75-1 record as a starter.
BENGALS COACH HINTS INJURED QB JOE BURROW READY TO ROLL
Erase any doubt that Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will be ready when Cincinnati begins the regular season Sept. 10 at Cleveland.
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor said no upramp in activity is necessary for Burrow to be on the field for Week 1. He hasn’t practiced with the team since injuring his calf.
“One rep,” Taylor said. “He needs one rep.”
Burrow dealt with the recovery from an emergency appendectomy last August and said it impacted his early performance in 2022.
Taylor said Burrow is in better position to kick off the 2023 season even after an extended camp absence.
“I hate speaking for other people, but last year it was an unknown how contact would feel. How is it going to feel when I torque? There’s a lot of things with an internal injury that I can’t speak to,” Taylor said. “I would imagine it’s a whole different mindset you have to have.”
The Bengals aren’t planning to use Burrow in the preseason, which wraps up Saturday at Washington. As for how Burrow appears to be moving and working at the moment, Taylor said “he looks great.”
“I mean physically, just walking around, just walking around he looks probably as good as he’s ever looked at this point. So that’s a positive,” Taylor said.
BAKER MAYFIELD NAMED BUCS’ STARTING QUARTERBACK
Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles on Tuesday named Baker Mayfield as the team’s starting quarterback.
Bowles revealed his decision two days after telling reporters that he didn’t “have a timetable on it.”
Mayfield is receiving the nod over third-year quarterback Kyle Trask for the Buccaneers, who open the season against the host Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 10.
“There’s a lot that goes into it. I can’t sit up here and give you every detail,” Bowles said of his decision, per the Tampa Bay Times. “We go through man training camp (practices) and OTAs and we love everything Kyle has done. He’s gotten leaps and bounds better. And he has in the spring and he’s continuing to get better. And we’re excited about Baker. We like where we’re at right now. Experience wise and his understanding the playbook [is] just a little bit better.”
Mayfield signed a one-year, $4 million contract with Tampa Bay in March as the presumed starter after making three stops during a whirlwind 2022. Traded from the Cleveland Browns to Carolina that offseason, he went 2-8 with 2,163 yards, 10 touchdown passes and eight interceptions with the Panthers and Los Angeles Rams.
Mayfield, 28, is 31-38 as a starter since being drafted with the No. 1 overall pick by Cleveland in 2018.
Trask, 25, has only appeared in one regular-season game since Tampa Bay drafted him in the second round in 2021. He is 3-for-9 passing for 23 yards.
REPORT: COMMANDERS WR TERRY MCLAURIN (TOE) TO HAVE MRI
Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin will have an MRI on his injured toe, NFL Network reported on Tuesday.
McLaurin sustained the injury during Washington’s 29-28 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in a preseason game on Monday.
X-rays were negative, but the Commanders seek to rule out any other injuries to his foot. The injury is not expected to be overly serious, per the report.
McLaurin, 27, had three catches for 39 yards before exiting the game.
A Pro Bowl selection in 2022, McLaurin had 77 receptions for 1,191 yards and five touchdowns in 17 games last season.
McLaurin totaled 299 catches for 4,281 yards with 21 touchdowns in 63 career games since being selected by Washington with a third-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft out of Ohio State.
JASON KELCE ADMITS ‘CHEAP SHOT’ SPARKED EAGLES-COLTS PRACTICE FIGHT
The Philadelphia Eagles’ joint practice with the visiting Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday was cut short by a sideline-clearing brawl.
Veteran Eagles center Jason Kelce later owned up to blindsiding Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin at the end of a play. The ensuing melee between the two clubs led to an early end to the practice, the final one of training camp before they play a preseason finale Thursday.
Reports from the scene said that Franklin delivered two big hits on Eagles running back Kenneth Gainwell. After the second, Kelce laid a hit on an unsuspecting Franklin.
Kelce called his actions a “cheap shot” and said he felt ashamed he let his frustration get the better of him.
“That certainly doesn’t belong out there on the field and just a little bit ashamed that it got to that level and that I did what I did,” Kelce said, “so certainly not happy about that, and I think very highly of the guys that were out there.”
Kelce added that he did not meet with Franklin to clear the air after practice because tensions between the Eagles and Colts may have still been too high.
“Forty-four, Zaire (Franklin), I think he’s a tremendous player,” Kelce said. “I think a lot of all their guys up front and they brought a lot of intensity to the day, which made the practice intense. And, you know, I think I didn’t handle things properly there at the end.”
Franklin, a starting linebacker entering his sixth year in the NFL, is a Philadelphia native and told reporters he grew up watching Kelce on the Eagles.
“Growing up in Philly, watching him for a long time — lot of respect for him,” Franklin said. “Talked to him a little bit after we played them last year. I thought the OGs would at least look me in the eye before (hitting me), but it’s all good. I might get a chance to look him in the eye Thursday, so we’re going to be OK.”
Gainwell, for his part, said Kelce was merely protecting his teammates.
“That’s just Kelce being Kelce,” Gainwell said. “That’s just Kelce being a professional and taking players’ backs.”
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS
TOP ’26 QB RECRUIT JULIAN LEWIS COMMITS TO TROJANS
Southern California received a commitment Tuesday from top Class of 2026 quarterback Julian Lewis.
A 6-foot-1, 195-pound sophomore at Georgia’s Carrollton High School, Lewis also had offers from Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Florida, Florida State and many others.
Lewis is ranked No. 1 overall in the recruiting Class of 2026 by the 247 Sports composite after passing for 4,118 yards, 48 touchdowns and 12 interceptions as a freshman.
“The opportunity to play for Coach Riley is special,” Lewis told ESPN. “His track record with quarterbacks speaks for itself. Their strength program, the academics and Los Angeles together make it a great fit for me and my future.”
Lewis adds to Riley’s track record for attracting elite signal-callers, including reigning Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams and 2023 five-star recruit Malachi Nelson.
BIG 12’S DAYS OF AIR RAID OFFENSES GIVE WAY TO BALANCE AND, SOMETIMES, GROUND-BASED ATTACKS
Chris Klieman won four national championships in five seasons at North Dakota State, bludgeoning teams with a run-heavy offense predicated on a bruising line and a deep stable of talented running backs.
Old-school football. The kind he grew up watching in Waterloo, Iowa.
But when Klieman was hired to replace Hall of Fame coach Bill Snyder at Kansas State after the 2018 season, two closely tied questions followed him: Could he replicate the tremendous success he had at the Football Championship Subdivision level in the Big 12? And could he do it relying on the same seemingly bygone offensive system he ran with the Bison?
Turns out the answer to both was yes.
The Wildcats leaned on Deuce Vaughn, who was eighth nationally in rushing and is now with the Dallas Cowboys, to win the conference championship last season, upending eventual College Football Playoff participant TCU in the title game. As a team, they joined Oklahoma in finishing in the top 15 nationally in yards-per-game on the ground.
“We have to run the football,” Klieman said by way of explanation. “If we struggle, it’s because we can’t run the football.”
Sounds simple, but that line of thought represents a tremendous shift from the days when the Big 12 was dominated by the Air Raid, that high-flying offensive system arguably perfected by the late Mike Leach at Texas Tech.
In 2014, seven of the top 13 teams nationally in total offense had branches tracing back to the coaching tree of key Air Raid architect Hal Mumme. By the following year, more than half of the Big 12 was running some version of the Air Raid, and three of the top eight nationally in passing offense came from the landlocked conference.
So what has changed? Why have teams that once embraced no huddles and thin playbooks, wide offensive line splits and running backs who rarely ran shifted toward — at minimum — balanced offenses and, in some cases, ground-based attacks?
Start with the turnover in the coaching ranks.
Many of the Air Raid’s staunchest advocates have moved on — think then-Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury, who headed for the NFL, or former Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley, who is now at USC. In their place came coaches like the Red Raiders’ Joey McGuire, who grew up embracing the ground-and-pound run game, and the Sooners’ Brent Venables, whose offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby is an old line and running backs coach.
Even at TCU, where coach Sonny Dykes learned the nuances of the Air Raid from Leach during their days at Texas Tech, there is an emphasis on running the ball. That is a big reason why Dykes hired Kendal Briles to run his offense this season.
“I think we come from the same place as far as our football background in a lot of ways,” Dykes said. “He wants to run the ball; he wants to be a physical offense that runs the football. And that’s what I want to be as well.”
It worked last season. Kendre Miller ran for nearly 1,400 yards as the Horned Frogs advanced to the national title game.
“We saw the value in having a tough, physical, hard-nosed run game,” Dykes said.
That leads into the second reason so many Big 12 schools have migrated away from all-out aerial offense: personnel.
The Wildcats have had Vaughn in the backfield. The Horned Frogs featured Miller, who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and Oklahoma leaned on Eric Gray, now with the New York Giants. Texas had Bijan Robinson, the eighth overall pick of the NFL draft by Atlanta, and backup Roschon Johnson, who was selected in the fourth round by the Chicago Bears.
That’s five of the 18 running backs selected in the April draft from the Big 12.
And even though they’re gone, their impact will continue to be felt.
“We lost two really good players,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said, “(but) when you start thinking about Keilan Robinson, start thinking about Jonathan Brooks, you start thinking about Jaydon Blue — those three guys spent a year or two with those guys in that room and know what it looks like and know what it takes.”
In the case of Oklahoma State, inexperience at quarterback rather than a star running back is what led coach Mike Gundy — one of the many early champions of the Air Raid system — to expand his running game last season.
“We went through a period of time from 2010 up until 2021, I guess, was the year we played in the Fiesta Bowl against Notre Dame, where we’re running up massive numbers of yards and points. So as you do that, or as we did that, we slowly but surely got away from some of the things we instilled in our program in my first four or five years as a head coach,” Gundy said. “But now we have kind of migrated back to: These are things we need to do to be successful.
“If we’re healthy up front, we’re very experienced at quarterback, then yeah, we can do anything we want throwing the ball. That’s more of a reason why we moved back to allocating more time to the running game than we have the last eight or 10 years.”
Then there’s the third reason so many schools have returned to offensive balance: The Air Raid had become so prevalent that just about every program has run some version of it, and thus every defense has practiced ways to stop it.
So coaches like Houston’s Dana Holgorsen, who was in the Big 12 at West Virginia and is back after conference realignment, began to put wrinkles in the Air Raid. The big one was implementing the run-pass option, where quarterbacks have the latitude to hand off, keep the ball and throw downfield, or tuck and run themselves.
Two of those options involving running the ball. And some semblance of balance is achieved.
“There’s a lot of ways to win football games,” said Kansas coach Lance Leipold, who led the Jayhawks to their first bowl game in more than a decade last season behind an increasingly popular version of the run-pass style called the wide zone.
“If you got a system and you hold your kids accountable,” Leipold said, “and have some structure and a philosophy, you have a chance to go out there and win some football games.”
WASHINGTON LOSES RB CAMERON DAVIS TO SEASON-ENDING INJURY
Washington running back Cameron Davis is out for the season with a leg injury, leaving the No. 10 Huskies to scramble in the days before the season begins.
Davis was injured in practice last week. Washington plans to push more of the load to transfer Dillon Johnson, but will also count on untested ball carriers to balance the workload.
“Cam is a huge part of (our offense),” Huskies coach Kalen DeBoer said. “It’s his second year in the system … works so hard, leads the right way, disciplined guy. He not only does a great job with the ball in his hands but in pass protection he knows everything inside and out.”
Davis led Pac-12 freshmen with 13 rushing touchdowns in 2022 as part of a shared backfield cooperative with Wayne Taulapapa. Entering his sophomore season, Davis had Washington “excited about where he was.”
Johnson joined UW after three seasons at Mississippi State under the late Mike Leach.
“Guys have the opportunity to step up and we want that from them. And they will,” DeBoer said. “That’s what every football season brings is adversity and our team is going to respond in a great way.”
Washington opens the season against Boise State on Sept. 2.
NBA NEWS
NBA FINES JAMES HARDEN $100K FOR COMMENTS ON DARYL MOREY
The NBA fined Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden $100,000 on Tuesday for his public comments on team president Daryl Morey.
Reportedly upset about a failed promise to be traded, Harden made the controversial remarks last week at a publicity event in China.
“Daryl Morey is a liar, and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of,” Harden said. “Let me say that again: Daryl Morey is a liar, and I will never be a part of an organization that he’s a part of.”
A 10-time All-Star, Harden has made it clear he wants to play elsewhere next season. However, the Sixers have informed his representatives that they are expecting him to report for training camp next month.
Harden, who turns 34 on Saturday, averaged 21.0 points, a league-leading 10.7 assists and 6.1 rebounds in 58 games this past season.
The 2017-18 league MVP and three-time scoring champion owns career averages of 24.7 points, 7.0 assists and 5.6 rebounds in 1,000 games (786 starts) with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Brooklyn Nets and 76ers.
WNBA NEWS
LAS VEGAS ACES STAR A’JA WILSON SCORES 53 POINTS, TIES WNBA SINGLE-GAME RECORD
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) A’ja Wilson matched the WNBA record for points in a game with 53 as the Las Vegas Aces beat the short-handed Atlanta Dream 112-100 on Tuesday night.
Wilson equaled the record set on July 17, 2018 by Dallas’ Liz Cambage. Riquna Williams was the only other WNBA player to top 50, scoring 51 for Tulsa on Sept. 8, 2013.
“My teammates kept giving me the basketball in my spaces and I just wanted to return the favor,” Wilson said in an on-court interview. “They tried so hard to get me the ball, and it’s not easy. I think we just tightened up on the defensive end and it helped our offense flow.”
Wilson had 51 points when was fouled with 51.3 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and made both free throws. She finished 16 of 23 from the field and 20 of 21 at the free-throw line.
Wilson, the 2020 league MVP, is averaging 22.3 points this season, third in the league behind Seattle Jewell Loyd and New York’s Breanna Stewart.
Kelsey Plum added 20 points and Chelsea Gray had 16 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds for league-best Las Vegas (29-4), which is seeking a second straight title. The Aces reached 100-plus points for the ninth time this season.
Las Vegas led 56-55 at halftime. Wilson had 22 points and Atlanta guard Rhyne Howard scored 21 before the break. The Aces went 20 of 21 from the free-throw line and the Dream made all 17 attempts in the half. The teams finished with a combined 69 free-throw attempts.
Howard finished with 27 points and Haley Jones added 23 for Atlanta (16-17). Danielle Robinson had 17 points, with 11 coming at the free-throw line. Allisha Gray, averaging a team-high 17.5 points per game, did not play due to an ankle injury.
SKY STOMP STORM, END FIVE-GAME SKID
Dana Evans came off the bench to pump in a team-high 23 points Tuesday night as the Chicago Sky snapped a five-game losing streak with a 102-79 thumping of the visiting Seattle Storm.
Evans also dished out eight assists for the Sky (13-20), who canned 50.6 percent of their field-goal attempts and committed just four turnovers. Marina Mabrey scored 19 points and Alanna Smith added 14 on just four shot attempts, hitting all of them (one a 3-pointer) and going 5 of 5 at the foul line.
Kahleah Copper chipped in 12 points and four steals for the Sky, while Courtney Williams netted 10 points. Chicago earned an 18-1 advantage in points off turnovers and outscored Seattle 39-21 off the bench. The Sky led by as many as 31 points.
Jewell Loyd scored a game-high 26 points for the Storm, who also got 13 from Ezi Magbegor and 10 points from Sami Whitcomb. Seattle, which won six of its previous nine games, made only 38 percent of its field-goal tries and couldn’t come up with a defensive scheme to stop Chicago.
The Sky took the lead for good when Ruthy Hebard converted a short bank shot with 1:55 left in the first quarter, initiating a 10-2 spurt that ended the period. Evans canned a pair of free throws after a flagrant foul for a 27-19 advantage at the end of the period.
Seattle drew within 35-29 during the second quarter before Chicago gained significant separation with a 13-3 run that Elizabeth Williams capped with a hook shot at the 2:50 mark for a 16-point cushion. The Sky took a 50-40 lead to intermission.
The advantage never dropped below double figures in the second half as Chicago started with a 9-2 run that Mabrey ended with a short jumper for a 17-point advantage, the Sky’s biggest to that point. Evans’ free throws with 1.9 seconds showing enabled the Sky to make it 77-60 after three quarters.
Chicago trails the idle Los Angeles Sparks by a game for the last WNBA playoff position. Seattle is four games behind Los Angeles.
SUN HANG ON TO BEAT MYSTICS, 68-64
DeWanna Bonner made a tiebreaking 3-pointer after the Sun saw a big lead vanish, allowing Connecticut to pull out a 68-64 victory against the host Washington Mystics on Tuesday night.
The Sun needed late-game defensive stops to secure the win. The Mystics missed their last six shots from the field after tying the game at 63-63 with 1:54 left to play.
Alyssa Thomas racked up 22 points and 10 rebounds, while Bonner finished with 17 points. Tiffany Hayes added 12 points for the Sun (23-10), who won their second game in a row following a three-game skid.
Nathasha Cloud racked up 19 points and Shakira Austin provided 13 points and seven rebounds for the Mystics (15-18), who again played without standout forward Elena Delle Donne.
Washington has lost back-to-back home games following a two-game winning streak as it tries to secure a playoff spot. Connecticut clinched a postseason berth over the weekend.
Bonner’s go-ahead basket came with 1:37 remaining and ended what was nearly a five-minute scoring drought for the Sun.
The Mystics missed their next two shots before Austin went 1-for-2 on free throws with 34.1 seconds to play. Washington kept possession by using an offensive rebound to extend its chances, but the Mystics missed three shots with a chance to either tie or move into the lead.
Bonner sank a pair of foul shots at the 3.1-second mark to help seal the outcome.
Thomas was 10 of 16 from the field, but the Mystics kept her under control for chunks of the second half.
Washington went 13-for-15 on free throws, but it was hurt by 20 turnovers. The Mystics did have good defensive moments, compiling seven blocked shots to go with a 38-28 rebounding advantage.
The Mystics wiped out a 14-point, second-half deficit, pulling even on Austin’s late, fourth-quarter jumper.
The Sun led 36-31 at halftime and then scored the first nine points of the second half.
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
FORMER HOUSTON FORWARD REGGIE CHANEY DIES AT 23
Reggie Chaney, who played five years of college basketball and graduated from the University of Houston in May, died on Monday, the school announced the school announced on Tuesday. Chaney was 23.
Chaney was found unresponsive in his apartment on Monday. Police in Arlington, Texas, told the Houston Chronicle that foul play was not suspected but a cause of death would only be determined after an investigation.
Chaney played two season at Arkansas from 2018-20 before transferring to Houston. He was a part-time starter on the Cougars team that reached the 2021 Final Four, starting 13 of his 32 games and averaging 4.7 points per game that season.
“First in his family to graduate from college,” Houston coach Kelvin Sampson wrote in a social media post. “Reached his dream of signing a professional basketball contract. He was leaving Monday, Aug. 28th for Greece.
“Thank you, God, for allowing Reggie to come into our lives. Rest easy Reg. Your legacy will live on forever.”
Chaney was named the American Athletic Conference Sixth Man of the Year for 2022-23. Across 167 collegiate games (33 starts), Chaney averaged 4.0 points and 2.9 rebounds.
GOLF NEWS
PGA TOUR ENDS ITS SEASON AT EAST LAKE FOR TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
PGA TOUR
TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Site: Atlanta.
Course: East Lake GC. Yardage: 7,346. Par: 70.
Bonus money: $75 million. Winner’s share: $18 million.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 1-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-7 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, noon to 1:30 p.m. (Golf Channel), 1:30-6 p.m. (CBS).
Defending champion: Rory McIlroy.
FedEx Cup leader: Scottie Scheffler.
Last week: Viktor Hovland won the BMW Championship.
Notes: The PGA Tour ends its season with the top 30 players at the Tour Championship competing for the FedEx Cup and its $18 million bonus. Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 seed and starts the tournament at 10-under par, two shots ahead of second-seed Viktor Hovland. … The final five players start at even par. … Only 16 players in the field were at the Tour Championship a year ago. … Rory McIlroy is the only three-time winner of the FedEx Cup. He is the No. 3 seed at East Lake. … McIlroy rallied from six shots behind in the final round last year to beat Scheffler. … Ryder Cup qualifying for the United States ended last week. Zach Johnson will announce six captain’s picks next Tuesday. … FedEx Cup money does not count as official. Scheffler ends the year with just over $21 million, a record. Jon Rahm was next on the list at $16.5 million. … In the previous 16 years of the FedEx Cup, only three players who had the No. 1 seed at the Tour Championship have gone on to win. Tiger Woods did it twice. The others were Vijay Singh (2008) and Dustin Johnson (2020).
Next tournament: Fortinet Championship on Sept. 14-17.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/
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LPGA TOUR
CPKC WOMEN’S CANADIAN OPEN
Site: Vancouver, British Columbia.
Course: Shaughnessy Golf and CC. Yardage: 6,709. Par: 72.
Prize money: $2.5 million. Winner’s share: $375,000.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 6:30-9:30 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 7-10 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Paula Reto.
Race to CME Globe leader: Lilia Vu.
Last week: Alexa Pano won the ISPS Handa World Invitational.
Notes: The Canadian Women’s Open is the final qualifying event for the U.S. team at the Solheim Cup. Four players have clinched spots on the team — two-time major winner Lilia Vu, Nelly Korda, U.S. Women’s Open champion Allisen Corpuz and Megan Khang. … The field is one of the strongest of the year, with nine of the top 10 from the women’s world ranking. The only one missing is Charley Hull of England. … Shaughnessy has hosted the men’s Canadian Open four times, most recently in 2011. It hosted an LPGA Tour event in 1969 won by Carol Mann, but it was not the Canadian Women’s Open. … Lexi Thompson is in the field. She is No. 157 in the Race to CME Globe and in danger of losing her LPGA card without having to use a one-time career money exemption. Thompson also has the final spot for the seven automatic qualifiers for the Solheim Cup. Andrea Lee is only 12.5 points behind her. … Rose Zhang is in the field. She is in line for the Solheim Cup, based on her world ranking.
Next week: Portland Classic.
Online: https://www.lpga.com/
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EUROPEAN TOUR
D+D REAL CZECH MASTERS
Site: Prague.
Course: Albatross Golf Resort. Yardage: 7,468. Par: 72.
Prize money: $2 million. Winner’s share: $333,333.
Television: Thursday-Friday, 7 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 6:30-11 a.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Maximilian Kieffer.
Race to Dubai leader: Rory McIlroy.
Last week: Daniel Brown won the ISPS Handa Invitational.
Notes: Normally a quiet week on the European tour, the field is boosted by the Ryder Cup qualifying ending in two weeks. Among those in the field are former British Open champion Shane Lowry and Victor Perez of France. … Also playing this week are several players trying to earn one of three spots through European points, such as Jorge Campillo, Yannik Paul and Thorbjorn Olesen. … Qualifying ends next week at the Omega European Masters in Switzerland. … Francesco Molinari is in the field. He was appointed a vice captain for the Ryder Cup. … The tournament dates to 2014. Jamie Donaldson won the first year and later scored the winning Ryder Cup point for Europe at Gleneagles. … The Czech Masters features two American winners, Paul Peterson in 2016 and Johannes Veerman in 2021. … Rory Sabbatini is playing. The Czech Republic borders his (now) home country of Slovakia.
Next week: Omega European Masters.
Online: https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/
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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
THE ALLY CHALLENGE
Site: Grand Blanc, Michigan.
Course: Warwick Hills Golf & CC. Yardage: 7,085. Par: 72.
Prize money: $2 million. Winner’s share: $300,000.
Television: Friday, 9:30-11:30 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Saturday, 3-5 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-4 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Defending champion: Steve Stricker.
Charles Schwab Cup leader: Steve Stricker.
Last week: Ken Duke won the Shaw Charity Classic.
Notes: Steve Stricker, who has five wins already this season, returns after a five-week break. His last start was the Kaulig Companies Championship at Firestone, where Stricker won his third major of the year. … Each winner from the tournament’s inaugural year in 2018 is in the field, including Jim Furyk. He is playing for the first time since June. … Bernhard Langer, who holds the PGA Tour Champions career victory record, turns 66 on Sunday. He already has won twice this year. … Six tournaments remain before the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs begin. … Joe Durant holds the tournament scoring record at 17-under 199. … Warwick Hills previously hosted a PGA Tour event. Among past champions of the Buick Open in the field for the Ally Challenge are Furyk, Justin Leonard and Vijay Singh, who won three times at Warwick Hills. … Ken Duke last week at the Shaw Charity Classic joined Mark Hensby as first-time winners on the PGA Tour Champions this year.
Next tournament: Ascension Charity Classic.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/pgatour-champions
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KORN FERRY TOUR
ALBERTSONS BOISE OPEN
Site: Boise, Idaho.
Course: Hillcrest CC. Yardage: 6,880. Par: 71.
Prize money: $1.5 million. Winner’s share: $270,000.
Television: Thursday, 9:30-11:30 p.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Friday, 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Saturday, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Golf Channel-tape delay); Sunday, 4-6 p.m. (Golf Channel).
Previous winner: Will Gordon.
Points leader: Ben Kohles.
Last week: Chan Kim won the Magnit Championship.
Next tournament: Simmons Bank Open on Sept. 14-17.
Online: https://www.pgatour.com/korn-ferry-tour/
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LIV GOLF
Last tournament: Cameron Smith won LIV Golf-Greenbrier.
Next tournament: LIV Golf-Chicago on Sept. 22-24.
Points leader: Cameron Smith.
Online: https://www.livgolf.com/
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OTHER TOURS
Epson Tour: Circling Raven Championship, Circling Raven GC, Worley, Indiana. Defending champion: Jillian Hollis. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/
Asian Tour: St. Andrews Bay Championship, Fairmont St. Andrews (Torrance), St. Andrews, Scotland. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://asiantour.com/
Japan Golf Tour: Sansan KBC, Augusta Keya GC, Fukuoka, Japan. Defending champion: Riki Kawamoto. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/
Challenge Tour: Dormy Open, Askersunds GC, Ammeberg, Sweden. Defending champion: Emilio Cuartero Blanco. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/challenge-tour/
PGA Tour Canada: CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open, Southport Golf & CC, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Previous winner: Parker Coody. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/canada
Sunshine Tour: Bain’s Whisky Ubunye Championship, Pretoria, CC. Pretoria, South Africa.
Legends Tour: Staysure PGA Seniors Championship, Trump International GL, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Defending champion: Adilson Da Silva. Online: https://www.legendstour.com/
Japan LPGA: Nitori Ladies, Otaru CC, Hokkaido, Japan. Defending champion: Mone Inami. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/
AUTO RACING NEWS
AUTO RACING: DAYTONA OFFERS LAST CHANCE FOR ELLIOTT TO MAKE PLAYOFFS; OPEN-WHEELERS BACK IN ACTION
NASCAR CUP SERIES
Coke Zero Sugar 400
Site: Daytona Beach, Florida.
Schedule: Friday, qualifying, 5:05 p.m.; Saturday, race, 7 p.m. (NBC).
Track: Daytona International Speedway.
Race distance: 160 laps, 400 miles.
Last year: Austin Dillon won after starting 21st, the deepest in the field any race winner started last season.
Last race: William Byron led 66 of the 90 laps, including the last 33, at Watkins Glen to win his series-best fifth race of the season.
Fast facts: This race will set the field for the 10-race, 16-driver playoffs. … Among the drivers needing to win are 2020 series champion Chase Elliott, who fell two spots to 21st in the standings after running out of gas with 36 laps to go. … Martin Truex Jr.’s lead over runnerup Denny Hamlin is 39 points, leaving the Joe Gibbs Racing teammates to battle for the regular season title. … Byron is third, 76 points behind Truex. … Former champions Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski both clinched spots in the playoffs despite neither having won a race this season.
Next race: Sept. 3, Darlington, South Carolina.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES
Wawa 250 Powered by Coca-Cola
Site: Daytona Beach, Florida.
Schedule: Friday, qualifying, 3 p.m., and race, 7:30 p.m. (USA).
Track: Daytona International Speedway.
Race distance: 100 laps, 250 miles.
Last year: Kyle Larson won after starting third.
Last race: Sam Mayer spun race leader and archrival Ty Gibbs following a late restart at Watkins Glen and won for the second time in four weeks.
Fast facts: Gibbs, a Cup series regular, led 70 of the 86 laps but finished 17th after being nudged aside by Mayer. … There are three races remaining before the 12-driver playoff field is set. … Sheldon Creed finished second, followed by Parker Kligerman, Ross Chastain and Connor Mosack. … John Hunter Nemechek was sixth and moved within nine points of Austin Hill for the series points lead. Justin Allgaier is 34 back. … Riley Herbst entered the race with a 34-point lead over Kligerman, but Herbst broke a track bar mount late in the second stage and finished 35th, allowing Kligerman to close the gap to three points.
Next race: Sept. 2, Darlington, South Carolina.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
NASCAR TRUCK SERIES
Clean Harbors 175
Site: West Allis, Wisconsin.
Schedule: Saturday, practice, 2 p.m.; Sunday, qualifying, 11:30 a.m., and race, 4 p.m. (FS1).
Track: Milwaukee Mile.
Race distance: 100 laps, 250 miles.
Last year: 175 laps, 177.62 miles.
Last race: Ty Majeski led 179 of 200 laps at Indianapolis in the first race of the playoffs to guarantee himself a spot in the next round.
Fast facts: Three-time series champion Matt Crafton and Matt DiBenedetto are the drivers below the cut line with two races remaining in the first playoff round. Neither has won a race this season. They trail eighth-place Nick Sanchez, another non-winner, by two points and three points, respectively.
Next race: Sept. 8, Kansas City, Kansas.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
FORMULA ONE
Dutch Grand Prix
Site: Zandvoort, The Netherlands.
Schedule: Friday, practice, 6:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.; Saturday, practice, 5:30 a.m. and qualifying, 9 a.m.; Sunday, race, 9 a.m. (ESPN).
Track: Circuit Zandvoort.
Race distance: 72 laps, 190.504 miles.
Last year: Max Verstappen won from the pole position.
Last race: Verstappen, the two-time reigning champion, won the Belgian Grand Prix, his eighth consecutive victory and 10th in 12 races, to extend his points lead over Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez to 125 points.
Fast facts: With a maximum of 26 points available to the race winner in each race, Verstappen could go four races in a row without earning a point and still be the points leader. … He and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez have combined to win the last 13 races, including all 12 this season, and 22 of the last 23. The last non-Red Bulls driver to win was George Russell of Mercedes in the penultimate race last season.
Next race: Sept. 3, Monza, Italy.
Online: http://www.formula1.com
INDYCAR
Bommarito Auto Group 500
Site: Madison, Illinois.
Schedule: Saturday, practice, 11 a.m., qualifying, 2 p.m., high line practice, 5 p.m., final practice, 5:45 p.m.; Sunday, race, 3:30 p.m. (NBC).
Track: World Wide Technology Raceway.
Race distance: 260 laps, 310.686 miles.
Last year: Josef Newgarden won after starting third.
Last race: Scott Dixon overcame a first-lap spin at Indianapolis, used pole-sitter Graham Rahal’s late pit stop to grab the lead and stretched his streak of seasons with at least one victory to 19, extending his own record.
Fast facts: Alex Palou, the 2021 series champion, has a 101-point lead over six-time champion Dixon and a 105-point lead over two-time champion Newgarden. … Palou and Newgarden share the lead with four wins each, but Palou’s all came within a five-race period. … Through 14 races, only seven drivers have earned victories.
Next race: Sept. 3, Portland, Oregon.
Online: http://www.indycar.com
NHRA DRAG RACING
Last event: Antron Brown won in Top Fuel and Ron Capps won in Funny car in Minnesota.
Next event: Aug. 30-Sept. 4, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Online: http://www.nhra.com
WORLD OF OUTLAWS
Next events: Aug. 25, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Aug. 26, West Fargo, North Dakota.
Online: http://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars
HOCKEY NEWS
LIGHTNING SIGN BRANDON HAGEL TO AN 8-YEAR EXTENSION WORTH $52 MILLION
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed forward Brandon Hagel to an eight-year contract extension worth $52 million.
Vice president and general manager Julien BriseBois announced the deal Tuesday. Hagel will count $6.5 million against the salary cap annually when the new contract kicks in for the 2024-25 season.
The soon-to-be 28-year-old had a career-best 64 points in 81 games last season, his first full one with the Lightning since they acquired him in a trade with Chicago. Tampa Bay gave up two first-round draft picks to get Hagel from the Blackhawks before the 2022 trade deadline.
The Lightning, who won the Stanley Cup back to back in 2020 and ’21, are aiming to keep their championship window open for years to come. This signing makes Hagel an important part of that quest.
Hagel joins fellow forwards Nikita Kucherov, Anthony Cirelli, Brayden Point and Nick Paul, defensemen Mikhail Sergachev and Erik Cernak and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy as players signed for at least three more seasons.
He is earning a significant raise from the just over $2 million he’ll get this season. The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, native who was originally drafted by Buffalo in the sixth round in 2016 has 143 points in 240 regular-season and playoff games.
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COLTS NEWS
COLTS RB JONATHAN TAYLOR ATTENDS FIRST PRACTICE IN WEEKS
For the first time in two weeks, Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor attended practice but remained an observer on Tuesday, one day after receiving permission to seek a trade.
Taylor received the blessing of the team to seek a trade on Monday, but the likelihood of a deal could be hindered by the reported asking price of a first-round pick or a package of draft picks.
The disgruntled Taylor is dealing with an ankle injury and informed the Colts he wanted to move on after a face-to-face meeting with team owner Jim Irsay. Irsay informed Taylor that a long-term contract offer would not be extended until the end of the 2023 season.
Taylor, who is on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list after offseason ankle surgery, left the team twice during training camp, ostensibly to rehab his ankle out of state.
Taylor is in the final year of his contract and has a base salary of $4.3 million. Given recent contracts for players at the position, it’s unclear where Taylor’s asking price with the Colts was set or if he’d consider a short-term deal to grease the wheels for a trade out of Indy.
The Colts shared no details about the rehab protocol or process in place and head coach Shane Steichen effectively stopped discussing Taylor’s status last week.
“Now, he’s finishing his rehab process,” Colts general manager Chris Ballard told SiriusXM NFL Radio. “Hopefully, as we move forward here, we’ll get him back. But we need to get him 100 percent healthy before we do anything.”
An All-Pro in 2021, Taylor led the NFL in rushing that year with 1,811 yards. In his three NFL seasons, he has amassed 3,841 yards on the ground with 33 touchdowns, and 802 yards receiving with three scores.
5 POTENTIAL LANDING SPOTS FOR TAYLOR
The Indianapolis Colts and Jonathan Taylor might be heading toward a split now that the star running back can reportedly seek a trade.
Taylor is just 24 years old and one year removed from a first-team All-Pro nod, but he also finished the 2022 campaign on injured reserve due to an ankle injury. Whichever team acquires Taylor will need to be OK with his medical status, as the Colts are asking for a first-round pick or a package equivalent to one in return, a source told ESPN’s Stephen Holder.
Here’s a look at five teams that could take a swing to acquire the explosive playmaker:
Miami Dolphins
There might not be a better match than Miami when you consider scheme fit and team need. Taylor would fit in perfectly with coach Mike McDaniel’s wide zone scheme, and his elite speed would mesh perfectly with the team’s other explosive weapons. Raheem Mostert, Jeff Wilson, and rookie De’Von Achane would fill complementary roles behind Taylor.
The Dolphins showed a willingness to trade away premier picks for offensive weapons when they acquired Tyreek Hill ahead of the 2022 campaign, and the immediate returns were excellent as Hill topped 1,700 yards and scored eight touchdowns.
Miami’s main roadblock is its projected cap situation. Taylor’s on the last year of his rookie deal and will be looking for an extension, but the Dolphins are projected to be $32 million over next year’s salary cap, per Over the Cap. General manager Chris Grier would likely need to restructure some contracts and extend other key players to create the necessary room.
Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles have franchise quarterback Jalen Hurts locked up for the foreseeable future, an excellent offensive line, and are slated to have about $47 million in cap space in 2024, according to Over the Cap. Those are all of the necessary ingredients for a great fit, and the team is in the middle of a Super Bowl window.
General manager Howie Roseman may not be willing to give up the capital required to acquire Taylor with the Colts’ current asking price. But if that price goes down, Philadelphia could pull the trigger to bolster a running game that was fifth in yards per contest (147.6) in 2022, with Miles Sanders leading the way. The Eagles own the New Orleans Saints’ second-round pick in next year’s draft, which could play a factor.
Sanders departed for the Carolina Panthers in free agency and was replaced with Rashaad Penny and D’Andre Swift, both of whom have dealt with injury struggles in their careers. If Indy is willing to take a Day 2 draft pick and one of those two runners, we could see Taylor taking handoffs in the City of Brotherly Love.
Chicago Bears
Chicago’s a bit of a dark-horse candidate after finishing with the worst record in the NFL a year ago, but this team is committed to running the ball, and Taylor would upgrade its biggest strength. The Bears led the league in rushing yards per contest a season ago with 177.3, in large part due to quarterback Justin Fields’ explosiveness.
Taylor would offer an instant boost to the team’s backfield talent. The Bears are projected to use some combination of D’Onta Foreman, Khalil Herbert, and rookie Roschon Johnson to handle the bulk of their running back touches this year. Foreman’s never reached 1,000 yards from scrimmage, and Herbert’s career high is 788. Taylor’s totals through three seasons are 1,468 in 15 games in 2020, a league-best 2,171 in 17 games in 2021, and 1,004 in 11 contests a year ago.
The Bears have the requisite salary cap room and draft ammo to make the move, too. They’re scheduled to have almost $86 million in cap space next year, according to Over the Cap, and have both their own and the Panthers’ first-round pick in the 2024 draft.
Kansas City Chiefs
Defensive coordinators around the NFL would suffer many sleepless nights if Taylor made his way to Kansas City. The Chiefs haven’t ranked worse than sixth in points per game since Patrick Mahomes took over the starting job in 2018. Adding Taylor to a backfield that already includes 2022 breakout runner Isiah Pacheco, third-down back Jerick McKinnon, and 2020 first-rounder Clyde Edwards-Helaire would all but guarantee that streak continues.
This move would take some salary cap gymnastics to accomplish, as Kansas City has just under $750,000 in cap space for 2023, according to Over the Cap. However, the team is projected to have a healthy $52 million to play with in 2024. General manager Brett Veach traded for Kadarius Toney last year, albeit for far less than a first-round pick, so he could be willing to make an offer if the Colts’ asking price comes down.
Another, arguably more important, roadblock is Chris Jones’ lack of an extension. The All-Pro defensive tackle has held out of offseason activities thus far as he looks to secure a contract commensurate with the upper echelon of interior defensive linemen. Veach and the Chiefs could prioritize getting an extension done with Jones before trying to acquire Taylor.
Los Angeles Rams
Like the Dolphins, Taylor is a seemingly perfect fit in Sean McVay’s offensive scheme. Taylor’s vision and speed could also help make up for the team’s lackluster offensive line as the Rams look to retool and make their way back to the playoffs.
The team’s 5-12 finish a year ago was disappointing after winning Super Bowl LVI the year prior. Matthew Stafford, Cooper Kupp, and Aaron Donald all missed significant time a year ago but are expected to be healthy and ready to go for the 2023 campaign. Adding Taylor to that group would give the Rams an excellent core.
General manager Les Snead has proven his willingness to trade away picks for superstars in the past, and doing so for Taylor would provide a massive upgrade. Los Angeles’ backfield is currently comprised of Cam Akers, who has flashed potential when healthy, Kyren Williams, and rookie Zach Evans. With about $47 million in 2024 cap space, per Over the Cap, the Rams could acquire and extend Taylor for the foreseeable future.
INDIANS BASEBALL
I-CUBS HOMERS BEST INDIANS IN SERIES OPENER
INDIANAPOLIS – The Iowa Cubs took an insurmountable lead with five runs in the first two innings and never slowed down, plating double digits to defeat the Indianapolis Indians in Tuesday night’s series opener at Victory Field, 10-4.
The I-Cubs (69-49, 26-19) offensive outpouring was highlighted by a trio of home runs to spark a pair of four-run frames. With one run already scored in the first inning, Jake Slaughter launched a homer to left field to plate three. In the seventh, Matt Mervis and Alexander Canario went back-to-back to score four insurance runs in the frame.
The Indians (55-64, 22-23) hit their share of home runs, with Miguel Andújar and Jared Triolo each sending solo shots out to left field in the sixth. Triolo’s second Triple-A dinger of the season narrowly dodged the foul pole to leave the yard. Indianapolis then scored two runs in the eighth on a two-run single by Domingo Leyba.
Jared Jones (L, 2-3) got the start for Indianapolis and tossed 5.0 innings with six runs allowed, three walks and five strikeouts. His counterpart, Shane Greene (W, 1-0), tossed 5.0 shutout frames with six punchouts.
Andújar and Triolo led the offense with three hits apiece, with Andújar finishing a triple shy of the cycle.
The Indians will look to knot the series tomorrow afternoon at 1:35 PM ET at Victory Field. In a battle of southpaws, Cam Alldred (7-6, 5.30) will take the mound against LHP Jordan Wicks (3-0, 3.82).
INDY ELEVEN PREVIEW
INDY LOOKING FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT VICTORY
#MEMvIND Preview
Indy Eleven at Memphis 901 FC
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 – 8:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. CT
Autozone Park – Memphis, Tenn.
Follow Live
Streaming Video: ESPN+ (click to subscribe)
SiriusXM FC Channel 157
In-game updates: @IndyElevenLive Twitter feed
Stats: #MEMvIND MatchCenter at USLChampionship.com
2023 USL Championship Records
Memphis 901 FC: 10W-6L-7D (3) 37 pts; 4th in Eastern Conference
Indy Eleven: 9W-9L-7D (4), 34 pts; 6th in Eastern Conference
Community Health Network Sports Medicine Indy Eleven Injury Report
OUT: TBD
QUESTIONABLE: TBD
SETTING THE SCENE
The Boys in Blue return to action Wednesday when they hit the road for the third game of a three match road trip against Memphis 901 FC.
The Eleven are coming off a 3-2 win over El Paso Locomotive FC and are 3-2-0 in their last five games. With an 9-9-7 record, Indy is sixth in the USLC Eastern Conference. Memphis is 2-2-1 in its last five matches and is coming off a 1-0 win over San Diego. MEM is fourth in the Eastern Conference at 10-6-7.
| MEM | IND | |
| 23 | Games | 25 |
| 40 | Goals | 32 |
| 37 | Goals Conceded | 28 |
| 27 | Assists | 22 |
| 99 | SOT | 84 |
| 98 | Shots Faced | 94 |
| 6 | Clean Sheets | 8 |
SERIES VS. MEMPHIS
Saturday marks the eleventh meeting between the two teams, with Memphis holding the 5-3-2 all-time advantage in USL Championship action.
MEM leads: 5-3-2 | GF 15, GA 13
Recent Meetings
7.29.23 | home | L, 2-1
7.23.22 | home | D, 1-1
5.14.22 | at MEM | L, 2-1
10.30.21 | at MEM | L, 2-0
9.22.21 | at MEM | L, 1-0
2023 USL Championship Regular Season
Indy Eleven 1:2 Memphis 901 FC
Saturday, August 5, 2023 – 7:00 p.m. ET
Michael A. Carroll Stadium – Indianapolis, Indiana
Scoring Summary
MEM – Lucas Turci (Aaron Molloy) 38’
IND – Aodhan Quinn (Solomon Asante) 57’
MEM – Akeem Ward (Laurent Kissiedou) 81′
LAST TIME OUT
ELP 2:3 IND
AUGUST 19, 2023
Indy Eleven defeated El Paso Locomotive FC on the road Saturday night, 3-2, in comeback fashion. With the win, Indy has secured its most wins on the road in USL Championship action with seven, surpassing the six-win total in 2019. The Eleven are now 9-9-7, while El Paso falls to 9-10-5. The victory kept El Paso winless in 10 straight matches and gave the Boys in Blue its third three-match unbeaten streak in USLC action this season, which includes three straight victories for the first time.
El Paso took the lead in the 21st minute when a Marc Navarro cross found Eric Calvillo open on the back post for a header back across the net. The teams were knotted at seven shots apiece with one on target after the first 45, but the El Paso captain secured the difference maker in the frame.
The teams quickly traded strikes in the second half with Indy grabbing the equalizer from Sebastian Guenzatti in the 53rd minute. The forward’s seventh goal of the season, off an assist from Jack Blake, was quickly erased as El Passo’s Navarro scored in the 55th minute to retake the lead. The goal was 66th of Guenzatti’s USLC career, moving him up to a tie for eighth all-time.
Two unanswered came next for the Boys in Blue after Callum Chapman-Page scored his first for the Eleven off an assist from Adrian Diz Pe and Douglas Martinez nabbed his third of the season, compliments of a long ball from Younes Boudadi, to secure the match winner.
USL Championship Regular Season
El Paso Locomotive FC 2:3 Indy Eleven
Saturday, August 19, 2023 – 9:30 p.m. ET
Southwest University Park – El Paso, Texas
2023 USL Championship Records
El Paso Locomotive FC: 9W-10L-5D (-9) 32 pts
Indy Eleven: 9W-9L-7D (4), 34 pts
Scoring Summary
ELP – Eric Calvillo (Marc Navarro) 21’
IND – Sebastian Guenzatti (Jack Blake) 53’
ELP – Marc Navarro (Petar Petrovic) 55’
IND – Callum Chapman-Page (Adrian Diz Pe) 64’
IND – Douglas Martinez (Younes Boudadi) 71’
Discipline Summary
ELP – Ricardo Zacarias (caution) 32’
ELP – Eric Calvillo (caution) 45+3’
IND – Jack Blake (caution) 47’
ELP – Benny Diaz (caution) 58’
ELP – Bench (caution) 84′
50/50 CLUB
Solomon Asante and Aodhan Quinn became the first two players in USL Championship history to reach both 50 regular season goals and 50 regular season assists. Asante (51G/52A) had three assists in the 4-0 win over Birmingham (8.9) to push himself over the plateau. Quinn (53G/50A) added his 50th assist in the 1-0 win at Miami (8.12).
NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL
NO. 13 NOTRE DAME HOPES DUBLIN GAME AGAINST NAVY HELPS EXPAND INTERNATIONAL FAN BASE
Notre Dame is on a mission.
Beat Navy, yes, but it has been 11 years since Notre Dame last played in Ireland. There is a whole new generation of potential fans to convert on the Emerald Isle and beyond. Already an iconic brand in the United States, Notre Dame gets an opportunity to grow internationally when it takes on the Midshipmen at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.
“Our goal here is to expand the brand and bring Notre Dame to the world,” said Aaron Horvath, an athletics department spokesman and brand specialist.
Making it easy to watch games is one way to do it, so Notre Dame is making Irish home games free to stream for international fans via Fighting Irish TV, which last year cost $35 for the season.
Notre Dame is on a mission.
Beat Navy, yes, but it has been 11 years since Notre Dame last played in Ireland. There is a whole new generation of potential fans to convert on the Emerald Isle and beyond. Already an iconic brand in the United States, Notre Dame gets an opportunity to grow internationally when it takes on the Midshipmen at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.
“Our goal here is to expand the brand and bring Notre Dame to the world,” said Aaron Horvath, an athletics department spokesman and brand specialist.
Making it easy to watch games is one way to do it, so Notre Dame is making Irish home games free to stream for international fans via Fighting Irish TV, which last year cost $35 for the season.
NOTRE DAME WOMEN’S SOCCER
GAME 3: IRISH CONTINUE HOME SLATE WITH BUTLER
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The No. 12 Notre Dame women’s soccer squad (1-0-1) continues to roll on with its opening-season four-game homestand. This week, it’s in-state foe Butler (1-1-0) on Thursday, Aug. 24, then No. 10 Arkansas (1-0-0) on Sunday, Aug. 27. Thursday’s contest against the Bulldogs is set for 5 p.m. ET on ACCNX.
The Fighting Irish remain unbeaten after week one and are coming off a dominant 3-0 victory over Ball State.
GAETINO ALREADY MAKING AN IMPACT
In the three halves that Eva Gaetino has played, she and the rest of the Irish defense have only allowed two total shots on goal (Unfortunately one of those shots was the Milwaukee one that went in with 30 seconds left from midfield).
Not only is she locking it down in the backfield, but she’s also making herself an offensive threat on corners. She scored off a corner kick against Ball State on Aug. 20.
CUE THE SUCCESSION THEME SONG
If you are looking for a freshman that’s going to make an instant impact, look no further than 5-8 center midfielder Morgan Roy. The Michigan native started in the season opener and finished off a beautiful goal in the 2nd half.
Roy was ranked 59th in her class and won a Super Y National Championship.
Coach Nate Norman on Roy – “She’s an extremely creative and fun player to watch. She loves to attack, create chances and score goals. She has a great feel for the game.”
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER FRESHMAN DELIVERS
It was Roy in the season opener in terms of a freshman delivering a goal, then it was Meg Mrowicki in game two victory over Ball State. Mrowicki subbed in late in the first half and made her presence known, finishing off a great low cross from Audrey Weiss.
Mrowicki is a 5-10 forward from Arlington Heights, Illinois. Coach Norman on Mrowicki – “Meg is a strong, athletic and physical forward. She gives defenders issues with her sheer power. She can beat you in so many ways.”
GETTING THE SHOTS UP, NOW FINISH
In a similar storyline to last season, in week one, the Irish got plenty of shots off, unfortunately, they just weren’t finding the back of the net at the rate they wanted. After week one, Notre Dame ranks 5th in the country in shots per game with 28.5. They rank 24th in shots on goal per game with 10.5.
ND has posted a .368 SOG pct and is averaging a goal every 4.2 SOG.
Maddie Mercado is leading the charge with 6.5 shots per game, which ranks 3rd nationally. She also averages 2.0 shots on goal per game, the same as freshman Charlie Codd.
STANDOUTS FROM BALL STATE
Junior Sophia Fisher received high praise from Coach Norman following the 3-0 win over Ball State on Aug. 20. Fisher earned her first career start and then played all 90 minutes at defensive mid, winning ball after ball. Fisher even tallied her first goal of the season in the 84th minute, putting away a rebound off a corner kick.
Also want to shout out midfielder Erin Hohnstein. The graduate came off the bench and posted her first multi-assist game of her career.
MORE FROM MERCADO
In a preseason interview with Fighting Irish Media, Mercado said she wants one part of her legacy to be setting the goal for yourself to get better each and every year. And to put that into perspective, last year was Mercado’s best in an Irish uniform. She scored a career best 10 goals up top, which ranked 8th in the ACC and third on the team. She also set a new career high in game-winners with four, which included the 1-0 victory over No. 2 Virginia. Lastly, she tied her career high in assists with four, to total a new career best of 24 points.
With that said, she already got goal number one in game one. It was the first ND goal of the 2023 campaign in fact. And even she would admit, it could have easily been an opening day hat trick for the graduate against Milwaukee.
BECOMING MORE OF AN OFFENSIVE THREAT
Speaking of expanded roles, look for the growth in sophomore Leah Klenke. Last season, she was named the 7th best freshman in the country by Top Drawer Soccer and made their Freshman Best XI First Team. She also earned ACC All-Freshman Team honors. She started all 23 games as a freshman at left-back and even added two goals and two assists to her name. This year, Klenke looks to get a little more offensive, pushing up into the left-wing midfield position.
Klenke is also coming off a summer where she helped the USA U20 squad win the U20 CONCACAF championship.
IRISH LYNCH-PIN
Irish fans will have to wait no more to see their hometown girl on the pitch this season. Florida State transfer, national champion, and Granger, Indiana, native, Kristina Lynch will be back in action for the 2023 season – expected to start in the midfield on the right wing.
Lynch missed all of last season rehabbing an ankle injury sustained in the preseason.
At FSU, she was a two-time NCAA champion (2018 & 2021). She played in 77 games as a Seminole, including 51 starts. She scored a total of 12 goals, with three assists, good for 27 points.
The most notable goal at Florida State – the game-winning goal in the ACC Championship over North Carolina in 2018.
600 wins
With the win over Ball State on Aug. 20, Notre Dame achieved its 600th all-time program victory. A program that began back in 1988, Notre Dame has achieved three national championships and ranks third on the all-time wins list. The two teams in front – UConn and North Carolina.
NOTRE DAME WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
NOTRE DAME, PURDUE ANNOUNCE RENEWAL OF IN-STATE RIVALRY
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Two historic programs. One in-state rivalry. Notre Dame-Purdue is back.
On Tuesday, the Fighting Irish and Boilermakers announced the two teams will resume what has been a dormant series with a Dec. 17 matchup at Purcell Pavilion. The schools sit just over 100 miles apart in a basketball-rich state, but it has been a while since they’ve taken the court against each other. The last time the foes faced off during the regular season was 2012, and the last meeting came in a 2017 NCAA Tournament second-round game.
The Boilermakers went 19-11 (9-8 Big Ten) last season and made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017. Purdue fell to St. John’s in the First Four, 64-66. This year, the team will look almost completely different.
Head coach Katie Gearalds — who played at Purdue from 2003-08 — will arrive in South Bend in December with just five returners from last year’s squad and seven freshmen, per the school’s 2023-24 roster. Lasha Petree led the Boilermakers last year with 14.7 points per game, but she has moved on to play professionally in Mexico. The top returning player is guard Jeanae Terry, who led the team with 7.6 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 2.3 steals during the 2022-23 campaign.
Of note, three of Purdue’s student-athletes are South Bend natives, and all three of them attended Washington High School: Rashunda Jones, Amiyah Reynolds and Mila Reynolds. Amiyah Reynolds was the No. 43 overall recruit in the 2023 ESPN HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings, while Jones was 79th. The Reynolds are the first sister pair in Purdue women’s basketball history after Mila transferred to West Lafayette from Maryland this offseason.
Notre Dame is 13-14 all-time against Purdue, but the Irish have won the last eight meetings. Of course, the most notable meeting between the in-state rivals came on April 1, 2001. Notre Dame — led by then-point guard Niele Ivey — defeated Purdue 68-66, winning the program’s first national championship.
PURDUE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
RIVALRY RENEWED – PURDUE TO FACE NOTRE DAME IN DECEMBER
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The rivalry is renewed. Purdue and Notre Dame, the two national championship programs from Indiana, will rekindle the fiery in-state rivalry this season.
After a six-year hiatus and no regular-season matchups since 2012, the storied women’s basketball series between the Boilermakers and Fighting Irish will write its next chapter when Purdue makes the 112-mile journey to Purcell Pavilion on Dec. 17.
As part of a home-and-home series, the two clubs will meet at Mackey Arena during the non-conference portion of the 2024-25 campaign.
Purdue and Notre Dame have not played in the regular season since 2012-13, while the most recent contest came in the 2017 NCAA Tournament when the Fighting Irish outlasted Purdue 88-82 in overtime in South Bend.
Purdue leads the all-time series 14-13, but Notre Dame has won the last eight matchups. The Boilermakers last win came on Dec. 7, 2005, when then-junior Katie Gearlds scored 13 points with three rebounds and a pair of assists to lead No. 24 Purdue to a 65-54 victory over No. 10 Notre Dame.
Gearlds is entering her third campaign back at her alma mater after leading Purdue to back-to-back postseason appearances. In 2022-23, the Boilermakers knocked off a pair of ranked opponents, posted one of the best non-conference records in program history and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017.
The Boilermakers bring back five returners this year, including All-Big Ten Second Team selection Jeanae Terry. Gearlds inked five freshmen to NLIs back in November for the No. 21 class in the nation, before top-60 recruit Amiyah Reynolds picked Purdue in May.
Purdue added a pair of sophomore forwards from the transfer portal in Alaina Harper from Grand Canyon and Mila Reynolds from Maryland, sisters of Caitlyn Harper and Amiyah, respectively. Three sets of sisters will suit up in the old gold and black for the first time ever in the Reynolds, Harpers and McKenna Layden and Madison Layden.
The December bout with the Fighting Irish will be a homecoming of sorts for a trio of Boilermakers from South Bend. The Reynolds sisters and Rashunda Jones went 68-17 together over three seasons as a part of a South Bend Washington dynasty, culminating with the 2022 IHSAA 3A State Championship.
Notre Dame enters its fourth year under head coach Niele Ivey. The reigning ACC Coach of the Year has guided the Fighting Irish to the 2022-23 ACC regular season championship and back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 appearances. As a player, Ivey, led Notre Dame to a 68-66 win the 2001 NCAA National Championship Game over Purdue.
PURDUE BASEBALL
BASEBALL ANNOUNCES TALENTED GROUP OF NEWCOMERS
By: Ben Turner
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The new school year has opened on campus and Purdue baseball is proud to introduce a group of 17 newcomers into the program for the 2024 season this spring.
The Boilermakers are slated to begin their fall practice calendar the week of Sept. 11. Opportunities to see Purdue in action this fall includes the program’s open scrimmages, exhibition games and the annual Black & Gold Series. Dates for that gameday action will be announced in the coming weeks.
“August is always an exciting time of the year to bring the full team together on campus and we’re thrilled to announce our newest class of Boilermakers joining us,” head coach Greg Goff said of his year-three recruiting class. “We believe we have succeeded in attracting impact players from across the country. With Chris Marx ascending to recruiting coordinator, our staff has assembled a very talented group and we’re excited about how these Boilermakers will contribute to our program success. I’m ready to get back on the field this fall as we continue building the program after success stories like our 15-0 start in 2022 and Alexander Field attendance record this past spring.”
RECRUITING CLASS BREAKDOWN
• 17 Total Newcomers
• 7 Freshmen
• 10 Transfers (7 Four-Year, 3 Junior College)
• Players from 10 U.S. States plus 1 Australian & 1 Canadian
• By Position: 7 Pitchers (4 RHP, 3 LHP), 7 Infielders, 2 Catchers & 1 Outfielder
• Notable: National Letter of Intent signee Bishop Letson (RHP from Floyds Knobs, Ind.) was selected in the 11th round of the MLB Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers and opted to sign a professional contract
“We love the mixture of youth and experience with this class,” Marx said. “The transfers all have high-level experience and the freshmen are here right out of high school for a reason. They can all contribute and make an impact. I think these newcomers will blend well with our returning core to provide us a deep and versatile roster. Many of these student-athletes have been on campus this summer and have worked extremely hard, certainly adding to our culture.”
| PURDUE BASEBALL’S NEWCOMERS | |||||
| GROUP 1: THE TRANSFERS | |||||
| Name | Position | Height | Weight | Hometown | High School/Previous College |
| Chase Brown | INF | 6-2 | 190 | Ennis, Texas | The Colony/McLennan JC |
| Aaron Dolney | C | 6-4 | 220 | Plymouth, Mich. | Detroit Country Day/Eastern Michigan |
| Camden Gasser | INF | 5-10 | 160 | Huntingburg, Ind. | Southridge/Michigan |
| Thomas Green | INF | 6-0 | 175 | Courtenay, British Columbia | Isfeld/Oakland Univ. |
| Enas Hayden | RHP | 6-3 | 210 | Indianapolis, Ind. | Lawrence North/Purdue Fort Wayne |
| Jordan Morales | LHP | 5-9 | 170 | Souderton, Pa. | Souderton/Penn State |
| Breck Nowik | INF | 6-3 | 220 | Lake Forest, Ill. | Lake Forest/UIC |
| Keenan Spence | OF/1B | 6-5 | 230 | Caroline Springs, Australia | Howard JC |
| Logan Sutter | INF | 6-1 | 215 | Loomis, Calif. | Del Oro/Folsom Lake JC |
| Luke Wagner | LHP | 6-0 | 190 | New Cumberland, Pa. | Red Land/Georgia |
| GROUP 2: THE FRESHMEN | |||||
| Name | Position | Height | Weight | Hometown | High School/Previous College |
| Will Briggs | C | 5-11 | 185 | Shakopee, Minn. | Academy of Holy Angels |
| Amir Gray | INF | 6-1 | 200 | South Holland, Ill. | Brother Rice |
| Mac Lewis | INF | 6-0 | 165 | Vienna, Va. | James Madison |
| Will Moore | RHP | 6-3 | 205 | Creve Coeur, Mo. | Ladue Horton Watkins |
| Brayden Olson | RHP | 6-2 | 205 | St. Croix Falls, Wis. | St. Croix Falls |
| Easton Storey | LHP | 5-11 | 195 | Brighton, Mich. | Brighton |
| Cole Van Assen | RHP | 6-3 | 205 | Tinley Park, Ill. | Brother Rice |
Chase Brown, Infielder – Ennis, Texas (The Colony/McLennan JC)
• As a freshman, played in 29 games for a McLennan team that went 47-16 and won the 2021 NJCAA Division I World Series
• 2019 District Newcomer Player of the Year at The Colony HS, batting .382 with a 1.035 OPS
• .340/.418/.556 slash line in 38 career varsity games after his senior season was cut short in 2020
Aaron Dolney, Catcher – Plymouth, Mich. (Detroit Country Day/Eastern Michigan)
• Two-year starting catcher at EMU compiled a .299/.403/.537 slash line in 98 games, connecting for 18 XBH both years
• Batted .344 with 12 doubles and 7 homers in 2022; hit 10 home runs with 38 RBI and 13 stolen bases in 2023
• Played at Nebraska in 2020 and Hillsborough College in 2021
• Ranked as Michigan’s No. 1 catcher in his class by Perfect Game and Prep Baseball Report
Camden Gasser, Infielder – Huntingburg, Ind. (Southridge/Michigan)
• Played in 15 games for Michigan in 2023 after redshirting as a freshman
• First-team all-state and Indiana North-South All-Star after batting .546 with 46 stolen bases for Southridge’s 2021 IHSAA Class 3A state championship team
• Three-sport standout was the conference MVP in football as a wide receiver and return man; broke the school’s single-season assists record in basketball
• Played for the Lafayette Aviators in the summer of 2023
Thomas Green, Infielder – Courtenay, British Columbia (Isfeld/Oakland Univ.)
• Two-year starting shortstop at Oakland, starting all 60 games in 2023
• Connected for 10 doubles and 10 home runs while also stealing 10 bases in 2023
• Graduated from Oakland with a 3.81 GPA to earn Horizon League All-Academic Team honors
• Played summer ball for the Kamloops NorthPaws of the West Coast League in 2022 and 2023
Enas Hayden, RHP – Indianapolis, Ind. (Lawrence North/Purdue Fort Wayne)
• 2023 Prospect League All-Star for the Danville Dans after racking up 45 strikeouts in 29 2/3 innings (13.6 K/9)
• Pitched in 20 games, making four starts, for Purdue Fort Wayne over his first two collegiate seasons
• Pitched for the Indiana Nitro travel ball and later the Collegiate Summer League at Grand Park
Jordan Morales, LHP – Souderton, Pa. (Souderton/Penn State)
• Four-year letterwinner at the D-I level, pitching two seasons at La Salle and two at Penn State
• Racked up 113 strikeouts vs. 101 hits allowed in 97 2/3 career innings (10.4 K/9) at PSU
• Posted a 3.64 ERA while pitching in a team-high 26 games in 2022, ranking top 10 in the Big Ten in appearances
• Conference pitcher of the year as a high school senior, registering a 0.43 ERA, 93 strikeouts and 10 wins for Souderton’s PIAA Class 6A state championship team
Breck Nowik, Infielder – Lake Forest, Ill. (Lake Forest/UIC)
• Two-year starting infielder for UIC after redshirting as a freshman in 2021
• UIC’s team triple crown winner in 2022 (.335, 9 HR, 42 RBI) while posting a 1.000 OPS season
• Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American and second-team All-Horizon League in 2022
• 3-for-7 with three RBI in his two career games at Alexander Field
Keenan Spence, Outfielder/First Baseman – Caroline Springs, Australia (Howard JC)
• Premier slugger in his two junior college seasons, hitting 35 home runs while also stealing 29 bases in 101 games
• Ranked sixth nationally among the NJCAA Division I leaders with 23 homers in 2023
• Posted prolific slash lines and RBI totals both years – .381/.487/.675 with 50 RBI in 2022, .348/.455/.823 with 63 RBI in 2023
• Played for the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League, the country’s top league
Logan Sutter, Infielder – Loomis, Calif. (Del Oro/Folsom Lake JC)
• 2023 Appalachian League Player of the Year for the league champion Johnson City Doughboys
• Led the Appalachian League in hits (58) and RBI (48) while compiling a .363/.427/.575 slash line in 41 games
• Slashed .390/.488/.707 with 11 homers and 69 RBI as the conference MVP at Folsom Lake College in 2023
• Batted .429 with a 1.167 OPS as a high school senior
Luke Wagner, LHP – New Cumberland, Pa. (Red Land/Georgia)
• Pitched in 54 career games, making 17 starts, as a three-year letterwinner at Georgia; two-way player as a freshman
• Started games at the SEC Tournament and NCAA Regionals, including UGA’s 2021 postseason win vs. LSU
• Registered a 1.44 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 68 innings with 11 wins while also batting .385 for Red Land’s 2019 PIAA Class 5A state championship team
• PennLive’s Area Player of the Year (Harrisburg) as a sophomore in 2018
Will Briggs, Catcher – Shakopee, Minn. (Academy of Holy Angels)
• Minnesota’s No. 1-ranked catcher in his class by Perfect Game
• 2023 Minnesota High School All-Star Series selection
• Recognized as a top 10 player in Minnesota among his class by BVM Sports
Amir Gray, Infielder – South Holland, Ill. (Brother Rice)
• Batted .358 with 122 hits, 81 RBI, 84 runs during his varsity career
• Daily Southtown All-Area honoree as a team captain in 2023
• Helped lead to Brother Rice to the IHSA Class 4A state finals each of his upperclassman years, finishing as the runner-up in 2023 and third in 2022
Mac Lewis, Infielder – Vienna, Va. (James Madison)
• Starting shortstop and quarterback for James Madison HS as a senior
• As a senior, helped lead Madison to a 23-5 record and the VHSL Class 6A state title
• Also powered the football team to the 2022 VHSL Class 6A state championship game, accounting for 29 touchdowns
Will Moore, RHP – Creve Coeur, Mo. (Ladue Horton Watkins)
• Racked up 51 strikeouts in 35 1/3 innings as a junior
• Struck out 16 with no walks in a seven-inning no-hitter in a 17U travel ball game in the summer of 2022
• Pitched for Team Missouri at the PBR Futures Games; all-tournament team at multiple WWBA showcases
Brayden Olson, RHP – St. Croix Falls, Wis. (St. Croix Falls)
• Three-time Prep Baseball Report all-state honoree, including consecutive first-team honors as an upperclassman
• Racked up 130 strikeouts in 62 1/3 innings to go along with a 0.67 ERA, 0.56 WHIP and 11 wins as a senior
• Also batted .400 with 25 extra-base hits and 36 RBI while leading St. Croix Falls to the 2023 WIAA Division 3 state title
Easton Storey, LHP – Brighton, Mich. (Brighton)
• 2023 Livingston County Player of the Year, second-team all-state and an all-region honoree
• Racked up 88 strikeouts in 54 innings to go along with a 1.30 ERA and .161 batting average against as a high school senior
• Ranked as Michigan’s No. 1 lefthander in his class by Perfect Game
Cole Van Assen, RHP – Tinley Park, Ill. (Brother Rice)
• Collegiate Baseball High School All-American as a senior as one of just two Illinois products to be recognized
• All-state honoree racked up 90 strikeouts in 78 innings with a 1.79 ERA and 10 victories in 2023, highlighted by a complete-game shutout in the semifinal round of the state tournament
• Helped lead to Brother Rice to the IHSA Class 4A state finals each of his upperclassman years, finishing as the runner-up in 2023 and third in 2022
BUTLER VOLLEYBALL
BUTLERVB SEASON PREVIEW: MIDDLE BLOCKERS
The Butler volleyball team will look to fill the void left at both middle blocker positions for the 2023 season.
After Butler’s best blockers, Marisa Guisti and Amina Shackelford, entered the transfer portal during this offseason, the door has opened for the trio of Destiny Cherry, Grace Boggess and Jaeda Lockhart.
“They need to be well-rounded,” Head Coach Kyle Shondell stated. “While being the center of our developing defense, they need to be a consistent threat in our offense.”
Cherry returns for her third season in a Bulldog uniform. The 6-3 Springhill, Tenn. native began the 2022 season as an outside hitter before transitioning to middle blocker. She appeared in 70 sets amassing 102 kills.
Boggess, the team’s tallest player at 6-3, will also be entering her junior season with the Bulldogs. The Hoosier from Greenwood, Ind. appeared in 26 sets accumulating 42 kills, 4 blocks and 33 block assists.
Incoming freshman Jaeda Lockhart looks to add much needed depth at the net for the Bulldogs. As a senior for Hudson High School in Wisconsin, Lockhart tallied 279 kills and 28 solo blocks.
IUPUI MEN’S BASKETBALL
MEN’S BASKETBALL ANNOUNCES 2023-2024 SCHEDULE
INDIANAPOLIS – The IUPUI basketball program announced its 2023-2024 schedule on Tuesday (Aug. 22), highlighted by four home non-conference games and a full slate of Horizon League contests. Head coach Matt Crenshaw’s team brings back a strong core from last year’s squad and is primed for a breakout campaign in 2023-2024.
The Jaguars will be one of the first teams to take the floor in all of Division I this season as they host Spalding University at 11:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, the opening day of college basketball season. That will be the program’s annual NCAA Readers Become Leaders Day at the Coliseum with more than 5,000 elementary school students from Central Indiana expected in attendance.
Other non-conference home games include matchups with Cleary University (Nov. 25), Lindenwood (Dec. 16) and Defiance College (Dec. 21). The road slate opens with a trip to former league foe Valparaiso (Nov. 10) and a second game against an in-state opponent when the Jags trek to Indiana State (Nov. 14).
IUPUI will play Elon, Winthrop and Holy Cross at the Winthrop Invitational on Nov. 17-19 in Rock Hill, S.C. Horizon League play will open at Wright State on Nov. 29 before the Jaguars return home to host reigning champion Northern Kentucky on Dec. 2. The Jags will then embark on back-to-back road games at Eastern Illinois (Dec. 7) and Minnesota (Dec. 12) before capping the non-conference schedule with the home games with Lindenwood and Defiance.
The Horizon League slate is highlighted by the Jaguars hosting Cleveland State at the Coliseum on New Year’s Eve and a game against Green Bay on Jan. 10 that will double as a corporate luncheon for community partners. IUPUI will celebrate Senior Day against Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday, Feb. 10 and cap the home season against Milwaukee on Feb. 28.
The Horizon League Tournament will begin on campus sites on Mar. 5 and Mar. 7 with the semifinals and finals being played at Indiana Farmers Coliseum on Mar. 11 and Mar. 12.
INDIANA STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER
ALEXANDER NAMED MVC GOALKEEPER OF THE WEEK
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Indiana State senior Maddie Alexander claimed the Missouri Valley Conference’s first weekly Goalkeeper of the Week recognition following her play over the opening week at Louisville and Miami University.
The Battle Creek, Mich. native led Indiana State to back-to-back shutouts to open the regular season for the first time in program history as the Sycamores battled to scoreless draws at both Louisville and Miami (Ohio). The Sycamores keeper faced 40 shots across the two matches and posted 12 saves on her way to keeping the Cardinals and the Redhawks off the board.
Alexander opened the 2023 season on Thursday night at Louisville. The keeper faced 23 shots from the Cardinals and posted nine saves, one off her career-high 10 set back in the 2021 season. With Louisville holding possession constantly in the second half, Alexander faced 14 shots while posting six saves over the final 45 minutes in keeping the shutout intact.
She followed up facing 17 shots at Miami University on Sunday evening recording three more saves in the 0-0 draw. Alexander faced 14 shots in the second half while battling the Redhawks and the heat off the turf in keeping Miami off the board.
Her back-to-back shutouts marked the third time she’s kept opponents scoreless in consecutive matches and first time since she accomplished the feat twice in the spring of 2021.
Alexander and the Sycamores make their 2023 home debut on Thursday evening at Memorial Stadium against Marshall. The game will serve as ISU’s “White Out” with fans encouraged to match the Sycamores by wearing white to the game. The Forest will also have a t-shirt giveaway to the first 40 members to attend the match.
PURDUE FT. WAYNE BASKETBALL
MASTODON MEN’S HOOPS ANNOUNCES 2023-24 HORIZON LEAGUE SCHEDULE
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The entire 2023-24 Purdue Fort Wayne men’s basketball schedule is now out. After releasing the team’s non-league slate last week, the Horizon League announced the entire league’s scheduled on Tuesday (Aug. 22).
The league slate opens with a single game in November when Green Bay makes their annual visit to the Summit City on Nov. 29. It will be a 7 p.m. start at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. Three days later the ‘Dons travel to long-time rival Oakland for a road contest.
Following a stretch of non-league games over the next few weeks, the ‘Dons return to Horizon League play for good on Dec. 29 with Northern Kentucky. It will be the first of three consecutive home games for the ‘Dons. Detroit Mercy will visit the Mastodons at the Gates Sports Center on Dec. 31. After that, Wright State visits Fort Wayne on Jan. 6 for the first time since Damian Chong Qui’s half court buzzer beater last February to defeat the Raiders.
After a road trip to Youngstown State (Jan. 11) and Robert Morris (Jan. 13), the Mastodons meet up with rival IUPUI at War Memorial Coliseum on Jan. 17. Purdue Fort Wayne closes out the month of January on the road at Cleveland State (Jan. 20) and Northern Kentucky (Jan. 24).
The Mastodons open February on Feb. 1 game against Milwaukee. Youngstown State will come to town on Feb. 4 for homecoming. Cleveland State closes out the three-game homestand with a visit to the Coliseum on Feb. 7.
Part two of Purdue Fort Wayne’s battle with IUPUI takes place in Indianapolis on Feb. 10.The Mastodons’ final home game in the Coliseum is a matchup with Oakland on Valentine’s Day in a 7 p.m. start.
A four-game road trip featuring dates with Detroit (Feb. 17), Green Bay (Feb. 23), Milwaukee (Feb. 25), and Wright State (Feb. 28) completes the Mastodons’ February slate. A Senior Night doubleheader at Gates opens up the all-important month of March for Purdue Fort Wayne. The women’s team will host Youngstown State at 3 p.m. before the men take on Robert Morris at 7 p.m. to close out the regular season.
The 2024 Horizon League Men’s Basketball Championship takes place on March 5 and 7 at campus sites before heading to Indianapolis for the semifinals (March 11) and finals (March 12).
PURDUE FORT WAYNE WBB UNVEILS 2023-24 HORIZON LEAGUE SCHEDULE
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Purdue Fort Wayne women’s basketball head coach Maria Marchesano announced her program’s Horizon League schedule on Tuesday (Aug. 22).
The conference slate opens on Nov. 30 and Dec. 3 with a visit from Oakland and Wright State, then continues on Dec. 30 with a road trip to Milwaukee. A New Year’s Day matchup with Green Bay poses an opportunity to avenge last year’s Horizon League Championship semifinal loss to the Phoenix.
The Mastodons host Robert Morris on Jan. 4 and Oakland on Jan. 10 with a road trip to Detroit in the middle on Jan. 7. Purdue Fort Wayne took down Detroit Mercy in the 2023 Horizon League Championship on the way to its semifinal appearance.
A four-game road trip kicks off on Jan. 13 and includes trips to Cleveland State, Youngstown State, Robert Morris, and a non-conference tilt against Chicago State.
The Mastodons return home on Jan. 27 for the 17th annual Pink Out game against Northern Kentucky. The day starts with a luncheon for breast cancer survivors ahead of the game that will see the women don pink uniforms. At halftime, there will be an on-court ceremony to honor survivors of breast cancer. Money raised goes to benefit breast cancer research through the Vera Bradley Foundation.
Four of the next five games will be at home for Purdue Fort Wayne. After taking on Cleveland State on Jan. 31, the Mastodons will host rival IUPUI on Feb. 3. A trip to Wright State follows on Feb. 10 before the women return home on Feb. 15 to face Milwaukee and Detroit Mercy on Feb. 18.
The final road trip of the 2023-24 regular season starts on Feb. 21 against Northern Kentucky and ends a few days later with a trip to IUPUI. The Mastodons close out February at home against Green Bay.
A Senior Night doubleheader at Gates opens up the month of March for Purdue Fort Wayne. The women’s team will host Youngstown State at 3 p.m. before the men take on Robert Morris at 7 p.m.
The Horizon League Championship takes place on March 5 and 7 on campus sites before heading to Indianapolis for the semifinals and final.
SOUTHERN INDIANA VOLLEYBALL
USI SETS UP 2023 SEASON AT INDIANA INVITATIONAL
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Volleyball kicks off the 2023 campaign this weekend at the Indiana Invitational at Wilkinson Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. The Screaming Eagles will face a trio of opponents starting with the University of New Hampshire and Radford University on Friday, August 25 at noon and 3 p.m. respectively then Indiana University on Saturday, August 26 at 9 a.m.
Game Coverage
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Tickets
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Screaming Eagles Headlines:
New Year, New Fortunes. The Screaming Eagles look to improve off last year’s NCAA DI inaugural season, going 1-28 overall and 1-17 in the Ohio Valley Conference.
You Have To #OVCit. The Eagles are in their second season in NCAA Division I and the OVC. USI is looking for their first conference tournament berth in the DI era.
New Faces. USI has added five newcomers to the roster: Leah Coleman, Ellie Marbet, Mariah Minor, Jillian Moonan, and Maeve Moonan. The Eagles also hired first-year head coach Jeffrey Aucoin as the 13th head coach in program history.
Preseason Poll and All-OVC. Senior Leah Anderson scored enough votes to land herself on the Preseason All-OVC Team. The Eagles were picked to finish last out of 11 teams within the conference.
Conference Top 10. The Eagles ended last season with four players ranked in the top 10 within the OVC in five categories. Senior Leah Anderson stood fourth in points/set (3.77), fifth in kills/set (3.24), and 10th in digs/set (2.95). Junior Carly Sobieralski ranked sixth in assists/set (6.32) with junior Paris Downing sitting ninth in blocks/set (0.99). Sophomore Keira Moore kicked off her collegiate career with a 3.87 digs/set average, ranking seventh.
Team Leaders. Senior Leah Anderson led the group with 347 kills, 316 digs, and 28 service aces. Junior Carly Sobieralski took the reins as the setter, earning 512 assists. Junior Paris Downing handled the front lines for USI, tallying 92 total blocks.
All-Conference Selection. Senior Leah Anderson nabbed the program’s first-ever All-OVC honor, securing second-team accolades.
Schedule Forecast. The Eagles’ 2023 campaign will consist of 12 home, 13 away, and four neutral matches. USI will also host a four-team tournament in September. The conference slate will feature nine home and nine away matches including the OVC Championship in late November.
Eagles in the Classroom. 10 Eagles scored OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll accolades after earning a 3.25 or higher GPA during the 2022-23 academic year.
History in Progress. Senior Leah Anderson will look to leave her mark as one of the greatest in USI Volleyball history. She enters the 2023 season ranked No. 3 all-time at USI with 167 career service aces, No. 7 with 1,231 kills, and No. 10 with 1,106 digs. The outside hitter became the 15th player to reach 1,000 kills, the 13th player to reach 1,000 digs, and the fifth player in program history to reach both feats. She has joined an elite group that includes Shannon Wells, Jamie Roth, Danielle Peter, and Leeanne Gross in the 1,000 kills/1,000 digs club.
About New Hampshire. The Wildcats finished last season 19-10 overall with a 6-5 record in the America East Conference. UNH was picked to finish third in the America East Conference. The Wildcats ended the year with 1,208 kills, 1,087 assists, 1,501 digs, 220 blocks, and 183 aces. UNH’s 1.76 aces per set margin ranked 37th in the nation last year. With an opponent attacking percentage of 0.167 in 2022, the Wildcats ranked 21st in NCAA DI. The USI, UNH match will be the first match of the season for both teams.
Leading the Wildcats. Senior Hannah Serbousek returns to the squad after throwing down a team-high 225 kills last season. Senior Jamison White held the second-most assists with 274 while sophomore Avery LePore served up a team-leading 28 aces. Defensively, senior Mia Pagliarini nabbed 294 digs while senior Kelly Kaufmann earned 82 total blocks.
About Radford. The Highlanders look to improve off last season’s 12-16 overall record and 8-8 Big South Conference mark. The team is predicted to finish fourth in the Big South Conference. Radford captured a five-set victory over OVC foe, UT Martin, to kick off 2022. In 2022, the Highlanders earned 1,187 kills, 1,113 assists, 1,632 digs, 171 total blocks, and 128 aces. Radford’s 16 digs per set marked 43rd best in the NCAA while an opponent hitting percentage of 0.185 stood 69th in DI. The USI, Radford match will be the first for the Highlanders in 2023.
Leading the Highlanders. Radford’s top-three attackers from last season are no longer on the roster so junior Sophie Paspal will lead the charge at the net on both ends after tallying 177 kills and 65 blocks in 2022. Senior Shelby Hernandez was a team leader in two categories after securing 420 digs and 25 aces. Sophomore Jackeline Nerro will step up after an impressive 402 assists season, second-most on the squad.
About Indiana. The Hoosiers were split last season, going 16-16 overall and 9-11 in the Big Ten Conference. The team is predicted to finish eighth in the conference. Indiana was able to get the best of OVC rival, Tennessee Tech, in three sets. The Hoosier know how to split the gaps from the line, serving up the 12th most team aces (218) and the 33rd highest ace per set margin (1.77) in the country.
Leading the Hoosiers. Junior Mady Saris returns to the squad after posting the most points on the team and the 67th most points in the NCAA DI (489). Saris secured the most kills on the team with 427, 69th most in the country. Junior Camryn Haworth set the Hoosiers up in the passing game, earning 1,111 assists, good enough for 59th most in the nation. Haworth also nabbed a team-leading 0.40 aces per set while posting the lone triple-double.
Welcome to Division I. USI Board of Trustees voted unanimously in January 2022 to transition to NCAA Division I athletics beginning in the fall of 2022. The Eagles are a full-time member of the OVC and will face Division I opponents during the regular season for just the second time in program history. The Eagles previously spent 42 seasons in NCAA Division II.
SOUTHERN INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER
USI KICKS OFF 2023 REGULAR SEASON ON THE ROAD
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Southern Indiana Men’s Soccer kicks off the 2023 regular season on the road Thursday when it visits Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis for a 5 p.m. (CDT) showdown. IUPUI hosts its home games at Michael A Carroll Stadium.
The Screaming Eagles complete the season-opening week by hosting Mercer University August 27 at Strassweg Field. The Eagles and Bears square off at 11 a.m. and will be a part of a USI soccer twin bill with women’s soccer hosting Purdue University Fort Wayne at 2 p.m.
Game coverage for 2022, including live stats and video streams, can be found on USIScreamingEagles.com. Tickets are $7 for adults (ages 18 and over) with 18-and-under admitted free of charge. USI students and faculty with a valid University ID are admitted free.
USI Men’s Soccer Week 1 Notes:
USI predicted sixth in 2023 OVC: The USI Screaming Eagles are predicted to place sixth in the inaugural Ohio Valley Conference men’s soccer season. The Eagles were seventh in the Summit League during their return to NCAA Division I play in 2022.
Faddis named OVC Player to Watch: USI senior midfielder/forward Nick Faddis was named a Player to Watch in the OVC this season. He was one of two players on USI to start and play in all 17 matches in 2022, leading the team with three goals and tied for team lead with two assists while ranking second with 1,293 minutes played.
USI in three scrimmages: The Eagles were 1-2 in the three scrimmages during the preseason. USI fell to #3 University of Kentucky, 4-1, but posted wins versus McKendree University, 1-0, before losing a 2-1 decision to Maryville University.
USI started to roll at the end: USI started to get on a roll at the end of the 2022 season. After going 1-4-0 to star Summit League play last fall, the Eagles were .500 in the final three games with a tie and a win in the final three matches. USI would have earned a trip to the Summit post-season tournament had it be eligible in its return to NCAA Division I play last falls.
Barton among USI’s all-time leaders: Senior forward Zach Barton is among the USI all-time leaders in goals scored during his four previous seasons. Barton is 10th all-time at USI with 21 career goals and is 20 points away from the top ten in total points (49).
Between the posts: Senior Alec Meissner led USI between the posts during 2022 with a 2.29 GAA in 16 starts and 1412 minutes of action. He also had 73 saves and two shutouts.
Santoro leads USI all-time: USI Head Coach Mat Santoro is the Eagles all-time leading coach in victories with 111 in 14 seasons at the helm.
USI against the OVC in 2022: USI was 1-3-1 against OVC teams last year while playing in the Summit League.
Versus IUPUI: IUPUI, who was 1-1-1 during three exhibitions games, was 7-7-6 overall and 4-2-3 in the Horizon League last season. USI holds a 2-0-0 series record over IUPUI, winning the last meeting in Indianapolis, 2-1, in 1996. The first meeting was a 5-0 home win for USI in 1995.
Versus Mercer: Mercer was 8-5-6 overall and 2-1-2 in the Horizon League last season. Sunday’s USI-Mercer University contest will be the first meeting between the two programs. The Bears opens the 2023 slate at the University of Evansville on August 24 before visiting USI.
VALPO WOMEN’S SOCCER
SOCCER HITS ROAD TO FACE PURDUE, KENTUCKY
Valparaiso (2-0-0, 0-0-0 MVC)
Thursday, Aug. 24 – at Purdue (1-1-0) – 6 p.m. CT
Sunday, Aug. 27 – at Kentucky (1-0-0) – noon CT
Next Up in Valpo Soccer: After starting the 2023 campaign with a pair of victories on opening weekend, the Valpo soccer team hits the road for the first time in the regular season to take on a pair of Power Five foes. The road trip starts Thursday evening at Purdue before continuing on to Kentucky Sunday afternoon.
Previously: The Beacons opened the 2023 season on Brown Field last Thursday evening with a 2-1 win over Eastern Illinois, followed up by a 1-0 victory against Northern Illinois on Sunday. Allie Anderson was involved in all three goals on the weekend, scoring the match-winner in the season opener and tallying assists on the other two goals.
Looking Ahead: Valpo returns home briefly next Thursday to match up against Chicago State before heading off to start a stretch of five consecutive matches away from home on Sunday, Sept. 3 at Purdue Fort Wayne.
Following the Beacons: Thursday’s match at Purdue will be broadcast on BTN+, while Sunday’s fixture at Kentucky will be on SEC Network+. Links for the live video and live stats can be found at ValpoAthletics.com.
Head Coach John Marovich: In his 16th season at the helm of the Valpo program, John Marovich holds a 123-112-42 record both overall and at Valpo as a head coach. The 2014 Horizon League Coach of the Year and the head of the 2022 MVC Coaching Staff of the Year, Marovich holds Valpo’s all-time records for both victories and winning percentage.
Series Notes: Purdue – The Boilermakers have won all four meetings in the all-time series between the two sides. Thursday marks the first matchup since Sept. 5, 2009, however – a 1-0 Purdue win in West Lafayette. Mele Cabral made 15 saves in goal for Valpo in that contest.
Kentucky – The Wildcats are 2-0-0 all-time against Valpo, but those two meetings came in 1993 and 1994 – Valpo’s first two seasons of varsity soccer.
Scouting the Opposition: Purdue – The Boilermakers went 1-1-0 on opening weekend, falling 1-0 to #24 UCF and rebounding with an 8-0 win over Iona. Purdue, which posted a 3-11-3 record last season, was picked to finish in 12th place in the Big Ten this season.
Kentucky – In their lone match on opening weekend, the Wildcats earned a 1-0 victory over Eastern Kentucky – they will face off with fellow MVC side Murray State Thursday evening prior to Sunday’s contest. Coming off a 7-9-2 record in 2022, Kentucky was chosen to finish 12th in the SEC this season.
Valpo Picked Second in Preseason Poll: The Beacons were chosen to finish in second place in preseason polling of the MVC head coaches. Valpo, which picked up one first-place vote and tallied 107 points in the polling, trailed only Missouri State in the voting. The Beacons far outpaced third-place UIC, which totaled 92 points. Notably, the program has matched or surpassed its preseason projection in each of its first six seasons in the Valley.
Quartet of Preseason Honorees: Plenty of individual standouts have helped Valpo get to the point where it is regarded as one of the Valley’s top programs, and four of them were honored with preseason All-MVC accolades. Fifth-year Nicole Norfolk joined seniors Lindsey DuSatko and Nikki Coryell as preseason First Team All-MVC selections, while junior Addy Joiner picked up Honorable Mention accolades.
Looking Back at Last Season: Valpo’s journey up the MVC table over the last few years culminated last season with a dramatic final day of the regular season which saw the Beacons emerge with the MVC regular season championship – Valpo’s first team title in any sport since joining the Valley. The Beacons finished the season with an 8-7-4 overall record, including a 7-1-2 mark in MVC action to claim the regular season crown. Nikki Coryell was named MVC Goalkeeper of the Year for a third straight season, while John Marovich, Brianne Barnes and Noah Smith were honored as the Valley Coaching Staff of the Year. Nicole Norfolk was named a Third Team All-Region honoree as well.
Regular Season Champions: Trailing by two points entering the final match day, Valpo needed a win and some help to earn the 2022 MVC regular season title, and got both. Molly O’Rear’s goal in the 36th minute against Indiana State not only gave the Beacons a lead they would not surrender, it put Valpo atop the live conference table for good, as Illinois State led Missouri State at that point, 2-0, en route to a 4-2 win. For Valpo, it was the program’s fourth regular season conference championship. Valpo previously won Mid-Continent Conference regular season crowns in back-to-back seasons in 2005 and 2006, and posted a perfect record to claim the 2014 Horizon League regular season title.
Who’s Back and Who’s New: Valpo returns 18 letterwinners, including nine starters, from last year’s squad which claimed the MVC regular season title. The returnees accounted for 16 of the Beacon’s 19 goals and 17 of their 18 assists in Valley play last season. 11 newcomers round out the 2023 roster – nine incoming freshmen, one transfer and one redshirt.
Incremental Improvement: Since finishing joint sixth in the MVC table and missing out on the conference tournament via tiebreaker during the 2018 season, Valpo has improved its position in the final Valley standings each of the next four seasons. Valpo closed out the regular season in fifth place in 2019, finished tied for third in the spring of 2021 and were regular season runners-up in the fall of 2021 before claiming the regular season crown last fall.
Starting Out 2-0-0…: The Beacons got out to a perfect 2-0-0 start to the campaign with their wins over Eastern Illinois and Northern Illinois on opening weekend — just the fourth time in program history Valpo has earned victories in each of its first two fixtures of the season. Valpo last started 2-0-0 in 2017, while the program’s last 2-0-0 start against a pair of D-I opponents came back in 2012.
…Looking for 3-0-0: A win over Purdue on Thursday would mark a program first for the Beacons, as Valpo has never opened a season with a perfect 3-0-0 record. Valpo has been unbeaten through three matches twice in program history, as the 2010 and 2012 squads were both 2-0-1 — the 2010 team went on to a 3-0-2 start, the longest unbeaten streak to open a season in program history.
Power Conference Foes: This weekend brings about a pair of strong tests for the Beacons against power conference opposition. It is the first time Valpo has played consecutive games versus power conference sides since the program opened the 2015 campaign at Notre Dame and at Northwestern.
Easy as 1, 2, 3: Fifth-year midfielder Allie Anderson was involved in all three goals on opening weekend and was honored as the MVC Offensive Player of the Week for her performances. Anderson began with the assist on the opening goal against Eastern Illinois on Thursday, and then early in the second half headed home her first collegiate goal for what eventually became the match-winner. She followed on Sunday with a well-taken corner kick for the assist on the lone goal in Valpo’s 1-0 win over Northern Illinois. The lone MVC player to be in on three goals on opening weekend, Anderson is the first Valpo player with three goal involvements on an opening weekend since Sydney Griffin scored twice and assisted once on opening weekend 2017.
An Assist Machine: With her pair of assists last weekend, Anderson has now racked up 10 assists in her collegiate career. Nine of those helpers have come at Valpo, leaving her just one assist shy of cracking the program’s career top-10 chart in the category. Dating back to last season, Anderson has tallied six assists over her last 12 matches.
Just Another Player of the Week: It’s become like clockwork to expect a conference Player of the Week announcement for the Valpo soccer program late Tuesday mornings. Anderson picked up her first career weekly award from the MVC office, joining a long list of players on this year’s Beacon roster who have received accolades. In all, 10 players on the 2023 squad have combined for 22 MVC weekly accolades since the start of the spring 2021 campaign.
I Keep My Side of the Sheet Clean: Senior goalkeeper Nikki Coryell took another step up both Valpo’s and the MVC’s all-time charts on opening weekend as she made six saves in the shutout victory over NIU. The clean sheet was the 20th of her career, moving her into a tie with Mele Cabral and Erin Murray for second-most in program history and pushing her into a tie for eighth in MVC history. It marked the fourth time she has stopped six or more shots in a shutout, and Coryell and the Valpo defense have now surrendered one goal or fewer in 13 consecutive matches dating back to last season.
Showcasing Versatility: It’s not every day that a left back gets upon to fill in at striker, but with injuries up front for the Beacons, junior Sam Gountounas did just that on opening weekend. Gountounas started both matches at the 9 for Valpo, and the move immediately paid dividends in the season opener versus Eastern Illinois, as she found the back of the net 35 minutes into the match for her second career goal.
Heading Home the Goals: Fifth-year defender Nicole Norfolk has earned numerous plaudits for her work at center back for Valpo, but she’s shown the ability to contribute to the attack on corner kicks. Norfolk nodded home the corner from Allie Anderson on Sunday against NIU for the game’s lone goal — her third career goal and the second match-winner. All three of Norfolk’s goals have been headers off of corners.
Making Debuts: Four players made their first appearances in the Valpo uniform on opening weekend, three of those collegiate debuts. DePaul transfer Aubrey Ramey started and played all 90 minutes at right back in both matches, tallying an assist in the opener against Eastern Illinois. Freshman Anna Cup also played all 180 minutes in the two wins, slotting in immediately at center back. Freshman Daisy Boardman debuted with a 55-minute stint off the bench against EIU and then made her first collegiate start against NIU, going 58 minutes. Finally, freshman Julianna De Simone saw her first collegiate action with a 26-minute shift on the front line versus NIU.
Three-Time Goalkeeper of the Year: Senior goalkeeper Nikki Coryell has quite simply been the Valley’s top goalkeeper throughout her career, as she has been honored as the MVC Goalkeeper of the Year in each of her three seasons. Last season, Coryell posted an 8-5-4 record with a 0.91 GAA and an .800 save percentage, posting seven clean sheets. Coryell and the Valpo defense surrendered just five goals in 10 MVC matches last season and posted five shutouts – matching the program record for the most clean sheets within conference play in a single season. In her three Goalkeeper of the Year campaigns, Coryell has posted a cumulative GAA of 0.59 and a save percentage of .878 in conference play. In 26 MVC fixtures, she holds a 16-4-6 record and has recorded 14 shutouts, giving up one goal or fewer in 25 of those 26 matches.
Running Up Top: Senior forward Lindsey DuSatko enters the 2023 campaign having earned All-Conference honors in each of the last two seasons, as she was a Second Team honoree in 2021 and a First Team choice last season. The pacey forward was tied for second among Valley players with four assists in MVC-only play in 2022, picking up a helper apiece in four of Valpo’s regular season conference wins, and scored a goal as well. DuSatko assisted on the match-winning goal in the Beacons’ win at Murray State and scored the game-tying goal in Valpo’s draw with Southern Illinois.
Locking Down the Back Line: Fifth-year center back Nicole Norfolk has been the linchpin in the Valpo defense ever since stepping onto campus prior to the 2019 season. The stalwart in the back was a First Team All-MVC honoree in 2022 after earning Second Team recognition the previous year. Valpo’s record holder for consecutive minutes played by a field player, Norfolk played all but 14 minutes of Valpo’s first 15 matches of the 2022 season before suffering an injury in mid-October. With Norfolk on the field during Valley regular season play, Valpo surrendered just one goal in 544 minutes of play. Norfolk added Third Team All-Midwest Region honors to her resume as well last season.
Joiner Just Keeps Scoring: Junior forward Addy Joiner was more than just a spark off the bench in 2022 – she was an assassin in front of goal. A First Team All-MVC honoree, Joiner finished the regular season with a Valley-high seven goals on the year and eventually concluded the season in second place with her seven tallies. The two-time MVC Offensive Player of the Week scored six of her seven goals in Valley play, one apiece in six of Valpo’s seven MVC Victories. Her six goals in conference play were the most by a Valpo player in league action since Jackie Kondratko netted six goals in Horizon League matches in 2009.
Wait, There’s More!: The aforementioned four First Team All-MVC honorees from a season ago represent just over half of the total number of honorees from last season’s regular season champions. Fifth-year midfielder Allie Anderson picked up Second Team All-MVC recognition in 2022, while junior left back Abby White was a Third Team All-MVC choice. Sophomore Molly O’Rear rounds out last year’s award winners, as she claimed a spot on the MVC All-Freshman Team.
Even More on Last Year’s Awards: Valpo’s four First Team honorees in 2022 set a program record for postseason honors, as the program previously boasted three First Team All-League recipients on three occasions. The Beacons have had multiple First Team All-MVC honorees each of the last three seasons, and also have had at least one representative on the MVC All-Freshman Team in each of their six seasons in the conference.
ANDERSON NAMED MVC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Valpo soccer midfielder Allie Anderson (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton Warrenville South [Xavier]) has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Offensive Player of the Week after being involved in all three of the Beacons’ goals on opening weekend, helping Valpo earn a pair of victories.
Anderson opened the season on Thursday night versus Eastern Illinois by tallying an assist on Valpo’s opening goal, a slick give and go and give and go with Sam Gountounas late in the first half. Anderson then picked up her first collegiate goal less than four minutes into the second half, a header from the center of the box that became the match-winning goal in the Beacons’ 2-1 win. She capped her weekend on Sunday with a delivery on a corner kick which resulted in a Nicole Norfolk header for the lone goal in Valpo’s 1-0 victory over Northern Illinois.
Anderson was the lone MVC player with involvement in three goals over the course of the opening weekend of play, and one of just two Valley players with multiple assists on opening weekend. Her two assists give her 10 career helpers, nine of which have come at Valpo — just one shy of cracking the program’s career top-10 chart in the category.
For Anderson, who was a Second Team All-MVC honoree last season, it is the first weekly conference honor of her career. She joins a long list of Beacons who have earned weekly accolades from the MVC, as 10 players on this year’s roster have now combined for 22 Valley weekly awards.
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“SPORTS EXTRA”
MLB STANDINGS
| American League | |||||||||||
| East | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Baltimore | 77 | 48 | .616 | – | 36 – 24 | 41 – 24 | 24 – 15 | 18 – 7 | 16 – 10 | 6 – 4 | L 1 |
| Tampa Bay | 76 | 51 | .598 | 2 | 41 – 22 | 35 – 29 | 20 – 14 | 20 – 6 | 13 – 12 | 7 – 3 | W 2 |
| Toronto | 70 | 56 | .556 | 7.5 | 32 – 27 | 38 – 29 | 12 – 23 | 18 – 8 | 14 – 11 | 5 – 5 | W 3 |
| Boston | 66 | 60 | .524 | 11.5 | 35 – 28 | 31 – 32 | 19 – 14 | 16 – 10 | 12 – 12 | 5 – 5 | L 2 |
| NY Yankees | 60 | 65 | .480 | 17 | 35 – 32 | 25 – 33 | 15 – 24 | 12 – 10 | 16 – 13 | 1 – 9 | L 9 |
| Central | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Minnesota | 65 | 61 | .516 | – | 36 – 26 | 29 – 35 | 12 – 17 | 23 – 19 | 11 – 8 | 5 – 5 | L 1 |
| Cleveland | 60 | 66 | .476 | 5 | 33 – 31 | 27 – 35 | 10 – 12 | 19 – 21 | 13 – 12 | 4 – 6 | W 1 |
| Detroit | 58 | 68 | .460 | 7 | 27 – 34 | 31 – 34 | 5 – 20 | 25 – 15 | 9 – 13 | 6 – 4 | W 1 |
| Chi White Sox | 49 | 77 | .389 | 16 | 25 – 35 | 24 – 42 | 8 – 17 | 19 – 17 | 9 – 19 | 2 – 8 | L 2 |
| Kansas City | 40 | 88 | .313 | 26 | 23 – 40 | 17 – 48 | 6 – 18 | 13 – 27 | 5 – 16 | 2 – 8 | L 4 |
| West | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Texas | 72 | 54 | .571 | – | 42 – 24 | 30 – 30 | 14 – 11 | 17 – 5 | 21 – 15 | 3 – 7 | L 6 |
| Houston | 72 | 55 | .567 | 0.5 | 35 – 29 | 37 – 26 | 12 – 10 | 11 – 11 | 26 – 17 | 5 – 5 | W 2 |
| Seattle | 71 | 55 | .563 | 1 | 34 – 28 | 37 – 27 | 12 – 15 | 17 – 12 | 22 – 11 | 8 – 2 | W 8 |
| LA Angels | 61 | 65 | .484 | 11 | 32 – 31 | 29 – 34 | 13 – 13 | 14 – 8 | 18 – 22 | 3 – 7 | L 2 |
| Oakland | 36 | 90 | .286 | 36 | 20 – 44 | 16 – 46 | 7 – 22 | 9 – 11 | 6 – 28 | 3 – 7 | W 2 |
| National League | |||||||||||
| East | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Atlanta | 81 | 44 | .648 | – | 43 – 22 | 38 – 22 | 26 – 8 | 16 – 6 | 13 – 10 | 7 – 3 | W 1 |
| Philadelphia | 69 | 57 | .548 | 12.5 | 36 – 24 | 33 – 33 | 16 – 19 | 11 – 8 | 16 – 13 | 5 – 5 | W 2 |
| Miami | 65 | 62 | .512 | 17 | 37 – 27 | 28 – 35 | 14 – 19 | 13 – 10 | 12 – 15 | 5 – 5 | W 1 |
| NY Mets | 59 | 68 | .465 | 23 | 31 – 28 | 28 – 40 | 18 – 18 | 12 – 17 | 15 – 13 | 7 – 3 | L 1 |
| Washington | 58 | 68 | .460 | 23.5 | 29 – 36 | 29 – 32 | 13 – 23 | 12 – 14 | 14 – 14 | 8 – 2 | W 2 |
| Central | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Milwaukee | 69 | 57 | .548 | – | 34 – 27 | 35 – 30 | 10 – 9 | 24 – 12 | 10 – 19 | 7 – 3 | W 4 |
| Chi Cubs | 65 | 60 | .520 | 3.5 | 35 – 30 | 30 – 30 | 11 – 17 | 21 – 14 | 9 – 8 | 6 – 4 | L 1 |
| Cincinnati | 65 | 61 | .516 | 4 | 31 – 34 | 34 – 27 | 13 – 16 | 16 – 23 | 16 – 9 | 5 – 5 | W 1 |
| Pittsburgh | 57 | 69 | .452 | 12 | 31 – 32 | 26 – 37 | 10 – 10 | 16 – 19 | 16 – 15 | 5 – 5 | W 2 |
| St. Louis | 55 | 72 | .433 | 14.5 | 28 – 37 | 27 – 35 | 11 – 12 | 13 – 22 | 10 – 16 | 4 – 6 | L 2 |
| West | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| LA Dodgers | 76 | 48 | .613 | – | 43 – 21 | 33 – 27 | 13 – 8 | 19 – 14 | 23 – 12 | 8 – 2 | L 1 |
| Arizona | 66 | 61 | .520 | 11.5 | 32 – 31 | 34 – 30 | 13 – 15 | 11 – 10 | 25 – 19 | 8 – 2 | W 4 |
| San Francisco | 65 | 61 | .516 | 12 | 35 – 28 | 30 – 33 | 11 – 16 | 18 – 9 | 18 – 11 | 3 – 7 | L 2 |
| San Diego | 60 | 67 | .472 | 17.5 | 34 – 33 | 26 – 34 | 14 – 14 | 8 – 15 | 17 – 22 | 4 – 6 | L 1 |
| Colorado | 48 | 77 | .384 | 28.5 | 28 – 33 | 20 – 44 | 14 – 17 | 11 – 13 | 8 – 27 | 3 – 7 | L 2 |
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
1906 At American League Park in Washington, DC, the White Sox establish a new American League record, winning their 19th consecutive game with a 4-1 victory over the hometown Senators. In 2002, the A’s will string together 20 straight wins to surpass the AL mark but will fall one short of the major league mark established by the 1935 Cubs
1907 The day after his 25th birthday, Pirates right-hander Howie Camnitz tosses an unofficial no-hitter, beating the Giants, 1-0, in an agreed-upon shortened five-inning nightcap of a Polo Grounds twin bill. The Kentuckian, called Red by his teammates, finishes his 11-year career with a 133-106 (.556) record, including a 25-6 mark for the eventual World Champion Bucs in 1909.
1931 Attempting to break Walter Johnson’s consecutive game-winning streak of 17 games, Lefty Grove loses when Browns’ hurler Dick Coffman throws a three-hit shutout, his only whitewash this season, against the A’s. Reserve outfielder Jimmy Moore, playing in place of the absent Al Simmons, misjudges a fly ball, leading to the decisive run and the Philadelphia hurler’s meltdown in the locker room.
1936 The Indians’ seventeen-year-old rookie pitcher, Bob Feller, makes his first major league start, striking out the first eight batters he faces in the team’s 4-1 over the Browns at Cleveland’s League Park. ‘Rapid Robert’ will finish the game with 15 strikeouts, the highest total in a debut for a starting pitcher and one shy of the American League 1908 mark established by A’s southpaw Rube Waddell.
1942 Between games of a doubleheader between New York and Washington, Babe Ruth appears in pinstripes for the first time in seven years to face former Senator fireballer Walter Johnson, helping to raise over $80,000 for the Army-Navy Relief Fund. To the delight of nearly 70,000 enthusiastic fans at Yankee Stadium, the 47-year-old Bambino goes deep on the 54-year-old hurler’s fifth pitch. Then, after hitting a barely foul upper-deck blast on the 15th and final pitch of the at-bat, he rounds the bases tipping his cap before leaving the field with the Big Train to a thunderous standing ovation.
1952 Augie Donatelli ejects Bob Elliott from the Sportsman’s Park contest when the Giants’ third baseman protests a strike two call and begins kicking dirt on the arbitrator during his plate appearance. Bobby Hofman, replacing the New York corner infielder in the batter’s box, will also be thrown out in the same at-bat when he vehemently disputes a called third strike.
1958 Gil Hodges hits his 14th career grand slam in the Dodgers’ 10-1 victory over Milwaukee at LA Memorial Coliseum. The first baseman’s bases-full round-tripper establishes a new National League record but is far fewer than Lou Gehrig’s major league mark of 23.
1958 Nellie Fox’s 98 consecutive games without striking out ends when lefty Whitey Ford whiffs him in the White Sox’s 7-1 victory over the Yankees in the Bronx. The Chicago second baseman last struck out on May 16th against another southpaw, Cleveland’s Dick Tomane.
1961 In the 14-0 rout of the Reds at Crosley Field, the Giants score twelve runs in the top of the ninth with ten hits and three Cincinnati errors. Orlando Cepeda, Felipe Alou, Jim Davenport, Willie Mays, and John Orsino go deep in the frame to tie a major league team record with five round-trippers, joining the 1939 Giants and 1966 Twins, in addition to setting a record for total bases in one inning with 27.
1961 Dave Philley ties Sam Leslie’s 29-year-old major league record with his 22nd pinch hit of the season. The historic moment occurs in an Orioles’ 7-5 extra-inning victory over the A’s when the 41-year-old singles in the top of the 7th pinch-hitting for Hoyt Wilhelm at Municipal Stadium.
1967 Twelve-year-old Robert Stratta throws the eighth no-hitter in Little League World Series history when Chicago’s Roseland North team beats Rota, Spain, in the quarterfinals, 1-0. The future transplant surgeon doesn’t allow the ball to leave the infield, retiring the last 11 batters he faces, retiring eight on strikeouts.
1972 Joining Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson, Dick Allen becomes the fourth major leaguer to hit a ball into the center field bleachers at Comiskey Park. The gargantuan blast nearly nails White Sox announcer Harry Caray, doing play-by-play from the grandstands.
1975 Making his first major league start, Indian rookie Rick Waits tosses a complete game, beating Kansas City, 7-1. The 23-year-old southpaw from Atlanta allows only five hits in the Royals Stadium contest.
1979 Rickey Henderson swipes three bases in the A’s 8-6 victory over the Indians at Cleveland Stadium. At 20 years, 241 days old, the rookie outfielder becomes the youngest player to accomplish the feat.
1982 Home plate umpire Dave Phillips ejects Mariners starter Gaylord Perry from the game for applying a foreign substance to the ball, making the ejection the first since the 1940s for doctoring the ball. Although suspected for years of cheating, the 43-year-old right-hander evaded detection until today.
1989 In front of an enthusiastic crowd at Williamport’s (PA) Stadium, Victoria Brucker becomes the first girl on an American team to play in the Little League World Series, walking twice, hitting a single, and scoring three times in San Pedro’s (CA) 12-5 rout of Tampa (FL). Although the 12-year-old is the first female ballplayer to get a hit and score a run in the annual international tournament for youngsters, Victoria Roche is the first to appear on an LLWS roster, earning the distinction in 1984 as a reserve outfielder on a Brussels team that won the European regional championship.
1989 The second-longest shutout in big-league history ends when Rick Dempsey hits a home run in the top of the 22nd inning, giving the Dodgers an eventual 1-0 victory over the Expos at Olympic Stadium. The Astros blanked the Mets for 24 frames en route to a 1-0 win at the Astrodome in 1968.
1989 In the 11th frame of an eventual 22-inning 1-0 loss, the Expos’ Youppi! becomes the first mascot to be thrown out of a game when Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda complains to the umpires about the hairy orange giant’s behavior at Olympic Stadium. The LA skipper takes exception to the loud noise caused by the furry creature’s running leap onto the visitors’ dugout before sneaking back into a front-row seat.
1992 The Clearwater Phillies beat the Winter Haven Red Sox, 1-0, in the Class A Florida State League contest, marking the first time in 40 years neither team records a hit in a professional game. The lone run crosses the plate in the seventh inning thanks to a pair of walks and two sacrifice bunts.
1998 Barry Bonds becomes the first player in major league history to hit 400 home runs and steal at least 400 bases (438). The Giant slugger reached the unmatched plateau with his 26th homer of the year against Marlin southpaw Kirt Ojala in a 10-5 San Francisco victory.
1998 Leading off the bottom of the eighth inning at County Stadium against the Padres, Bob Hamelin hits his fourth pinch-hit home run of the season, tying the score at nine runs apiece. The round-tripper sets the franchise mark for the most pinch-hit home runs hit by a Brewer in a season.
1998 With his 50th and 51st dingers, Cubs’ slugger Sammy Sosa joins Mark McGwire (53) of the Cardinals in hitting 50 home runs, making it only the second time two National League hitters have reached the plateau in the same season. Pirates outfielder Ralph Kiner and Giants first baseman Johnny Mize hit a league-leading 51 round-trippers in 1947.
1998 Although Scott Rolen has started all but one game this season and appeared in every contest, Phillies manager Terry Francona makes an unpopular decision not to play his third baseman. It’s Scott Rolen T-shirt Day, a promotion for kids 14 and under, and many of the Veterans Stadium fans voiced their disappointment about not being able to watch the 23-year-old infielder play on his special day.
1999 Joining Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire, Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. becomes the third player in major league history to hit 200 homers in a four-season span. Junior’s 39th helps Seattle beat the Indians, 4-1.
2000 At Comerica Park, fans flee their seats as swarms of small insects invade the stands during the first inning. The six-legged pests do not affect the players, and the game continues uninterrupted, with the Tigers edging the Mariners, 6-5.
2000 Team president Bob Graziano apologizes to the female couple told to leave Dodger Stadium two weeks ago when some fans complained after the couple shared a celebratory kiss during a game. The pair felt the ejection by eight security guards was discriminatory because their friends, a man and a woman, also kissed but were not asked to leave.
2001 In his major league debut, Rockies right-hander Jason Jennings throws a complete-game shutout, blanking the Mets at Shea Stadium, 10-0. Additionally, the 23-year-old rookie enjoys a 3-for-5 day at the plate, including a solo home run leading off the ninth inning off Donnie Wall.
2001 In the Angels’ 7-6 loss to the Red Sox at Edison Field, Bengie Molina, with three singles and a double, establishes a franchise record with nine consecutive hits, a mark previously shared by four players with eight straight safeties. The 27-year-old backstop also becomes the first Halo to record consecutive four-for-four games since Tim Salmon accomplished the feat in 1994.
2001 Arizona left-hander Randy Johnson becomes the first pitcher to strike out 300 batters in four consecutive seasons. The Big Unit’s 16-strikeout performance isn’t enough as the Pirates beat the Diamondbacks, 5-1, ending the southpaw’s eight-game winning streak.
2003 In front of a full house at Yankee Stadium, Ron Guidry’s uniform 49 is retired on the lefty’s special day. ‘Louisiana Lightning,’ who played his entire career in New York, posting a 170-90 record for the Bronx Bombers, is surprised the club hasn’t just honored him with a day but has retired his jersey and placed a plaque in Monument Park in his honor.
2006 Carlos Delgado’s 400th career home run, his second of the game, proves significant when his fourth-inning grand slam dramatically closes the gap in the Mets’ eventual 8-7 comeback victory over the Cardinals at Shea Stadium. The bases-loaded home run is New York’s ninth of the season, establishing a new club record.
2006 Joining the 1989 Pirates, the Royals became the second team in big-league history to have a ten-run first inning and not win the game. At Kauffman Stadium, the home team takes an early 10-1 lead before losing to the Indians in ten innings, 15-13.
2006 With his 16th bunt single of the season, Houston center fielder Willy Taveras extends his hitting streak to 26 games to set an Astros record. Second baseman Jeff Kent set the previous mark in 2004.
2007 With his 1,150th victory as the Bronx Bombers skipper, Joe Torre passes Casey Stengel for second place on the Yankees’ all-time managerial win list. Joe McCarthy compiled a franchise record, winning 1,460 contests during his 16-year tenure in the dugout.
2008 🇰🇷 At Beijing’s Wukesong Baseball Field, South Korea, not favored to compete for a medal, upsets Cuba to win the gold in the Olympic final. Due to their heroics on the diamond, the unbeaten squad, which finished with a 9-0 record, will not have to report for two years of military duty.
2008 At a protest meeting, parents and teammates demand Jericho Scott be allowed to continue to pitch in the Youth Baseball League of New Haven. The nine-year-old, a right-hander with pinpoint control of a 40-mph fastball, was banned from the mound for throwing too hard.
2009 After making an error and a poor play allowing a batter to reach on an infield hit, Eric Bruntlett redeems himself when he turns the Mets’ attempted double steal into a game-ending unassisted triple play, marking only the 14th regular-season triple-killing. The rare event occurs when the second baseman snares Jeff Francoeur’s line drive for the first out, steps on second to double up Luis Castillo, and then tags the runner coming from first base, Daniel Murphy, for the last out of the Phillies’ 9-7 Citi Field victory.
2011 The Angels formally announce signing their #1 starter, 28-year-old right-hander Jered Weaver, to a five-year contract extension reported to be worth $85 million. The American League All-Star Game starter, eligible to become a free agent after the 2012 season, compiled a 14-6 record and a league-leading 2.10 ERA this season.
2013 At a Dodger Stadium press conference, LA announces Vin Scully will continue broadcasting Dodgers’ games for his 65th consecutive season. Some of the historic moments the Hall of Fame broadcaster has called include Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, 19 no-hitters, four by Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, and Kirk Gibson’s dramatic walk-off in the 1988 Fall Classic.
2019 After two and a half innings, Miami, wearing futuristic uniforms, trails Philadelphia, 7-0, before tying the game with a seven-run outburst in the third frame. The Fish build an eight-run margin in the highest-scoring game in the history of Marlins Park, beating the Phillies, 19-11.
2019 Ronald Acuna becomes the fourth Brave and the quickest to have a 30-30 season in franchise history when he steals second base in the team’s 2-1 extra-inning victory over the Mets at Citi Field. The 21-year-old outfielder joins Hank Aaron, Dale Murphy, and Ron Gant, who did it twice (1990, 1991), in accomplishing the feat.
BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
JOHN SMOLTZ
Pitcher
Dealt to the Braves when he was only a minor league prospect, John Smoltz soon established himself as a workhorse right-handed hurler for a young team on the verge of turning the corner.
In the midst of this prolonged success, a troublesome elbow forced Smoltz the starter to become Smoltz the closer for three-and-a-half years. But Smoltz would emerge from this uncharted path to become the only player in big league history with at least 200 career wins and 150 saves.
“My legacy will be however someone wants to view it,” Smoltz said as his playing career was coming to an end. “Certainly I’m proud of it. I don’t even know if I have a word for it. I mean, I literally gave everything I had every single time I went out there.”
Born May 15, 1967 in Detroit, Mich., Smoltz grew up in a baseball family with both a grandfather and his father having spent time working at Tiger Stadium. Smoltz was such a big Tigers fans growing up that after Detroit won the 1984 World Series, he and his father dug up a piece of Tiger Stadium sod and planted it in the family’s backyard.
Starring in both baseball and basketball at Waverly High School in Lansing, Mich., Smoltz’s initial plan was to attend Michigan State to play both sports. Instead, he signed with his hometown Tigers after being selected in the 22nd round of the 1985 MLB Draft.
After almost two seasons toiling in the Tigers’ minor league farm system, the 20-year-old Smoltz was acquired by Atlanta Braves general manager Bobby Cox for veteran pitcher Doyle Alexander on Aug. 12, 1987. At the time of the transaction, Smoltz was 4-10 with a 5.68 ERA pitching for the Double-A Glens Falls Tigers of the Eastern League, while Alexander, 36, was a 17-year veteran with a 5-10 record and a 4.13 ERA in 16 starts for the Braves.
“I was very disappointed,” Smoltz would recall years later. “I thought, ‘I’m going to the worst team in baseball.’ Then I switched my thoughts, realizing I can get to the big leagues quicker and help turn this franchise around, which has been a great story.”
In 1987, Alexander went 9-0 with a 1.53 ERA during the final seven weeks of the season, helping Detroit win the AL East. But by the end of the 1989 season, Alexander’s career was over.
By 1988, and after only a half-season at Triple-A Richmond, Smoltz was pitching in the majors. One season later, he was pitching in the All-Star Game.
Over his first five full seasons, from 1989 to 1993, Smoltz averaged 14 wins, 34 starts and 182 strikeouts with a 3.42 ERA. This stretch also included the Braves’ remarkable 1991 campaign, a worst-to-first season in which Atlanta won the NL pennant before falling in an epic seven-game World Series against the Minnesota Twins. The ’91 Fall Classic is arguably most remembered for Jack Morris’ 10-inning masterpiece in Game 7, shutting out the Braves, 1-0, where Smoltz tossed 7 1/3 scoreless innings while earning a no-decision.
Smoltz’s pitching repertoire included a trio of exceptional pitches: an impressive fastball, a slider that veered away from right-handed batters and a splitter that darted under the swings of left-handed batters.
Led by the “Big Three” of Smoltz, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, the postseason would become quite familiar for Atlanta. Smoltz, who would became the only Braves player to be part of the franchise’s historic run of 14 consecutive division titles (in completed seasons) from 1991 to 2005, would appear in 41 postseason games, compiling a 15-4 record, a 2.67 ERA and a then-record 199 strikeouts. In five World Series, including the Braves’ 1995 triumph over the Indians, Smoltz started eight games, finishing with a 2-2 record and a 2.47 ERA.
“I just relished it,” Smoltz said. “I could not wait for the big moment, the big game.”
Plagued by arm problems throughout his big league career, the first of a half dozen surgeries took place in September 1994 when doctors removed a large bone spur and some chips from the back of his right elbow.
Two years later, Smoltz captured the 1996 National League Cy Young Award on the strength of a 24-8 record (including 14 consecutive wins from April 9 to June 19), a 2.94 ERA and a league-best 276 strikeouts. Smoltz capturing the award ended Maddux’s Cy Young streak at four, giving the Braves four straight winners (Maddux had won his first Cy Young Award with the Cubs in 1992). And with Glavine’s wins in 1991 and 1998, Braves pitchers won six Cy Young awards in a span of eight seasons.
“Everybody felt I needed this to be on par with Greg and Tommy,” Smoltz said after winning the Cy Young. “At least winning the award takes the pressure off of that. I know down the road I’ll be honored to have played with those two guys.”
Despite having elbow surgery to remove bone chips prior to the season and a four-week disabled list stint with an inflamed elbow during the season, a resilient Smoltz finished 1998 with a 17-3 record. The following year, while spending time on the DL twice with a strained elbow, he tried to compensate for the pain by dropping down his pitching motion from overhand to a three-quarters delivery and finished 11-8.
The worst of Smoltz’s injuries came in 2000 when he missed entire season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in March. A comeback in 2001 was derailed after five starts with time spent on the DL, but when he returned in July he was converted into a relief pitcher as the best chance to maximize his health.
After 159 wins as a stalwart starting pitcher for the Braves, the versatile Smoltz began anew as the team’s closer and the results were superb. Finishing out the 2001 season as the team’s new fireman, he had 10 saves in 11 chances with a 1.59 ERA.
In 2002, his first full season in the closer role, Smoltz set an NL record by converting 55 saves. Similar to his success as a starting pitcher, he would dominate his new role in the bullpen by saving 154 games in 168 opportunities in his 3½ seasons as an elite closer. Injuries continued to be a concern during this period as well, as he suffered from right elbow tendinitis in 2003 and had right elbow surgery in October 2004 to clean up scar tissue.
Preferring to be a starter, Smoltz was a workhorse after returning to the rotation in 2005, averaging 15 wins and 222 innings over the next three seasons. But two months after winning his 200th career game in May 2007, he was back on the DL with right shoulder tendinitis.
After five starts early in the 2008 season, one of which included him becoming the 16th big league pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts, it was announced that Smoltz would need season-ending shoulder surgery.
Smoltz ended his career with stints with the Red Sox and Cardinals in 2009.
An eight-time All-Star, Smoltz finished his 21-year big league career with a 213-155 record, 154 saves, 3,084 strikeouts and a 3.33 ERA. The winner of 14-or-more games 10 times, he twice led the NL in wins (1996 and 2006), innings pitched (1996 and 1997) and strikeouts (1992 and 1996).
Smoltz was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015.
FOOTBALL HISTORY
August 23, 1946 – The Chicago College All-Star game took place on this date at Soldier Field as the All-Stars shocked the NFL champion LA Rams 16-0 in front of a crowd of 97,380 fans. The games’ MVP was college player Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch, a running back from Wisconsin University.
August 23, 1985 – A court in Louisville, KY awarded football legend Paul Hornung $1,160,000 paid by the NCAA in a suit that Hornung sued the Association when they disallowed him to be a broadcast analyst on collegiate football games due to allegedly betting on games in his past.
August 23, 2003 – The renovated Lambeau Field re-opens, in Green Bay, Wisconsin as the Packers hosted the Panthers in a preseason contest. The Green Bay fans were treated to the opening of the Atrium and also received an additional 10,000 seats for patrons to watch the game. The improvements also gave the opportunity for the legendary venue to host not just the 10 home Packers games every year, but almost 700 other events during the year as well!
August 23, 2020 – The NFL learns that 77 out of 77 positive COVID-19 tests recorded over the past few days were all in fact FALSE Positives and none of the players had contracted the disease.
August 23, 2020 – The Baltimore Ravens released 7 time Pro Bowl Safety Earl Thomas for conduct detrimental to the team, after he got into a fight with a teammate and had caused a rift in the locker room.
HALL OF FAME BIRTHDAYS FOR AUGUST 23
August 23, 1874 – Harrisburgh, PA – Yale guard Bill Hickock is born on this day. “Wild Bill” was twice selected to the All-American Team in 1893 & 1894. The legendary player was enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame in the induction class of 1971.
August 23, 1934 – Wilmington, North Carolina -Sonny Jurgensen was a former quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins. Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrined the fantastic quarterback in the class of 1983.
August 23, 1945 – Griffin, Georgia – Rayfield Wright was a offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys for 13 seasons. The blocker from Fort Valley State known as “Big Cat” was drafted in the 7th round of the 1967 NFL Draft. He was enshrined with a bronze bust in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.
August 23, 1968 – Oceola, Arkansas – Cortez Kennedy was a 1989 All-American defensive tackle from the University of Miami. He went on after college to have a great 11 year career with the Seatle Seahawks, who selected him as the 3rd pick in the 1990 NFL Draft and was named as an All-Pro five times. Kennedy was the 1992 NFL Defensive Player of the Year after recording 14 sacks. Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrined this great player in 2012.
FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
TERRY BEASLEY
Position: Wide Receiver
Years: 1969-1971
Place of Birth: Montgomery, AL
Date of Birth: Feb 05, 1950
Jersey Number: 88
Height: 5-11
Weight: 186
High School: Montgomery, AL (Robert E. Lee HS)
Terry Beasley was one half of one of college football’s greatest pass combinations. Beasley was a unanimous All-American and the primary target for quarterback Pat Sullivan, the 1971 Heisman Trophy winner. That season Beasley finished eighth in the Heisman voting as he caught 55 Sullivan spirals, with an even dozen going for touchdowns. That fall the Auburn campus was flooded with “Super Sully and Terry Terrific” bumper stickers. The Tigers contended for the national championship in 1971, winning the first nine games of the season before losing to equally undefeated Alabama in the final game of the regular season. While Beasley is best remembered for his 1971 senior season, yardage-wise he was a better player as a junior for Coach Shug Jordan, as he gained 1051 yards exceeding his senior total by over 200 yards. His 20.2 yards per catch average tied an NCAA record. As a junior he won the first of two consecutive All-Conference honors and was recognized nationally as a second team All-America. His career average of 17.8 yards per catch and his per- game average of 83.9 yards receiving were SEC records. Beasley was also the holder of numerous Auburn marks for career receiving yards, touchdown receptions and 100-yard receiving games. “He was way ahead of his time,” recalled Sullivan. “He was as fast as anyone playing the game. But the thing that really set him apart was that he was awfully, awfully, strong.” Beasley was a first round draft choice of the San Francisco 49ers, where he played for four seasons before injuries forced his retirement.
NUMBERS IN SPORTS
9 – 3 – 21 – 15 – 43 –
August 23, 1907 – Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hit the New York Giants roster, in a 1-0 in 5 inning game at the Polo Grounds in New York City
August 23, 1936 – A 17 year old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller’s debut in a MLB game resulted in him striking out 15 St Louis Browns in 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland. Feller wore the Number 9 on his uniform that day.
August 23, 1942 – In the spirit of charity, Walter Johnson pitched to Number 3, Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that drew 69,000 for New York Yankee versus Washington MLB doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. The exhibition of the legends helped to raise a cool $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
August 23, 1953 – A man named Phil Grate allegedly set a record for throwing a baseball with a toss of 443’3″.
August 23, 1970 – Roberto Clemente, Number 21 of the Pittsburgh Pirates produced his record second straight 5-hit game
August 23, 1972 – Chicago’s Dick Allen, Number 15 is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson) to homer into Comiskey Park’s center field bleachers
August 23, 1992 – Dennis Eckersley, Number 43 of the Oakland A’s had another big year. Eck previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), on this day became the first pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
August 23, 1993 – Atlanta Braves teammates Fred McGriff (Number 27) and David Justice (Number 23) became just the sixth duo to hit back-to-back home runs twice in same game
TV WEDNESDAY
HORSE RACING
9 a.m.
FS2 — The Juddmonte International Stakes: From York Racecourse, York, England
1 p.m.
FS2 — Saratoga Live: From Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL
1 p.m.
ESPN — Little League World Series: Taoyuan, Chinese Taipei vs. Willemstad, Curaçao, International Bracket – Semifinal, Williamsport, Pa.
3 p.m.
ESPN — Little League World Series: Needville, Texas vs. Seattle, United States Bracket – Semifinal, Williamsport, Pa.
5 p.m.
ESPN — Little League World Series: TBD, International Bracket – Elimination Game, Williamsport, Pa.
7 p.m.
ESPN — Little League World Series: TBD, United States Bracket – Elimination Game, Williamsport, Pa.
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
9 p.m.
ESPN — PFL Playoffs Main Card: Welterweights & Lightweights, New York
MLB BASEBALL
1 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Chicago Cubs at Detroit OR St. Louis at Pittsburgh (12:30 p.m.)
4 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: San Francisco at Philadelphia OR Miami at San Diego
8 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Boston at Houston OR NY Mets at Atlanta (7 p.m.)
RUGBY (MEN’S)
5:30 a.m. (Thursday)
FS2 — NRL: Parramatta at Penrith
SOCCER (MEN’S)
9:55 p.m.
FS2 — CONCACAF Central American Cup Group Stage: CD Aguila vs. Comunicaciones, Group C, San Salvador, El Salvador
TENNIS
11 a.m.
ESPNEWS — ATP/WTA: The U.S. Open, Qualifying – First Round, Flushing, N.Y.
TENNIS — Cleveland-WTA, Winston-Salem-ATP Early Rounds
6:30 p.m.
TENNIS — Cleveland-WTA, Winston-Salem-ATP Early Rounds
TRACK AND FIELD
4 a.m.
USA — World Championships: Day 5, Budapest, Hungary
6 a.m.
USA — World Championships: Day 5, Budapest, Hungary
1:30 p.m.
USA — World Championships: Day 5, Budapest, Hungary
WNBA BASKETBALL
10 p.m.CBSSN — Phoenix at Los Angeles