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.