By Matt Charboneau The Detroit News Comments Adreian Payne of the Spartans slams the ball through the hoop in the first half Wednesday in East Lansing. (Dale G. Young / Detroit News) East Lansing - Coming into the week, Michigan State's showdown with Ohio State on Saturday was the highlight matchup in the Big Ten. The only thing the Spartans had to do was make sure they didn't get caught looking ahead on Wednesday when Penn State came to Bre...

Quarterfinal games at 7 p.m. Thursday. Class 1A is in regional semifinals. REGION 1-8A Lake Brantley (15-10) at Mandarin (16-10): Sarah Kane (10.7 ppg) and Cari Broderick (10.0) helped the Mustangs win their first district title in 16 years. Mandarin, which finished runner-up to Ribault in the Gateway Conference, can shoot well and has some power in the paint. With that alone, they shouldn’t be an easy out in the postseason. REGION 1-7A Engl...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Mike Scott made all nine of his shots and scored 19 points to lead No. 19...

Jordan Daniels netted a game-high 19 points to go with five assists as Boston College knocked off...

Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds and No. 11 Michigan State led wire-to-wire to beat Penn State, 77-57, at Breslin Center on Wednesday. Penn State cut the Spartans' advantage, as large as 22 points early...

Hough High girls coach Sonja Tate said she’s not surprised that her team, playing just its second season of basketball, is going for a championship tonight. Hough (15-7, 11-2) plays at Mallard Creek (18-4, 10-3). The game starts at 6:15. Hough is tied with Hopewell (15-7, 11-2) for first place in the I-Meck 4A conference. Hopewell plays rival North Mecklenburg (13-10, 6-7) at home tonight. So if Hough manages to beat Mallard Creek, th...

Indian Trail Sun Valley is having a good season on the wrestling mat. The 35-7 Sun Devils have built momentum in the last few weeks, winning the Southern Carolina 3A/4A title before giving a tough Northwest Guilford squad only its third loss of the year in the first round of the N.C. dual team wrestling tournament Tuesday. Coming down to the last match between the two teams’ heavyweights, Sun Valley was able to hold the Vikings 36-34....

Providence High will go for its third straight N.C. 4A boys swimming championship Saturday in the N.C. 4A championships at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary. Charlotte Catholic’s girls will go for a...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. Kris Joseph scored a career-high 29 points, hitting a go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute of overtime, and No. 2 Syracuse beat 12th-ranked Georgetown...

WACO, Texas Jeff Withey scored a career-high 25 points and Kansas went ahead to stay during a stretch without Thomas Robinson as the seventh-ranked Jayhawks had another convincing victory over sixth-ranked Baylor, winning 68-54 Wednesday night. After a 14-3 run over the final 4 1/2 minutes of the first half with Robinson on the bench to take its first lead, Kansas (19-5, 9-2 Big 12) scored 14 consecutive points early in the second half to ta...

BOSTON Jordan Daniels scored a career-high 19 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead Boston College to a 64-60 victory over No. 15 Florida State on Wednesday night and snap the Atlantic Coast Conference-leading Seminoles' win streak at seven games. BC (8-16, 3-7 ACC) had lost six in a row and nine of its previous 11. It had...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. Shenise Johnson scored 19 points and Riquna Williams added 17 to lead No. 6 Miami to a 61-37 win over No. 22 North Carolina on Wednesday night. Stefanie Yderstrom chipped in 10 points for the Hurricanes, who won their 38th straight home game. The...

EAST LANSING, Mich. Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds and made some timely shots to help No. 11 Michigan State pull away from Penn State in a 77-57 win Wednesday night. The Spartans (19-5, 8-3 Big Ten) are a game behind conference-leading and third-ranked Ohio State, setting up a big game Saturday on the...

WASHINGTON Sugar Rodgers had 23 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 14 Georgetown beat Seton Hall 56-51 on Wednesday night. Sydney Wilson had nine points...

What's in a last name? Plenty if you happen to be a Gavaskar. You live by it or live it down for good. For Rohan Gavaskar, the biggest challenge was to have his own identity. He not only inherited the surname of a batting titan, Sunil Gavaskar, his own name Rohan Jaivishwa was derived from three cricketers: Rohan Kanhai, ML Jaisimha and Gundappa Vishwanath. 'Gavaskar' was the prism through which he was seen. If only he had been endowed with ...

Tanvi Yadav celebrated her birthday with a hat-trick as St Felix cruised into the final of the girls' under-14 in the DNA Trophy inter-school hockey at...

Union Bank of India's Sandeep Singh scored a hat-trick and guided his team to a 3-2 win against the experienced Western Railway (WR) in the Mumbai Hockey Championship here on Wednesday. Both the teams got on the field...

Sunil Gavaskar has said he is happy with the way the first-class career of his son Rohan has panned out. The batting legend, however, said that he did not see enough of Rohan's batting or bowling on the field. "I can't comment much on his cricket because I didn't see enough of him, it is hard for me to talk about his batting or bowling, but his first-class record is a pretty good one," Gavaskar said. Rohan...

The growing trend of schoolchildren testing positive for drugs doesn't seem to be ending. The National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) revealed on Wednesday that two...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer filed court paperwork Wednesday arguing that jurors in his child sex abuse trial should be chosen from the community where he lives and suggesting that a trial delay might be the best way to address the intense publicity generated by the case. Defense attorney Joe Amendola wrote that the former Penn State assistant football coach is opposed to a request by the state attorney general's...

Follow @sethmclaughlin1 It’s no longer just the economy, stupid. Supplanted in recent election cycles by economic concerns, social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and religious freedom have elbowed their way back into the political debate in the 2012 presidential race. From President Obama’s decision to mandate contraception coverage and a fight over funding for Planned Parenthood to a California court decision this week in...

Courtesy of the Meier family Maggie Meier (right) shot baskets with her father, Steve, and younger sister, Katie, at their Overland Park home on Feb. 6, 2009, the day she returned from her 100-day hospital stay. Sometimes, when the days grew long and hours stood still, they would walk to the foot of their daughter's hospital bed. Margaret Meier would carry a beach ball. Steve Meier would move in close. Their daughter, Maggie, lay in a coma -...

Cyclist Benjamin Martel has been suspended for two years for a doping violation at the Quebec provincial road race last August, the Canadian Centre for Ethics...

Class 4A W-L Pts Others receiving votes: Jackson 5, Kentwood 2, Mt. Rainier 2. Class 3A W-L Pts Others...

Class 4A W-L Pts Others receiving votes: Federal Way 5, Gonzaga Prep 4, Kentwood 2,...

The springlike weather has anglers coming out of the woodwork, and there are fish to be found in rivers, lakes and saltwater areas. On the marine scene, the best winter hatchery chinook fishing has been in northern Puget Sound mainly between Possession Bar and Double Bluff off the south side of Whidbey Island and south to Point No Point on the Kitsap Peninsula. "The fish are spread out across Possession Bar, and I've also heard of fish caugh...

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming women's tennis coach Kati Gyulai...

DENVER (AP) — The Denver Broncos have signed free-agent...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mike Slive helped propose the plus-one plan to find a national champion in football and says actual change remains a couple years away even if everyone can agree on changes to the Bowl Championship Series. The Southeastern Conference commissioner said Wednesday a decision could be made later this year but cautioned it's premature to speculate on what changes might be made. He says they need time to sit down and analyz...

By Mike Collett LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The focus will be on Patrice Evra of Manchester United and Luis Suarez of Liverpool when the arch-rivals clash in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Saturday (1245GMT). It will be the pair's first meeting since Suarez racially abused Evra at Anfield in October, earning an eight-match suspension from which he returned to the Liverpool side as a substitute in Monday's 0-0 draw with Tottenham Hotspur...

By Julien Pretot PARIS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Paris St Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti hopes to give Brazilian defender Alex his debut on Saturday when the team travel to Nice hoping to clinch their fifth consecutive win in Ligue 1. Alex, who joined PSG from Premier League Chelsea during the January transfer window, missed last weekend's 3-1 defeat of Evian Thonon Gaillard with a calf injury. "We know it's always a tough game, playing Nice at thei...

• Deloitte publishes financial report on the world's richest clubs • Real Madrid top league with Barcelona second and United third Manchester United's failure to qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League will see the financial gap widen, according to Deloitte. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian...

By Martyn Herman LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - There will be an unfamiliar look about Spain when they begin the defence of the Davis Cup against Kazakhstan on Friday with a new captain and without several regulars, most notably Rafa Nadal. Former world number two Alex Corretja, who took over from Albert Costa shortly after Spain beat Argentina in December's final, will have to make do without the team's talisman in Oviedo while the likes of worl...

Meeting for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Michigan Wolverines and Nebraska Cornhuskers square off in Lincoln, Neb., tonight....

The Southern team lost Saturday, 71-65 at the College of Saint Rose. That's all anyone seemed to expect from the Owls this season – loss after loss after loss. In...

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Brewers starter Zack Greinke is to become a free agent at the end of the 2012 season. on MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM by Jim Memolo and Todd Hollandsworth. Melvin was asked about Greinke. Memolo: “From where I’m sitting I’m not sure how you’re going to handle Zack Greinke, considering what you gave up in that trade. How are you going to handle that? What’s your priority with Zack Greinke right now?” Melv...

| Green Bay - Packers tight ends coach Ben McAdoo has signed a two-year deal to become the team's quarterbacks coach, his agent, Bob LaMonte, confirmed. LaMonte, a longtime friend and representative of Mike Holmgren, said that McAdoo was following in the footsteps of a couple of his other clients, who went from tight ends coaches to quarterbacks coaches or offensive coordinators. "If you believe in that model, you know that Ben will do ...

Toronto - The Bucks rode the hot hand of Mike Dunleavy Jr. to a 58-51 halftime lead over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night at the Air Canada Centre. Dunleavy scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting and sank 3 three-pointers to pace the Bucks, and center Drew Gooden added 13 points and six rebounds. Stephen Jackson also contributed in a big way, scoring 11 points, including three baskets late in the second quarter. DeMar DeRozan led the Rapt...

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LONDON Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Fabio Capello had a record of 28 wins, 6 losses and 8 ties as coach of England's national team. The Times's soccer blog has the world's game covered from all angles. Go to the Goal Blog England invented competitive soccer as the world plays it, and a legal system copied by many. But an astonishing few hours Wednesday left the sport and the concept of fair play open to question. During the...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — With its alabaster beaches and arresting curves, the Monterey Peninsula is perpetually ready for its close-up. So it is fitting that it is the one stop on the PGA Tour where the celebrity amateurs are the headliners. Scott Halleran/Getty Images The actor Lucas Black, 29, played golf for Speake High in Alabama. Related For Woods, Early Lesson in Pressure Resonates (February 8, 2012) Keep up with the latest news on...

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Jed Lowrie and the Houston Astros have avoided an arbitration hearing, agreeing to a $1.15 million US, one-year contract. The team announced the deal...

Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin missed practice Wednesday one day after suffering a right ankle injury. Sedin suffered...

Glenn Howard needed just four ends to continue his dominating run at the Dominion Tankard Ontario men's curling championship. Howard's Coldwater rink...

NEW YORK - It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around — just as the New York Jets said he would. By remaining on the roster through the second day of the NFL's waiver period Tuesday, the talented but troublesome wide receiver will get $15.25 million in guaranteed money over the next two seasons. A clause in Holmes' five-year, $5 million contract, signed last offseason, kicked in Wednesday morning. Holmes' future appeared murky with the Je...

CBSSports.com wire reports Print Facebook Twitter RSS ARLINGTON, Texas -- Having won the first two AL pennants in franchise history, the Texas Rangers want to keep their key players around for a while. Slick-fielding shortstop Elvis Andrus and the Rangers finalized a $14.4 million, three-year contract Wednesday. The deal covers his three years of salary arbitration...

CBSSports.com wire reports Print Facebook Twitter RSS HOUSTON -- Jed Lowrie and the Houston Astros have avoided an arbitration hearing, agreeing to a $1.15 million, one-year contract....

CBSSports.com wire reports Print Facebook Twitter RSS NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mike Slive helped propose the plus-one plan to find a national champion in football and says actual change remains a couple years away even if everyone can agree on changes to the Bowl Championship Series. The Southeastern Conference commissioner said Wednesday a decision could be made later this year but cautioned it's premature to speculate on what changes might be m...

CBSSports.com wire reports Print Facebook Twitter RSS IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Phil Parker had the opportunity to leave Iowa for a defensive coordinator's job at another major program more than once, yet chose to stay with the Hawkeyes. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz certainly appreciated Parker's loyalty to the program. But Ferentz said Wednesday that he promoted Parker from defensive backs coach to defensive coordinator after 13 seasons simply because ...

CBSSports.com wire reports Print Facebook Twitter RSS DELAWARE, Ohio -- Ohio Wesleyan hired Baldwin-Wallace assistant Tom Watts as its head football coach Wednesday....

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NO. 9 COSBY 63, GEORGE WYTHE 49 COSBY (13-6, 9-4 Dominion) — Fox 0, Celuk 4, Payne 0, Orzolek...

Browns President Mike Holmgren spent almost 15 minutes with host Vic Carucci on the team’s radio show Cleveland...

Real Madrid and Barcelona are soccer's biggest moneymakers for the third straight year and look set to top their rivals for the foreseeable future. The annual review of soccer finance by Deloitte shows Madrid topping the list for the seventh straight year with revenue of $636.5 million for the year ending June 30, an increase of 9 percent from the previous 12 months. English champion Manchester United was again third with $487.2 million, the...

In what Robert Louis Stevenson called "the most felicitous meeting of land and sea," the sea was winning Wednesday at Pebble Beach. Jimmy Walker stood in the bunker next to the sea wall along the 18th fairway, soaking up the scenery. Every 15 seconds, waves crashed into the rocks and sent a spectacular splash of white surf some 15 feet high. There was so much salt water in the front of the bunker that the father of Harris English said to Bob...

The soap opera of English soccer reached yet another a noisy climax Wednesday when national team coach Fabio Capello quit angrily just eight hours after potential successor Harry Redknapp was cleared in a London court of tax evasion charges. Only four months before the European Championship, Capello's employers stripped John Terry of the England captaincy over racism charges without consulting the manager _ and as a result now finds itself s...

LSU fans had all but disappeared into the New Orleans night by the final minutes of last month's dreary BCS title game, leaving en masse when they figured out a team that couldn't get past the 50-yard-line wasn't going to magically find a way to cross the goal line. They weren't alone, with people across the nation abandoning their TVs in hope of finding something even remotely more interesting. The cartel that runs the BCS got what it deser...

Cavaliers rookie Kyrie Irving has his first NBA injury _ a concussion. The star guard, who has lived up to being the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, was kept out of Wednesday night's game against the Los Angeles Clippers with a head injury. The team did not disclose Irving's concussion until moments before tip-off. There is no immediate timetable for his return. The Cavaliers said in a release that Irving was kneed in...

NEW YORK - It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around — just as the New York Jets said he would. By remaining...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Draymond Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds and made some timely shots to help No. 11 Michigan State pull away...

AMHERST, Mass. - Megan Van Tatenhove and Armelia Horton scored 17 points each and No. 25 St. Bonaventure tied a school...

Galleries Web links WASHINGTON -- The will be without Amar'e Stoudemire for two more games as he mourns the loss of his older brother Hazell. Coach said Stoudemire, who is in Florida with his family, will rejoin the Knicks for practice Monday. Hazell Stoudemire was killed in a car wreck Monday in Florida. The Knicks host the Lakers Friday and play in Saturday against the Timberwolves. Stoudemire will be back for Tuesday's game against the Ra...

Galleries Web links didn't find out about his four-year, $11 million contract until after he took the ice in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, but it was just what he wanted to hear. "When we started talking [before the season began], I knew this is where I wanted to be," Nielsen said after his shootout goal proved to be the winner in the Islanders' 1-0 win over the Flyers. "I want to be here when the good things start happening." For the Islan...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - There is plenty of evidence that this is a Ryder Cup year. The U.S. players are starting to earn points from regular PGA Tour events, with Kyle Stanley atop the standings based on his runner-up finish and win in consecutive weeks. Davis Love III walks onto the range and players call him "captain." Love, however, said the race to make the team really doesn't start until late May. That's when two dozen or so pl...

Galleries , Mich. - A person familiar with the NHL's plan said the Red Wings will play the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2013 Winter Classic. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity Wednesday because the league isn't expected to announce the matchup until Thursday. Earlier Wednesday, the Board of Regents authorized the athletic department to seek a contract with the NHL that would allow the league to hold next year's showcase at Stadium....

Nevada-Las Vegas has asked to move its season-opening game with Minnesota ahead by two days, a UNLV spokesman said Wednesday, and is waiting for an answer from the Gophers. The game in...

No. 4: Sean McCabe Grade: 12th School: Connetquot Weight: 120 Record: 32-1 A three-time League II champion and defending county champion, McCabe has compiled a sterling record while competing in arguably the Island's deepest weight class. He is 2-1 this season against Hauppauge's Mark West (31-4), a state champion back in 2010. Since losing to West back on December... Newsday & ExploreLI are now available at no charge to Newsday 7-day an...

UPDATED: 7:09 p.m. The woman killed late this morning when the Pontiac Grand Am in which she was riding attempted to cross oncoming traffic and was struck while turning into the Summit Medical Center entrance off Old Hickory Boulevard is identified as Michelle Delk, 42, of Portland, Tennessee. The driver of the Grand Am, Emily Boyer, 22, Delk’s niece also of...

Galleries The reprimanded and suspended football player Matt Faiella for a December Twitter post that contained what the termed an "inappropriate and offensive racial reference." The suspension applies to a future playoff game, should qualify for the postseason. Faiella, a junior linebacker/fullback who played in 13 games last season, will be allowed to play during the regular season. Faiella's tweet was sent during the FCS playoffs and was ...

Quick ReadDavis Love says Ryder Cup anticipation won't start until players fitted for uniforms (AP) -- There is plenty of evidence that this is a Ryder Cup year. The U.S. players are starting to earn points from regular PGA Tour events, with Kyle Stanley atop the standings based on his runner-up finish and win in consecutive weeks. Davis Love III walks onto the range and players call him "captain." Love, however, said the race to make the te...

In the long term, it may not even make the footnotes in the marathon game of musical chairs that has consumed the major conferences over the last two years, but the tense, between Louisville and West Virginia for the final invitation to the Big 12 last October has left one enduring legacy: A pair of sitting U.S. senators at each other's throats. Not that Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell and West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin don't have en...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP)—Megan Van Tatenhove and Armelia Horton scored 17 points each and No. 25 tied a school single-season record for wins with a 69-54...

Martin O'Neill will let the FA Cup take care of itself after seeing Sunderland book a mouth-watering double header against Arsenal. The Black Cats face the Gunners in the Barclays Premier League at the Stadium of Light on Saturday in what will represent a dress rehearsal for their first fifth round tie in eight years seven days later. O'Neill's men booked their place in the last 16 with a hard-fought 2-1 replay victory over Middlesbrough at ...

Martin O'Neill has backed Harry Redknapp to succeed Fabio Capello as England manager after ruling himself out of the running. The 59-year-old Ulsterman, who has been touted as a possible candidate in the past, believes Tottenham boss Redknapp, who was cleared of tax evasion charges, is the man to succeed the Italian following his resignation on Wednesday. Asked after his side's 2-1 FA Cup fourth round replay victory at Middlesbrough tonight ...

NEW YORK (AP) — It appears Santonio Holmes is sticking around — just as the New York Jets said he would. By remaining...

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ATLANTA (AP) — Former Falcons kicker Matt Bryant can still remember taking a hit during an elementary school football game. The sky turned yellow and he saw green dots. At 10 or 11, he didn't recognize the incident as a possible concussion. Now a father of seven children, Bryant is pushing for legislation in Georgia that would help educate young players and their parents, coaches and others...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Megan Van Tatenhove and Armelia Horton scored 17 points each and No. 25 St. Bonaventure tied a school...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M has revamped its 2012 football schedule, dropping McNeese State and adding...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU offensive lineman Josh Dworaczyk has been granted a sixth year of...

ORLANDO — When Kendrick Perkins takes offense to something that was said - in this case tweeted - eyes probably roll. But when Larry Bird makes an unflattering comparison, then people listen. Heat forward LeBron James had to deal with both scenarios in the past two days. Perkins, a center for...

The four Whitelock brothers will start together for the first time for the Crusaders in Saturday's pre-season match against the Hurricanes in Mangatainoka. The Whitelocks - Adam, Luke, George and Sam - grew up on a dairy farm, 30 minutes from Mangatainoka, and this will be the first time they have all taken the field together since 2004 when the hostel played the day boys at Feilding Area High School. The Crusaders have made a number of chan...

New Zealand will bat first in Napier today as they seek to sweep the three-match one-day cricket series against Zimbabwe. Brendon McCullum won his first toss of the series and elected to bat - news which would've greeted been with a sigh of relief from the McLean Park crowd. The...

It is shaping as one of the most predictable Halberg Award functions in recent memory. The All Blacks will sweep the floor, won't they? Hayden Meikle of the Otago Daily Times looks at the contenders for the top gongs. SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR The finalists: Mahe Drysdale (rowing), Jerome Kaino (rugby), Richie McCaw (rugby), Mark Todd (equestrian). The smart pick: McCaw. He led the team that won the trophy that means more to this country than an...

In the aftermath of Fabio Capello's shock resignation as England manager today, attention has already turned to the search for the next man to take on the so-called "impossible job''. Potential candidates likely to feature on the FA's shortlist (all odds from UK bookmaker William Hill): Harry Redknapp The Spurs boss is the frontrunner for the job after being widely tipped to replace Capello for several months. Redknapp has never hidden his d...