KWBG Sports for December 28th

 LOS ANGELES (AP) - It took three games, but Mike Brown finally
has earned his first victory as L.A. Lakers coach. Playing their
third game in three nights, the Lakers got 26 points from Kobe
Bryant and outclassed the Utah Jazz 96-71 last night at Staples
Center.
   
     MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Heat have started fast, winning two games
handily and only trailing once -- by two points, for all of 14
seconds. LeBron James scored 26 points, rookie point guard Norris
Cole scored 14 of his 20 in the fourth quarter, and the Heat nearly
blew a 20-point lead before beating the Boston Celtics 115-107.
   
     SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Alex Dragicevich (DRAG'-ee-vihch) hit
four 3-pointers and scored a career-high 22 points to lead Notre
Dame to a 72-59 win over No. 22 Pittsburgh in the Big East opener
for both teams. That's 28 straight home wins for the Irish.
   
     UNDATED (AP)--Purdue and N.C. State were winners in bowl games
yesterday. The Boilermakers held off Western Michigan 37-32 in the
Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit and the Wolfpack beat
Louisville 31-24 in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C.
   
     DENVER (AP) - In the NHL, Evander Kane scored two goals, Ondrej
Pavelec (AWN'-dray PAH'-veh-lehk) made 32 saves, and the Winnipeg
Jets handed the Colorado Avalanche their first home loss in a
month, 4-1. That snapped the Avs' eight-game home win streak.

KWBG Sports for December 27th

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Drew Brees (breez) is the NFL's single-season
record-holder for passing yards after throwing for 307 in the New
Orleans Saints' 45-16 pounding of Atlanta. Brees has already passed
for 5,087 yards with one game left this season, three more yards
than the old mark set by Miami's Dan Marino in 1984. Brees also
passed for four touchdowns and Malcolm Jenkins returned a fumble
for a TD as the Saints clinched the NFC South.
   
     IRVING, Texas (AP) - It appears quarterback Tony Romo will be
available when the Dallas Cowboys visit the New York Giants this
Sunday with the NFC East title on the line. The swelling is going
down on Romo's bruised throwing hand, which was injured during
Saturday's loss to Philadelphia. He could be ready to practice
tomorrow and should play this weekend.
   
     SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - James Franklin ran for two touchdowns and
ran for two more as Missouri whipped North Carolina 41-24 in the
Independence Bowl at Shreveport, Louisiana. Franklin accounted for
274 total yards and helped the Tigers set an Independence Bowl
record with 31 points in the first half. Kendial Lawrence added 108
rushing yards for the Tigers, who gained 337 yards on the ground.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Syracuse sits atop the AP men's basketball poll
for a third straight week while the next six teams also maintained
their positions. The Orange received 54 first-place votes from the
65-member media panel and is followed by Ohio State, Kentucky,
Louisville, North Carolina, Baylor and Duke. Missouri, Connecticut
and Florida round out the top 10.
   
     TORONTO (AP) - The Toronto Maple Leafs have officially announced
a new contract for head coach Ron Wilson, who tweeted Christmas
morning that he had received an extension. Wilson is in the final
season of a four-year contract and currently has the Maple Leafs
ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference after missing the playoffs
the previous five years.

KWBG Sports for December 26th

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - The Green Bay Packers will be at Lambeau
(LAHM'-boh) Field throughout the NFC playoffs. The 14-1 Packers set
a franchise record for victories by bouncing back from their only
loss last week by routing the Chicago Bears 35-21 to earn the No. 1
seed through the NFC playoffs with Aaron Rodgers tossing five TD
passes.
   
     NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The New Orleans Saints clinch the NFC South
by beating Atlanta in the Monday night Game, or with a victory on
the final weekend over Carolina. The 9-5 Falcons clinched at least
a wild-card berth last night with Chicago's loss.
   
     DALLAS (AP) - NBA Commissioner David Stern was booed and Dallas
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was cheered wildly during the
lockout-delayed banner raising ceremony in Big-D yesterday to honor
the NBA champions. Then LeBron James went out and had 37 points, 10
rebounds and six assists in Miami's 105-94 win over the Mavs in a
rematch of last season's NBA finalists.
     LOS ANGELES (AP) - Derrick Rose scored 22 points and hit a short
go-ahead jumper with 4.8 seconds left and the Chicago Bulls rallied
from an 11-point deficit in the final four minutes for an 88-87
victory over the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday. Luol Deng (LOO'-ul
dehng) scored 21 points and blocked Kobe Bryant's potential
game-winning shot at the buzzer.
   
     OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Chris Paul was a winner in his
regular-season L.A. Clippers debut, scoring 20 points and hitting
three straight shots late in their 105-86 win over Golden State.
Blake Griffin had 22 points and Chauncey Billups added 21 as the
Clippers ruined the NBA coaching debut of Warriors coach Mark
Jackson.

KWBG Sports for December 23rd

 HOUSTON (AP) - The Indianapolis Colts, who were 0-13 to start
the NFL season, are now on a two-game winning streak. Reggie Wayne
caught a 1-yard touchdown pass from Dan Orlovsky with 19 seconds
left for the Colts' lone touchdown in their 19-16 win over
playoff-bound Houston.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Colts owner Jim Irsay says if Peyton Manning
plays football next season, it will be in Indianapolis. Irsay says
Manning is progressing from his neck injury, that his throwing arm
is getting stronger and that his greatest concern is Manning's
overall health.
   
     LAS VEGAS (AP) - Kellen Moore went out a winner in his final
game as Boise State quarterback. Moore won his 50th game as the
eighth-ranked Broncos overwhelmed Arizona State 56-24 as Doug
Martin accounted for 301 all-purpose yards that included a 100-yard
return on the opening kickoff.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - Carlos Beltran and the World Series champion
St. Louis Cardinals have agreed to a two-year contract pending
results of a physical. That will help beef up the Cards lineup
following the departure of Albert Pujols (POO'-hohlz), who left the
Cards to go to the L.A. Angels.
   
     CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Kurt Busch has a new ride. Busch, who
became one of NASCAR's most polarizing figures this past season,
will return to the Sprint Cup series in 2012 to drive the No. 51
car for Phoenix Racing and owner James Finch after driving
previously for Jack Roush and Roger Penske.

KWBG Sports for December 22nd

  SAN DIEGO (AP) - Casey Pachall tossed a 42-yard touchdown pass
to Skye Dawson with 4:26 left to lift No. 16 TCU to a 31-24 victory
against Louisiana Tech in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego last
night. It was the eighth straight victory for Mountain West
Conference champion TCU, which moves to the Big 12 next year.
   
     LOS ANGELES (AP) -Kobe Bryant may be less than 100 percent
healthy when the L.A. Lakers open the season on Christmas Day
against the Chicago Bulls--if he plays at all. The Lakers are
saying Bryant has torn ligaments in his wrist and he is listed as
day-to-day.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-The playoff-bound Houston Texans are hoping to
end their winless streak in Indianapolis when they take on the 1-13
Colts tonight. The 10-4 Texans, who already have clinched the AFC
South, has a 0-9 record all-time at Indianapolis.
   
     MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) - AJ Allmendinger hit the jackpot
yesterday. After losing his primary sponsor with Richard Petty's
team, Roger Penske quickly hired the improving Sprint Cup driver to
replace Kurt Busch in the No. 22 car in what is believed to be a
two-year deal.
   
     LOS ANGELES (AP) -Darryl Sutter, who hasn't coached in the NHL
since the 2005-06 season, makes his debut behind the L.A. Kings
bench tonight against Anaheim at Staples Center. The Kings and
Ducks are two of six teams to make coaching changes since the start
of the NHL season.

KWBG Sports for December 21st

 CHICAGO (AP) - A person familiar with the situation says that
reigning MVP Derrick Rose has agreed to a five-year contract
extension with the Chicago Bulls worth approximately $94 million.
The extension will start in the 2012-13 season, when Rose is
eligible to make about $16 million.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -The top-ranked Syracuse Orange improved to
12-0 by winning their 30th straight nonconference home game by
blitzing Bucknell 80-61 at the Carrier Dome. Kris Joseph had 17
points and Scoop Jardine added 14 for coach Jim Boeheim's
(BAY'-hymz) club.
   
     BEREA, Ohio (AP) - The NFL will require teams to place certified
athletic trainers in the press box to help monitor head injuries, a
change prompted by the Browns' failure to test quarterback Colt
McCoy for a concussion. League spokesman Greg Aiello (eye-EHL'-oh)
confirmed that memos are being sent to all 32 clubs to explain the
new protocol, which is expected to begin with this week's games.
   
     SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Poinsettia Bowl between No. 16 TCU and
Louisiana Tech isn't merely a matchup of teams happy to be in a
postseason game. Tonight's game is a showdown of conference
champions that will give the victor an eight-game winning streak to
carry into 2012.
   
     SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A person with knowledge of the situation
says Utah offensive coordinator Norm Chow, a native of Hawaii, has
accepted the job as Hawaii's new head coach. The 65-year-old Chow
says details of the deal have not been finalized when contacted
after Utah's practice yesterday.

KWBG Sports for December 20th

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers were lights-out in
their return to prime time, riding their top-ranked run defense to
beat ailing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (RAWTH'-lihs-bur-gur)
and the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-3 last night. The nationally
televised game was delayed twice by power outages at Candlestick
Park.
   
     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Nik Cochran scored 21 points, including
a clutch 3-pointer in the closing minutes, and Davidson shocked No.
12 Kansas 80-74 last night in Top-25 college basketball action.
That gives Davidson a little bit of revenge over an NCAA tournament
loss three years ago.
   
     CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Dexter Strickland scored 14 points to
help No. 5 North Carolina overwhelm Nicholls State 99-49. The Tar
Heels enjoyed a 72-35 rebounding advantage and those 72 rebounds
tied for the second-most in North Carolina history.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - On NHL ice, David Krejci (KRAY'-chee) scored off
his skate to break a second-period tie, and Tim Thomas stopped 33
shots to lead the Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the Montreal
Canadiens. That's the fifth consecutive win for the defending
Stanley Cup champions.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - The two-time AL champion Texas Rangers are the
big winners in the Yu Darvish (yoo DAHR'-vihsh) sweepstakes. Major
League Baseball says the Rangers have won the rights from Darvish's
Japanese League team and now have 30 days to negotiate a contract
with the 6-foor-5 pitcher who has been clocked with about a 98 mph
fastball.

KWBG Sports for December 19th

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The San Diego Chargers kept their postseason
hopes alive by dismantling the playoff-bound Baltimore Ravens 34-14
last night. The Chargers improved to 7-7 in the AFC West while the
10-4 Ravens fell a half-game back of Pittsburgh in the AFC North
with both those teams already assured of making the playoffs.
   
     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - There will be no perfect season for the
Green Bay Packers. Recently acquired Kyle Orton threw for 299 yards
and the Kansas City Chiefs rallied behind interim coach Romeo
Crennel (kreh-NEL') for a shocking 19-14 victory that ended the
Packers' 19-game winning streak.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indianapolis Colts have earned their
first victory in 14 years without Peyton Manning at the helm. The
Colts became the last NFL team to hit the victory column with a
27-13 victory over playoff hopeful Tennessee and said afterward
that Manning, their four-time league MVP, will not play this
season.
   
     DENVER (AP) - Tebow (TEE'-boh) Time got set back in Denver
yesterday. The New England Patriots ended the Broncos' six-game win
streak with Tim Tebow (TEE'-boh) at the helm by rallying from a
16-7 deficit to beat Denver 41-23 and clinched the AFC East title.
   
     WACO, Texas (AP) - Baylor, the top-ranked team in women's
college basketball, rallied from an 11-point deficit in the second
half to beat second-ranked Connecticut 66-61 in a battle of
unbeatens. Brittany Griner led the way with 25 points, nine
rebounds and nine blocked shots.

KWBG Sports for December 16th

  ATLANTA (AP) - The Atlanta Falcons took another step toward an
NFC playoff berth last night, improving to 9-5 with a 41-14 blowout
over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Matt Ryan threw for 224 yards and
three touchdowns, Roddy White grabbed a pair of scoring passes and
John Abraham recorded 3  1/2 sacks. The Falcons' defense held Blaine
Gabbert to just 12 completions and 141 yards while dropping the
Jaguars to 4-10.
   
     HOUSTON (AP) - The Houston Texans say defensive coordinator Wade
Phillips is in stable condition after undergoing surgery on his
kidney and gall bladder. The 64-year-old Phillips said after
Wednesday's practice that he expected to miss a week to 10 days to
recover, adding that his condition was not life-threatening and
non-cancerous. Linebackers coach Reggie Herring will run the
defense for Houston in Sunday's game against Carolina.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA plan to give athletes a $2,000
stipend has been shelved for now. The NCAA said enough schools --
125 of them -- had called for an override of the plan approved in
October to suspend it until the board of directors convenes in
January. The NCAA said concerns include how quickly the plan would
be implemented; the perceived impact on competitive equity; and
implications for Title IX.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Dan Wheldon was killed when his head hit a
post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that
created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis
500 winner. The cause of death was revealed Thursday when IndyCar
presented its findings of the Oct. 16 accident in the season
finale. The investigation determined several factors contributed to
what became a "perfect storm."
   
     MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Outfielder Josh Willingham has agreed to a
three-year, $21 million contract with the Minnesota Twins. The
32-year-old hit .246 with a career-high 29 homers and 98 RBIs with
Oakland last season.

KWBG Sports for December 15th

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Chris Paul is headed to Los Angeles for real
this time - to the Clippers, not the Lakers. The New Orleans
Hornets have traded Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers for
guard Eric Gordon, forward Al-Farouq Aminu (al-fuh-ROOK'
ah-MEE'-noo), center Chris Kaman and a first-round draft choice.
   
     CLEVELAND (AP) - The Cavaliers have waived veteran point guard
Baron Davis, using the NBA's new "amnesty clause" to clear space
under the salary cap. Davis, acquired in a trade last season from
the Los Angeles Clippers, is now a free agent and will be paid $28
million owed over the next two seasons.
   
     DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Veteran guard Richard Hamilton has signed
with the Chicago Bulls, joining MVP Derrick Rose in what figures to
be a deep backcourt. Terms were not released, but a person familiar
with the situation said earlier in the day it's a three-year, $15
million deal.
   
     COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes
welcomed back star forward Jared Sullinger, who scored 12 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds in an 82-58 win over South Carolina Upstate
last night. Sullinger had missed two games because of injury but
returned to help the Buckeyes win their 31st straight home game.
   
     ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) --The Minnesota Wild, who entered the week
on a seven-game winning streak, now have lost two in a row.
Jonathan Toews (tayz) and Patrick Kane scored the lone shootout
goals in the Chicago Blackhawks' 4-3 victory over the Northwest
Division-leading Wild.

KWBG Sports for December 14th

 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia Flyers star Claude Giroux
(zhehr-ROO'), the leading scorer in the NHL, is out indefinitely
with a concussion. He's the second star NHL player this week forced
to the sidelines with concussion-like symptoms, following
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who's also out
indefinitely.
   
     WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - Bryan Little scored a power-play goal
with 5 minutes remaining in regulation, lifting the Winnipeg Jets
to a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild. Ondrej Pavelec (AWN'-dray
pah-vah-LEHK') stopped 34 shots to help the Jets, who've won eight
of their last nine at home.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - Brad Marchand scored twice and backup Boston
goalie Tuukka (TOO'-kuh) Rask earned his first shutout of the
season in the Boston Bruins' 3-0 victory over Los Angeles in the
Kings' first game under interim coach John Stevens. The Kings fired
Terry Murray on Monday and replaced him with Stevens but the Kings
lost their fifth straight nevertheless.
   
     BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - Big surprise in the Jerry Sandusky sexual
abuse case yesterday. After indicating he was looking forward to
confronting his accusers in a preliminary hearing, Sandusky waived
that hearing and his lawyer, Joseph Amendola, is denying a plea
deal is in the works.
   
     DENVER (AP) - The Denver Nuggets have re-signed Nene (nuh-NAY')
to a five-year deal, keeping the unrestricted free agent through
2015-16. The Denver Post first reported that the Brazilian center
had agreed to the contract that could be worth up to $67 million.

KWBG Sports for December 13th

 SEATTLE (AP) -The Seattle Seahawks kept their postseason hopes
alive by beating St. Louis 30-13 for their fourth win in their last
five games. The Seahawks improved to 6-7 and are hoping to win out
against Chicago, San Francisco and Arizona to earn a playoff berth
for the second straight year.
   
     GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Wide receiver Greg Jennings will be on
the sideline as the Green Bay Packers make their push for a perfect
regular season, but the undefeated Packers expect to have him back
for the playoffs. Coach Mike McCarthy says Jennings will miss two
to three weeks with a knee sprain, but is likely to return for the
postseason.
   
     MIAMI (AP) - Assistant head coach Todd Bowles is the interim
Miami Dolphins head coach in the wake of the firing of Tony Sparano
(spah-RAH'-noh) yesterday after a 4-9 start. Bowles is getting the
underachieving Dolphins ready to travel toi Buffalo to take on the
fading 5-8 Bills. On Sunday.
   
     KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel
(kreh-NEL') is the interim coach of the Kansas City Chiefs after
coach Todd Haley was sacked less than a year after he led the team
to the AFC West division title. Crennel's first game as Chiefs
interim head coach is a doozie--the Chiefs are home against
undefeated Green Bay on Sunday.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - The L.A. Kings have an interim head coach as they
start a four-game road trip tonight in Boston. He's John Stevens,
who takes over for Terry Murray, who was fired after a 13-12-4
start that includes the Kings' current four-game losing streak.

KWBG Sports for December 12th

 GREEN BAY, Wisc. (AP) - Ryan Grant ran for a pair of touchdowns
and the Green Bay Packers improved to 13-0 with a 46-16 rout of the
Oakland Raiders. Aaron Rodgers passed for 281 yards and two
touchdowns before sitting out the final quarter. But the Packers
finished the game without wide receiver Greg Jennings, who left the
game with an apparent left knee injury in the third quarter.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - The Denver Broncos took a one-game lead in the
AFC West after the Houston Texans wrapped up their first playoff
berth. The Broncos trailed 10-0 with just over two minutes left
until Tim Tebow (TEE'-boh) engineered three straight scoring drives
and Matt Prater (PRAY'-tur) drilled two long field goals in a 13-10
overtime win against the Chicago Bears. The Texans clinched the AFC
South by beating Cincinnati 20-19 on T.J. Yates' six-yard touchdown
pass with two seconds to play.
   
     EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) - The Los Angeles Lakers have finally
managed to trade Lamar Odom, sending the forward and a second-round
pick to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round selection and an
$8.9 million exception. The deal was completed three days after the
NBA blocked a trade that would have send Odom to the New Orleans
Hornets and brought Chris Paul to Los Angeles.
   
     DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Top-ranked Luke Donald became
the first golfer to win both the PGA Tour and European Tour money
titles by finishing third in the Dubai World Championship. Alvaro
Quiros holed a 40-foot eagle putt on the 18th hole for a two-shot
victory over 1999 British Open champion Paul Lawrie.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Joe Paterno fractured his pelvis again
following a fall at his home but will not need surgery, a person
close to the family tells The Associated Press. The former Penn
State football coach is in a hospital and expected to make a full
recovery, according to the person. Paterno initially hurt his
pelvis when he was blindsided on the sideline during preseason
practice in August.

KWBG Sports for December 9th

 PITTSBURGH (AP) - The legend of Ben Roethlisberger
(RAWTH'-lihs-bur-gur) grew a bit more last night as the gimpy
Steelers quarterback played through a painful high ankle sprain to
lead Pittsburgh to a 14-3 win over Cleveland in the renewal of that
Rust Belt rivalry. Big Ben completed 17 of 22 passes for 280 yards
and two TDs to help the 10-3 Steelers gain a half-game lead over
Baltimore atop the AFC North.
   
     UNDATED (AP) -Forget that proposed Chris Paul to the L.A. Lakers
trade. An NBA spokesman says the league, which owns the New Orleans
Hornets, won't pull the trigger on that proposed trade for what he
called "basketball reasons."
   
     UNDATED (AP) -With NBA players and owners ratifying a new
10-year labor agreement yesterday, the way is clear to open
training camps and free agency today. NBA Commissioner David Stern
is putting his best face on the 161-day labor lockout and is saying
fans will see an improved league in coming years.
   
     DALLAS (AP) - The L.A. Angels beat out the Miami Marlins as the
biggest spenders at baseball's winter meetings. The Halos announced
they had agreed to terms with free agent first baseman Albert
Pujols (POO'-hohlz) on a 10-year, $254 million contract and pitcher
C.J. Wilson on a five-year, $75 million deal.
   
     SAN FRANCISO (AP) - Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to
send former baseball slugger Barry Bonds to prison for 15 months.
In court documents filed late yesterday, prosecutors objected to a
recommendation by a federal probation officer that Bonds get only
probation when he's sentenced for obstruction of justice on Dec. 16
for his role in a doping investigation.

KWBG Sports for December 8th

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Patric (PAH'-trihk) Young scored a
career-high 25 points, Erving Walker made huge free throws down the
stretch and No. 12 Florida rallied to beat Arizona 78-72 in
overtime. Walker finished with 14 points, including seven in OT.
   
     DALLAS (AP)--Mark Buehrle (BUR'-lee) is the latest high-price
free agent to sign with the Miami Marlins. The 32-year-old
left-hander, who went 13-9 with the Chicago White Sox last season,
is being reunited with former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen
(GEE'-ehn), who is now the Marlins' skipper.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NBA players have agreed to additional drug
testing, adding offseason screening for performance-enhancing drugs
only. Union executive director Billy Hunter sent a memo, obtained
by The Associated Press, to players detailing these and other
changes of a new labor deal and recommended they ratify the
agreement.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A county district attorney says he cannot
bring charges against Bernie Fine because his alleged crimes are
too old to prosecute. But Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH'-guh) County
District Attorney William Fitzpatrick says he finds two men who
accused the former Syracuse assistant basketball coach of sexual
abuse to be credible.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State assistant football
coach Jerry Sandusky was jailed Wednesday as authorities added to
the child sex abuse charges he faces after two new accusers alleged
he molested them. Sandusky now faces criminal accusations from 10
young men and more than 50 charges stemming from alleged assaults
over 15 years on boys in his home, on Penn State property and
elsewhere.

KWBG Sports for December 7th

 DALLAS (AP) --At the winter meetings in Dallas, the Miami
Marlins are making a serious run for the No. 1 free agent on the
market, Albert Pujols (POO'-hohlz). The Marlins, who already have
reached deals with shortstop Jose Reyes (RAY'-uhs) and closer Heath
Bell in this offseason, reportedly have offered the three-time NL
MVP a 10-year deal worth around $200 million and St. Louis made its
own bid to retain Pujols yesterday.
   
     WINNIPEG, Alberta (AP) - Ondrej Pavelec (AWN'-dray
PAH'-veh-lehk) made 39 saves and Bryan Little scored to help the
Winnipeg Jets upset the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston
Bruins 2-1. The Bruins lost in regulation for the first time since
Oct. 29, ending a 15 game stretch in which they earned 29 of a
possible 30 points.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Dion Waiters had 15 points and Kris Joseph
had 11 and eight rebounds, as No. 3 Syracuse on Tuesday continued
to win amid a federal investigation, this time outlasting Marshall,
62-56, at the Carrier Dome. It was the third game for the Orange
(9-0) since former associate head coach Bernie Fine was fired after
allegations by three men that he sexually molested them as minors.
Fine has maintained he's innocent.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - The lawyer for a 19-year-old man says
his client has filed a complaint with state police alleging he was
sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky after the former coach gave him
liquor on the Penn State campus in 2004. Charles Schmidt says his
client, whom he did not identify, went to his law firm about three
weeks ago, after Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight
boys over a 15-year period. Sandusky has denied the charges.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) -The NBA announced its condensed, 66-game schedule
and it will require every team to play on three consecutive nights
at least once. The Atlanta Hawks appeared to get one of the worst
draws, having to play nine times in the opening 12 nights of the
NBA season.

KWBG Sports for December 6th

 DALLAS (AP) - After never coming close during his 15 years of
eligibility on the writers' ballots, former Cub great Ron Santo has
been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee
after receiving 15 of 16 votes. It comes just over a year after he
died. Santo was a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove
winner who belted 342 home runs and drove in 1,331 runs from
1960-74.
   
     DALLAS (AP) - All-Star closer Heath Bell and the Miami Marlins
have finalized a $27 million, three-year contract, a day after the
team reached a preliminary agreement on a $106 million, six-year
deal with All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes (RAY'-uhs). Bell had more
than 40 saves each of the past three seasons for the San Diego
Padres.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - After improving to 8-0 with a pair of victories
last week, Kentucky and Ohio State are still 1-2 in the AP men's
basketball poll. Syracuse, North Carolina and Louisville move up
one spot each to round out the top 5. Harvard joins the rankings
for the first time at No. 25.
   
     LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Bears coach Lovie Smith says Matt Forte
(fohr-TAY') "looked pretty good" Monday and he expects the team's
top rusher to be back in the lineup before the season ends,
although he won't set a timetable for a return. Forte left
yesterday's 10-3 loss to Kansas City in the first quarter after
spraining a ligament in his right knee and didn't return to the
game.
   
     PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Boston Bruins continued their torrid
streak, improving to 14-0-1 since October 29 by downing Pittsburgh
3-1. Tim Thomas turned back 45 shots, helped the Bruins kill off a
pair of 5-on-3 situations and blanked Pittsburgh until Matt Cooke
scored midway through the final period.

KWBG Sports for December 5th

 UNDATED (AP) - It will be LSU taking on Alabama for the BCS
championship after the Crimson Tide nosed out Oklahoma State for
the second spot in the latest standings. Alabama finished second in
both the Harris and coaches' polls by a wide enough margin to make
up for the fact that Oklahoma State was ahead in the computer
ratings. That sets up a rematch of two schools that met November 5
in Tuscaloosa, where the Tigers beat the Tide 9-6 in overtime.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - Oklahoma State is slated to take on Stanford in
the Fiesta Bowl after the Cowboys failed to reach the BCS title
game. Oregon will battle Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, Clemson will
take on West Virginia in the Orange Bowl and Michigan goes against
Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl.
   
     EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - Mason Crosby's 30-yard field goal
as time expired lifted Green Bay over the New York Giants 38-25
yesterday, keeping the Packers' hopes alive for a perfect season.
Aaron Rodgers led the Packers on a 68-yard scoring drive right
after the Giants knotted the score on Eli Manning's touchdown pass
to Hakeem Nicks and a two-point conversion with 58 seconds left.
Rodgers passed for 369 yards and four touchdowns, two to Donald
Driver.
   
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers are NFC West
champions for the first time in nine years following a 26-0 shutout
of the St. Louis Rams. Alex Smith tossed a pair of long touchdown
passes in the second half, David Akers drilled four field goals and
Frank Gore had 73 rushing yards to become the Niners' all-time
leader.
   
     MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Tim Tebow (TEE'-boh) passed for a season-best
202 yards and two third-quarter touchdowns to help the Denver
Broncos win their fifth straight game, 35-32 at Minnesota. Matt
Prater kicked two field goals in the final 93 seconds as the
Broncos improved to 7-5, tying them with Oakland for the AFC West
lead.

KWBG Sports for December 2nd

SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle Seahawks kept their flickering
playoff hopes alive by beating Philadelphia 31-14 as Marshawn Lynch
ran for 148 yards and a pair of first-half touchdowns. The Seahawks
have won three of four to improve to 5-7 while the Eagles dropped
into the NFC East cellar with a 4-8 record.
   
     TAMPA, Fla. (AP)-The West Virginia Mountaineers are alive to get
the Big East's automatic berth in the Bowl Championship Series.
Tyler Bitancurt kicked a 28-yard field goal as time expired and No.
22 West Virginia clinched a share of the Big East championship by
beating South Florida 30-27 and the Mountaineers probably will get
the BCS bowl berth if Cincinnati beats Connecticut on Saturday.
   
     COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Add Texas A&M to the list of
schools looking for a new football coach. The Aggies sacked Mike
Sherman, the former Green Bay Packers coach, after he went 25-25 in
four seasons that included a 6-6 record this year.
   
     EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Ducks will have home-field
advantage for the inaugural Pac-12 title game tonight against UCLA.
The eighth-ranked Ducks carry a 10-2 record and are whopping
31-point favorites against 6-6 UCLA, which has already informed
coach Rick Neuheisel that he will not be returning next season.
   
     LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Wildcats blocked a
school-record 18 shots in blowing away St. John's 81-59 to improve
to 7-0 heading into Saturday's showdown against fifth-ranked North
Carolina. Freshman Anthony Davis scored 15 points, grabbed 15
rebounds and had eight blocked shots.

KWBG Sports for December 1st

BOSTON (AP) - New Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine will be
introduced at a news conference at Fenway Park later today. The
61-year-old Valentine replaces Terry Francona, who led the Red Sox
to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007 but oversaw one of the
greatest late-season collapses in big league history this year.
Valentine guided the New York Mets to wild-card berths in 1999 and
2000 before reaching the 2000 World Series.
   
     LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Angels have acquired catcher
Chris Iannetta (eye-uh-NET'-uh) from the Colorado Rockies for
right-hander Tyler Chatwood. Iannetta batted .238 with 14 homers,
55 RBIs and a .370 on-base percentage last season while Chatwood
was 6-11 with a 4.75 ERA as a rookie.
   
     PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A lawsuit filed yesterday against Penn State
and former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky claims he abused
a boy more than 100 times and threatened to harm his family to keep
him quiet. The suit was filed by a new accuser who is not part of
the criminal case involving Sandusky. The latest accuser to come
forward says he didn't tell anyone about the abuse he claims he
suffered until Sandusky was charged this month with abusing other
boys.
   
     LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) - Jay Cutler isn't sure he'll throw
another pass for the Chicago Bears this year because of a broken
right thumb suffered against San Diego two weeks ago. Cutler had
three screws and two pins surgically inserted into his throwing
hand. The Bears initially hoped he could play again by the end of
this month.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - NBA players will be welcome to return to team
facilities today while general managers continue to negotiate
contracts. Teams may host voluntary player workouts and physicals
despite the fact training camps will not open until Dec. 9. NBA
officials are working to complete a two-game exhibition schedule
for each team that will lead to a 66-game regular season, starting
with a five-game slate on Christmas.

KWBG Sports for November 30th

 SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Playing for the first time since assistant
coach Bernie Fine was fired amid child molestation allegations, No.
4 Syracuse remained unbeaten with an 84-48 victory over Eastern
Michigan as James Southerland scored 19 points to match his career
high as the Orange improved their record to 7-0.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) --Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim (BAY'-hym)
was greeted by a standing ovation when he walked onto the Carrier
Dome court that bears his name before Syracuse's victory. Earlier
in the day, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor gave
Boeheim (BAY'-hym) a vote of confidence amid an investigation of
child molestation allegations against his former longtime assistant
coach Bernie Fine.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - A person familiar with the decision says the
Boston Red Sox have picked Bobby Valentine to be their next manager
and were working to complete a contract. Valentine previously
managed in Japan and in the majors with the New York Mets and Texas
Rangers, and has been working as a baseball analyst for ESPN.
   
     ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) - The NFL says Detroit Lions defensive
tackle Ndamukong Suh (ehn-DAHM'-uh-kehn soo) is appealing his
two-game suspension. Suh was suspended for two games without pay
today for stomping on Green Bay offensive lineman Evan
Dietrich-Smith on Thanksgiving in a loss to the Packers.
   
     COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)- The Big Ten went 4-2 on the opening night
of its challenge series with the ACC. The most impressive showing
last night was second-ranked Ohio State's 85-63 win over
third-ranked Duke in which the Buckeyes raced out to an 11-0 lead
and never trailed.

KWBG Sports for November 29th

 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Drew Brees torched the New York Giants with
four touchdown passes in throwing for 363 yards in the New Orleans
Saints' 49-24 rout last night. Brees also ran for a touchdown in
moving the 8-3 Saints a game up on Atlanta in the NFC South race.
   
     PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu
(pohl-uh-MAH'-loo), last season's NFL Defensive Player of the Year,
has a suspected concussion and the team did not offer a prognosis.
Polamalu sat out almost the entire win at Kansas City following a
low hit on 6-foot-6, 290-pound Chiefs tackle Steve Maneri, the
second time this season the Steelers have taken him out of a game
following a blow to the head.
   
     COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Urban Meyer was out of college coaching
for less than a year. The man who won two national titles with the
Florida Gators takes over Ohio State. Meyer is getting a six-year
contract that pays $4 million a year plus another $2.4 million
total in "retention payments."
   
     UNDATED (AP) - Two rookie NHL head coaches are making their
debuts tonight. Dale Hunter takes over for fired Bruce Boudreau
(BOO'-droh) as the Washington Capitals host St. Louis and Kirk
Muller takes over the reins of the Carolina Hurricanes from Paul
Maurice as they host the Florida Panthers.
   
     COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Third-seeded Duke takes its 7-0 record
into Columbus tonight to face No. 2 Ohio State in the Big Ten/ACC
Challenge. Both teams trail top-ranked and undefeated Kentucky,
which is home Thursday night against St. John's and Saturday
against North Carolina.

KWBG Sports for November 28th

SAN DIEGO (AP) -Overtime was Tebow (TEE'-boh) time for the
Denver Broncos. Tim Tebow guided the Denver Broncos to a 16-13
overtime victory at San Diego and the Broncos are 5-1 since Coach
John Fox elevated the former Florida signal-caller to starting
quarterback.
   
     PHILADELPHIA (AP)- Chants of "Fire Andy" rang out inside
Lincoln Financial Field following the Philadelphia Eagles' 38-20
loss to the New England Patriots. Tom Brady passed for 361 yards
and three TDs as the Pats dropped the Eagles into a last place tie
with Washington in the NFC East with a 4-7 record.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim
Boeheim (BAY'-hym) lost his longtime associate head coach
yesterday. Bernie Fine, who had been Boeheim's right-hand man for
36 seasons at his alma mater, was fired yesterday in the wake of a
growing investigation of child molestation charges against the
65-year-old Fine.
   
     UNDATED (AP) -Five college football coaches are losing their
jobs following disappointing campaigns. An Arizona State official
tells The Associated Press that Dennis Erickson is out as Sun
Devils coach, Illinois fired Ron Zook, Kansas fired Turner Gill,
Memphis fired Larry Porter and Neil Callaway has resigned as
football coach at UAB.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA regular season would run through April
26 and the last possible date for the NBA Finals would be June 26,
if a new labor deal is ratified in time to start on Christmas. The
league posted an outline of what the schedule would look like on
its Twitter pages and the plan is a 66-game regular season, ending
about 10 days later than usual.

KWBG Sports for November 23rd

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) -It's Duke vs. Kansas tonight for the Maui
Invitational title. Austin Rivers had 20 points, Seth Curry and
Ryan Kelly had 17 each in sixth-ranked Duke's 82-75 win over No. 15
Michigan and next plays 14th-ranked Kansas, which eliminated UCLA
72-56 in last night's semifinal.
   
     HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Former Penn State assistant football
coach Jerry Sandusky's status as a free man could change if more
accusers surface and police file new charges, as his lawyer fears.
Sandusky is now awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused eight
boys over 15 years but if new charges arise, criminal defense
lawyers say Sandusky could then find himself with a high bail he
might not be able to pay.
   
     HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -A judge says those involved in the case of
former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky can't disclose the
name of an individual described by his lawyers as a victim of and
witness to child sexual abuse. Judge Kathy Morrow signed an order
Tuesday at the request of two State College attorneys that
instructs court officials and the parties to refer to him as "John
Doe."
   
     CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler will have
surgery today to repair the fractured thumb on his right throwing
hand and the team is hoping he will be able to return before the
end of the regular season. Bears GM Jerry Angelo says team doctors
believe Cutler has a chance of getting back on the field before
Chicago ends its regular season at Minnesota on New Year's Day.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Union executive director Billy Hunter says he
expects that a Minnesota magistrate judge would mediate the
players' lawsuit against the NBA, as the court did in the NFL's
labor dispute. Hunter specifically mentioned U.S. Magistrate Judge
Arthur Boylan, the court-appointed mediator in the NFL talks,
although Boylan is not the magistrate assigned to the NBA antitrust
suit.

KWBG Sports for November 22nd

  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -The Monday night football game was a
laugher as Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes to Rob Gronkowski
and the New England Patriots routed the Kansas City Chiefs 34-3.
The Pats own a two-game lead atop the AFC East as Julian Edelman
returned a punt 72 yards for a touchdown and Kyle Arrington had two
interceptions.
   
     PITTSBURGH (AP) - In his first NHL game in 320 days after being
sidelined with concussion-like symptoms, Pittsburgh Penguins
superstar Sidney Crosby played last night like he had never been
away. Crosby scored just 5:24 into the game and added another goal
and two assists in the Penguins' 5-0 victory over the New York
Islanders.
   
     UNDATED (AP)- Arizona is turning its football fortunes over to
former Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez. He replaces Mike Stoops, who
was fired after his teams went 41-50 in seven-plus seasons with the
Wildcats.
   
     ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The two-time American League champion
Texas Rangers are shuffling their bullpen and changing their
starting rotation. Joe Nathan and the Rangers agreed to a two-year
contract with a club option for 2014, a move that means closer
Neftali Feliz will shift to the starting rotation.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Syracuse Police say it will take several
weeks to investigate allegations by two former ball boys who said
they were molested more than 25 years ago by a Syracuse University
assistant basketball coach. Bernie Fine, who is in his 36th season
as an assistant to Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim (BAY'-hym) has
called the charges "patently false," but has been placed on
administrative leave by the university.

KWBG Sports for November 21st

 CHICAGO (AP) - Jay Cutler led the Bears to their fifth straight
victory in what could be his last game with Chicago for a while.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Cutler broke his right thumb
during a 31-20 victory over the San Diego Chargers and is expected
to miss six to eight weeks.
   
     GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - The Green Bay Packers are 10-0 heading
into Thursday's traditional tilt against the Detroit Lions at Ford
Field. Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes and the Packers
survived a scare from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 35-26.
   
     HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) --Tony Stewart is the king of NASCAR Sprint
Cup racing for the third time in his career, but first as a car
owner and principal of Stewart-Haas Racing. Stewart held off Carl
Edwards to win the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway for
his fifth victory in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup
Championship series.
   
     PITTSBURGH (AP) - Sid the Kid is back. Pittsburgh Penguins
superstar Sidney Crosby will make his season debut tonight against
the New York Islanders, his first game in nearly a year since being
sidelined with concussion-like symptoms.
   
     CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Landon Donovan scored in the 72nd minute
on passes from Robbie Keane and David Beckham, and the Los Angeles
Galaxy's three superstars won their first MLS Cup together with a
1-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo last night. Beckham won his
first MLS championship in the final game of his five-year contract
with the Galaxy, and he hasn't decided where he's playing next
year.

KWBG Sports for November 18th

DENVER (AP) - Tim Tebow (TEE'-boh) ran for a 20-yard touchdown
with 58 seconds left to lift the Denver Broncos past the New York
Jets 17-13. Tebow accounted for 92 of the Broncos' 95 yards on the
game-winning drive as the Broncos improved to 4-1 since he was
named the starting quarterback. Both the Broncos and Jets are 5-5.
   
     SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked
by a child sex-abuse scandal, ESPN reported yesterday that police
were investigating an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse
University on allegations of child molestation. Shortly afterward,
Syracuse placed longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine on
administrative leave as ESPN reported that Fine is accused of
molesting a former Syracuse ball boy, who is now 39.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw
easily outdistanced Philadelphia's Roy Halladay in the National
League Cy Young balloting. Kershaw received 27 of 32 first-place
votes after leading the league with a 2.28 ERA and 248 strikeouts
while going 21-5. Phillies lefty Cliff Lee was third in the voting,
followed by 21-game winner Ian Kennedy of Arizona.
   
     CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago Cubs will introduce Dale Sveum
(swaym) as their new manager at a news conference later today.
Sveum takes over for Mike Quade (KWAH'-dee), who was fired after
the Cubs finished 71-91.
   
     MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The U.S. team split the six fourball
matches during Day 2 of the Presidents Cup and lead the
International squad 7-5. Americans Matt Kuchar (KOO'-chur) and
Steve Stricker had the easiest match, defeating Y.E. Yang and
Robert Allenby 4-and-3. Tiger Woods dropped to 0-2, the first time
he's opened any team competition with two straight losses since
2004.

KWBG Sports for November 17th

 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - A new judge has been assigned to
handle Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hearing next month on charges
that the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused
eight boys over 15 years. Robert E. Scott, a senior district judge
in Westmoreland County, would take over the case and conduct
Sandusky's hearing on Dec. 7.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State campus police and their
counterparts in State College say that they had no record of Mike
McQueary reporting an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky on a
10-year-old boy in a campus shower. The details ran counter to
McQueary's claims in an email to former teammates and made
available to The Associated Press this week.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cardinals coaches Mark McGwire and Dave Duncan
are staying with St. Louis under new manager Mike Matheny
(muh-THEE'-nee). So is third base coach Jose Oquendo
(oh-KEHN'-doh), who had been among the six candidates for the
managerial opening. First base coach Dave McKay and bench coach Joe
Pettini were dropped.
   
     DENVER (AP) --There's NFL football tonight from Mile High in
Denver where the New York Jets take on Tim Tebow (TEE'-boh) and the
rejuvenated Denver Broncos. The Jets will be without running back
LaDainian Tomlinson, who's out with a sprained medial collateral
ligament in his knee.
   
     BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Rested and refreshed after a bye week,
the North Carolina Tar Heels invade Lane Stadium tonight to take on
the 10th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies, sporting a gaudy 9-1 mark.
The Tar Heels are 6-4 overall but just 2-4 against Atlantic Coast
Conference foes.

KWBG Sports for November 16th

 NEW YORK (AP) - Mike Krzyzewski (shuh-SHEF'-skee) sits atop the
world of men's college basketball with more wins than any other
Division 1 coach. He picked up his 903rd last night as his Duke
Blue Devils beat Michigan State 74-69. Krzyzewski has coached 37
years overall, the last 32 at Duke where he has posted 830 of his
903 wins.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Two New York teams. Each going in a different
direction. The Rangers beat the Islanders last night 4-2, giving
the Rangers their seventh straight victory. The Islanders have lost
five of their last six.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - This is day 139 of the NBA lockout. The big news
yesterday involved players like Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant
who filed class-action antitrust lawsuits against the league in at
least two states. Games through Dec. 15 have been canceled.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Detroit's Justin Verlander won the American
League Cy Young Award yesterday. He was a unanimous choice by the
baseball writers. Verlander led the league in wins, ERA and
strikeouts.
   
     PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger
(RAWTH'-lihs-bur-gur) has a fractured right thumb. He says he
suffered the injury sometime during Sunday's win over Cincinnati.
The Steelers have the week off before facing the Chiefs on Nov. 27.

KWBG Sports for November 15th

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -It was just another ho-hum four-touchdown
performance by Aaron Rodgers, who led the Green Bay Packers to a
dominating 45-7 victory over Minnesota last night. The 9-0 Packers
got a big boost from their defense, which held rookie QB Christian
Ponder to 190 yards passing and limiting Adrian Peterson to 51
yards and one touchdown rushing.
   
     UNDATED (AP)- Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick's
status for Sunday's game against the New York Giants is unclear
because he has two broken ribs, yet he is fortunate compared to
several other NFL quarterbacks. Kansas City's Matt Cassel
(KAS'-uhl) has what coach Todd Haley is calling a "significant"
injury to his throwing hand, and Houston's Matt Schaub is out at
least two weeks with a right foot injury.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) -NBA players rejected the latest offer from owners
Monday and started a process of disbanding the union, a move that
would allow them to sue the league, much like the NFL players did
this summer. The NBA already has canceled the first month of the
season, and Commissioner David Stern says the remainder of the
season is in jeopardy in light of the players' latest move.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky
said in an interview that aired on NBC last night that he is
innocent of the child sex abuse charges that have rocked Penn State
and cost Joe Paterno his job, but the former defensive coordinator
admitted he "horsed around" and touched kids. The 67-year-old
Sandusky, once considered Paterno's heir apparent in Happy Valley,
is charged with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year span.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Mike Krzyzewski (shuh-SHEF'-skee) is on the
verge of history. The Duke coach's first attempt at becoming the
winningest men's coach in Division I history comes tonight when his
sixth-ranked Blue Devils take on Michigan State at Madison Square
Garden and would leave Krzyzewski alone atop the list with 903
wins.

KWBG Sports for November 14th

 NEW YORK (AP) - The New England Patriots cruised into first
place in the AFC East by beating the New York Jets 37-16. Tom Brady
tossed three TD passes, including a pair to tight end Rob
Gronkowski who caught eight passes for 113 yards.
   
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers continue to be the
surprise team of the NFL. The Niners posted their seventh straight
victory, their longest win streak since 1997, by holding off the
New York Giants 27-20 in a battle of NFC division leaders at
Candlestick Park.
   
     ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - In college basketball, Tyler Zeller
scored 27 points to help North Carolina fight off UNC Asheville
91-75 Sunday in the debut of the Bulldogs' new Kimmel Arena. The
2-0 Tar Heels shot 59 percent from the field less than 48 hours
after beating Michigan State on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in
San Diego.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - The World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals
are turning their fortunes over to a rookie manager, Mike Matheny
muh-THEE'-nee). The 41-year-old Matheny was a minor league
instructor with the Cards, who have called a news conference today
to introduce their successor to retiring 67-year-old Tony La Russa.
   
     AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) - The Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship
will go down to the final race next Sunday in Homestead outside
Miami. Kasey Kahne (kayn) won yesterday in Phoenix and championship
contenders Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart finished second and third,
meaning Edwards will take a three-point lead into next weekend's
season finale at Homestead.

KWBG Sports for November 11th

  SAN DIEGO (AP)--The San Diego Chargers are on a four-game losing
strea for the first time since 2003. Oakland's Michael Bush,
subbing for injured running back Darren McFadden, ran for 157 yards
and a touchdown as the Raiders upset the Chargers 24-17 to take
over first place in the AFC West.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NBA players broke off negotiations with the
league Thursday night, saying there had not been enough progress to
get a deal done to end the lockout. The league offered the players
a revised offer after nearly 11 hours of bargaining, but union
president Derek Fisher said it wasn't enough to get a deal done.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Tom Bradley, a loyal assistant who has
played and worked for fired Penn State coach Joe Paterno the past
35 years, held his first practice as interim head coach yesterday.
Saying "Coach Paterno has meant more to me than anyone except my
father," Bradley is trying to get the 12th-ranked and 8-1 Nittany
Lions ready to play 19th-ranked Nebraska in Happy Valley on
Saturday.
   
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State says assistant coach Mike
McQueary won't work the Nittany Lions game on Saturday because
"multiple threats" have been made against him. McQueary testified
to a grand jury that he encountered Jerry Sandusky in the Penn
State showers with a 10-year-old boy in 2002 and later told Joe
Paterno of the incident, but nothing was pursued.
   
     CORONADO, Calif. (AP) - The aircraft carrier that buried Osama
bin Laden at sea is ready for the first college basketball game to
be played on an active flat top. The USS Carl Vinson will be the
setting for Michigan State against No. 1 North Carolina for the
approximately 7,000 in the Veterans Day crowd, including President
Barack Obama and a national TV audience tonight.

KWBG Sports for November 9th

 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State football coach Joe Paterno
has decided to retire at the end of the season, his long career
brought down by his failure to do more about an allegation of child
sex abuse against a former assistant.
     Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he is "absolutely
devastated" by the developments in the case of Jerry Sandusky, a
former defensive coordinator accused of molesting eight boys over
15 years.
     Paterno says the board of trustees should "not spend a single
minute discussing my status. They have far more important matters
to address."
     "This is a tragedy," Paterno says. "It is one of the great
sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had
done more."

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota's House has given final

legislative approval to a bill that lets the University of North

Dakota retire its Fighting Sioux nickname.

     The House voted 63-31 on Wednesday to repeal a law that requires

UND to keep the nickname and an American Indian logo.

     The bill says UND can't approve another nickname before January

2015.

     The measure now goes to Gov. Jack Dalrymple (DAL'-rihm-puhl).

The governor has said he'll sign it.

     UND wants to drop the nickname and logo to end NCAA sanctions

against the school. The association says the nickname is offensive

to American Indians.

  NEW YORK (AP) - The deadline is later today for NBA players to

accept the league's recent proposal for a labor settlement.

Players' association president Derek Fisher says the current offer

on the table from the NBA is "one that we cannot accept." If the

players don't accept the current offer, commissioner David Stern

says the next offer is expected to call for rolling back players'

salaries.

     

     UNDATED (AP) - Magic Johnson says it is "ridiculous" to

suggest that NBA commissioner David Stern is racist. The former

All-Pro guard of the Lakers was responding to comments made by

attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who is representing the NBA players'

association, that owners are treating players like "plantation

workers".

     

     ST. LOUIS (AP) - A major college basketball star from the 1940's

has passed away. "Easy Ed" Macauley, who also starred in the NBA,

was 83. Macauley played for the Billikens of St. Louis University

and the school announced his death.

     

     UNDATED (AP) - A person familiar with the negotiations tells The

Associated Press that Terry Francona, the former manager of the

Boston Red Sox, has interviewed for the same job with the St. Louis

Cardinals. Francona managed the Red Sox for eight seasons and left

after they blew a nine-game lead in the American League wild card

race in September.

KWBG Sports for November 8th

 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Jay Cutler tossed two TD passes and Matt
Forte (fohr-TAY') ran for 133 yards in leading the Chicago Bears to
a 30-24 victory over Philadelphia. The 5-3 Bears stayed in the wild
card hunt with their third straight victory while the 3-5 Eagles
fell into a tie with Washington for last place in the NFC East.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Commissioner David Stern is warning NBA players
that the league's offer on the table will become less generous if
the players do not accept the deal by Wednesday. Speaking to ESPN
yesterday, Stern says the offer will "get worse from there" if
his self-imposed deadline is not met.
   
     HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly
says Penn State's Joe Paterno, the winningest and perhaps most
revered football coach in America, is not a target of the
investigation into how the school handled accusations of sexual
misconduct involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
But she refused to say the same for the university president,
Graham Spanier.
   
     OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Ole Miss is looking for a football coach in
the wake of Houston Nutt's resignation, effective the end of the
season. The Rebels are 2-7 this year, have lost 12 straight SEC
games and are 24-23 in Nutt's four years at Mississippi.
   
     PHILADELPHIA (AP)- The boxing world is mourning the death of
"Smokin" Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champ who died of
liver cancer yesterday at 67. Frazier beat Muhammad Ali to win the
heavyweight title in 1971, though for the rest of his career mostly
had to settle for second fiddle to Ali's greatness in that era.

KWBG Sports for November 7th

 UNDATED (AP) - There's a new No. 2 in the latest BCS standings
as Oklahoma State climbs ahead of Alabama. The Cowboys moved up
after the Crimson Tide lost to No. 1 LSU 9-6 in overtime. 'Bama,
Stanford and Boise State round out the top 5.
   
     BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The Southeastern Conference has released
a statement saying the conference's presidents and chancellors are
acting unanimously in announcing that Missouri will join the league
effective July 1, 2012. Missouri will be leaving the Big 12. The
addition of Mizzou will increase SEC membership to 14 schools. That
includes Texas A&M, which announced last month that it was also
leaving the Big 12 for the SEC.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher
doesn't think much of commissioner David Stern's latest contract
proposal, calling it an ultimatum that is not acceptable to the
union. Stern has given the players' association until Wednesday to
accept a deal that offers players up to 51 percent of
basketball-related income, a figure the union insists is fiction.
Regardless, it will drop to 47 percent Wednesday if players don't
accept the current offer by the league-imposed deadline.
   
     FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Tony Stewart won for the second
straight week to pull within three points of Sprint Cup leader Carl
Edwards with two races remaining. Stewart and Edwards finished
one-two in the Texas 500 yesterday, which leaves Stewart 30 points
ahead of Kevin Harvick. Racing continues in Phoenix Sunday before
the season concludes at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Geoffrey Mutai shattered the course record in
the New York City Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6
seconds. He crushed the previous mark set a decade ago by more than
2 1/2 minutes.

KWBG Sports for November 4th

 BOSTON (AP) - EJ Manuel threw for one touchdown and ran for
another as Florida State opened a 28-point halftime lead and
coasted to a lopsided 38-7 victory over Boston College. With their
fourth straight win, the 6-3 Seminoles qualified for a bowl game
for an NCAA-best 30th consecutive year while BC fell to 2-7 in a
rebuilding year.
   
     BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Southern California is a three-touchdown
favorite when they travel to Boulder to meet a 1-8 Colorado team in
the first meeting between the two teams as members of the Pac-10.
The Trojans are 6-2 under coach Lane Kiffen and are braced for cold
conditions as temperatures tonight in Boulder are expected in the
upper 30s.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Detroit Tigers 24-game winner Justin Verlander
has won player of the year in voting by the Major League Baseball
Players Association, becoming the second pitcher to earn the honor.
Verlander beat out Boston first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and New
York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson for the Players Choice
Award.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NBA players and owners resume negotiations
Saturday, with the union's leaders saying they are unified and
denying reports of a rift. Owners and players haven't met in a
week, and the four-month lockout already has caused cancellation of
the first month of the NBA regular season.
   
     CORNELIUS, N.C. (AP) - Michael Waltrip Racing says David
Reutimann (ROO'-tih-mihn) will not be back with the team next
season. MWR has a news conference scheduled today at Texas Motor
Speedway, and is expected to announce Mark Martin will take over
the No. 00 Toyota next year.

KWBG Sports for November 3rd

CHICAGO (AP) - Mike Quade (KWAH'-dee) is out after 199 games as
manager of the Chicago Cubs. Cubs' new president of baseball
operations, Theo Epstein, praised Quade but says the team will
benefit from someone who can come in "with a clean slate and offer
new direction." Quade was 24-13 after taking over for Lou Piniella
in 2010 before posting a 71-91 mark last season.
   
     LOS ANGELES (AP) - The embattled owner of the Los Angeles
Dodgers has reached an agreement with Major League Baseball to sell
one of the sport's most storied franchises. It ends Frank McCourt's
seven-year stewardship of the NL franchise that included four trips
to the postseason. A joint statement says there will be a
"court-supervised process" to sell the team and its media rights
to maximize value for the Dodgers and McCourt.
   
     ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) - Ndamukong Suh (ehn-DAHM'-uh-kehn soo)
says he has no plans to change his playing style after meeting with
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday. The Detroit Lions' star
defensive tackle says he wanted a better understanding of how his
play was perceived after receiving a handful of flags and fines in
his first season-and-a-half in the league. Suh says he feels he's
"continuing to play within the rules" and has learned from his
mistakes.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - A spokesman for the Big 12 says West Virginia's
membership in the conference isn't conditional on the university
getting an early release from the Big East after all. Interim Big
12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas had said at a welcome reception
Tuesday in Morgantown that a 10th member was needed for next season
to fulfill the conference's television commitments. The Big East
has said it plans to keep West Virginia from leaving for 27 months
under the league's bylaws.
   
     ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Two people familiar with the results tell The
Associated Press that Georgia's leading ball carrier Isaiah Crowell
and two other Bulldogs tailbacks were suspended for Saturday's game
against New Mexico State after failing drug tests administered last
week. According to athletic association policy, student-athletes
are suspended for 10 percent of their competitions for first-time
violations of the drug tests. Tailbacks Ken Malcome and Carlton
Thomas also were suspended on Tuesday for what was announced as
violations of team policy.

KWBG Sports for November 2nd

 LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League
Baseball have agreed on a process to sell the team. In a joint
statement released late Tuesday, both sides say they have agreed
"to a court supervised process." The agreement also includes the
sale of team media rights "to realize maximum value for the
Dodgers and their owner, Frank McCourt."
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier
(EE'-thee-ur) are the first trio of Los Angeles Dodgers to win NL
Gold Gloves in the same year. Adrian Gonzalez, Dustin Pedroia
(peh-DROY'-uh) and Jacoby (jah-KOH'-bee) Ellsbury became the first
three Red Sox in 31 seasons to win the AL honor together.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - On NHL ice, Johnny Boychuk and Daniel Paille
(PY'-ay) scored 47 seconds apart in the third period, and the
Boston Bruins ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over
the Ottawa Senators. The defending Stanley Cup champions, who
finished the first month of the season with the worst record in the
Eastern Conference at 3-7, ended the Senators' six-game win streak.
   
     ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has ruled out
a tax increase as a way to help pay for a new proposed Vikings
stadium. That blows a $350 million hole in the team's plan to build
a $1.1 billion home in the suburbs north of the Twin Cities.

     PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Big East is ready to start adding
members after spending the last month and a half losing them. A
person familiar with the decision tells The Associated Press the
Big East will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football
only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports in
upcoming days.

KWBG Sports for November 1st

 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Philip Rivers fumbled a snap with 48
seconds left in regulation, costing the San Diego Chargers a chance
to kick a winning field goal. That led to the Kansas City Chiefs
beating the Chargers 23-20 in overtime on a Ryan Succop (SUH'-kuhp)
30-yard field goal for the Chiefs' fourth straight victory to tie
them with San Diego and Oakland for the AFC West lead.

     UNDATED (AP) - The injury situation is looking better for the
Rams and the Texans this week, with star players from each team
showing signs of being ready to return. St. Louis quarterback Sam
Bradford is no longer wearing a protective boot on his left ankle
and began to exercise yesterday, while Houston wide receiver Andre
Johnson could be cleared to play after missing four games with a
right hamstring injury.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - Tony La Russa is the first major league manager
to retire immediately after winning a World Series. The 67-year-old
La Russa, who ranks third on the all-time list of victories, says
the time was right to step down after 33 seasons as a big league
manager.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Yankees will have big left-hander
CC Sabathia (suh-BATH'-ee-uh) in their starting rotation next
season, and probably several years after that. Rather than become a
free agent, CC Sabathia agreed to a new deal with the Yanks that
adds an additional season and $30 million in guaranteed money,
bringing the left-hander's total over the next five years to $122
million.
   
     CLEVELAND (AP) - Derek Lowe's durability - and price tag - were
too much for the Cleveland Indians to resist. The club acquired the
15-year veteran pitcher from the Atlanta Braves for a minor
leaguer, a low-risk move made more attractive by the fact the
Indians will pay Lowe just $5 million of the $15 million he's due
next season as part of a long-term deal he signed with Atlanta in
2009.

KWBG Sports for October 31st

 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Philadelphia Eagles scored touchdowns on
their first three possessions en route to their 34-7 shellacking of
Dallas last night. The victory improves to Eagles to 3-4 and makes
coach Andy Reid 13-0 in games following a bye week.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - Chris Carpenter, Tony La Russa and the World
Series champion Cardinals drew huge cheers yesterday at the NFL
game between the St. Louis Rams and New Orleans Saints. They might
have fired up the Rams, who were two-touchdown underdogs before
knocking off the NFC South-leading Saints 31-21 for their first
victory of the NFL season.
   
     TORONTO (AP) - The surprising Buffalo Bills improved to 5-2 by
blanking the hapless Washington Redskins 23-0. The Bills defense
sacked Washington QB John Beck nine times as the Bills shut out a
Mike Shanahan-coached team for the first time in his 267-game NFL
head coaching career.
   
     MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) - Tony Stewart passed Jimmie Johnson on a
restart with three laps to go and surged into contention for his
third NASCAR Sprint Cup championship with three races left in the
Chase for the championship. The victory was the third for Stewart
in the first seven races of the 10-race playoff as he moved to
within eight points of series leader Carl Edwards.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - A person familiar with the negotiations says the
Yankees have made a contract offer to ace CC Sabathia, who has
until today to decide whether to opt out of the $92 million and
four years remaining on his current deal. If the 31-year-old
Sabathia opts out, he would become the top pitcher on the
free-agent market.

KWBG Sports for October 28th

     ST. LOUIS (AP) -The St. Louis Cardinals, twice down to their
final strike, rallied to beat Texas 10-9 in 11 innings to force a
Game 7 tonight to decide the World Series. David Freese (freez),
who forced extra innings with a two-run triple in the bottom of the
ninth, delivered a walkoff home run in the 11th to touch off a wild
home plate celebration in St. Louis.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA owners and players have ended seven and
a-half hours of negotiations in an attempt to end the 119-day
lockout. Though the first two weeks of the season have been
canceled because of the lockout, union executive director Billy
Hunter and Commissioner David Stern said some progress was made and
that talks will continue today.
   
     HOUSTON (AP) - Houston's Case Keenum threw nine touchdown passes
to set the Football Bowl Subdivision record for career TD tosses as
the 18th-ranked Cougars overcame a slow start in a 73-34 win over
Rice. Keenum has 139 career touchdown passes.
   
     PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Andrew Ladd scored the game-winner with 1:06
left to give the Winnipeg Jets a wild 9-8 victory over the
Philadelphia Flyers. Fifteen players scored in the NHL's
highest-scoring game of the season and the Jets' first road win
since the franchise moved from Atlanta to Winnipeg.
   
     SHANGHAI (AP) - U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy has shot a
3-under 69 to increase his lead to two strokes after the second
round of the Shanghai Masters. The 22-year-old star from Northern
Ireland finished at 11-under 133. Thirty players are vying for a $2
million first prize, the richest in golf.

KWBG Sports for October 27th

 ST. LOUIS (AP) -After last night's rainout, the Texas Rangers
will try again and win their first World Series championship. The
Rangers take a 3-2 Series lead into tonight's game with Colby Lewis
on the mound for Texas against lefty Jaime (HY'-mee) Garcia of the
St. Louis Cardinals.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - World Series Game 7, if necessary, would be
played Friday night and Rangers manager Ron Washington has said he
would go with Matt Harrison in that one. Cards manager Tony La
Russa has not indicated a starter, but ace Chris Carpenter would be
available on three days' rest.
     MONTREAL (AP) - Carey Price made 21 saves for his 100th win and
Max Pacioretty (pahk-OHR'-eht-tee) had two goals and an assist and
the Montreal Canadiens ended a six-game losing streak with a 5-1
win over the Philadelphia Flyers last night. The Canadiens, who are
2-5-2 overall, had not gone this deep into a season before claiming
their second win since the1941-42 season.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - After seven games in three countries and about a
month away from home, the New York Rangers are thrilled to return
to the friendly confines of Madison Square Garden, which was
undergoing renovation. The Rangers will become the last of the
NHL's 30 teams to play their home opener when they host the Toronto
Maple Leafs tonight.
   
     GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) - Hoping to win the gold medal at the
Pan American Games for the first time since 1983, the United States
men's basketball team hung on for a 77-76 win over the Dominican
Republic and will play Brazil next in Group B play. Lance Thomas, a
member of Duke's 2010 national championship team, led the United
States with 15 points and 16 rebounds.

KWBG Sports for October 26th

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The World Series resumes tonight in St. Louis
following the traditional travel day between games 5 and 6. The
Texas Rangers lead the series t3 games to 2 and can wrap up their
first championship if they can defeat the Cardinals. Texas will
send Colby Lewis to the mound against lefty Jaime (HY'-mee) Garcia
of the Redbirds.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Red Sox have announced that starting
pitcher John Lackey will undergo Tommy John surgery and will miss
all of next season. Lackey was 12-12 with a 6.41 ERA in the second
of a five-year, $82.5 million contract.
   
     HOUSTON (AP) - Houston athletics director Mack Rhoades says his
school is "in a good position" and will "always seek new
opportunity" but is offering no timeline for the Cougars to decide
their future conference affiliation. Houston has been mentioned as
a potential newcomer to the Big East, which is reshaping after
Pittsburgh and Syracuse announced plans to join the ACC and West
Virginia was approved by Big 12 officials.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - The Buffalo Bills have placed veteran linebacker
Shawne (shawn) Merriman on season-ending injured reserve because of
a right Achilles injury. Tight end Chris Cooley and running back
Tim Hightower have landed on Washington's injured reserve. And the
Indianapolis Colts have put quarterback Kerry Collins on injured
reserve with a concussion.
   
     CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) - Terrell Owens' workout was watched by
two television networks but no NFL teams. The 37-year-old
free-agent wide receiver participated in some drills and caught
passes yesterday outside Los Angeles in a showcase televised by
ESPN and NFL Network.

KWBG Sports for October 25th

 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - The Texas Rangers are within one victory
of their first World Series championship after rallying for a 4-2
win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5. Mike Napoli
(NAP'-oh-lee) provided a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth
inning to give the Rangers a three-games-to-two lead. Adrian Beltre
(BEHL'-tray) and Mitch Moreland hit solo homers for the Rangers,
who rallied after the Cardinals scratched out a pair of
second-inning runs to take a 2-0 lead.
   
     BOSTON (AP) - Ben Cherington is set to be introduced as the new
general manager of the Boston Red Sox today. He replaces his former
boss, Theo Epstein, who resigned from the Red Sox on Friday to
become president of baseball operations for the Cubs. Cherington
has been handling many of the duties of general manager because
Epstein's departure had been expected.
   
     CLEVELAND (AP) - Jim Thome (TOH'-mee) isn't ready to retire,
telling the City Club of Cleveland he still has the passion to play
and continue his pursuit of an elusive World Series ring. The
41-year-old Thome is eighth all time with 604 home runs and
returned to the Indians late this season. He becomes a free agent
after the World Series.
   
     JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Josh Scobee (SKOH'-bee) drilled four
field goals and the Jacksonville Jaguars allowed just 146 total
yards in a 12-7 upset win over Baltimore. Scobee hit a pair of
54-yard attempts and a 51-yard boot in helping the Jags end a
five-game losing streak. Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 105 yards
against the NFL's top run defense as the Jaguars dropped the Ravens
out of first place in the AFC North.
   
     ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) - Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz
says quarterback Matthew Stafford is "day to day" after hurting
his right ankle late in Sunday's loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
Schwartz wouldn't go into details about any X-rays or MRI
yesterday, although he did hint that the injury wasn't overly
serious.

KWBG Sports for October 21st

 ST. LOUIS (AP) -Josh Hamilton and Michael Young hit back-to-back
sacrifice flies in the ninth inning for both Texas runs in the
Rangers' 2-1 victory over St. Louis last night. That evened up the
World Series at one game apiece.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - Today is a travel day for the World Series as the
scene shifts to Texas for the weekend games. It's a matchup of
14-game winners for Saturday night's Game 3 -- Kyle Lohse (lohsh)
of the Cardinals against Matt Harrison of the Rangers.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NBA labor talks turned nasty and broke off
yesterday after three days of meetings failed to yield a deal to
end a 112-day lockout. That raises the likelihood that even more
games will be canceled in an already abbreviated season.
   
     LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - England's Luke Donald, who's
trying to become the first player to lead the money lists on both
the PGA and European tours, takes a two-shot lead over Webb Simpson
into today's third round of the PGA Tour event in Florida. Simpson
enters this week with a $363,029 lead over Donald on the PGA
earnings list.
   
     INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Funeral services for two-time Indianapolis
500 winner Dan Wheldon will be held Saturday in St. Petersburg,
Fla., following his death in a fiery 15-car crash at Sunday's
season-ending IndyCar race in Las Vegas. NASCAR drivers will honor
Wheldon with a special decal at this weekend's race in Talladega,
Ala.

KWBG Sports for October 20th

 ST. LOUIS (AP) - Pinch-hitter Allen Craig delivered a two-out
single in the sixth inning to drive in the winning run in the St.
Louis Cardinals' 3-2 victory over Texas in the World Series opener
last night. Chris Carpenter and five relievers combined on a
six-hitter for manager Tony La Russa's club.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jaime (HY'-mee) Garcia will try to pitch the
Cardinals to a 2-0 advantage in tonight's Game 2 of the World
Series. He will be opposed by the Rangers' Colby Lewis, a 14-game
winner in the regular season.
   
     NEW YORK (AP)- There will be a third straight day of talks
scheduled between NBA owners and their players, who are in Day 112
of being locked out by the owners. Federal mediator George Cohen
says the discussions have been "direct and constructive," as the
sides have met for more than 24 hours during a 32-hour span.
   
     BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -A person familiar with the decision says
top-ranked LSU has suspended star cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, along
with defensive back Tharold Simon and running back Spencer Ware for
this Saturday's home game against 19th-ranked Auburn. LSU coach Les
Miles declined to confirm any punishment for members of his No. 1
Tigers after yesterday's practice.
   
     UNDATED (AP)- IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard says the best way to
honor Dan Wheldon is finding a way to prevent another fatal
accident like the one that killed the two-time Indianapolis 500
winner Sunday in a fiery 15-car accident at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway. IndyCar has launched a formal investigation that Bernard
hopes will lead to improved safety measures and says flatly, "We
need answers."

KWBG Sports for October 19th

 ST. LOUIS (AP) - It's opening night at the World Series in St.
Louis where Chris Carpenter takes the mound for tonight's Fall
Classic opener against C.J. Wilson of the Texas Rangers. It's the
second straight trip to the World Series for the Rangers, who lost
to the San Francisco Giants last year, while the Cards are in it
for the first time since winning it all in 2006.
   
     ST. LOUIS (AP) - The coolest person at the World Series could be
Texas Rangers Game 1 starting pitcher C.J. Wilson, who recently
spent 2-1/2 minutes in a Dallas cryotherapy chamber, where liquid
nitrogen lowered the temperature to a frosty 295 degrees below zero
in an effort to speed body recovery. Wilson joked that 35 degrees
should be no problem after examining the frigid forecast for Game 1
at Busch Stadium, where game-time temperatures are forecast to be
in the 40s at game time and dropping throughout the night.
     OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - The Oakland Raiders, in need of a
quarterback in the wake of Jason Campbell's broken collarbone
suffered last Sunday, have swung a trade for disgruntled Cincinnati
QB Carson Palmer for a couple of high draft picks. Palmer has not
played this year for the Bengals, demanding that he be moved ahead
of yesterday's trading deadline.
   
     BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Kent Hull, who served as Hall of Fame
quarterback Jim Kelly's center during the Buffalo Bills' AFC title
years in the early 1990s, has died at age 50. The cause of death
was not immediately known and Bills Hall of Fame running back
Thurman Thomas called the Hull's death a "tremendous loss."
   
     WASHINGTON (AP) - Tomas Vokoun (voh-KOON') blanked his former
team with a 20-save performance, and the Washington Capitals beat
the Florida Panthers 3-0 last night to improve to 5-0, the best
start in franchise history. Washington and Detroit are the only NHL
teams to win all their games thus far.

KWBG Sports for October 18th

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - The New York Jets are 3-3 after
Darrelle Revis (duh-REHL' REE'-vihs) and Mark Sanchez led them to a
24-6 victory over the winless Miami Dolphins. Revis returned an
interception 100 yards for the Jets' first touchdown and held
Dolphins receiver Brandon Marshall in check. Sanchez ran for a TD
and completed 14 of his 25 passes for 201 yards, one touchdown and
no interceptions.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - NFL head coaches Jim Harbaugh and Jim Schwartz
will not be fined by the NFL for their on-field altercation
following San Francisco's 25-19 win over Schwartz's Detroit Lions
on Sunday. Schwartz chased Harbaugh down the field after the 49ers
coach gave him a roundhouse handshake and a backslap. The two had
to be separated in a scrum that included players and other coaches.
   
     METAIRIE, La. (AP) - The Saints say surgery on coach Sean
Payton's injured left leg was successful and he should be able to
return to work Wednesday. The club's orthopedic surgeon repaired a
meniscus tear and fractured tibia a day after Payton was injured in
a sideline collision during New Orleans' 26-20 loss at Tampa Bay.
Payton expects to call plays from the coaches' booth when the
Saints host Indianapolis on Sunday night.
   
     SAN DIEGO (AP) - Chargers tight end Antonio Gates practiced
yesterday for the first time in several weeks in hopes of playing
against the New York Jets. Gates has missed the last three games
following a flare up in his lengthy bout with plantar fasciitis in
his right foot. He tore scar tissue near the injury Sept. 18
against New England.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson says IndyCar should
stop racing on ovals and stick to road courses. The five-time
defending driving champ says he was glued to his television Sunday
watching the coverage of Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon's
death in the IndyCar season finale on the oval at Las Vegas Motor
Speedway. Johnson believes the IndyCar cars are built for street
circuits and road courses, and drive too fast to race on ovals.

KWBG Sports for October 17th

 MILWAUKEE (AP) - Home runs by David Freese (freez), Rafael
Furcal and Albert Pujols (POO'-hohlz) powered the St. Louis
Cardinals to a 12-6 rout of Milwaukee and a berth in the World
Series against Texas. Freese ripped a three-run shot to put the
Cardinals up 4-0 in the first inning before Furcal and Pujols hit
solo shots in the second. Pujols and pinch-hitter Allen Craig each
had two RBIs to help the Cards secure their 18th National League
pennant.
   
     LAS VEGAS (AP) - Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon
has died at age 33 following a fiery wreck involving 15 cars at the
Las Vegas Indy 300 yesterday. There had been concerns about the
high speeds at the track, where they were hitting nearly 225 mph
during practice. The race was eventually called off, although the
19 drivers still in the race performed a five-lap salute to
Wheldon, driving three abreast around the oval.
   
     UNDATED (AP) - The Green Bay Packers are the NFL's only unbeaten
team after they improved to 6-0 with a 24- 3 rout of St. Louis
while Detroit lost 25-19 to San Francisco. Packers quarterback
Aaron Rodgers threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, including a
career-high 93-yard scoring strike to Jordy Nelson.
   
     NEW YORK (AP) - LSU and Alabama remain one-two in the latest
Associated Press football poll. The Tigers received 41 first-place
votes, the Crimson Tide captured 11 and third-ranked Oklahoma
garnered six. Wisconsin is fourth, followed by Boise State,
Oklahoma State, Stanford, Clemson, Oregon and Arkansas.
   
     ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) - Ben Crane beat Webb Simpson with a
birdie on the second hole of their two-man playoff to win the PGA's
McGladrey Classic at St. Simons Island, Ga. Crane was seven shots
back with 11 holes to play. He birdied four of the last five holes
en route to a 7-under 63.