NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball
Last Night

  Michigan  State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT 

Bradley  89, Eastern Michigan 61

Michigan State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT – Michigan  State outlasts Tshiebwe, No. 4 Kentucky in 2OT 

  Malik  Hall forced two extra periods with dunks off inbounds plays, and Michigan State  outlasted No. 4 Kentucky 86-77 in double overtime after Oscar Tshiebwe  concluded his strong season debut by fouling out. Tshiebwe, last season’s consensus  national player of the year, had 22 points and 18 rebounds for the Wildcats  before picking up his fifth foul late in the first overtime. Michigan State,  coming off a one-point loss to No. 2 Gonzaga on the deck of the USS Abraham  Lincoln, appeared headed for another tough nonconference defeat. But the  Spartans tied the game in the final seconds of regulation and overtime thanks  to Hall, who finished with 20 points.

Bradley 89, EMU 61 – Bradley wins 89-61 against  Eastern Michigan 

  Led  by Malevy Leons’ 16 points, the Bradley Braves defeated the Eastern Michigan  Eagles 89-61 on Tuesday night. The Braves improved to 2-1 with the victory and  the Eagles fell to 1-2. Emoni Bates had a game high 20 points to lead Eastern  Michigan. 

Tonight

  (20)  Michigan vs. Pittsburgh, 6:00 p.m. at Brooklyn,       WSJM 5:30

  Southern  Indiana at Notre Dame, 8:00 p.m.

NCAAWBKB – Women’s College Basketball
Last Night

Michigan  State 85, Oakland 39

Tonight

  Central  Michigan at Indianapolis, 6:00 p.m.

  Western  Michigan at (23) Michigan, 7:00 p.m.

  (9)  Notre Dame at Northwestern, 9:00 p.m.

NBA – National Basketball Association
Tonight

  Indiana  Pacers at Charlotte Hornets, 7:00 p.m.

  Chicago  Bulls at New Orleans Pelicans, 8:00 p.m.

NCAAFB – College Football – Week 12
Tonight

  Eastern  Michigan at Kent State, 6:00 p.m.

Western  Michigan at Central Michigan, 8:00 p.m.

NCAAFB – Hold steady: UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, TCU  remain CFP top 4

  Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU held on to the  top four spots in the College Football Playoff rankings. The Bulldogs’  Southeastern Conference rivals Tennessee and LSU are at Nos. 5 and 6,  respectively. With three of the top six teams and only three weeks left until  Selection Sunday, the SEC appears in position to put two teams in the CFP for  the second straight season and third time overall. USC, the Pac-12′s best and  probably last hope to make the final four, is seventh.

NCAAFB – Charlotte hires Michigan’s Poggi as head  football coach

  The Charlotte 49ers have named Michigan associate head  coach Francis “Biff” Poggi as their head football coach. Poggi replaces Will  Healy, who was fired earlier this season. Pete Rossomando has been serving as  the interim coach and will finish out this season. Poggi inherits a team that  has struggled in 2022. The 49ers are 2-9 entering the season finale Saturday  against Louisiana Tech. Poggi’s introductory news conference is scheduled for  next week. He is Charlotte’s third head football coach since the school’s FBS  football program started in 2015.

NCAAFB – USC, UCLA may cause Big Ten schools to expand  recruiting map

  Southern California and UCLA’s pending arrivals to the  Big Ten theoretically should give the league’s existing members the opportunity  to expand their recruiting maps and pursue more West Coast prospects. But it  apparently will take some time for these moves to have that kind of impact.  Twelve high school juniors or seniors from states with Pac-12 programs have  verbally committed to play football at one of the Big Ten’s 14 current member  schools. Only four made their decisions after the Big Ten’s June 30  announcement that USC and UCLA would join the league in 2024.

NCAAFB – University of Virginia mourns for campus  shooting victims

  The University of Virginia community is mourning as  new details emerge about both the three football players killed in a campus  shooting this week and the criminal charges the suspect faces. Authorities have  said university student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. joined a group of about  two dozen others who traveled by bus Sunday to Washington for a field trip.  After the bus arrived back on campus, authorities say Jones opened fire,  killing the three players and wounding two others. Jones was scheduled to make  a first court appearance Wednesday.

NHL – National Hockey League
Last Night

  Anaheim  Ducks 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 – OT 

Ducks 3, Red Wings 2 – OT – Ducks beat Wings, snap  3-game skid on Strome’s OT goal

  Ryan  Strome scored on a pass from Trevor Zegras with 49 seconds left in overtime and  the Anaheim Ducks snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over  the Detroit Red Wings. After John Klingberg scored his first goal for his new  team with 46 seconds left in regulation to force overtime, the Ducks earned  only their fifth win of the season when a clearing attempt by Detroit’s Tyler  Bertuzzi hit Strome in front of the net. Zegras and Strome executed a  back-and-forth passing game that ended with Strome’s fifth goal of the season.

Tonight

  St.  Louis Blues at Chicago Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.

MLB  – Veteran skippers Francona, Showalter voted Managers of Year

  Terry  Francona of the Cleveland Guardians and Buck Showalter of the New York Mets  have been voted Managers of the Year, improving the already sparkling resumes  of both veteran baseball leaders. Showalter narrowly won the National League  award in a wide-open race, becoming the third person to take the prize four  times and the first to do it with four different franchises. He won in the  American League with the New York Yankees in 1994, Texas Rangers in 2004 and  Baltimore Orioles in 2014. The other four-time winners are Hall of Famers Bobby  Cox and Tony La Russa. Baltimore’s Brandon Hyde finished second to Francona in  the American League, while Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers was  runner-up in the NL.

MLB  – Rizzo, Yankees agree to $40M, 2-year contract

  First  baseman Anthony Rizzo is staying with the New York Yankees, agreeing to a $40  million, two-year contract. Rizzo gets $17 million in each of the next two  seasons, and the deal includes a $17 million team option for 2025 with a $6  million buyout. Rizzo had opted out of his previous contract with New York,  giving up a $16 million salary for 2023. Since joining the Yankees at the 2021  trade deadline, Rizzo had provided needed left-handed power for New York.

NFL  – Bears place RB Herbert on IR because of hip injury

  The  Chicago Bears have placed running back Khalil Herbert on injured reserve  because of a hip injury, a big setback for a team leading the NFL in rushing  yards. Herbert will miss at least four games. He was hurt returning a kickoff  near the end of last week’s 31-30 loss to the Detroit Lions. Herbert is the  team’s second-leading rusher behind quarterback Justin Fields. He has 643 yards  on 108 attempts while sharing duties with David Montgomery.

Golf  – LIV/PGA – McIlroy says Norman needs to ‘exit stage left’ from LIV Golf

  Rory  McIlroy says golf cannot begin to come together as long as Greg Norman is  running Saudi-funded LIV Golf. McIlroy says no one is going to talk unless  there’s an adult in the room and that Norman needs to go. McIlroy is in Dubai  for the DP World Tour Championship that ends the European tour season. McIlroy  says it will be difficult to get anywhere until lawsuits in the U.S. and the  U.K. are sorted out. He also takes issue with Norman saying Tiger Woods should  be thankful for LIV forcing the tour to provide more money to plays.

Olympics  – Summer 2024 – 2020 Olympic champ Sunisa Lee to make a run at Paris 2024

  Sunisa  Lee is going to make another run at Olympic glory. The 2020 women’s all-around  gymnastics champion has announced she will return to training at the elite  level following the end of her sophomore season at Auburn. Lee became the fifth  straight American to win Olympic gold when she edged Rebeca Andrade of Brazil  in the finals at the 2020 games in Tokyo. Lee still fulfilled her commitment to  compete at Auburn, helping the Tigers to the NCAA finals last spring. Lee says  she doesn’t want her gold-medal moment in Japan to be a once-in-a-lifetime  thing.

Tennis – Unvaccinated  Djokovic set for visa to play Australian Open

  Novak Djokovic is set  to be granted a visa to play in the Australian Open in January despite his  high-profile deportation from Australia this year because he isn’t vaccinated  against COVID-19. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. says it has confirmed  newspaper reports that the immigration minister is putting aside Djokovic’s  potential three-year exclusion period from Australia. Djokovic is a 35-year-old  from Serbia who had faced that lengthy ban because he is a foreign citizen  whose visa was revoked. The Australian Border Force previously said an  exclusion period could be waived under certain circumstances. Immigration  Minister Andrew Giles has declined to comment on privacy.

FIFA – World Cup – Gambling  group estimates US will bet $1.8B on World Cup

  Americans will bet  $1.8 billion on the World Cup this year, according to the casino industry’s  national trade group. The American Gaming Association estimates that 20.5  million American adults plan to bet on the biggest soccer tournament in the  world, legally or otherwise. The survey is the organization’s first for World  Cup betting. This World Cup is the first to be held while legal sports betting  is widespread in America. The U.S. was the top choice to win at 24%, followed  by Brazil at 19%, Argentina at 17% and Germany at 10%.

AHL – American Hockey  League
Today

  Rockford Ice  Hogs at Grand Rapids Griffins, 11:00 a.m.

NBAGL – NBA G-League
Last Night

  Grand Rapids  Gold 122, Cleveland Charge 116

  Wisconsin Herd  137, Motor City Cruise 112

MCCAA – Junior College  Athletics
Last Night
Women’s  Basketball

  Hope College  JV 76, Lake Michigan College 66

Men’s  Basketball

  Hope College  JV 91, Lake Michigan College 81

Tonight
Men’s  Basketball

  CBG Preparatory  at Southwestern Michigan College, 5:30 p.m.

Women’s  Basketball

  Great Lakes  Christian College at Southwestern Michigan College, 7:30 p.m.

MHSAA – High School  Sports
Last Night
Volleyball –  State Quarterfinals 
Division 1 at Mason  High School

  Saline 3, Gull  Lake 1 

Division 3 at  Hudsonville Unity Christian

  Kalamazoo  Christian 3, Shelby 2

  -Kalamazoo Christian will face Calumet in  the State Semifinals Friday at 2 p.m. at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek 

NCAAMBKB – Men&rsquo;s College Basketball 
 Last Night 
 Michigan State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT 
Bradley 89, Eastern Michigan 61
Michigan State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT – Michigan State outlasts Tshiebwe, No. 4 Kentucky in 2OT 
 Malik Hall forced two extra periods with dunks off inbounds plays, and Michigan State outlasted No. 4 Kentucky 86-77 in double overtime after Oscar Tshiebwe concluded his strong season debut by fouling out. Tshiebwe, last season&rsquo;s consensus national player of the year, had 22 points and 18 rebounds for the Wildcats before picking up his fifth foul late in the first overtime. Michigan State, coming off a one-point loss to No. 2 Gonzaga on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, appeared headed for another tough nonconference defeat. But the Spartans tied the game in the final seconds of regulation and overtime thanks to Hall, who finished with 20 points.
Bradley 89, EMU 61 – Bradley wins 89-61 against Eastern Michigan 
 Led by Malevy Leons&#8217; 16 points, the Bradley Braves defeated the Eastern Michigan Eagles 89-61 on Tuesday night. The Braves improved to 2-1 with the victory and the Eagles fell to 1-2. Emoni Bates had a game high 20 points to lead Eastern Michigan. 
Tonight 
 (20) Michigan vs. Pittsburgh, 6:00 p.m. at Brooklyn,       WSJM 5:30 
 Southern Indiana at Notre Dame, 8:00 p.m.
NCAAWBKB – Women&rsquo;s College Basketball 
 Last Night 
Michigan State 85, Oakland 39
Tonight 
 Central Michigan at Indianapolis, 6:00 p.m. 
 Western Michigan at (23) Michigan, 7:00 p.m. 
 (9) Notre Dame at Northwestern, 9:00 p.m.
NBA – National Basketball Association 
 Tonight 
 Indiana Pacers at Charlotte Hornets, 7:00 p.m. 
 Chicago Bulls at New Orleans Pelicans, 8:00 p.m.
NCAAFB – College Football – Week 12 
 Tonight 
 Eastern Michigan at Kent State, 6:00 p.m. 
Western Michigan at Central Michigan, 8:00 p.m.
NCAAFB – Hold steady: UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, TCU remain CFP top 4 
 Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU held on to the top four spots in the College Football Playoff rankings. The Bulldogs&rsquo; Southeastern Conference rivals Tennessee and LSU are at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively. With three of the top six teams and only three weeks left until Selection Sunday, the SEC appears in position to put two teams in the CFP for the second straight season and third time overall. USC, the Pac-12′s best and probably last hope to make the final four, is seventh.
NCAAFB – Charlotte hires Michigan&#8217;s Poggi as head football coach 
 The Charlotte 49ers have named Michigan associate head coach Francis &ldquo;Biff&rdquo; Poggi as their head football coach. Poggi replaces Will Healy, who was fired earlier this season. Pete Rossomando has been serving as the interim coach and will finish out this season. Poggi inherits a team that has struggled in 2022. The 49ers are 2-9 entering the season finale Saturday against Louisiana Tech. Poggi&#8217;s introductory news conference is scheduled for next week. He is Charlotte&rsquo;s third head football coach since the school&rsquo;s FBS football program started in 2015.
NCAAFB – USC, UCLA may cause Big Ten schools to expand recruiting map 
 Southern California and UCLA&rsquo;s pending arrivals to the Big Ten theoretically should give the league&rsquo;s existing members the opportunity to expand their recruiting maps and pursue more West Coast prospects. But it apparently will take some time for these moves to have that kind of impact. Twelve high school juniors or seniors from states with Pac-12 programs have verbally committed to play football at one of the Big Ten&rsquo;s 14 current member schools. Only four made their decisions after the Big Ten&rsquo;s June 30 announcement that USC and UCLA would join the league in 2024.
NCAAFB – University of Virginia mourns for campus shooting victims 
 The University of Virginia community is mourning as new details emerge about both the three football players killed in a campus shooting this week and the criminal charges the suspect faces. Authorities have said university student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. joined a group of about two dozen others who traveled by bus Sunday to Washington for a field trip. After the bus arrived back on campus, authorities say Jones opened fire, killing the three players and wounding two others. Jones was scheduled to make a first court appearance Wednesday.
NHL – National Hockey League 
 Last Night 
 Anaheim Ducks 3, Detroit Red Wings 2 – OT 
Ducks 3, Red Wings 2 – OT – Ducks beat Wings, snap 3-game skid on Strome&#8217;s OT goal 
 Ryan Strome scored on a pass from Trevor Zegras with 49 seconds left in overtime and the Anaheim Ducks snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. After John Klingberg scored his first goal for his new team with 46 seconds left in regulation to force overtime, the Ducks earned only their fifth win of the season when a clearing attempt by Detroit&rsquo;s Tyler Bertuzzi hit Strome in front of the net. Zegras and Strome executed a back-and-forth passing game that ended with Strome&rsquo;s fifth goal of the season.
Tonight 
 St. Louis Blues at Chicago Blackhawks, 7:30 p.m.
MLB – Veteran skippers Francona, Showalter voted Managers of Year 
 Terry Francona of the Cleveland Guardians and Buck Showalter of the New York Mets have been voted Managers of the Year, improving the already sparkling resumes of both veteran baseball leaders. Showalter narrowly won the National League award in a wide-open race, becoming the third person to take the prize four times and the first to do it with four different franchises. He won in the American League with the New York Yankees in 1994, Texas Rangers in 2004 and Baltimore Orioles in 2014. The other four-time winners are Hall of Famers Bobby Cox and Tony La Russa. Baltimore&#8217;s Brandon Hyde finished second to Francona in the American League, while Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers was runner-up in the NL.
MLB – Rizzo, Yankees agree to $40M, 2-year contract 
 First baseman Anthony Rizzo is staying with the New York Yankees, agreeing to a $40 million, two-year contract. Rizzo gets $17 million in each of the next two seasons, and the deal includes a $17 million team option for 2025 with a $6 million buyout. Rizzo had opted out of his previous contract with New York, giving up a $16 million salary for 2023. Since joining the Yankees at the 2021 trade deadline, Rizzo had provided needed left-handed power for New York.
NFL – Bears place RB Herbert on IR because of hip injury 
 The Chicago Bears have placed running back Khalil Herbert on injured reserve because of a hip injury, a big setback for a team leading the NFL in rushing yards. Herbert will miss at least four games. He was hurt returning a kickoff near the end of last week&rsquo;s 31-30 loss to the Detroit Lions. Herbert is the team&rsquo;s second-leading rusher behind quarterback Justin Fields. He has 643 yards on 108 attempts while sharing duties with David Montgomery.
Golf – LIV/PGA – McIlroy says Norman needs to &#8216;exit stage left&#8217; from LIV Golf 
 Rory McIlroy says golf cannot begin to come together as long as Greg Norman is running Saudi-funded LIV Golf. McIlroy says no one is going to talk unless there&#8217;s an adult in the room and that Norman needs to go. McIlroy is in Dubai for the DP World Tour Championship that ends the European tour season. McIlroy says it will be difficult to get anywhere until lawsuits in the U.S. and the U.K. are sorted out. He also takes issue with Norman saying Tiger Woods should be thankful for LIV forcing the tour to provide more money to plays.
Olympics – Summer 2024 – 2020 Olympic champ Sunisa Lee to make a run at Paris 2024 
 Sunisa Lee is going to make another run at Olympic glory. The 2020 women&rsquo;s all-around gymnastics champion has announced she will return to training at the elite level following the end of her sophomore season at Auburn. Lee became the fifth straight American to win Olympic gold when she edged Rebeca Andrade of Brazil in the finals at the 2020 games in Tokyo. Lee still fulfilled her commitment to compete at Auburn, helping the Tigers to the NCAA finals last spring. Lee says she doesn&#8217;t want her gold-medal moment in Japan to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
Tennis – Unvaccinated Djokovic set for visa to play Australian Open 
 Novak Djokovic is set to be granted a visa to play in the Australian Open in January despite his high-profile deportation from Australia this year because he isn&#8217;t vaccinated against COVID-19. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. says it has confirmed newspaper reports that the immigration minister is putting aside Djokovic&#8217;s potential three-year exclusion period from Australia. Djokovic is a 35-year-old from Serbia who had faced that lengthy ban because he is a foreign citizen whose visa was revoked. The Australian Border Force previously said an exclusion period could be waived under certain circumstances. Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has declined to comment on privacy.
FIFA – World Cup – Gambling group estimates US will bet $1.8B on World Cup 
 Americans will bet $1.8 billion on the World Cup this year, according to the casino industry&rsquo;s national trade group. The American Gaming Association estimates that 20.5 million American adults plan to bet on the biggest soccer tournament in the world, legally or otherwise. The survey is the organization&rsquo;s first for World Cup betting. This World Cup is the first to be held while legal sports betting is widespread in America. The U.S. was the top choice to win at 24%, followed by Brazil at 19%, Argentina at 17% and Germany at 10%.
AHL – American Hockey League 
 Today 
 Rockford Ice Hogs at Grand Rapids Griffins, 11:00 a.m.
NBAGL – NBA G-League 
 Last Night 
 Grand Rapids Gold 122, Cleveland Charge 116 
 Wisconsin Herd 137, Motor City Cruise 112
MCCAA – Junior College Athletics 
 Last Night 
 Women&rsquo;s Basketball 
 Hope College JV 76, Lake Michigan College 66
Men&rsquo;s Basketball 
 Hope College JV 91, Lake Michigan College 81
Tonight 
 Men&rsquo;s Basketball 
 CBG Preparatory at Southwestern Michigan College, 5:30 p.m.
Women&rsquo;s Basketball 
 Great Lakes Christian College at Southwestern Michigan College, 7:30 p.m.
MHSAA – High School Sports 
 Last Night 
 Volleyball – State Quarterfinals 
 Division 1 at Mason High School 
 Saline 3, Gull Lake 1 
Division 3 at Hudsonville Unity Christian 
 Kalamazoo Christian 3, Shelby 2 
 -Kalamazoo Christian will face Calumet in the State Semifinals Friday at 2 p.m. at Kellogg Arena in Battle Creek

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NCAAMBKB – Men’s College Basketball Last Night Michigan State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT Bradley 89, Eastern Michigan 61 Michigan State 86, (4) Kentucky 77 – 2OT – Michigan State outlasts Tshiebwe, No. 4 Kentucky in