IHSAA Preseason Girls Basketball rankings are out and one of the local teams is ranked and a few teams on the local schedules on the lists:
1A 2. Vincennes Rivet (0-0)
3. Tecumseh (0-0)
12. Northeast Dubois (1-0)
2A – 1. Forest Park (0-0)
16. North Knox (1-0) defeated Shakamak, 50-10
vs. Washington Friday hear that game on WAMW with DeWayne Shake and Steve Brothers
18. Linton-Stockton (0-0)
3A 11. Washington (0-0)
13. Gibson Southern (0-0)
4A 2. Bedford North Lawrence (0-0)
13. Castle (0-0)
The IU Southeast women’s basketball team defeated Campbellsville University – Harrodsburg 81-77 in double overtime to tip off their 2022-23 season. The GRENADIERS feature former Washington Lady Hatchett Jesse Ledgerwood who saw 7 minutes of action in her debut while pulling down 2 rebounds and tallying 1 steal.
The Grace College Lancers have started the young season 2 and 0 with last nights win over St Xavier 84-60. Grace features former Barr Reeve Vikings Hagen Knepp, Brycen Graber who leads the team with 6 assist per game and Bobcat of Daviess County Tournament legend Frankie Davidson who leads the team with 18 points per contest.
Major League Baseball’s awards season got underway a little earlier than usual this offseason as MLB and Rawlings announced the 2022 Gold Glove winners prior to Game 3 of the World Series on Tuesday night. Award winners of note:
Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado won his 10th Gold Glove in his 10th MLB season this year, tying Ichiro Suzuki for the record to begin a career. Arenado’s 10 Gold Gloves also tie Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt for the second most ever at the hot corner, behind only Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson (16).
Left field NL: Ian Happ, Cubs (1st)
Rawlings added a new utility Gold Glove to honor multi-position players this year NL: Brendan Donovan, Cardinals (1st)
A group of high-profile investors, including NBA star Stephen Curry, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, entertainer Justin Timberlake and tennis star Serena Williams, as well as many other NBA and NFL stars are backing Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s new company, which plans to launch a tech-infused golf league in 2024. In August, Woods and McIlroy announced the company and the league will have players competing on six three-man teams in 15 regular-season matches and a playoff starting in January 2024. The format will feature two-hour, 18-hole matches on a simulator course with players hitting longer shotts and an authentic green area for chipping and putting. The matches will take place in prime time on Monday nights. Can sports based on virtual settings succeed? We shall see….
Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for driving drunk, speeding and hitting two parked cars last year, leaving a 5-year-old girl with a serious brain injury. Reid, who is son of KC Head Coach Andy Reid pleaded guilty in September to driving while intoxicated, causing serious bodily injury. The charge carries a maximum penalty of seven years in prison, but prosecutors had agreed to ask for a maximum sentence of four years in prison. Reid sought probation. Prosecutors said Reid had a blood alcohol level of .113 two hours after the crash was intoxicated and driving about 84 mph in a 65 mph zone when his Dodge truck hit the cars on an entrance to Interstate 435 near Arrowhead Stadium on Feb. 4, 2021.
Kansas basketball self-imposes 4-game suspension for head coach Bill Self and assistant coach Kurtis Townsend the school announced Wednesday. This self-imposed punishment by the university stems from a 2017 NCAA investigation into Kansas following an FBI probe that found multiple basketball programs paid top recruits to attend their schools. The suspension was a small response to one of the biggest scandals in college basketball history that included an indictment of 10 men, some of whom were active assistants at Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and USC. An executive at Adidas was also indicted.
1934 NY Yankees 1st baseman Lou Gehrig wins American League Triple Crown after hitting .363 with 49 HRs and 165 RBI; but looking at the stats strangely Philadelphia A’s catcher Mickey Cochrane (.320, 2 HRs, 76 RBI) is named AL MVP
1935 Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions
1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, replacing Pete Rose, banned for life for gambling on MLB games
