MLB  – Major League Baseball
Yesterday

  St.  Louis Cardinals 8, Chicago Cubs 3

  Baltimore  Orioles 4, Chicago White Sox 3 – 11 Innings

  Tigers  were off

Cardinals 8, Cubs 3 – Cardinals’ Goldschmidt has 2 HR,  5 RBIs in 8-3 win over Cubs

  Paul Goldschmidt slugged his 32nd and 33rd homers and  had five RBIs, Corey Dickerson set a franchise record for consecutive hits and  the St. Louis Cardinals rolled to an 8-3 win over the Chicago Cubs.  Goldschmidt, Dickerson and Tommy Edman collected three hits apiece as the NL  Central-leading Cardinals won for the 10th time in their last 12 games. The  Cubs lost for the fourth time in six games. The Cardinals collected 16 hits.  Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina did not play but were presented with scoreboard  panels before their last game at Wrigley Field.

Orioles 4, White Sox 3 – F/11 – Stowers’ HR in 9th  ties it, Orioles top White Sox 4-3 in 11         

  Kyle Stowers hit his first major league homer to tie  the game with Baltimore down to its last strike, and the Orioles ended up  beating the Chicago White Sox 4-3 in 11 innings. Anthony Santander won it with  an RBI single. But it was Stowers who saved the game for Baltimore in the  ninth. The 24-year-old outfielder sent an 0-2 pitch from Liam Hendriks over the  wall in right-center field. Hendriks had converted 19 save chances in a row  before that.

Tonight

  Detroit  (Alexander 3-7) at Texas (Otto 5-8), 8:05 p.m.               Superhits  103.7 Cosy-FM 7:45 

  Arizona  (Henry 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 6-5), 8:10 p.m.

  Chicago  Cubs (Steele 4-7) at Milwaukee (Peralta 4-3), 8:10 p.m. 

NFL  – National Football League – Preseason week 3
Tonight

  Kansas  City Chiefs 17, Green Bay Packers 10

  Houston  Texans 17, San Francisco 49ers 0

Saturday

  Chicago  Bears at Cleveland Browns, 7:00 p.m.

  Tampa  Bay Buccaneers at Indianapolis Colts, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday

  Detroit  Lions at Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:30 p.m.

NFL  – Lions rookie linebacker Rodriguez eyeing starting spot

  Detroit  Lions rookie linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez has become a surprising star on HBO’s  “Hard Knocks” — and the sixth-round selection from Oklahoma State has a shot to  start in Week 1. Rodriguez made an immediate impression on the coaching staff  back in May. Linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard called Rodriguez one of the  smartest young players he’s ever been around. Rodriguez’s star has only risen  since. Though he started training camp with the second and third-team defenses,  by last week’s joint practices with the Indianapolis Colts, the majority of his  reps were coming with the starters.

NFL  – Bears guard Teven Jenkins looks to secure starting role

  Teven  Jenkins has gone from left tackle to right tackle backup to rumors that he’s  being traded. Now he’s playing right guard for the Chicago Bears with hopes of  securing a starting spot. The Bears face the Browns this weekend in Cleveland  in their preseason finale. Jenkins says he still can’t be sure if he’ll be  traded, though it will be the second straight start for the team’s 2021  second-round draft pick. The Oklahoma State product has replaced veteran  Michael Schofield at right guard. Jenkins, quarterback Justin Fields and  starters will play a half in Saturday’s game.

NCAAFB  – College Football – Week 1 – Big Ten
Saturday

  Nebraska  vs. Northwestern, 12:30 p.m.                   at  Dublin Ireland

  Wyoming  at Illinois, 4:00 p.m.

NCAA  – Supreme Court paved way for shifting college TV landscape

  The  Big Ten sent shockwaves in late June with the additions of Southern California  and UCLA in 2024. That led to last week’s announcement of a seven-year rights  deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that will see the conference receiving at least $1  billion a year. In 2020, the SEC sold the second package of football and  basketball to the Walt Disney Company, making ESPN/ABC the home of SEC  Football. The 10-year deal, starting in 2024, is worth at least $3 billion and  is an addition to the original 20-year, $2.25-billion agreement that began in  2014. The increased revenues led to the additions of Texas and Oklahoma in 2025.

NHL  – Long-term victims of car crashes win key Michigan decision

  The  Michigan appeals court has issued a major ruling affecting long-term victims of  car crashes. The court says changes in auto insurance law can’t be applied  retroactively to people who were severely injured before summer 2019. It’s a  victory for people who are still recovering and their care providers. For  decades, people injured in crashes were entitled to payment for “all reasonable  charges” related to care and rehabilitation. But the new law sets a fee  schedule and a cap on reimbursements not covered by Medicare. It had sudden,  drastic consequences for people needing long-term care for crashes before June  11, 2019, and the providers of those services.   Former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov was among the  people who could have lost that care.   Konstantinov was critically injured in a limousine accident days after  the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 1997.  

Tennis  – US Open – Unvaccinated Djokovic out of US Open; can’t travel to States

  Novak  Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not  vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United  States. Djokovic announced his withdrawal from the year’s last Grand Slam  tournament on Twitter on Thursday, hours before the draw for the event was  revealed. Djokovic has won the U.S. Open three times and was the runner-up last  year. He has 21 major titles. Play is scheduled to begin at Flushing Meadows on  Monday.

Golf  – PGA – Scheffler starts with Tour Championship lead and expands it

  Masters  champion Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy can each claim a roller coaster day  in the Tour Championship. Only one of them was aware of it. Scheffler started  with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led by six, it was  down to two and he finished five ahead of Xander Schauffele. He wasn’t aware of  this because he wasn’t looking at leaderboards. Scheffler had a 65. McIlroy  knew full well what he was doing. He his his opening shot out-of-bounds for  triple bogey. He made only four pars and salvaged a 67.

MILB  – Midwest League Baseball
Last Night

  Great  Lakes Loons 9, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 4 – Game 1

  Fort  Wayne Tin Caps 3, Great Lakes Loons 0 – Game 2

  South  Bend Cubs 13, West Michigan Whitecaps 3

  Lansing  Lugnuts 6, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 1

Tonight

  South  Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m.

  Fort  Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 7:05 p.m.

  Lansing  Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m.   

MCCAA  – Junior College Athletics
Last  Night
Women’s  Volleyball

  Lake  Michigan College 3, Terra State 0           at Macomb CC

  Lake  Michigan College 3, Macomb Community College 0

Saturday

  Lake  Michigan College at Southwestern Michigan College, 10:00 a.m.

  North  Central Michigan vs. Lake Michigan College, 12:00 p.m.              at SMC

  North  Central Michigan at Southwestern Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. 

MHSAA  – High School Sports
Last Night
Football
Non-Conference

  Zeeland  West 66, Lakeshore 15

  Lawton  27, Benton Harbor 12

  South  Haven 24, Dowagiac 7

  Watervliet  35, Brandywine 0

  Buchanan  46, Saugatuck 20

  Portage  Northern 41, Vicksburg 27

  Lowell  48, Mattawan 28

  East  Lansing 21, Portage Central 15

  BC  Lakeview 28, Harper Creek 6

  Allegan  55, Cassopolis 0

  Decatur  14, Galesburg-Augusta 9

  Schoolcraft  56, Comstock 0

  Centreville  20, Union City 14

  Reading  33, White Pigeon 14

  Delton-Kellogg  42, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 24

Wolverine  Conference

  Plainwell  21, Otsego 7

  Three  Rivers 32, Paw Paw 6

  Sturgis  15, Niles 0

8-Man  Football

  Bangor  34, Twin City Sharks 30

  Fennville  68, Red Arrow Raiders 28 

  Bridgman  54, Vermontville Maple Valley 6

  Gobles  30, Marcellus 13

  Marion  68, Lawrence 16

Boys  Soccer

  St.  Joseph 5, Byron Center 1

  GR  Covenant Christian 1, Allegan 0

  Schoolcraft  2, Buchanan 1

  East  Kentwood 1, Kalamazoo Central 0 

  Plainwell  2, Wayland 1

Tonight
Football  – All games start at 7:00 p.m.
Non-Conference

  St.  Joseph vs. Traverse City Central @ Ferris State University    News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:30

  Berrien  Springs at Kalamazoo United

  Edwardsburg  at GR West Catholic

  Kalamazoo  Central at Mount Pleasant

  Gull  Lake at Marshall

  Constantine  vs. Parchment, 5:00 p.m.     @ Kalamazoo College

  Byron  Center at Battle Creek Central

8-Man  Football

  Eau Claire at Bloomingdale

  Mendon at Martin

  Farwell at Wyoming-Lee

  Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian

Boys  Soccer

  New Buffalo at Berrien Springs, 5:00 p.m.

  Bloomingdale at Fennville, 6:00 p.m.

  Otsego at Mattawan, 6:00 p.m.

  Vicksburg at Three Rivers, 5:00 p.m.

Volleyball

  Howardsville Christian at Eau Claire, 6:00 p.m.

Boys  Tennis

  Vicksburg, Edwardsburg at Berrien Springs, 9:00 a.m.

Saturday
Boys  Soccer

  Edwardsburg at St. Joseph, 11:30 a.m.

  Michigan Lutheran at Coloma, 9:00 a.m.                            at Coloma Tournament

  Michigan Lutheran vs. Constantine, 10:30 a.m.                 at Coloma Tournament

  Constantine at Coloma, 12:00 p.m.                                   at Coloma  Tournament

  Our Lady of the Lake vs. Lansing Christian, 10:30 a.m.      at Zion Christian Tournament

  Brandywine at Parchment, 12:00 p.m.

MLB – Major League Baseball 
 Yesterday 
 St. Louis Cardinals 8, Chicago Cubs 3 
 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago White Sox 3 – 11 Innings 
 Tigers were off
Cardinals 8, Cubs 3 – Cardinals&#8217; Goldschmidt has 2 HR, 5 RBIs in 8-3 win over Cubs 
 Paul Goldschmidt slugged his 32nd and 33rd homers and had five RBIs, Corey Dickerson set a franchise record for consecutive hits and the St. Louis Cardinals rolled to an 8-3 win over the Chicago Cubs. Goldschmidt, Dickerson and Tommy Edman collected three hits apiece as the NL Central-leading Cardinals won for the 10th time in their last 12 games. The Cubs lost for the fourth time in six games. The Cardinals collected 16 hits. Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina did not play but were presented with scoreboard panels before their last game at Wrigley Field.
Orioles 4, White Sox 3 – F/11 – Stowers&#8217; HR in 9th ties it, Orioles top White Sox 4-3 in 11         
 Kyle Stowers hit his first major league homer to tie the game with Baltimore down to its last strike, and the Orioles ended up beating the Chicago White Sox 4-3 in 11 innings. Anthony Santander won it with an RBI single. But it was Stowers who saved the game for Baltimore in the ninth. The 24-year-old outfielder sent an 0-2 pitch from Liam Hendriks over the wall in right-center field. Hendriks had converted 19 save chances in a row before that.
Tonight 
 Detroit (Alexander 3-7) at Texas (Otto 5-8), 8:05 p.m.               Superhits 103.7 Cosy-FM 7:45 
 Arizona (Henry 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Cueto 6-5), 8:10 p.m. 
 Chicago Cubs (Steele 4-7) at Milwaukee (Peralta 4-3), 8:10 p.m. 
NFL – National Football League – Preseason week 3 
 Tonight 
 Kansas City Chiefs 17, Green Bay Packers 10 
 Houston Texans 17, San Francisco 49ers 0
Saturday 
 Chicago Bears at Cleveland Browns, 7:00 p.m. 
 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Indianapolis Colts, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 
 Detroit Lions at Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:30 p.m.
NFL – Lions rookie linebacker Rodriguez eyeing starting spot 
 Detroit Lions rookie linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez has become a surprising star on HBO&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hard Knocks&rdquo; — and the sixth-round selection from Oklahoma State has a shot to start in Week 1. Rodriguez made an immediate impression on the coaching staff back in May. Linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard called Rodriguez one of the smartest young players he&rsquo;s ever been around. Rodriguez&rsquo;s star has only risen since. Though he started training camp with the second and third-team defenses, by last week&rsquo;s joint practices with the Indianapolis Colts, the majority of his reps were coming with the starters.
NFL – Bears guard Teven Jenkins looks to secure starting role 
 Teven Jenkins has gone from left tackle to right tackle backup to rumors that he&#8217;s being traded. Now he&#8217;s playing right guard for the Chicago Bears with hopes of securing a starting spot. The Bears face the Browns this weekend in Cleveland in their preseason finale. Jenkins says he still can&#8217;t be sure if he&#8217;ll be traded, though it will be the second straight start for the team&#8217;s 2021 second-round draft pick. The Oklahoma State product has replaced veteran Michael Schofield at right guard. Jenkins, quarterback Justin Fields and starters will play a half in Saturday&#8217;s game.
NCAAFB – College Football – Week 1 – Big Ten 
 Saturday 
 Nebraska vs. Northwestern, 12:30 p.m.                   at Dublin Ireland 
 Wyoming at Illinois, 4:00 p.m.
NCAA – Supreme Court paved way for shifting college TV landscape 
 The Big Ten sent shockwaves in late June with the additions of Southern California and UCLA in 2024. That led to last week&rsquo;s announcement of a seven-year rights deal with Fox, NBC and CBS that will see the conference receiving at least $1 billion a year. In 2020, the SEC sold the second package of football and basketball to the Walt Disney Company, making ESPN/ABC the home of SEC Football. The 10-year deal, starting in 2024, is worth at least $3 billion and is an addition to the original 20-year, $2.25-billion agreement that began in 2014. The increased revenues led to the additions of Texas and Oklahoma in 2025.
NHL – Long-term victims of car crashes win key Michigan decision 
 The Michigan appeals court has issued a major ruling affecting long-term victims of car crashes. The court says changes in auto insurance law can&#8217;t be applied retroactively to people who were severely injured before summer 2019. It&#8217;s a victory for people who are still recovering and their care providers. For decades, people injured in crashes were entitled to payment for &ldquo;all reasonable charges&rdquo; related to care and rehabilitation. But the new law sets a fee schedule and a cap on reimbursements not covered by Medicare. It had sudden, drastic consequences for people needing long-term care for crashes before June 11, 2019, and the providers of those services.  Former Detroit Red Wings defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov was among the people who could have lost that care.  Konstantinov was critically injured in a limousine accident days after the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 1997.  
Tennis – US Open – Unvaccinated Djokovic out of US Open; can&#8217;t travel to States 
 Novak Djokovic will not play in the U.S. Open, as expected, because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is not allowed to travel to the United States. Djokovic announced his withdrawal from the year&rsquo;s last Grand Slam tournament on Twitter on Thursday, hours before the draw for the event was revealed. Djokovic has won the U.S. Open three times and was the runner-up last year. He has 21 major titles. Play is scheduled to begin at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
Golf – PGA – Scheffler starts with Tour Championship lead and expands it 
 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy can each claim a roller coaster day in the Tour Championship. Only one of them was aware of it. Scheffler started with a two-shot lead as the No. 1 seed in the FedEx Cup. He led by six, it was down to two and he finished five ahead of Xander Schauffele. He wasn&#8217;t aware of this because he wasn&#8217;t looking at leaderboards. Scheffler had a 65. McIlroy knew full well what he was doing. He his his opening shot out-of-bounds for triple bogey. He made only four pars and salvaged a 67.
MILB – Midwest League Baseball 
 Last Night 
 Great Lakes Loons 9, Fort Wayne Tin Caps 4 – Game 1 
 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 3, Great Lakes Loons 0 – Game 2 
 South Bend Cubs 13, West Michigan Whitecaps 3 
 Lansing Lugnuts 6, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 1
Tonight 
 South Bend Cubs at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m. 
 Fort Wayne Tin Caps at Great Lakes Loons, 7:05 p.m. 
 Lansing Lugnuts at Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7:40 p.m.   
MCCAA – Junior College Athletics 
 Last Night 
 Women&rsquo;s Volleyball 
 Lake Michigan College 3, Terra State 0           at Macomb CC 
 Lake Michigan College 3, Macomb Community College 0
Saturday 
 Lake Michigan College at Southwestern Michigan College, 10:00 a.m. 
 North Central Michigan vs. Lake Michigan College, 12:00 p.m.              at SMC 
 North Central Michigan at Southwestern Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. 
MHSAA – High School Sports 
 Last Night 
 Football 
 Non-Conference 
 Zeeland West 66, Lakeshore 15 
 Lawton 27, Benton Harbor 12 
 South Haven 24, Dowagiac 7 
 Watervliet 35, Brandywine 0 
 Buchanan 46, Saugatuck 20 
 Portage Northern 41, Vicksburg 27 
 Lowell 48, Mattawan 28 
 East Lansing 21, Portage Central 15 
 BC Lakeview 28, Harper Creek 6 
 Allegan 55, Cassopolis 0 
 Decatur 14, Galesburg-Augusta 9 
 Schoolcraft 56, Comstock 0 
 Centreville 20, Union City 14 
 Reading 33, White Pigeon 14 
 Delton-Kellogg 42, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 24
Wolverine Conference 
 Plainwell 21, Otsego 7 
 Three Rivers 32, Paw Paw 6 
 Sturgis 15, Niles 0
8-Man Football 
 Bangor 34, Twin City Sharks 30 
 Fennville 68, Red Arrow Raiders 28 
 Bridgman 54, Vermontville Maple Valley 6 
 Gobles 30, Marcellus 13 
 Marion 68, Lawrence 16
 Boys Soccer 
 St. Joseph 5, Byron Center 1 
 GR Covenant Christian 1, Allegan 0 
 Schoolcraft 2, Buchanan 1 
 East Kentwood 1, Kalamazoo Central 0 
 Plainwell 2, Wayland 1
Tonight 
 Football – All games start at 7:00 p.m. 
 Non-Conference 
 St. Joseph vs. Traverse City Central @ Ferris State University    News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:30 
 Berrien Springs at Kalamazoo United 
 Edwardsburg at GR West Catholic 
 Kalamazoo Central at Mount Pleasant 
 Gull Lake at Marshall 
 Constantine vs. Parchment, 5:00 p.m.     @ Kalamazoo College 
 Byron Center at Battle Creek Central
8-Man Football 
 Eau Claire at Bloomingdale 
 Mendon at Martin 
 Farwell at Wyoming-Lee 
 Vandercook Lake at Wyoming Tri-Unity Christian
Boys Soccer 
 New Buffalo at Berrien Springs, 5:00 p.m. 
 Bloomingdale at Fennville, 6:00 p.m. 
 Otsego at Mattawan, 6:00 p.m. 
 Vicksburg at Three Rivers, 5:00 p.m.
Volleyball 
 Howardsville Christian at Eau Claire, 6:00 p.m.
Boys Tennis 
 Vicksburg, Edwardsburg at Berrien Springs, 9:00 a.m.
Saturday 
 Boys Soccer 
 Edwardsburg at St. Joseph, 11:30 a.m. 
 Michigan Lutheran at Coloma, 9:00 a.m.                            at Coloma Tournament 
 Michigan Lutheran vs. Constantine, 10:30 a.m.                 at Coloma Tournament 
 Constantine at Coloma, 12:00 p.m.                                   at Coloma Tournament 
 Our Lady of the Lake vs. Lansing Christian, 10:30 a.m.      at Zion Christian Tournament 
 Brandywine at Parchment, 12:00 p.m.

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MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday St. Louis Cardinals 8, Chicago Cubs 3 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago White Sox 3 – 11 Innings Tigers were off Cardinals 8, Cubs 3 – Cardinals’ Goldschmidt has 2 HR, 5