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Coming to you from San Diego, California. His name is Ben Baller, not Ben Humble & he's here to discuss: The LIV Tour Golf Experience in Chicago, playing Rich Harvest Farms, recording episodes that may never see the light of day, speaking & playing with Bubba Watson, Matthew Wolff & Pat Perez, all 48 players at the party, meeting Kevin Na, getting treated like royalty, getting ready to play at The Pro-Am, playing with Brian Urlacher, how BB played, kicking it with the players afterwards, playing golf with RDB, talking with his Mom for the first time in 6 months, 100 Hole Hike Charity with TaylorMade, the next Washed Lord Invitational, what he's watching, Colorado getting blasted by Oregon, Seahawks beating Carolina, Crypto & NFTs that failed, cyber hacking in Las Vegas, bad people who do good & more Please support our sponsors: www.chime.com/baller  drinkAG1.com/BALLER Donate to 100 Hole Hike: https://tr.ee/UYcIjQD_0u If you are interested in NBA, MLB, NHL Soccer, UFC & more Picks daily, weekly or monthly subscribe at www.CaptainPicks.com & Follow @CaptainPicksWins on Instagram, Threads & Twitter Produced by: DBPodcasts www.dbpodcasts.com Follow @dbpodcasts on Instagram & Twitter Music by @lakeyinspired Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music  Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw @yuyuthemaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Blair and Matt discuss Sahith Theegala's 1st PGA Tour win at the Fortinet Championship. He won by two strokes to S.H. Kim. Next, we dive into LIV Chicago hosted at Rich Harvest Farms in Chicago, IL. Cam Smith is the defending champion there and currently the favorite at +600. Finally, both Blair and Matt are in the green after week one with a total of three bets hit. Learn more about Cactus Golf Club

After a few weeks off the LIV Golf crew is descending upon Rich Harvest Farms near Chicago this weekend so Brock White and Magee got together for a BYABushwood episode to make sure you were as ready as can be for some LIV action!

On today's short show, Ryan offers some picks and recommendations for the LIV Golf Chicago event at Rich Harvest Farms.

On today's episode, we preview this week's LIV Golf Event, LIV Chicago. We break down the host course, Rich Harvest Farms, and discuss its layout, the skillsets required to succeed here, and some comp courses. We then look at the board and try to find the best golfers to bet to win this tournament and make good plays in DFS lineups on DraftKings --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mikesmoneypicks/support

1990 LPGA Championship winner, Beth Daniel looks back on her late wins on tour including her final victory at the 2003 BMO Canadian Women's Open where, at age 47, she became the oldest winner ever on the LPGA Tour. Listen in as Beth recounts her final tournament, the 2007 Women's British Open played at the Old Course at St. Andrews. She laments not winning the U.S. Open and takes us through her consecutive close calls with seconds in 1981 and 1982. She played in the first eight Solheim Cups and was honored with her selection as Captain of the U.S. side in 2009, a win at Rich Harvest Farms. Her crowning achievement was her induction into the LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame in 1990. Beth Daniel concludes her life story, “FORE the Good of the Game.”Support the showFollow our show and/or leave a review/rating on: Our Website https://www.forethegoodofthegame.com/reviews/new/ Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fore-the-good-of-the-game/id1562581853 Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/0XSuVGjwQg6bm78COkIhZO?si=b4c9d47ea8b24b2d Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNzM3Mjc1LnJzcw About "FORE the Good of the Game” is a golf podcast featuring interviews with World Golf Hall of Fame members, winners of major championships and other people of influence in and around the game of golf. Highlighting the positive aspects of the game, we aim to create and provide an engaging and timeless repository of content that listeners can enjoy now and forever. Co-hosted by PGA Tour star Bruce Devlin, our podcast focuses on telling their life stories, in their voices. Join Bruce and Mike Gonzalez “FORE the Good of the Game.” Thanks so much for listening!

Talking the LIV experience at Rich Harvest Farms, Presidents Cup, and Barry visits to talk relationships and Viet Nam...

LIV Golf makes its historic debut in Chicago, IL this weekend at Rich Harvest Farms and the boys were there all weekend to take in the action. We cover everything from the pre-round player interviews, the media only pro-am, all three days of play, post-round player interviews, concerts and much more! The LIV live experience that is something that NEEDS to be experienced in person. If you like golf you will enjoy the LIV experience. High energy all weekend long from the players, patrons and staff. It's a party at a golf course! Please give a listen, like, share, subscribe and leave a review! -- Instagram: @groupchat_golf_memes @officiallysonny @chubbawatson Tik Tok: @groupchatgolf Twitter: @groupchat_golf_memes @chubbawatson -- Sponsors: Tempy's Tees -- Tunes: Spanish Harlem by Mattijs Muller

*ABC 7 Sports Anchor & Reporter Dionne Miller previews a tough matchup for the Bears as they head up North to take on the Packers. *John Keilman of The Chicago Tribune details the drama out in Sugar Grove as the Saudi-backed LIV tour tees off at Rich Harvest Farms. *WLS City Hall reporter emeritus Bill Cameron breaks down the state of the mayoral race and previews this weekend's episode of 'Take 1' *In the wake of the R. Kelly verdict, John asks how people reconcile with listening to his music in the future. *Plus, government affairs lobbyist Craig Holman describes how the effort to eliminate 'dark money' from federal elections may have traction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*ABC 7 Sports Anchor & Reporter Dionne Miller previews a tough matchup for the Bears as they head up North to take on the Packers. *John Keilman of The Chicago Tribune details the drama out in Sugar Grove as the Saudi-backed LIV tour tees off at Rich Harvest Farms. *WLS City Hall reporter emeritus Bill Cameron breaks down the state of the mayoral race and previews this weekend's episode of 'Take 1' *In the wake of the R. Kelly verdict, John asks how people reconcile with listening to his music in the future. *Plus, government affairs lobbyist Craig Holman describes how the effort to eliminate 'dark money' from federal elections may have traction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Friday episode begins with Italian Open leader Matt Fitzpatrick, and where he now sits among recent one-time majors winners as most likely to bag a second. That leads to an exercise breaking down first page leaderboard favorites at majors right now, going through the current upper crust of the game and pondering the future of Brooks and DJ. Those two will tee it up at Rich Harvest Farms, an underwhelming venue that may not be precisely what the pros are used to this weekend. Precision Pro Flashback Friday gets at the origin story of the Fortinet/Safeway's move to Silverado, which was only supposed to be a stopgap venue as the event went back to an ultra private course next to a “math castle” with marble lions that spit water every hour. It's a different but amusing #FBF on some of the myths around “The Institute” golf course.

September is a busy month for LIV Golf, with another stop in one of America's great sporting cities - Chicago. After DJ clinched the playoff victory in Boston a few weeks ago, LIV goes to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, about an hour from downtown Chicago, for the fifth event in the series. Elk & Diane talk about the course, the field and the news & rumors surrounding LIV this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

G$ Garrett Simmons, dishes the goods on the LIV GOLF Chicago event at Rich Harvest Farms with course insight, outright betting picks, top 10 betting picks & LIV GOLF general thoughts and takes. Please support the podcast further by doing a few things to spread the TJ Gospel: Join Goalby's Nut Hut, our private DISCORD chat w/ > 400 golf loving, DFS & Betting fans. Join a limited, free Nut Hut on DISCORD Sign up for the “Heavy Petting” & “Chalk Bomb” emails for free that hit your inboxes every Tuesday & Wednesday. Get exclusive membership discounts at Fantasy National Golf Club by using this link. Leave an honest iTunes Review. DB & Pat love reading all of these. It improves the show.

September is a busy month for LIV Golf, with another stop in one of America's great sporting cities - Chicago. After DJ clinched the playoff victory in Boston a few weeks ago, LIV goes to Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, about an hour from downtown Chicago, for the fifth event in the series. Elk & Diane talk about the course, the field and the news & rumors surrounding LIV this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 3 Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 2 Astros 6, Tigers 3 – Astros’ Brown hurls 6 strong innings to beat hometown Tigers Rookie Hunter Brown pitched six strong innings in his hometown and the Houston Astros beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Tuesday. Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times for the Astros, who are 6-0 against the Tigers this season. Brown allowed two runs. Brown made his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in suburban Detroit and attended Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Tigers starter Drew Hutchison allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings. White Sox 4, Rockies 2 – Jiménez, Abreu homer as surging White Sox beat Rockies 4-2 Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed the Chicago White Sox to another victory, topping the Colorado Rockies 4-2. Michael Kopech pitched five effective innings as Chicago remained three games back of AL Central-leading Cleveland, which rallied for a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save. The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo moved from bench coach to acting manager after Tony La Russa stepped away to deal with a heart issue. Cubs 4, Mets 1 – Mets come up empty for deGrom and lose to Cubs again, 4-1 Jacob deGrom was outpitched by journeyman Adrian Sampson, and the frustrated New York Mets mustered little offense again in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom, and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs, who won the series opener 5-2 on Monday. One night later, the scuffling Mets squandered another potential chance to increase their slim NL East lead over Atlanta, which played later in San Francisco. New York is 5-6 in a 16-game stretch against Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami and Chicago — all four of those teams are more than 20 games under .500 this season. Pete Alonso homered late for the Mets. Today Houston (Javier 8-9) at Detroit (Wentz 1-1), 1:10 p.m.               WSJM/WCSY 12:50 Colorado (Freeland 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 14-6), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson 7-4), 7:10 p.m. MLB – Still no timetable for La Russa’s return to White Sox dugout The White Sox say manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout. The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies. There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland. NFL – Preseason rest led to Week 1 rust for several top QBs Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form. Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. NFL – Amazon Prime ready to kick off ‘Thursday Night Football’ Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service. Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was originally supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later it was announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Finals (best of 5) Last Night Las Vegas Aces 85, Connecticut Sun 71                                      (LV leads 2-0) Aces 85, Sun 71 – Aces beat Sun 85-71, take 2-0 series lead in WNBA Finals A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The Aces are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in Connecticut. Las Vegas was swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Antonio. The Aces were also swept in 2020. Chelsea Gray added 21 for the Aces while Kelsey Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points. Courtney Williams scored 18 points to lead Connecticut. WNBA – Richardson visits Moscow as Griner, Whelan remain jailed Bill Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Richardson is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations. American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained. NBA/WNBA – Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings come nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise. The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals and more than 80,000 documents and other materials. Sarver apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though he disagreed with some of the report’s findings. NCAAFB – Big Ten – Joseph wants Nebraska head coaching job beyond this season Mickey Joseph says he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just on an interim basis for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since taking over for the fired Scott Frost. Joseph says when he accepted the interim position, he did it thinking it would be an opportunity to work toward becoming the permanent head coach. Joseph’s audition starts Saturday with a home game against former conference rival and sixth-ranked Oklahoma. NHL – Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery. Team physician Michael Terry says McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery. Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team says he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks. NHL – Quebec politicos: New Habs captain Suzuki must learn French Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say new Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. The Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old Ontario native as the team’s captain earlier this week. He has played for Montreal the past three seasons. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters it would be a good thing if Suzuki learned French. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon described Suzuki as a “very good choice” for captain but added that it is important for the Habs captain to learn French. Golf – PGA/LIV – New PGA Tour season starts in California, LIV to Chicago After two weeks of an offseason, the PGA Tour is ready for a new season. It starts with the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California. This will be the 10th and final year of a wraparound season. Max Homa is the defending champion. He won twice last season and will be making his Presidents Cup debut next week. Hideki Matsuyama also is playing. LIV Golf resumes outside Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms. The LPGA Tour is in Oregon while Rory McIlroy makes his debut in the Italian Open at Marco Simone. That’s the site of next year’s Ryder Cup. MILB – 2022 Midwest League Playoffs – Best of 3 Last Night Great Lakes Loons 7, Lake County Captains 2                     (GL leads 1-0) South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 1                      (SB leads 1-0) MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Volleyball Southwestern Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 0 Lake Michigan College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 Today Women’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 4:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Mattawan 2 – TIE Lakeshore 5, Battle Creek Central 1 Gull Lake 5, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0- Portage Northern 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Portage Central 2, Kalamazoo Central 2 – TIE Howardsville Chr. 2, Battle Creek Academy 0 Volleyball Watervliet 3, South Haven 0 Dowagiac 3, Paw Paw 2 Bridgman 3, Fennville 0 Lawton 3, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Bangor 3, White Pigeon 2 Girls Swimming and Diving St. Joseph 147, Mattawan 55 Girls Golf SMAC West at Lake Michigan Hills Portage Northern              176 Mattawan                         184 St. Joseph                         185 Lakeshore                        196 Portage Central                200 Today Boys Soccer Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at South Haven, 6:30 p.m. Buchanan at Brandywine, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Niles at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Hartford at Comstock, 6:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:00 p.m. Allegan at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Eau Claire at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m. River Valley at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Boys Tennis St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 3 Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 2 Astros 6, Tigers 3 – Astros’ Brown hurls 6 strong innings to beat hometown Tigers Rookie Hunter Brown pitched six strong innings in his hometown and the Houston Astros beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Tuesday. Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times for the Astros, who are 6-0 against the Tigers this season. Brown allowed two runs. Brown made his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in suburban Detroit and attended Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Tigers starter Drew Hutchison allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings. White Sox 4, Rockies 2 – Jiménez, Abreu homer as surging White Sox beat Rockies 4-2 Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed the Chicago White Sox to another victory, topping the Colorado Rockies 4-2. Michael Kopech pitched five effective innings as Chicago remained three games back of AL Central-leading Cleveland, which rallied for a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save. The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo moved from bench coach to acting manager after Tony La Russa stepped away to deal with a heart issue. Cubs 4, Mets 1 – Mets come up empty for deGrom and lose to Cubs again, 4-1 Jacob deGrom was outpitched by journeyman Adrian Sampson, and the frustrated New York Mets mustered little offense again in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom, and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs, who won the series opener 5-2 on Monday. One night later, the scuffling Mets squandered another potential chance to increase their slim NL East lead over Atlanta, which played later in San Francisco. New York is 5-6 in a 16-game stretch against Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami and Chicago — all four of those teams are more than 20 games under .500 this season. Pete Alonso homered late for the Mets. Today Houston (Javier 8-9) at Detroit (Wentz 1-1), 1:10 p.m.               WSJM/WCSY 12:50 Colorado (Freeland 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 14-6), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson 7-4), 7:10 p.m. MLB – Still no timetable for La Russa’s return to White Sox dugout The White Sox say manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout. The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies. There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland. NFL – Preseason rest led to Week 1 rust for several top QBs Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form. Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. NFL – Amazon Prime ready to kick off ‘Thursday Night Football’ Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service. Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was originally supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later it was announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Finals (best of 5) Last Night Las Vegas Aces 85, Connecticut Sun 71                                      (LV leads 2-0) Aces 85, Sun 71 – Aces beat Sun 85-71, take 2-0 series lead in WNBA Finals A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The Aces are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in Connecticut. Las Vegas was swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Antonio. The Aces were also swept in 2020. Chelsea Gray added 21 for the Aces while Kelsey Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points. Courtney Williams scored 18 points to lead Connecticut. WNBA – Richardson visits Moscow as Griner, Whelan remain jailed Bill Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Richardson is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations. American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained. NBA/WNBA – Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings come nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise. The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals and more than 80,000 documents and other materials. Sarver apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though he disagreed with some of the report’s findings. NCAAFB – Big Ten – Joseph wants Nebraska head coaching job beyond this season Mickey Joseph says he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just on an interim basis for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since taking over for the fired Scott Frost. Joseph says when he accepted the interim position, he did it thinking it would be an opportunity to work toward becoming the permanent head coach. Joseph’s audition starts Saturday with a home game against former conference rival and sixth-ranked Oklahoma. NHL – Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery. Team physician Michael Terry says McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery. Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team says he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks. NHL – Quebec politicos: New Habs captain Suzuki must learn French Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say new Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. The Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old Ontario native as the team’s captain earlier this week. He has played for Montreal the past three seasons. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters it would be a good thing if Suzuki learned French. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon described Suzuki as a “very good choice” for captain but added that it is important for the Habs captain to learn French. Golf – PGA/LIV – New PGA Tour season starts in California, LIV to Chicago After two weeks of an offseason, the PGA Tour is ready for a new season. It starts with the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California. This will be the 10th and final year of a wraparound season. Max Homa is the defending champion. He won twice last season and will be making his Presidents Cup debut next week. Hideki Matsuyama also is playing. LIV Golf resumes outside Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms. The LPGA Tour is in Oregon while Rory McIlroy makes his debut in the Italian Open at Marco Simone. That’s the site of next year’s Ryder Cup. MILB – 2022 Midwest League Playoffs – Best of 3 Last Night Great Lakes Loons 7, Lake County Captains 2                     (GL leads 1-0) South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 1                      (SB leads 1-0) MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Volleyball Southwestern Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 0 Lake Michigan College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 Today Women’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 4:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Mattawan 2 – TIE Lakeshore 5, Battle Creek Central 1 Gull Lake 5, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0- Portage Northern 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Portage Central 2, Kalamazoo Central 2 – TIE Howardsville Chr. 2, Battle Creek Academy 0 Volleyball Watervliet 3, South Haven 0 Dowagiac 3, Paw Paw 2 Bridgman 3, Fennville 0 Lawton 3, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Bangor 3, White Pigeon 2 Girls Swimming and Diving St. Joseph 147, Mattawan 55 Girls Golf SMAC West at Lake Michigan Hills Portage Northern              176 Mattawan                         184 St. Joseph                         185 Lakeshore                        196 Portage Central                200 Today Boys Soccer Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at South Haven, 6:30 p.m. Buchanan at Brandywine, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Niles at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Hartford at Comstock, 6:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:00 p.m. Allegan at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Eau Claire at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m. River Valley at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Boys Tennis St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 3 Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 2 Astros 6, Tigers 3 – Astros’ Brown hurls 6 strong innings to beat hometown Tigers Rookie Hunter Brown pitched six strong innings in his hometown and the Houston Astros beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Tuesday. Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times for the Astros, who are 6-0 against the Tigers this season. Brown allowed two runs. Brown made his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in suburban Detroit and attended Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Tigers starter Drew Hutchison allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings. White Sox 4, Rockies 2 – Jiménez, Abreu homer as surging White Sox beat Rockies 4-2 Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed the Chicago White Sox to another victory, topping the Colorado Rockies 4-2. Michael Kopech pitched five effective innings as Chicago remained three games back of AL Central-leading Cleveland, which rallied for a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save. The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo moved from bench coach to acting manager after Tony La Russa stepped away to deal with a heart issue. Cubs 4, Mets 1 – Mets come up empty for deGrom and lose to Cubs again, 4-1 Jacob deGrom was outpitched by journeyman Adrian Sampson, and the frustrated New York Mets mustered little offense again in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom, and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs, who won the series opener 5-2 on Monday. One night later, the scuffling Mets squandered another potential chance to increase their slim NL East lead over Atlanta, which played later in San Francisco. New York is 5-6 in a 16-game stretch against Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami and Chicago — all four of those teams are more than 20 games under .500 this season. Pete Alonso homered late for the Mets. Today Houston (Javier 8-9) at Detroit (Wentz 1-1), 1:10 p.m.               WSJM/WCSY 12:50 Colorado (Freeland 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 14-6), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson 7-4), 7:10 p.m. MLB – Still no timetable for La Russa’s return to White Sox dugout The White Sox say manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout. The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies. There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland. NFL – Preseason rest led to Week 1 rust for several top QBs Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form. Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. NFL – Amazon Prime ready to kick off ‘Thursday Night Football’ Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service. Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was originally supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later it was announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Finals (best of 5) Last Night Las Vegas Aces 85, Connecticut Sun 71                                      (LV leads 2-0) Aces 85, Sun 71 – Aces beat Sun 85-71, take 2-0 series lead in WNBA Finals A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The Aces are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in Connecticut. Las Vegas was swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Antonio. The Aces were also swept in 2020. Chelsea Gray added 21 for the Aces while Kelsey Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points. Courtney Williams scored 18 points to lead Connecticut. WNBA – Richardson visits Moscow as Griner, Whelan remain jailed Bill Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Richardson is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations. American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained. NBA/WNBA – Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings come nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise. The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals and more than 80,000 documents and other materials. Sarver apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though he disagreed with some of the report’s findings. NCAAFB – Big Ten – Joseph wants Nebraska head coaching job beyond this season Mickey Joseph says he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just on an interim basis for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since taking over for the fired Scott Frost. Joseph says when he accepted the interim position, he did it thinking it would be an opportunity to work toward becoming the permanent head coach. Joseph’s audition starts Saturday with a home game against former conference rival and sixth-ranked Oklahoma. NHL – Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery. Team physician Michael Terry says McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery. Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team says he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks. NHL – Quebec politicos: New Habs captain Suzuki must learn French Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say new Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. The Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old Ontario native as the team’s captain earlier this week. He has played for Montreal the past three seasons. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters it would be a good thing if Suzuki learned French. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon described Suzuki as a “very good choice” for captain but added that it is important for the Habs captain to learn French. Golf – PGA/LIV – New PGA Tour season starts in California, LIV to Chicago After two weeks of an offseason, the PGA Tour is ready for a new season. It starts with the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California. This will be the 10th and final year of a wraparound season. Max Homa is the defending champion. He won twice last season and will be making his Presidents Cup debut next week. Hideki Matsuyama also is playing. LIV Golf resumes outside Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms. The LPGA Tour is in Oregon while Rory McIlroy makes his debut in the Italian Open at Marco Simone. That’s the site of next year’s Ryder Cup. MILB – 2022 Midwest League Playoffs – Best of 3 Last Night Great Lakes Loons 7, Lake County Captains 2                     (GL leads 1-0) South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 1                      (SB leads 1-0) MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Volleyball Southwestern Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 0 Lake Michigan College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 Today Women’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 4:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Mattawan 2 – TIE Lakeshore 5, Battle Creek Central 1 Gull Lake 5, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0- Portage Northern 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Portage Central 2, Kalamazoo Central 2 – TIE Howardsville Chr. 2, Battle Creek Academy 0 Volleyball Watervliet 3, South Haven 0 Dowagiac 3, Paw Paw 2 Bridgman 3, Fennville 0 Lawton 3, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Bangor 3, White Pigeon 2 Girls Swimming and Diving St. Joseph 147, Mattawan 55 Girls Golf SMAC West at Lake Michigan Hills Portage Northern              176 Mattawan                         184 St. Joseph                         185 Lakeshore                        196 Portage Central                200 Today Boys Soccer Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at South Haven, 6:30 p.m. Buchanan at Brandywine, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Niles at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Hartford at Comstock, 6:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:00 p.m. Allegan at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Eau Claire at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m. River Valley at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Boys Tennis St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 3 Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 2 Astros 6, Tigers 3 – Astros’ Brown hurls 6 strong innings to beat hometown Tigers Rookie Hunter Brown pitched six strong innings in his hometown and the Houston Astros beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Tuesday. Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times for the Astros, who are 6-0 against the Tigers this season. Brown allowed two runs. Brown made his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in suburban Detroit and attended Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Tigers starter Drew Hutchison allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings. White Sox 4, Rockies 2 – Jiménez, Abreu homer as surging White Sox beat Rockies 4-2 Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed the Chicago White Sox to another victory, topping the Colorado Rockies 4-2. Michael Kopech pitched five effective innings as Chicago remained three games back of AL Central-leading Cleveland, which rallied for a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save. The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo moved from bench coach to acting manager after Tony La Russa stepped away to deal with a heart issue. Cubs 4, Mets 1 – Mets come up empty for deGrom and lose to Cubs again, 4-1 Jacob deGrom was outpitched by journeyman Adrian Sampson, and the frustrated New York Mets mustered little offense again in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom, and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs, who won the series opener 5-2 on Monday. One night later, the scuffling Mets squandered another potential chance to increase their slim NL East lead over Atlanta, which played later in San Francisco. New York is 5-6 in a 16-game stretch against Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami and Chicago — all four of those teams are more than 20 games under .500 this season. Pete Alonso homered late for the Mets. Today Houston (Javier 8-9) at Detroit (Wentz 1-1), 1:10 p.m.               WSJM/WCSY 12:50 Colorado (Freeland 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 14-6), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson 7-4), 7:10 p.m. MLB – Still no timetable for La Russa’s return to White Sox dugout The White Sox say manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout. The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies. There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland. NFL – Preseason rest led to Week 1 rust for several top QBs Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form. Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. NFL – Amazon Prime ready to kick off ‘Thursday Night Football’ Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service. Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was originally supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later it was announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Finals (best of 5) Last Night Las Vegas Aces 85, Connecticut Sun 71                                      (LV leads 2-0) Aces 85, Sun 71 – Aces beat Sun 85-71, take 2-0 series lead in WNBA Finals A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The Aces are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in Connecticut. Las Vegas was swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Antonio. The Aces were also swept in 2020. Chelsea Gray added 21 for the Aces while Kelsey Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points. Courtney Williams scored 18 points to lead Connecticut. WNBA – Richardson visits Moscow as Griner, Whelan remain jailed Bill Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Richardson is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations. American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained. NBA/WNBA – Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings come nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise. The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals and more than 80,000 documents and other materials. Sarver apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though he disagreed with some of the report’s findings. NCAAFB – Big Ten – Joseph wants Nebraska head coaching job beyond this season Mickey Joseph says he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just on an interim basis for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since taking over for the fired Scott Frost. Joseph says when he accepted the interim position, he did it thinking it would be an opportunity to work toward becoming the permanent head coach. Joseph’s audition starts Saturday with a home game against former conference rival and sixth-ranked Oklahoma. NHL – Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery. Team physician Michael Terry says McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery. Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team says he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks. NHL – Quebec politicos: New Habs captain Suzuki must learn French Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say new Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. The Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old Ontario native as the team’s captain earlier this week. He has played for Montreal the past three seasons. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters it would be a good thing if Suzuki learned French. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon described Suzuki as a “very good choice” for captain but added that it is important for the Habs captain to learn French. Golf – PGA/LIV – New PGA Tour season starts in California, LIV to Chicago After two weeks of an offseason, the PGA Tour is ready for a new season. It starts with the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California. This will be the 10th and final year of a wraparound season. Max Homa is the defending champion. He won twice last season and will be making his Presidents Cup debut next week. Hideki Matsuyama also is playing. LIV Golf resumes outside Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms. The LPGA Tour is in Oregon while Rory McIlroy makes his debut in the Italian Open at Marco Simone. That’s the site of next year’s Ryder Cup. MILB – 2022 Midwest League Playoffs – Best of 3 Last Night Great Lakes Loons 7, Lake County Captains 2                     (GL leads 1-0) South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 1                      (SB leads 1-0) MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Volleyball Southwestern Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 0 Lake Michigan College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 Today Women’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 4:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Mattawan 2 – TIE Lakeshore 5, Battle Creek Central 1 Gull Lake 5, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0- Portage Northern 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Portage Central 2, Kalamazoo Central 2 – TIE Howardsville Chr. 2, Battle Creek Academy 0 Volleyball Watervliet 3, South Haven 0 Dowagiac 3, Paw Paw 2 Bridgman 3, Fennville 0 Lawton 3, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Bangor 3, White Pigeon 2 Girls Swimming and Diving St. Joseph 147, Mattawan 55 Girls Golf SMAC West at Lake Michigan Hills Portage Northern              176 Mattawan                         184 St. Joseph                         185 Lakeshore                        196 Portage Central                200 Today Boys Soccer Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at South Haven, 6:30 p.m. Buchanan at Brandywine, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Niles at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Hartford at Comstock, 6:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:00 p.m. Allegan at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Eau Claire at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m. River Valley at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Boys Tennis St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Last Night Houston Astros 6, Detroit Tigers 3 Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 2 Astros 6, Tigers 3 – Astros’ Brown hurls 6 strong innings to beat hometown Tigers Rookie Hunter Brown pitched six strong innings in his hometown and the Houston Astros beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Tuesday. Yordan Alvarez homered and scored three times for the Astros, who are 6-0 against the Tigers this season. Brown allowed two runs. Brown made his second career start in front of a loud group of friends and family. He grew up in suburban Detroit and attended Wayne State, about a mile from Comerica Park. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. Tigers starter Drew Hutchison allowed four runs in 5 1/3 innings. White Sox 4, Rockies 2 – Jiménez, Abreu homer as surging White Sox beat Rockies 4-2 Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run homer and Miguel Cairo directed the Chicago White Sox to another victory, topping the Colorado Rockies 4-2. Michael Kopech pitched five effective innings as Chicago remained three games back of AL Central-leading Cleveland, which rallied for a 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Angels. José Abreu also went deep, and Liam Hendriks handled the ninth for his 33rd save. The White Sox improved to 10-4 since Cairo moved from bench coach to acting manager after Tony La Russa stepped away to deal with a heart issue. Cubs 4, Mets 1 – Mets come up empty for deGrom and lose to Cubs again, 4-1 Jacob deGrom was outpitched by journeyman Adrian Sampson, and the frustrated New York Mets mustered little offense again in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Ian Happ homered deep into the second deck on a 99 mph heater from deGrom, and No. 9 batter David Bote added his second home run of the season for the Cubs, who won the series opener 5-2 on Monday. One night later, the scuffling Mets squandered another potential chance to increase their slim NL East lead over Atlanta, which played later in San Francisco. New York is 5-6 in a 16-game stretch against Washington, Pittsburgh, Miami and Chicago — all four of those teams are more than 20 games under .500 this season. Pete Alonso homered late for the Mets. Today Houston (Javier 8-9) at Detroit (Wentz 1-1), 1:10 p.m.               WSJM/WCSY 12:50 Colorado (Freeland 8-9) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 14-6), 2:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Smyly 6-8) at N.Y. Mets (Peterson 7-4), 7:10 p.m. MLB – Still no timetable for La Russa’s return to White Sox dugout The White Sox say manager Tony La Russa will watch the team’s home series against Colorado from a suite while he awaits clearance to return to the dugout. The 77-year-old La Russa is on the mend after leaving the White Sox on Aug. 30 to deal with a heart issue. La Russa rejoined the team in Oakland on Sunday and then flew home with the club for the two-game set against the Rockies. There is no timetable for the Hall of Famer when it comes to returning to the stress of in-game managing. Chicago begins a four-game trip on Thursday in Cleveland. NFL – Preseason rest led to Week 1 rust for several top QBs Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks. More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form. Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. NFL – Amazon Prime ready to kick off ‘Thursday Night Football’ Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs on Prime Video kicks off an 11-year agreement between Amazon and the NFL and marks the first time the league has sold a package of games to a streaming service. Amazon won the rights to the prime-time package last March. It was originally supposed to begin in 2023, along with the rest of the league’s broadcasting contracts, but two months later it was announced that Amazon would take over the Thursday night package from Fox a year earlier. WNBA – WNBA Playoffs – WNBA Finals (best of 5) Last Night Las Vegas Aces 85, Connecticut Sun 71                                      (LV leads 2-0) Aces 85, Sun 71 – Aces beat Sun 85-71, take 2-0 series lead in WNBA Finals A’ja Wilson had 26 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Las Vegas Aces to an 85-71 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The Aces are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship with Game 3 on Thursday in Connecticut. Las Vegas was swept in the 2008 Finals when the team was still in San Antonio. The Aces were also swept in 2020. Chelsea Gray added 21 for the Aces while Kelsey Plum rebounded from an awful Game 1 to score 20 points. Courtney Williams scored 18 points to lead Connecticut. WNBA – Richardson visits Moscow as Griner, Whelan remain jailed Bill Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That’s according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night. Richardson is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations. American officials have continued to press Russia to release Griner, who was sentenced last month to nine years in prison in a drug possession case, and Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges. The U.S. government regards both as wrongfully detained. NBA/WNBA – Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe The NBA suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year and fined him $10 million after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings come nearly a year after the NBA asked a law firm to investigate allegations that Sarver had a history of racist, misogynistic and hostile incidents over his nearly two-decade tenure overseeing the franchise. The league said the results of the investigation were based on interviews with 320 individuals and more than 80,000 documents and other materials. Sarver apologized for “words and actions that offended our employees,” though he disagreed with some of the report’s findings. NCAAFB – Big Ten – Joseph wants Nebraska head coaching job beyond this season Mickey Joseph says he wants to be Nebraska’s next head football coach and not just on an interim basis for the next nine games. Joseph met with the media for the first time since taking over for the fired Scott Frost. Joseph says when he accepted the interim position, he did it thinking it would be an opportunity to work toward becoming the permanent head coach. Joseph’s audition starts Saturday with a home game against former conference rival and sixth-ranked Oklahoma. NHL – Blackhawks D Jake McCabe sidelined by spine surgery Blackhawks defenseman Jake McCabe will miss the start of the season after he had cervical spine surgery. Team physician Michael Terry says McCabe is expected to return in 10 to 12 weeks. There was no word on when exactly McCabe had the surgery. Forward prospect Jalen Luypen also will miss the start of the season because of a left rotator cuff injury. The team says he is expected to return in 14 to 18 weeks. NHL – Quebec politicos: New Habs captain Suzuki must learn French Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say new Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. The Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old Ontario native as the team’s captain earlier this week. He has played for Montreal the past three seasons. Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade told reporters it would be a good thing if Suzuki learned French. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon described Suzuki as a “very good choice” for captain but added that it is important for the Habs captain to learn French. Golf – PGA/LIV – New PGA Tour season starts in California, LIV to Chicago After two weeks of an offseason, the PGA Tour is ready for a new season. It starts with the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California. This will be the 10th and final year of a wraparound season. Max Homa is the defending champion. He won twice last season and will be making his Presidents Cup debut next week. Hideki Matsuyama also is playing. LIV Golf resumes outside Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms. The LPGA Tour is in Oregon while Rory McIlroy makes his debut in the Italian Open at Marco Simone. That’s the site of next year’s Ryder Cup. MILB – 2022 Midwest League Playoffs – Best of 3 Last Night Great Lakes Loons 7, Lake County Captains 2                     (GL leads 1-0) South Bend Cubs 2, Cedar Rapids Kernels 1                      (SB leads 1-0) MCCAA – Junior College Athletics Yesterday Volleyball Southwestern Michigan College 3, Kellogg Community College 0 Lake Michigan College 3, Kalamazoo Valley Community College 0 Today Women’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 2:00 p.m. Men’s Soccer Schoolcraft College at Lake Michigan College, 4:00 p.m. MHSAA – High School Sports Last Night Boys Soccer St. Joseph 2, Mattawan 2 – TIE Lakeshore 5, Battle Creek Central 1 Gull Lake 5, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix 0- Portage Northern 2, Battle Creek Lakeview 0 Portage Central 2, Kalamazoo Central 2 – TIE Howardsville Chr. 2, Battle Creek Academy 0 Volleyball Watervliet 3, South Haven 0 Dowagiac 3, Paw Paw 2 Bridgman 3, Fennville 0 Lawton 3, Kalamazoo Hackett 0 Bangor 3, White Pigeon 2 Girls Swimming and Diving St. Joseph 147, Mattawan 55 Girls Golf SMAC West at Lake Michigan Hills Portage Northern              176 Mattawan                         184 St. Joseph                         185 Lakeshore                        196 Portage Central                200 Today Boys Soccer Michigan Lutheran at Covert, 5:00 p.m. New Buffalo at Our Lady of the Lake, 5:00 p.m. Watervliet at South Haven, 6:30 p.m. Buchanan at Brandywine, 5:30 p.m. Kalamazoo Christian at Bridgman, 5:00 p.m. Berrien Springs at Coloma, 6:00 p.m. Niles at Otsego, 6:30 p.m. Vicksburg at Paw Paw, 6:30 p.m. Sturgis at Plainwell, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale at Bangor, 6:30 p.m. Hartford at Comstock, 6:30 p.m. Delton-Kellogg at Holland Black River, 5:00 p.m. Constantine at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:00 p.m. Allegan at Lawton, 6:00 p.m. Schoolcraft at Parchment, 6:00 p.m. Volleyball St. Joseph at Portage Northern, 6:30 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 6:30 p.m. Eau Claire at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m. River Valley at Watervliet Grace Christian, 6:00 p.m. Battle Creek Lakeview at Portage Central, 6:30 p.m. Gull Lake at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix, 6:30 p.m. Battle Creek Central at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m. Boys Tennis St. Joseph at Gull Lake, 4:00 p.m. Mattawan at Lakeshore, 4:00 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Carl Lewis and golf punter Wade Pretorius preview the LIV Golf, Italian Open and Fortinet Championship and provide the best betting options for you.   Italian Open The 2022 DS Automobiles Italian Open field is set with the passing of the entry deadline. The DP World Tour field is set for this event, played at Marco Simone Golf Club in Rome, Italy. The DS Automobiles Italian Open field is headlined by the likes of Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Matt Fitzpatrick and more. This is set to be a 144-player field is played out over four days, with this event marking the 34th event of the 2021-2022 DP World Tour schedule.   LIV Golf   LIV Golf is heading to Rich Harvest Farms just outside of Chicago for the fifth event of its Invitational Series. LIV Golf heads to the Windy City to make the second-to-last stop of its Invitational Series at Rich Harvest Farms. The field of 48 is highlighted by Boston Invitational winner Dustin Johnson, the newly-acquired Cameron Smith (T4 in Boston), as well as young stars like Joaquin Niemann and Bryson DeChambeau. Fortinet Championship The 2022 Fortinet Championship, the first event of the new 2022-23 PGA Tour season, kicks off this week at Silverado Resort in California. Here's everything you need to know to watch the tournament. This season is the final wraparound PGA Tour season before major schedule changes take place in 2024, and it all gets started this week at the Fortinet Championship. Fresh off a year that saw him double his win total and finish T5 at the Tour Championship, defending champion Max Homa is ready to try to get this year off to a similar hot start in Napa.

The controversial LIV Golf Invitational Series is set to host a tournament Sept.16-18 at the Rich Harvest Farms golf course and country club near Aurora.

My guest on this episode is Braden Thornberry.  We spoke about Braden's legendary collegiate career at Ole Miss that culminated in him winning the National Championship at Rich Harvest Farms.  He was also a member of the juggernaut 2017 Walker Cup Team that included names like Morikawa, Hagestad, McNealy, and Zalatoris.  Lots of great stories in this one! Braden Thornberry - InstagramSubscribe to The Back of the Range Subscribe in Apple Podcasts and SPOTIFY! Also Subscribe in YouTube,   Google Play , Overcast, Stitcher  Follow on Social Media! Email us:   ben@thebackoftherange.com Website: www.thebackoftherange.com  Voice Work by Mitch Phillips Photo - USGA

The Nebraska men's golf team hits the road for the second straight weekend, journeying to the Rich Harvest Farms Invitational in Sugar Grove, Ill., Oct. 2-4.

(Season 2: Episode 7) Grow the Grind is live from the Arnold Palmer Cup… GO Horns GO!!! The Texas Longhorns Men's Assistant Coach, a 3-time All-American, the Assistant Coach of the US team at this years Arnold Palmer Cup, and the 2020 Jan Strickland Outstanding Assistant Coach of the year… A true Longhorn Legend, Coach Jean-Paul Hebert. Hosts Jason & Alli Wiertel were fortunate to sit down with coach before the US took on the International team at Rich Harvest Farms on day 1 of the event. His depth and background is beyond understanding. Born in Houston, Coach JP was influenced by his Ryder Cup Captain Father, Jay Hebert who was also the 1960 PGA Champion and his Uncle Lionel who was the 1957 PGA Champion. Coach worked for Golf Channel and CBS during live PGA events, and has helped develop Longhorn stars such as Doug Ghim, Pierceson Coody, Scottie Sheffler, and more. This was Grow the Grind's final episode from the Arnold Palmer Cup, hope you enjoyed the series.

(Season 2: Episode 3) A pair of big time All-Americans, and Arnold Palmer Cup partners sat down with hosts Alli and Jason Wiertel in Episode 4 of Grow the Grind. The Duke Hoosier and southpaw Erica Shepherd & The Gig 'Em Aggie who is pure Texan Sam Bennett were literally lights out guests! Sam and Erica sat down for a quick POD after an Arnold Palmer Cup match and during a rain delay. Recorded in a media room at Rich Harvest Farms just before team USA took down the International team in the Ryder Cup style event. Episode 4 of Grow the Grind was one to remember, and Grow the Grind can't wait to catch up with Sam and Erica in a tournament down the road!

GolfWeek's, Kevin Casey joins the show May 31, 2017. This week on the Golf Insiders, Kevin Casey of GolfWeek reports LIVE from the NCAA Championship at Rich Harvest Farms where the Oklahoma Sooners take on the defending Oregon Ducks. "Every single hole has it's own identity. The course is in pristine condition with the Oklahoma University taking on defending champs Oregon University as the Sooners currently hold a 3-1-1 advantage with a heated finish winding down." - Kevin Casey  ____________________________________________________________________________________  WEEKLY PODCAST WITH TOP GOLF REPORTERS FROM GOLF CHANNEL, ESPN, GOLFWEEK AND MORE! Hosted by Holly Geoghegan and Will Perry