THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2026

“THE SCOREBOARD”

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INDIANA HS FOOTBALL: USA/NETWORK INDIANA POLLS

CLASS 6A

1. BROWNSBURG (17) 3-0 170 1

2. WESTFIELD 3-0 153 2

3. WARREN CENTRAL 3-0 132 3

4. CENTER GROVE 2-1 105 5

5. CROWN POINT 3-0 84 7

6. PENN 3-0 78 6

7. CARMEL 1-2 64 4

8. LAWRENCE NORTH 2-1 60 8

9. FW CARROLL 2-1 44 9

10. AVON 3-0 27 NR

CLASS 5A 

1. BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (10) 3-0 163 1

2. NEW PALESTINE (6) 2-1 154 2

3. PENDLETON HEIGHTS (1) 3-0 112 3 (TIE)

4. WARSAW 3-0 107 3 (TIE)

5. CATHEDRAL 1-2 106 5

6. FLOYD CENTRAL 3-0 92 6

7. CONCORD 2-1 67 7

8. CASTLE 2-1 53 9

9. PLAINFIELD 2-1 44 10

10. LAFAYETTE JEFF 1-2 16 NR

CLASS 4A 

1. BISHOP CHATARD (14) 3-0 166 2

2. FORT WAYNE DWENGER (3) 3-0 148 3

3. EAST CENTRAL 2-1 141 1

4. EAST NOBLE 3-0 107 5

5. SB ST. JOSEPH 3-0 92 6

6. RONCALLI 1-2 79 4

7. HOBART 3-0 70 8

8. YORKTOWN 2-1 45 7

9. EVANSVILLE REITZ 3-0 44 10

10. MISHAWAKA 2-1 26 9

CLASS 3A 

1. EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL (14) 3-0 164 1

2. ANDREAN (1) 2-1 142 2

3. GIBSON SOUTHERN 2-1 125 3

4. EVANSVILLE MATER DEI 3-0 106 4

5. ADAMS CENTRAL 2-1 84 5

6. INDIAN CREEK (2) 3-0 81 6

7. TWIN LAKES 3-0 67 7 (TIE)

8. LAWRENCEBURG 2-1 63 7 (TIE)

9. TRI-WEST 2-1 48 9

10. MACONAQUAH 3-0 26 10

CLASS 2A 

1. LAPEL (7) 3-0 156 1

2. BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL (7) 3-0 155 2

3. LUTHERAN (2) 3-0 130 3

4. EASTSIDE 3-0 114 4

5. SOUTH PUTNAM (1) 3-0 105 5

6. EASTERN (GREENTOWN) 3-0 75 6

7. NORTH POSEY 3-0 62 7 (TIE)

8. CASCADE 2-1 59 7 (TIE)

9. EASTERN HANCOCK 3-0 49 9

10. BREMEN 3-0 25 10

CLASS 1A 

1. RIVERTON PARKE (9) 3-0 169 1

2. PIONEER (5) 3-0 152 3

3. NORTH JUDSON (3) 3-0 148 2

4. NORTH DAVIESS 3-0 104 6

5. MILAN 2-1 100 7

6. SPRINGS VALLEY 2-1 62 8

7. CLINTON PRAIRIE 3-0 59 9

8. LAF. CENTRAL CATHOLIC 2-1 57 4

9. SOUTH ADAMS 1-2 28 5

10. MADISON-GRANT 3-0 25 NR

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL WEEK 4 SCHEDULE

ALEXANDRIA (2-1) AT MISSISSINEWA (2-1)

ANGOLA (2-1) AT GARRETT (0-3)

AVON (3-0) AT BROWNSBURG (3-0)

BATESVILLE (3-0) AT RUSHVILLE (0-3)

BEDFORD NORTH LAWRENCE (2-1) AT NEW ALBANY (1-2)

BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL, 54-0.

BEECH GROVE (3-0) AT TRITON CENTRAL (1-2)

BLACKFORD (1-2) AT EASTBROOK (1-2)

BLOOMINGTON NORTH (2-1) AT MOORESVILLE (2-1)

BOONE GROVE (1-2) AT GRIFFITH (3-0)

BOONVILLE (3-0) AT EVANSVILLE CENTRAL (1-2)

BREBEUF JESUIT (2-1) AT GUERIN CATHOLIC (2-1)

BROWN COUNTY (1-2) AT NORTH DECATUR (1-2)

BROWNSTOWN CENTRAL (3-0) AT SALEM (1-2)

BYRON CENTER (MICH.) AT HAMMOND MORTON (1-2)

CALUMET CHRISTIAN AT WHITING (1-2)

CAMBRIDGE CITY LINCOLN (0-3) AT CHRISTEL HOUSE (1-1)

CARROLL (FLORA) (2-1) AT DELPHI (1-2)

CARROLL (FORT WAYNE) (2-1) AT FORT WAYNE DWENGER (3-0)

CASCADE (2-1) AT NORTH MONTGOMERY (1-2)

CENTER GROVE (2-1) AT BEN DAVIS (2-1)

CHESTERTON (2-1) AT LAPORTE (1-2)

CLARKSVILLE (3-0) AT PROVIDENCE (0-3)

CLOVERDALE (2-1) AT NORTH CENTRAL (FARMERSBURG) (2-1)

CORYDON CENTRAL (1-2) AT SCOTTSBURG (2-1)

COVENANT CHRISTIAN (2-1) AT HERITAGE CHRISTIAN (0-3)

COVINGTON (1-2) AT FOUNTAIN CENTRAL (0-3)

CRAWFORD COUNTY (0-3) AT SOUTH DECATUR (1-2)

CRAWFORDSVILLE (2-1) AT NORTH PUTNAM (1-2)

CULVER (1-2) AT WINAMAC (2-1)

CULVER ACADEMY (1-2) AT MCCUTCHEON (1-2)

DECATUR CENTRAL (2-1) AT MARTINSVILLE (0-3)

DEKALB (3-0) AT EAST NOBLE (3-0)

DELTA (1-2) AT YORKTOWN (2-1)

EAST CHICAGO CENTRAL (0-3) AT BOWMAN ACADEMY (1-1)

EASTERN (GREENTOWN) (3-0) AT TAYLOR (0-3)

EASTERN (PEKIN) (0-3) AT EDINBURGH (1-2)

EASTERN HANCOCK (3-0) AT NEW CASTLE (1-2)

EASTSIDE (3-0) AT FREMONT (3-0)

ELKHART (2-1) AT SOUTH BEND RILEY (1-2)

EVANSVILLE HARRISON (0-3) AT CASTLE (2-1)

EVANSVILLE MEMORIAL (3-0) AT EVANSVILLE MATER DEI (3-0)

EVANSVILLE REITZ (3-0) AT EVANSVILLE NORTH (1-2)

FAIRFIELD (2-1) AT LAKELAND (1-2)

FISHERS (0-3) AT HAMILTON SOUTHEASTERN (1-2)

FLOYD CENTRAL (3-0) AT SEYMOUR (0-3)

FOREST PARK (3-0) AT TECUMSEH (2-1)

FORT WAYNE NORTH (1-2) AT FORT WAYNE CONCORDIA (1-2)

FORT WAYNE SNIDER (1-2) AT FORT WAYNE WAYNE (0-3)

FORT WAYNE SOUTH (1-2) AT FORT WAYNE LUERS (0-3)

FRANKLIN (2-1) AT WHITELAND (0-3)

FRANKLIN CENTRAL (1-2) AT ZIONSVILLE (2-1)

FRANKLIN COUNTY (3-0) AT EAST CENTRAL (2-1)

FRANKTON (0-3) AT OAK HILL (0-3)

FRONTIER (1-2) AT FAITH CHRISTIAN (1-2)

GIBSON SOUTHERN (2-1) AT HENDERSON COUNTY (KY.)

GOSHEN (1-2) AT CONCORD (2-1)

GREENSBURG (2-1) AT LAWRENCEBURG (2-1)

HAMILTON HEIGHTS (0-3) AT TIPTON (3-0)

HAMMOND NOLL (2-1) AT WHEELER (3-0)

HANOVER CENTRAL (3-0) AT LOWELL (1-2)

HARRISON (WEST LAFAYETTE) (1-2) AT LAFAYETTE JEFF (1-2)

HENRYVILLE (0-2) AT TRINITY LUTHERAN (2-1)

HERITAGE HILLS (2-1) AT SOUTHRIDGE (1-2)

HIGHLAND (1-2) AT CALUMET (2-1)

HOMESTEAD (2-1) AT FORT WAYNE NORTHROP (1-1)

HUNTINGTON NORTH (2-1) AT COLUMBIA CITY (2-1)

INDIAN CREEK (3-0) AT MONROVIA (1-2)

INDIANAPOLIS ATTUCKS (0-3) AT INDIANAPOLIS WASHINGTON (2-1)

INDIANAPOLIS CATHEDRAL (1-2) AT INDIANAPOLIS CHATARD (3-0)

INDIANAPOLIS LUTHERAN (3-0) AT INDIANAPOLIS SCECINA (0-3)

INDIANAPOLIS RITTER (1-2) AT ANDERSON (0-3)

INDIANAPOLIS RONCALLI (1-2) AT COLUMBUS NORTH (3-0)

INDIANAPOLIS SHORTRIDGE (2-1) AT PARK TUDOR (1-2)

INDIANAPOLIS TINDLEY (0-3) AT INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECH (0-3)

JASPER (1-2) AT EVANSVILLE BOSSE (0-3)

JAY COUNTY (2-1) AT ADAMS CENTRAL (2-1)

JENNINGS COUNTY (2-1) AT COLUMBUS EAST (1-2)

JIMTOWN (1-2) AT JOHN GLENN (1-2)

KANKAKEE VALLEY (0-3) AT HOBART (3-0)

KNIGHTSTOWN (2-1) AT UNION CITY (0-3)

KOKOMO (0-3) AT JEFFERSONVILLE (1-2)

LAKE CENTRAL (1-2) AT CROWN POINT (3-0)

LAKE STATION (1-2) AT WEST CENTRAL (2-1)

LAPEL (3-0) AT CENTERVILLE (1-2)

LAVILLE (1-2) AT BREMEN (3-0)

LAWRENCE CENTRAL (1-2) AT WARREN CENTRAL (3-0)

LEO (2-1) AT NEW HAVEN (0-3)

LEWIS CASS (1-2) AT MANCHESTER (1-2)

LOGANSPORT (3-0) AT LAFAYETTE CENTRAL CATHOLIC (2-1)

MACONAQUAH (3-0) AT WHITKO (0-3)

MADISON-GRANT (3-0) AT ELWOOD (1-2)

MARION (0-3) AT LEBANON (2-1)

MERRILLVILLE (2-1) AT PORTAGE (0-3)

MILAN (2-1) AT SWITZERLAND COUNTY (1-2)

MISHAWAKA (2-1) AT WARSAW (3-0)

MITCHELL (0-3) AT EASTERN GREENE (1-2)

MOUNT VERNON (POSEY) (0-3) AT SOUTH SPENCER (0-3)

MUNCIE CENTRAL (2-1) AT BLOOMINGTON SOUTH (3-0)

MUNSTER (1-2) AT ANDREAN (2-1)

NEW PALESTINE (2-1) AT MOUNT VERNON (FORTVILLE) (2-1)

NEW PRAIRIE (0-3) AT SOUTH BEND ADAMS (2-1)

NOBLESVILLE HOMESCHOOL AT PURDUE ENGLEWOOD (2-1)

NORTH CENTRAL (INDIANAPOLIS) (1-2) AT LAWRENCE NORTH (2-1)

NORTH DAVIESS (3-0) AT PIKE CENTRAL (0-3)

NORTH HARRISON (0-3) AT CHARLESTOWN (2-1)

NORTH MIAMI (1-2) AT NORTH JUDSON (3-0)

NORTH POSEY (3-0) AT TELL CITY (3-0)

NORTH WHITE (1-2) AT TRI-COUNTY (0-3)

NORTHEASTERN (1-2) AT WINCHESTER (1-2)

NORTHVIEW (3-0) AT WEST VIGO (0-3)

NORTHWOOD (1-2) AT PLYMOUTH (1-2)

NORWELL (2-1) AT BELLMONT (0-3)

OWEN VALLEY (2-1) AT EDGEWOOD (1-2)

PARKE HERITAGE (2-1) AT ATTICA (1-2)

PENDLETON HEIGHTS (3-0) AT GREENFIELD-CENTRAL (1-2)

PERRY CENTRAL (1-2) AT PAOLI (1-2)

PERU (2-1) AT NORTHWESTERN (2-1)

PHALEN ACADEMY AT FORT WAYNE BLACKHAWK (1-2)

PIKE (0-3) AT CARMEL (1-2)

PIONEER (3-0) AT CASTON (3-0)

PLAINFIELD (2-1) AT PERRY MERIDIAN (2-1)

PRAIRIE HEIGHTS (0-3) AT CHURUBUSCO (0-3)

RENSSELAER CENTRAL (3-0) AT NORTH KNOX (1-2)

RIVER FOREST (1-2) AT GARY WEST (2-0)

RIVERTON PARKE (3-0) AT SEEGER (2-1)

ROCHESTER (2-1) AT CLINTON PRAIRIE (3-0)

SHELBYVILLE (2-1) AT TRI-WEST (2-1)

SHENANDOAH (0-3) AT CONNERSVILLE (1-2)

SHERIDAN (1-2) AT CLINTON CENTRAL (2-1)

SILVER CREEK (1-2) AT MADISON (2-1)

SOUTH ADAMS (1-2) AT HERITAGE (3-0)

SOUTH BEND ST. JOSEPH (3-0) AT MISHAWAKA MARIAN (1-2)

SOUTH BEND WASHINGTON (0-3) AT PENN (3-0)

SOUTH DEARBORN (1-2) AT RICHMOND (1-2)

SOUTH VERMILLION (1-2) AT NORTH VERMILLION (1-2)

SOUTHERN WELLS (1-2) AT WES-DEL (3-0)

SOUTHMONT (2-1) AT FRANKFORT (0-3)

SOUTHPORT (1-2) AT TERRE HAUTE NORTH (0-3)

SOUTHWOOD (0-3) AT NORTHFIELD (1-2)

SPEEDWAY (3-0) AT GREENWOOD (1-2)

SULLIVAN (2-1) AT LINTON (0-3)

TERRE HAUTE SOUTH (2-1) AT DANVILLE (3-0)

TIPPECANOE VALLEY (2-1) AT KNOX (0-3)

TRI (2-1) AT MONROE CENTRAL (2-1)

TRI-CENTRAL (0-3) AT NORTH NEWTON (1-2)

TRITON (0-3) AT SOUTH CENTRAL (UNION MILLS) (0-3)

TWIN LAKES (3-0) AT BENTON CENTRAL (0-3)

UNION COUNTY (1-2) AT HAGERSTOWN (3-0)

VALPARAISO (2-1) AT MICHIGAN CITY (0-3)

VINCENNES LINCOLN (2-1) AT SOUTH PUTNAM (3-0)

WASHINGTON (0-3) AT PRINCETON (1-2)

WAWASEE (0-3) AT NORTHRIDGE (3-0)

WEST LAFAYETTE (0-3) AT WESTERN (0-3)

WEST NOBLE (2-1) AT CENTRAL NOBLE (1-2)

WEST WASHINGTON (2-1) AT SPRINGS VALLEY (2-1)

WESTERN BOONE (1-2) AT GREENCASTLE (1-2)

WESTFIELD (3-0) AT NOBLESVILLE (2-1)

WOODLAN (2-1) AT BLUFFTON (3-0)

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

TUESDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/volleyball/scores/?date=9/8/2026

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SOCCER

TUESDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/scores/?date=9/8/2026

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SOCCER 

TUESDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/soccer/girls/scores/?date=9/8/2026

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS CROSS COUNTRY

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/cross-country

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INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/girls/cross-country

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INDIANA BOYS TENNIS

https://www.ihsaa.org/sports/boys/tennis

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INDIANA GIRLS FLAG FOOTBALL

TUESDAY SCORES: https://www.maxpreps.com/in/flag-football/girls/scores/?date=9/8/2026

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

BREWERS 4, CUBS 3

YANKEES 5, ROCKIES 3

RAYS 7, BRAVES 1

GUARDIANS 9, ORIOLES 5

TWINS 3, TIGERS 2

BLUE JAYS 4, ATHLETICS 2

DODGERS 3, REDS 2

ASTROS 6, PHILLIES 5

PIRATES 9, WHITE SOX 3

DIAMONDBACKS 5, ROYALS 3 (11 INNINGS)

METS 7, MARLINS 5

PADRES 5, NATIONALS 4

ANGELS 6, RED SOX 1

RANGERS 10, MARINERS 5

GIANTS 2, CARDINALS 1

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD

OMAHA 6 INDIANAPOLIS 1

QUAD CITIES 8 SOUTH BEND 3

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WNBA SCOREBOARD

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER SCOREBOARD

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL AP TOP 25 POLL

1. OHIO STATE
2. GEORGIA
3. NOTRE DAME
4. TEXAS
5. INDIANA
6. OREGON
7. MIAMI FL
8. LSU
9. OLE MISS
10. TEXAS A&M
11. OKLAHOMA
12. ALABAMA
13. TEXAS TECH
14. USC
15. BYU
16. PENN STATE
17. SMU
18. TENNESSEE
19. WASHINGTON
20. UTAH
21. IOWA
22. HOUSTON
23. MISSOURI
24. LOUISVILLE
25. VIRGINIA

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES:

BOISE STATE 86, FLORIDA 83, MICHIGAN 69, ARIZONA 33, MEMPHIS 23, SOUTH CAROLINA 19, WESTERN MICHIGAN 12, PITTSBURGH 11, NAVY 10, UCLA 7, VIRGINIA TECH 6, ILLINOIS 6, JAMES MADISON 4, MINNESOTA 4, COLORADO 3, AUBURN 2, ARIZONA STATE 2, VANDERBILT 2

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD

COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK 2

THURSDAY, SEPT. 10

FLORIDA A&M AT MIAMI | 8 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

FRIDAY, SEPT. 11

VILLANOVA AT LOUISVILLE | 7 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

NORFOLK STATE AT VIRGINIA | 7 P.M. | ACCNX

RICHMOND AT NC STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPNU

RUTGERS AT BOSTON COLLEGE | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN2

MISSOURI AT KANSAS | 8 P.M. | FOX

SATURDAY, SEPT. 12

OREGON AT OKLAHOMA STATE | 12 P.M. | ESPN/DISNEY+

HOWARD AT INDIANA | 12 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

ARIZONA STATE AT TEXAS A&M | 12 P.M. | ABC

OKLAHOMA AT MICHIGAN | 12 P.M. | FOX

PENN STATE AT TEMPLE | 12 P.M. | ESPN2

WASHINGTON STATE AT KANSAS STATE | 12 P.M. | TNT

EAST TENNESSEE STATE AT NORTH CAROLINA | 12 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

OLD DOMINION AT VIRGINIA TECH | 12 P.M. | CW

WAKE FOREST AT PURDUE | 12 P.M. | FS1

SOUTH FLORIDA AT ARMY | 12 P.M. | CBSSN

APPALACHIAN STATE AT EAST CAROLINA | 12 P.M. | ESPNU

WOFFORD AT KENT STATE | 12 P.M. | ESPN+

DICKINSON (PA) AT DAVIDSON | 12 P.M. | ESPN+

MARIST AT LAFAYETTE | 12:30 P.M. | ESPN+

WESTERN KENTUCKY AT GEORGIA | 12:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

UT MARTIN AT WEST VIRGINIA | 1 P.M. | ESPN+

COLGATE AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN | 1 P.M. | ESPN+

HOLY CROSS AT MIAMI (OHIO) | 1 P.M. | ESPN+

BUCKNELL AT VMI | 1:30 P.M. | ESPN+

STONY BROOK AT BALL STATE | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

EASTERN WASHINGTON AT SOUTH DAKOTA | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

DUQUESNE AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

WILLIAM & MARY AT LEHIGH | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

DRAKE AT UNI | 2 P.M. | ESPN+

UTAH TECH AT MONTANA | 3 P.M. | ESPN+

RICE AT NOTRE DAME | 3:30 P.M. | NBC

ALABAMA AT KENTUCKY | 3:30 P.M. | ABC/DISNEY+

ARIZONA AT BYU | 3:30 P.M. | FOX

UTAH STATE AT WASHINGTON | 3:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

MISSISSIPPI STATE AT MINNESOTA | 3:30 P.M. | CBS

WEBER STATE AT COLORADO | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

UCF AT PITT | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN2

CAL AT SYRACUSE | 3:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

DUKE AT ILLINOIS | 3:30 P.M. | FS1

EASTERN MICHIGAN AT MICHIGAN STATE | 3:30 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

MARYLAND AT UCONN | 3:30 P.M. | CBSSN

UTSA AT TEXAS STATE | 3:30 P.M. | CW

UL MONROE AT UAB | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

ROBERT MORRIS AT AKRON | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

CENTRAL CONNECTICUT AT TOLEDO | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

SACRED HEART AT UMASS | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

WAGNER AT JAMES MADISON | 3:30 P.M. | ESPN+

UNLV AT NORTH TEXAS | 3:45 P.M. | ESPNU

UC DAVIS AT SMU | 4 P.M. | ACCNX

NORTHERN COLORADO AT WYOMING | 4 P.M. | MW+

MERCYHURST AT NEW MEXICO | 4 P.M. | MW+

ALABAMA STATE AT TROY | 4 P.M. | ESPN+

LAMAR AT IDAHO | 4 P.M. | ESPN+

DELAWARE AT VANDERBILT | 4:15 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

MOREHEAD STATE AT AUSTIN PEAY | 5 P.M. | ESPN+

UIW AT NORTHERN ARIZONA | 5 P.M. | ESPN+

CAMPBELL AT FLORIDA | 5:30 P.M. | SECN+

MEMPHIS AT BOISE STATE | 6 P.M. | USA NETWORK

BUFFALO AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

JACKSONVILLE STATE AT OHIO | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

GARDNER-WEBB AT LIBERTY | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

NORTH CAROLINA A&T AT NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

SAN DIEGO AT IDAHO STATE | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

CHATTANOOGA AT EASTERN KENTUCKY | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN AT THE CITADEL | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

FRANKLIN AT BUTLER | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

FURMAN AT MERCER | 6 P.M. | ESPN+

MONMOUTH AT WESTERN MICHIGAN | 6:30 P.M. | ESPN+

TENNESSEE AT GEORGIA TECH | 7 P.M. | ESPN

SOUTHERN AT HOUSTON | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

TOWSON AT SOUTH CAROLINA | 7 P.M. | SECN+

WESTERN CAROLINA AT CINCINNATI | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

BOWLING GREEN AT NEBRASKA | 7 P.M. | FS1

SOUTHERN UTAH AT COLORADO STATE | 7 P.M. | CBSSN

TULSA AT SAM HOUSTON | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

ILLINOIS STATE AT NORTHERN ILLINOIS | 7 P.M. | MW+

SOUTH ALABAMA AT TULANE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

WEST GEORGIA AT ARKANSAS STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

GEORGIA STATE AT KENNESAW STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

MIDDLE TENNESSEE AT MARSHALL | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

LINDENWOOD AT MISSOURI STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

INDIANA STATE AT EASTERN ILLINOIS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

VALPARAISO AT MURRAY STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

SE MISSOURI STATE AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AT CENTRAL ARKANSAS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

NORTH ALABAMA AT SE LOUISIANA | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

TARLETON STATE AT MCNEESE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

UT RIO GRAND VALLEY AT NICHOLLS | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

SAMFORD AT TENNESSEE TECH | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

NORTHWESTERN STATE AT EAST TEXAS A&M | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

ARKANSAS BAPTIST AT HOUSTON CHRISTIAN | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

NEW HAVEN AT SOUTH DAKOTA STATE | 7 P.M. | ESPN+

SAN DIEGO STATE AT UCLA | 7:15 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

WESTERN ILLINOIS AT WISCONSIN | 7:15 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

OHIO STATE AT TEXAS | 7:30 P.M. | ABC

LOUISIANA TECH AT LSU | 7:30 P.M. | SECN+

TEXAS TECH AT OREGON STATE | 7:30 P.M. | CBS

IOWA STATE AT IOWA | 7:30 P.M. | NBC

GEORGIA SOUTHERN AT CLEMSON | 7:30 P.M. | ACC NETWORK

NAVY AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC | 7:30 P.M. | ESPNU

FORDHAM AT COASTAL CAROLINA | 7:30 P.M. | ESPN+

CHARLOTTE AT OLE MISS | 7:45 P.M. | ESPN2

SOUTHERN MISS AT AUBURN | 7:45 P.M. | SEC NETWORK

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M AT BAYLOR | 8 P.M. | ESPN+

GRAMBLING AT TCU | 8 P.M. | ESPN+

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN | 8 P.M. | ESPN+

TEXAS SOUTHERN AT UTEP | 9 P.M. | MW+

CAL POLY AT SAN JOSE STATE | 9 P.M. | MW+

NORTH DAKOTA STATE AT AIR FORCE | 10 P.M. | FS1

NORTH DAKOTA AT PORTLAND STATE | 10 P.M. | ESPN+

ARKANSAS AT UTAH | 10:15 P.M. | ESPN

SACRAMENTO STATE AT FRESNO STATE | 10:30 P.M. | CBSSN

MONTANA STATE AT NEVADA | 10:30 P.M. | CW

LOUISIANA AT USC | 11 P.M. | BIG TEN NETWORK

NEW MEXICO STATE AT HAWAI’I | 11:59 P.M. | MW+

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NFL WEEK 1 SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2026

PATRIOTS @ SEAHAWKS 8:20 PM NBC / PEACOCK LUMEN FIELD, SEATTLE

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026

49ERS @ RAMS 8:35 PM NETFLIX MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026

BEARS @ PANTHERS 1:00 PM FOX BANK OF AMERICA STADIUM, CHARLOTTE

BUCCANEERS @ BENGALS 1:00 PM FOX PAYCOR STADIUM, CINCINNATI

SAINTS @ LIONS 1:00 PM FOX FORD FIELD, DETROIT

FALCONS @ STEELERS 1:00 PM FOX ACRISURE STADIUM, PITTSBURGH

BILLS @ TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS NRG STADIUM, HOUSTON

RAVENS @ COLTS 1:00 PM CBS LUCAS OIL STADIUM, INDIANAPOLIS

BROWNS @ JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS EVERBANK STADIUM, JACKSONVILLE

JETS @ TITANS 1:00 PM CBS NISSAN STADIUM, NASHVILLE

DOLPHINS @ RAIDERS 4:25 PM FOX ALLEGIANT STADIUM, LAS VEGAS

COMMANDERS @ EAGLES 4:25 PM FOX LINCOLN FINANCIAL FIELD, PHILADELPHIA

CARDINALS @ CHARGERS 4:25 PM CBS SOFI STADIUM, INGLEWOOD

PACKERS @ VIKINGS 4:25 PM CBS U.S. BANK STADIUM, MINNEAPOLIS

COWBOYS @ GIANTS 8:20 PM NBC / PEACOCK METLIFE STADIUM, EAST RUTHERFORD

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2026

BRONCOS @ CHIEFS 8:15 PM ESPN / ABC GEHA FIELD AT ARROWHEAD STADIUM, KANSAS CITY

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS SCHEDULE

WEEK DATE OPPONENT TV / TIME (ET)

WEEK 1 THU, AUG 13 @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LOCAL (7:30 PM)

WEEK 2 SAT, AUG 22 VS. ATLANTA FALCONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)

WEEK 3 SAT, AUG 29 VS. DETROIT LIONS LOCAL (1:00 PM)

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2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE

WEEK DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET) TV / STREAMING

1 SUN, SEPT 13 VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS 1:00 PM CBS

2 SUN, SEPT 20 @ KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 8:20 PM NBC

3 SUN, SEPT 27 VS. HOUSTON TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS

4 SUN, OCT 4 @ WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 9:30 AM NFL NET

5 SUN, OCT 11 @ PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00 PM CBS

6 SUN, OCT 18 VS. TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM FOX

7 SUN, OCT 25 @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS 1:00 PM CBS

8 SUN, NOV 1 @ JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS

9 SUN, NOV 8 VS. DALLAS COWBOYS 1:00 PM FOX

10 SUN, NOV 15 VS. MIAMI DOLPHINS 1:00 PM CBS

11 THU, NOV 19 @ HOUSTON TEXANS 8:15 PM PRIME VIDEO

12 SUN, NOV 29 VS. NEW YORK GIANTS 1:00 PM FOX

13 BYE WEEK

14 SUN, DEC 13 @ PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 1:00 PM FOX

15 SUN, DEC 20 @ TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM CBS

16 TBD – FLEX VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS TBD TBD

17 SUN, JAN 3 @ CLEVELAND BROWNS 1:00 PM FOX

18 TBD – FLEX GAME VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS TBD TBD

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TOP NATIONAL SPORTS HEADLINES

NFL NEWS

49ERS LOSE ALFRED COLLINS FOR SEASON DUE TO TORN PATELLAR TENDON

The ailing San Francisco 49ers defensive front took another blow when defensive tackle Alfred Collins tore a patellar tendon in practice in Melbourne, Australia, coach Kyle Shanahan announced Tuesday (U.S. time).

Defensive lineman Sam Okuayinonu sustained a foot injury just before the team’s trip to Australia, and he was due to undergo an operation that would keep him out for most or all of the season.

Collins was due to be a starter this year in his second NFL year, but he is lost for the season.

Shanahan said of the injury, “That was a big loss. We’ve lost two D-lineman pretty much for the year after cuts and before the first game, which has been a huge challenge. I’m hurting for Alfred. … It was real unfortunate for him.”

The 49ers figure to fill Collins’ roster spot with one of the two defensive tackles on their practice squad, Kevin Givens and Sebastian Valdez, ahead of the opener against the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday (U.S. time).

Shanahan told reporters, “Any D-lineman is a possibility unless you guys can name some guys we can fly here real quick.”

It’s not all bad  news for the 49ers’ defensive front, however, as San Francisco will get former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Nick Bosa back after he tore his right ACL in Week 3 last season.

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PATRIOTS RULE OUT RB TREVEYON HENDERSON (ANKLE) FOR SEASON OPENER

The New England Patriots ruled out running back TreVeyon Henderson for the NFL season opener Wednesday against the host Seattle Seahawks.

Henderson did not practice all week due to a lingering ankle injury he suffered Aug. 24, when he slipped on a run play during practice.

Henderson, 23, led the Patriots in his rookie season with 911 rushing yards and nine touchdowns on the ground. He had six attempts for 19 yards and added three catches for 26 yards in New England’s 29-13 loss to Seattle in Super Bowl LX, but now won’t be available for the rematch.

That will mean more work for Rhamondre Stevenson as the Patriots’ lead ball-carrier. Stevenson enters his sixth season in the league, all with the Patriots, after gaining 603 rushing yards and scoring nine touchdowns (seven rushing, two receiving) last year.

The Patriots had already ruled out offensive lineman Ben Brown (knee), who did not make the trip west. Defensive tackle Christian Barmore (knee) is cleared to play.

On the other side, the Seahawks ruled out safety Ty Okada (hamstring) and deemed fellow safety Nick Emmanwori (ankle) questionable. Wide receiver Tory Horton (hamstring) is also questionable. Offensive lineman Josh Jones (knee) carries no game designation.

Emmanwori was limited on the Seahawks’ practice report all three days this week. Tuesday’s was an estimation, as the defending champs only held a walkthrough.

Emmanwori, 22, had a standout first season in the NFL and was runner-up for AP Defensive Rookie of the Year. He had 81 tackles (nine for loss), 2.5 sacks, 11 pass breakups and one interception.

He played through multiple ankle sprains during the season, including a low sprain suffered days before the Super Bowl, and had an arthroscopic procedure during the offseason.

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BUCS SIGN QB BAKER MAYFIELD TO 3-YEAR EXTENSION WORTH REPORTED $165M

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced Tuesday that quarterback Baker Mayfield has agreed to a three-year contract extension through the 2029 season that makes him the highest-paid player in franchise history.

The Bucs did not disclose financial terms, but ESPN and NFL Network reported the three-year extension is for $165 million and he will average $55 million per year.

Mayfield, 31, was entering the final season of a three-year, $100 million contract he signed in March 2024. His $33.33 million annual salary ranked 16th among NFL quarterbacks before Tuesday’s agreement.

The timing of the team’s announcement was viewed as a surprise, as Mayfield told reporters on July 30 that he felt “disrespected” and “undervalued” by the team after failing to reach a contract extension by training camp, his self-imposed deadline to end negotiations.

ESPN reported at the time that Tampa Bay offered Mayfield a two-year deal averaging more than $50 million that didn’t whet the appetite of the quarterback.

Mayfield joined the team on a one-year, $4 million deal ahead of the 2023 season as the Bucs tried to fill the role of the retired Tom Brady.

“From the moment Baker arrived, he brought a belief and competitive edge that has had a tremendous impact on our football team,” Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht said in a  news release. “He has earned the respect of everyone in our building with the way he prepares, competes and holds himself accountable.

“His toughness and ability to deliver in big moments are a big part of what makes him special, but what really stands out is the leadership he brings every day. Baker is the heartbeat of this team, and we feel incredibly fortunate to have a quarterback and leader like him.

Mayfield earned back-to-back Pro Bowl nods in 2023 and 2024 while helping Tampa Bay capture consecutive division titles. The team limped to an 8-9 record last season — losing seven of its last nine games and missing the playoffs.

Mayfield threw for 3,693 yards, 26 touchdowns and 11 interceptions while playing all 17 games despite dealing with multiple injuries. Mayfield also rushed 55 times for a career-high 382 yards and averaged an NFL-best 6.9 yards per carry among quarterbacks with at least 50 attempts.

“Baker is the ultimate competitor, and the guys in our locker room feed off the energy, confidence and toughness he brings daily,” Bucs head coach Todd Bowles said in the news release. “He prepares the right way, holds himself accountable and is an unquestioned leader for our team. His belief in himself and this team never wavers, and he sets the tone for us every day. That is what you want from the person leading your football team, and we are excited to continue building with him as our quarterback.

Tampa Bay nominated Mayfield for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year award in 2025. He was voted a team captain for the fourth straight season this year.

In eight NFL seasons, Mayfield has completed 63.5% of his passes for 28,525 yards, 197 touchdowns and 101 interceptions in 123 regular-season games (120 starts) with the Cleveland Browns (2018-21), Carolina Panthers (2022), Los Angeles Rams (2022) and Bucs.

He also has thrown for 1,338 yards, 12 TDs and three interceptions in five career playoff games.

Cleveland made Mayfield the first overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma.

Tampa Bay opens its season on Sunday at the Cincinnati Bengals.

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT PREVIEW: 

NFL PREVIEW: NEW ENGLAND VS. SEATTLE

Regular Season: SEA leads series, 11-8 (SEA won past 4)

Last meeting: SB LX 2/8/26: SEA 29 vs. NE 13

PATRIOTS NOTES: 

PATRIOTS ranked 1st in AFC in total offense (379.4) last season. • QB DRAKE MAYE ranked 1st in NFL in comp. pct. (72.0), 1st in passer rating (113.5), 3rd in TD passes (31) & 4th in pass yards (4,394) in 2025. Had 220+ pass yards & pass TD in 7 of his 8 on road last season. Passed for 295 yards & 2 TDs in SB LX meeting. • RB TREVEYON HENDERSON led team in scrimmage yards (1,132) & scrimmage TDs (10) as rookie last season. Had 4 games with 2+ scrimmage TDs in 2025, most among rookies. • RB RHAMONDRE STEVENSON totaled 948 scrimmage yards (603 rush, 345 rec.) & career-high 9 scrimmage TDs (7 rush, 2 rec.) in 2025. Had 81 rush yards & rush TD in last reg. season meeting. • WR A.J. BROWN can make NE debut after totaling 78 receptions for 1,003 yards & 7 TDs with Phi. last season, becoming 5th player ever with 1,000+ rec. yards & 7+ TD catches in 6 of his 1st 7 seasons. Has 95+ rec. yards in 3 of his past 4 on road. Had 5 catches for 56 yards in his last game vs. Sea. (12/18/23 w/ Phi.). • WR ROMEO DOUBS can make NE debut after totaling 55 receptions for 724 yards & 6 TDs with GB last season. Had 2 rec. TDs in his only career game vs. Sea. (12/15/24 w/ GB). • TE HUNTER HENRY set career-high with 768 rec. yards in 2025. Had 8 catches for 109 yards in last reg. season meeting. • LB ROBERT SPILLANE led team with 97 tackles last season. • LB CHRISTIAN ELLIS set career-high with 76 tackles in 2025. • DT MILTON WILLIAMS had 3.5 sacks, 8 TFL & PD in 2025. • S KEVIN BYARD led NFL with 7 INTs in 2025 & had 93 tackles, 4 TFL & 8 PD. • CB CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ set career-high with 69 tackles & had 10 PD last season. Had 4 tackles & 3 PD in SB LX meeting 

PATRIOTS GAMEPLAN: 3 KEYS TO VICTORY IN SUPER BOWL REMATCH VS. THE SEAHAWKS

For the first time since the season opener of the 2016 season, the NFL’s opening game will be a Super Bowl rematch between the Patriots and Seahawks in Seattle on Wednesday night.

While the Seahawks will hold a pre-game ceremony to hang their championship banner at Lumen Field, changes on the coaching staff and roster turnover are inevitable in the NFL. The main characters are the same as in Super Bowl LX last February, like the head coaches (Mike Vrabel vs. Mike Macdonald) and starting quarterbacks (Drake Maye vs. Sam Darnold). However, a lot has changed in the seven months between games, especially on Seattle’s side.

As Patriots fans grew familiar with during the dynasty years, the rest of the league poached from the Seahawks coaching staff and roster this offseason. Seattle lost its offensive coordinator, Klint Kubiak, who was replaced by first-time coordinator Brian Fleury after leaving to become the Raiders head coach. The Seahawks also had to make tough decisions about who to keep from their Super Bowl-winning roster. Although they extended the contracts of stars Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon, and Leonard Williams, Seattle had to let some talent walk.

Mainly, Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker was Kansas City’s prize free-agent signing. Walker has been replaced by first-round RB Jadarian Price. Seattle also lost starting CB Riq Woolen, starting safety Coby Bryant, and rotational edge rusher Boye Mafe in free agency. The Seahawks feel they have an in-house replacement in CB Josh Jobe for Woolen and have an embarrassment of riches at edge rusher but this is what happens when you’re the reigning champs – the other 31 teams chip away at your depth.

As for the Patriots, Vrabel’s coaching staff remains intact from last year’s run to the Super Bowl, with coordinators Josh McDaniels (offense) and Zak Kuhr (defense) returning. However, New England took a big swing by swapping top receivers Stefon Diggs and Kayshon Boutte for star WR A.J. Brown and free-agent addition Romeo Doubs, hoping the Brown-Doubs duo will elevate the offense’s level of play against elite competition. The Pats also made tweaks to the offensive line and signed veteran S Kevin Byard III, who led the NFL in interceptions in 2025.

Ultimately, the Seahawks will celebrate the Super Bowl LX championship one last time in Seattle and winning the season-opener doesn’t mean the Lombardi Trophy changes hands on Wednesday night. Still, the Patriots, who played arguably their worst game of the season on the biggest stage and have been hearing that they were schedule merchants in 2025, would certainly make a statement by ruining banner night in a Week 1 trip to Seattle – revenge would be a sweet way for New England to start its 2026 season.

Let’s preview the chess match in a Super Bowl LX rematch between the Patriots and Seahawks at Lumen Field at 8:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday night in Seattle.

Offense Key: Have Better Answers to Seattle’s Blitzes and Capitalize on Opportunities

As we all remember too well, the Seahawks defense decisively controlled the game the last time the Patriots played Seattle in Super Bowl LX back in February.

Along with forcing three second-half turnovers to put the game away, Seattle’s defense held Patriots QB Drake Maye to a season-low -0.44 expected points added per drop-back with six sacks (season high) and a season-worst 52.8% pressure rate. For the MVP runner-up and the league leader in pass EPA during the regular season, the Super Bowl was an unfortunate time for New England to have its worst performance.

After rewatching the Super Bowl film, the silver lining was that the Patriots offense had several missed opportunities. Yes, it’s easy to sit on my couch and say, “he’s open, he’s open, and he’s open” when you’re not standing in the pocket facing a live pass rush. But the point of the cutup above, which has over a minute of missed opportunities the Patriots can capitalize on with better execution, is that the Seahawks defense is beatable. If it were me, I’d remind Maye of these throws that he hit all year being open on tape.

That said, we can’t discuss any fancy schemes that the Patriots offense can run vs. the Seahawks defense before talking about handling pressure. The bottom line for the Pats offense is that they must protect Maye better and have more answers to beat Seattle’s exotic pressure schemes, or the rest becomes a moot point.

The Patriots took the loss in the Super Bowl, and frankly the entire playoffs, as a signal that their offensive line was still a work in progress. New England signed free-agent G Alijah Vera-Tucker to play left guard between LT Will Campbell and C Jared Wilson, with the 2025 third-rounder moving to his natural position. The analysis coming out of the Super Bowl centered on Macdonald’s creative blitzing but five of Seattle’s six sacks came from standard four-man rushes, while the Seahawks posted a 43.5% pressure rate with a four-man rush. If the Patriots don’t block Seattle’s pass rush better, it’s hard to envision a different result.

As for the Seahawks base coverage schemes, Seattle majored in cover-three (10 drop-backs) and cover six (eight drop-backs) before spamming cover six in the fourth quarter (14 drop-backs). The Seahawks played soft quarter-quarter-half zones (cover six) with the lead in the fourth quarter, which inflated the coverage rate last February but the real game-changing downs came from their well-timed blitzes. Although they only blitzed on 13.2% of Maye’s drop-backs, the Seahawks were highly effective when blitzing. Seattle’s blitzes hit at an insane 85.7% pressure rate while Seattle’s game-icing pick-six in the fourth quarter came on their overload nickel pressure that they ran several times. To me, beating the Seahawks pressures is more mental than physical: it was less on the blocking execution and more on not having a sound pressure plan.

SERIES HISTORY

The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will meet in the season-opener in a rematch of Super Bowl LX, where New England fell, 29-13, on Feb. 8, 2026 in Santa Clara, Calif. The Patriots will look to snap a four-game losing streak overall to Seattle. Since 2000, Seattle is the only team that has a winning record against New England with a 4-2 mark. The Patriots have a .500 record against Green Bay, Kansas City and San Francisco and a winning record against everybody else during that time frame.

This week will be the 22nd overall meeting between the two teams. Seattle leads the all-time series 12-9. The Patriots have lost the last three regular season meetings, most recently a 23-20 overtime loss in Week 2 of the 2024 season on Sept. 15 at Gillette Stadium.

Seattle joins San Francisco and Philadelphia as the only teams to have a winning record against New England at Gillette Stadium.

QUICK HITS

The Seahawks are one of two the non-divisional teams that the Patriots have played twice in the regular season in the same year. That scheduling oddity with Seattle took place during the 1993 season, the only year in which the league’s 16-game schedule was played over an 18-week span and each team was allotted two bye weeks. The Patriots also played Denver two times in the 1991 season.

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SEAHAWKS NOTES:

SEAHAWKS won Super Bowl LX in 2025 with 29-13 victory over NE. • HC MIKE MACDONALD became 3rd-youngest head coach (38 years, 227 days) to win Super Bowl & 1st head coach under age of 40 to win 17 games in season, including playoffs, in NFL history. • QB SAM DARNOLD became 4th QB ever to win Super Bowl in his 1st season with team, joining Tom Brady, Trent Dilfer & Matthew Stafford. Became 5th QB all-time to record 13+ wins in consecutive seasons & 1st to do so with different teams (Min. in 2024). Ranked 5th with 4,048 pass yards in 2025. Has TD pass in 4 of his last 5 in primetime. • RB JADARIAN PRICE can make NFL debut after being selected No. 32 overall in 2026 NFL Draft. • WR JAXON SMITH-NJIGBA led NFL with career-high & franchise-record 1,793 rec. yards, ranked 4th with 119 receptions & tied-6th with 10 TD catches in 2025. Can become 4th player all-time with 100+ receptions in 3 of his 1st 4 career seasons, joining Brandon Marshall, Amon-Ra St. Brown & Michael Thomas. Aims for 6th in row on primetime with 75+ rec. yards. • TE AJ BARNER had career-high 52 receptions for 519 yards & 6 TDs in 2025. Recorded 4 catches for 54 yards & TD in Super Bowl LX. • DT LEONARD WILLIAMS recorded 7 sacks, 9 TFL & PD in 2025. • DT BYRON MURPHY II had career-high 7 sacks last season & recorded 2 sacks & FR in Super Bowl LX. • LB DEMARCUS LAWRENCE ranked tied-1st with 3 FRs & tied-7th with 3 FFs in 2025. Ranks tied-5th with 24 FF since 2014. • LB ERNEST JONES IV ranked tied-2nd with career-high 5 INTs in 2025. • CB DEVON WITHERSPOON had 72 tackles, 7 PD & INT in 2025. • S JULIAN LOVE had 6 PD & INT in 2025. Recorded INT in Super Bowl LX. • S NICK EMMANWORI co-led all rookies last season with 11 PD & had INT. 

he focus is now on the Seattle Seahawks, the defending Super Bowl Champions.  The Seahawks easily dispatched the Patriots in the Super Bowl and open the new NFL season with a marquee matchup on Wednesday night before a national audience.  This game features a rematch of the Super Bowl.  Seattle will be raising their banner in front of their rabid 12th man crowd.

Coaching accounted for a ton of success in Seattle, more than probably most successful teams that have won a Super Bowl in recent memory.  Mike Macdonald did an outstanding job with the offense, because that is where most of the magic needed to happen to elevate a below-average roster. First, let’s take a step back to the spring of 2025. After three straight winning seasons, the Seahawks did something close to unthinkable. They blew up the offense.

The Seahawks were very healthy last year, even healthier than the Pats.  Sam Darnold and Jaxon Smith-Njigba played all 17 games.  Walker left in Free Agency, and Zack Chabonnet has not yet recovered from his ACL knee injury.  They will be starting 1st-round pick rookie Jadarian Price out of Notre Dame.

The biggest loss may be that of losing Offensive Coordinator Klint Kubiak.   “The Seahawks did lose their offensive coordinator, Klint Kubiak, who left to become the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach. Brian Fleury replaces him after spending the past seven seasons with the San Francisco 49ers.  He served as run game coordinator and tight ends coach in his final year,” wrote Pro Football Focus’ Gordon McGuiness.

Darnold was a retread QB with a 35-38 career record after washing out of every prior stop on his journey. And that in 2025, Darnold would lead the league in turnovers, with:

The #2 most interceptions of any player…

The #1 most fumbles of any player…

The #2 most fumbles lost of any player…

His total of 20 turnovers: #1 most turnovers of any player in 2025 (20)

#1 most EPA lost of any player in 2025 (-100.2)

Darnold wasn’t great in the Super Bowl.  He was 19/38 (50%) for 202 yards a TD and a 53 QBR.  JSN was held to 4 catches for 27 yards (1 catch against Gonzo).

The Seahawks won the Super Bowl by running the ball down our throats with zone runs.  They attacked our EDGEs (Chaisson and Jennings) and gashed us to make it 3rd and short almost every series.   Not having Walker is a big blow.  Seattle didn’t play any of their starters in the preseason games (that sounds familiar).  We don’t have any idea how Price will perform.

Price was electric per touch in college at Notre Dame, averaging more than 6.0 yards in all three of his college seasons. He forced a missed tackle on a class-high 26.9% of his touches. On one hand, there are far worse things than saying, “Well, Price was just not as good as Jeremiyah Love, and that’s why he was limited.” On the other hand, it still leaves us with some guesswork, since we do not see many backs with such light collegiate workloads selected highly in the NFL. Price has just 295 touches on his college resume. That is the fewest touches for any first-round running back in the 2000s – Warren Sharp

George Holani will serve as RB2.

JSN versus Gonzo is a primetime matchup worth watching.  Smith-Njigba was uncoverable last year before the Super Bowl.  Rashid Shaheen is a big-play wideout.  Cooper Kupp is reliable when healthy.  Last season he had 47 catches for 593 yards and 2 TDs.  However, Kupp is now 33 and on the back nine of his career.

The Tight Ends are led by AJ Barner.  He led the TEs with 52 catches on 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 TDs.  Elijah Arroyo came in as a highly touted rookie 2nd-round pick out of Miami last year.   Arroyo was targeted 26 times with 15 catches for 179 yards, 11.9 YPC, and no TDs.

The Offensive line is a veteran group and has jumped into a top-10 ranking before the season starts.  Three of the five starters played all 20 games last year, and Darnold was pressured on just 21% of his dropbacks.  LT Charles Cross was a 2022 1st-round selection (#9) to anchor their Left Side.  The 25-year-old’s PFF Grade was 73.2, 30/89 OTs last year.  LG Grey Zabel had a good rookie season last season.  The 6’6”, 305-pound Guard from North Dakota State was the Seahawks ‘ 1st-round selection (#18) in 2025.  His PFF Grade was 57.2, 51/81amongst Guards.  At center, Jalen Sundell has solidified the position.  The 6’5”, 300-pound UDFA from 2024 played at North Dakota State with Grey Zabel. His PFF Grade was 64.1, 19/ 41 Centers in 2025.

RG Anthony Bradford is a massive 6’5”, 332-pound Guard.  The 25-year-old played at LSU.  He was the Seahawks ‘ 4th-round (109) selection in 2023.  His PFF Grade was 50.6, 70/81 amongst Guards.  Right Tackle is Abraham Lucas.  The 6’6”, 315-pound Washington State OT is 27, entering his 5th year in the league.  He was selected in the 3rd round (#72) of the 2022 Draft.  His PFF Grade was 75.5, 24/89 among tackles.  All five linemen are 27 or younger.  That’s draft and develop, and they used high draft capital to do it.

Defense  

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We all know what a great coach McDonald is on Defense with their Big Nickel, 3 Safety Defense.  If we’re being honest, the defense clearly carried the offense to the Super Bowl and won it for Seattle. The Patriots had 78 TOTAL YARDS through three quarters with 0 points and one total drive (out of 10) that even crossed midfield. That drive ended on the Seahawks’ 44-yard line. Seattle allowed the third-lowest EPA per play of any Super Bowl defense in the modern era.

The Defense was 1st against the run, giving up just 3.5 Yards per Carry.  Leonard Williams is a monster at LDE.  He 6’ 5”, 310-pound End was the 1st round (#6) selection of the Jets in 2015.  Entering his 12th season, Williams is a 3 x Pro Bowl and an All-Pro selection.  Seattle just signed him to a three-year extension with $60M of new money.  His PFF grade was 75.3, good for 11/134 among DTs.  Byron Murphy played very well last year.  The 6’1”, 305-pound NT from Texas went on to have 62 Tackles and 7 Sacks from the NT position.    He was a former 1st-round selection (#16) in the 2024 Draft by Seattle.  Murphy’s Grade was 72.4. 25/134.   Jarran Reed is the RDE.  The 6’3”, 315-pound lineman played at Alabama.  The 33-year-old was drafted in the 2016 Draft, 2nd round (49th).    This is Reed’s second stint with Seattle.

On the EDGE is Demarcus Lawrence, formerly of Dallas.  The 6’3”, 265-pound DE came to Seattle via trade.  The former Boise State Bronco finished with a PFF Grade of 82.9, 13th/115 Defensive Ends.  Uchenna Nwosu is the other DE.  The 6’2”, 251-pound End played at USC.  Nwosu was selected in the 2018 2nd round (48) by the LA Chargers.  His PFF Grade was 60.4, 80th/ 115.  The Seahawks lost Boye Mafi in Free Agency, and that could be a big loss.

At one of the Inside LBs is Drake Thomas, a 6’ 223-pound LB from NC State.  He was an UDFA signed by Las Vegas in 23.  His PFF Grade was 73, 23rd /88 LBs.  Thomas has come out of nowhere to be an effective defensive player.  Earnest Jones is the other ILB.  Jones is 6’2”, 230 pounds.  Out of South Carolina.  He was selected in the 2021 draft in the 3rd round, 104) by the LA Rams.   His PFF Grade was 58.8, 50th /88 LBs.

The secondary is led by Devon Witherspoon, who just signed a massive contract, resetting the defensive back market ahead of the Patriots’ Christian Gonzalez.  The 5’11”, 181-pound CB played at Illinois.  He was drafted in 2023, 1st round (#5).  His PFF Grade last season was 89.9, 1st / 114 CBs.

Witherspoon was a 2nd Team All-Pro in 2025 and a 3x Pro Bowl player.  Ty Okada is the S who is replacing Cobee Bryant, whom the Seahawks lost in Free Agency.  The 5’11” 185-pound S played at Montana State and was a UDFA in 2023.  His PFF grade was 73, 17th / 98 Safeties.  Julian Love is the other Safety.  The 5’11”, 195-pound safety played at Notre Dame.  He was selected in the 4th round (108th overall) in 2019.  His 82.2 PFF Grade was 6th /98 Safeties in 2025.  Love was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2023.  Josh Jobe has been elevated to replace Riq Woolen, whom they lost in Free Agency.  Jobe is 5’11”, 191 pounds, and played at Alabama.  He went undrafted in 2022 and was signed by Philadelphia.  His PFF Grade last season was 56.6 81st / 114 CBs.  He is the weak link in their secondary.

Nick Emmanawori had a terrific rookie season last year.  Mike Macdonald used Emmanwori as a hybrid Linebacker / Safety in a Big Nickel alignment.  This allowed the Seahawks to play a 2 Deep safety alignment.  The Blitz packages they dialed up put pressure on the QB.  Emmanwori is hurt and is unlikely to play in the game Wednesday.  The 6’3” 227-pound Safety played at South Carolina and was a 2025 2nd-round selection (35).  His PGG grade was 71, 21st / 98 Safeties.  If he can’t go, the Seahawks don’t have another Safety on their 53-man roster.  They will have to elevate one of four Safeties they have on their Practice Squad (D’Anthony Bell, AJ Finley, Maxem Hook, or Rodney Thomas.   This could change everything for the Seahawks Defense.

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NO ROOKIE QBS ARE SET TO START IN WEEK 1 FOR JUST THE SECOND TIME IN THE LAST 19 SEASONS

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The days of young quarterbacks patiently waiting for their turn to take over after they learn the NFL game are mostly a thing of the past.

That’s what made the Las Vegas Raiders ‘ decision to keep No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza on the bench to start the season behind Kirk Cousins a little unusual, even if it was telegraphed from the moment he was picked.

Mendoza is the first quarterback taken No. 1 overall to start his career on the bench since Baker Mayfield in 2018, with the last six since then earning Week 1 starts. Mayfield came in as a reserve for Cleveland in Week 3 that season and made his first start the following week. When Mendoza does it remains to be seen.

But with Mendoza and No. 13 pick Ty Simpson of the Los Angeles Rams starting the season as reserves, this marks just the second time in the last 19 seasons that no rookie quarterback will start the season opener. It also happened in 2022, when Kenny Pickett was the only QB taken in the first round when he went 20th to Pittsburgh.

Before that, it hadn’t happened since 2007 when JaMarcus Russell was drafted first overall by the Raiders. He held out that summer and didn’t sign a contract until after the opener. He didn’t start that season until the final game.

There were three rookie quarterbacks starting the opener in three of the previous five seasons as teams have become quicker to turn over the reins as the differences between the college and pro games have lessened.

That’s been especially true of No. 1 picks for a long time.

Mendoza is the 30th quarterback taken first overall since the start of the common draft era in 1967. Twenty of those QBs started the season opener as rookies and all but one made at least one start in their first year, with only Carson Palmer in 2003 missing out. Palmer didn’t play at all that season for Cincinnati before taking over in 2004.

Three others made their first starts early with Tim Couch (Game 2), Mayfield and Alex Smith (Game 5) getting the chance in the opening weeks. Michael Vick made his first start in the eighth game in 2001, while Eli Manning (Game 10), Jared Goff (Game 10), Vinny Testaverde (Game 12) and Russell didn’t get the chance until late in their rookie seasons.

The only other times there was a Week 1 Super Bowl rematch came in 2016 when defending champion Denver beat Carolina 21-20 and in the first year of the merger when Minnesota avenged a loss to Kansas City with a 27-10 victory in 1970.

In all, this will be the 12th time the two teams that played in the Super Bowl meet the following season, with the champion having won eight of the previous 11 matchups, including Philadelphia’s win over Kansas City in Week 2 last season.

These rematches have become more common since the addition of the 17th game that adds another interconference game between defending division champions. This will be the fourth straight season there’s been a Super Bowl rematch. There were none from 1998-2013.

This will be just the second time the NFL starts on a Wednesday. The other came in 2012 when the Dallas Cowboys visited the New York Giants. The game was moved from its usual Thursday spot that year because President Barack Obama was set to speak that night at the Democratic National Convention.

Rodgers, Stafford extend opening start streaks

Aaron Rodgers is set to start his 19th straight season opener since taking over the job in Green Bay in 2008. Rodgers will tie Drew Brees for the most consecutive starts in Week 1 when Pittsburgh hosts Atlanta. Brees’ streak went from 2002-20.

The only quarterback with more Week 1 starts than Rodgers and Brees was Tom Brady, who had 20. But he missed the start in 2016 when he was serving a suspension for his involvement in Deflategate.

Rodgers will be 42 years and 285 days old on Sunday, making him the second-oldest quarterback to stat a season opener. Brady did it from ages 43 to 45 in 2020-22.

Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is close behind as he is set to start his 18th straight season opener against the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday in Australia.

Bills look to get over the hump

The Buffalo Bills head into the season as the favorites to win the AFC East but the question is can they go deeper in the playoffs for a change.

Buffalo is one of two teams in NFL history to make the playoffs in seven straight seasons without reaching a Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers also did it from 1987-93.

The Bills lost in the divisional round to Denver last season, marking the fourth time in five years they lost in that round. They also lost to Kansas City in the AFC title game in the 2020 and ‘24 seasons and in the wild-card round in 2019. Buffalo hasn’t been to the Super Bowl since losing four straight trips in the 1990-93 seasons.

There have been 10 other streaks of at least seven straight playoff berths in the Super Bowl era, with only the 1973-80 Los Angeles Rams failing to win a title. They made the Super Bowl in the 1979 season on their seventh straight playoff run, losing to Pittsburgh.

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ANDY REID: CHIEFS QB PATRICK MAHOMES (KNEE) ‘LIKELY’ TO START SUNDAY

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid confirmed that quarterback Patrick Mahomes will start the season opener Monday night at home against the Denver Broncos, nine months after ACL and LCL tears in his left knee.

Mahomes’ status has been the Chiefs’ biggest question mark of the preseason, with Reid saying two weeks ago that he was taking the situation “day by day.”

The only caveat Reid placed on the announcement is if Mahomes has an unexpected setback.

“There’s a good chance Patrick will start,” Reid told reporters at Tuesday’s practice. “Most likely, he’ll be the guy that’s out there.”

Mahomes’ injury occurred late in a 16-13 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Dec. 14. Kansas City ended up losing its final six games of the regular season, while missing out on the playoffs for the first time since the 2014 season.

A two-time league MVP and three-time Super Bowl MVP, Mahomes completed a career low 62.7% of his passes last season for 3,587 yards, 22 touchdowns and 11 interceptions over 14 games.

In nine seasons, all with the Chiefs, he has completed 66.2% of his passes for 35,939 yards, 267 touchdowns and 85 interceptions in 126 games.

The Chiefs also have a question mark at left tackle with Josh Simmons dealing with a back injury. If Simmons is unable to play, rookie Kahlil Benson will get the start. Benson went undrafted after winning a national title at Indiana and signed with Kansas City in May.

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BEARS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT WR ROME ODUNZE (FOOT), CB KYLER GORDON (CALF)

The Chicago Bears are optimistic about wide receiver Rome Odunze’s availability for Sunday’s season opener.

Head coach Ben Johnson told reporters Tuesday that Odunze is “more day-to-day right now” with a foot injury sustained in practice last Thursday.

“I don’t believe he’ll be out there today, but we’re hopeful he’ll be out there on Sunday,” Johnson said.

The Bears are also reportedly optimistic about the calf injury to cornerback Kyler Gordon, but he is not expected to play in the season opener. According to ESPN, Gordon will work out away from the team to focus on his recovery and could be back to practice as early as later this month.

Odunze caught 44 passes for 661 yards and six touchdowns in 12 starts as he dealt with a stress fracture in his foot that is different from his current injury. The 24-year-old has 98 receptions for 1,395 yards and nine TDs in 29 career games (24 starts) since the Bears drafted him in the first round (ninth overall) in 2024.

Gordon, 26, played just three games last season as he dealt with groin and calf injuries. He signed a three-year, $40-million contract extension before the 2025 season began. In four NFL seasons, Gordon has 214 tackles and five interceptions with 17 passes defended in 45 games (35 starts) for Chicago.

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JETS RB BREECE HALL ON TRACK TO PLAY SUNDAY VS. TITANS

New York Jets running back Breece Hall is “trending toward playing” in Sunday’s season opener at Tennessee, head coach Aaron Glenn told reporters Tuesday.

“He’ll be practicing this week,” Glenn confirmed.

Hall, 25, has been rehabbing a groin injury sustained during a training camp practice on Aug. 17.

He signed a three-year, $45.75 million contract extension in May after rushing for a career-high 1,065 yards in 2025.

Hall has rushed for 3,398 yards and 18 touchdowns in his first four seasons after the Jets selected him in the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft out of Iowa State. He also has 188 receptions for 1,642 yards and nine scores in 56 NFL games (50 starts).

New York kicks off the season against Tennessee and its first-year coach Robert Saleh, who was the head coach of the Jets for three-plus seasons from 2021-24.

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BASEBALL NEWS

MLB ROUNDUP: BREWERS PULL EVEN IN NINTH INNING, KO CUBS IN 10TH

Rookie Luis Lara’s bases-loaded single in the 10th inning gave the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 comeback victory over the visiting Chicago Cubs on Tuesday.

Jackson Chourio, who finished 4-for-5, rescued the Brewers with a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning to tie it 3-3.

DL Hall (3-0) threw 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief for Milwaukee, which moved nine games ahead of the second-place Cubs. Jacob Misiorowski allowed one run on four hits in 6 1/3 innings.

The Cubs squandered an opportunity in the top of the 10th when runner Seiya Suzuki was thrown out trying to advance to third on a fly ball to center fielder Garrett Mitchell. Jacob Webb served up Chourio’s homer, and Caleb Thielbar (3-3) allowed Lara’s decisive hit.

Yankees 5, Rockies 3

Ryan McMahon lined a tiebreaking double with one out in the fifth inning against his former team, Cam Schlittler pitched seven strong innings, and host New York made Aaron Judge’s return from the injured list a successful one with a victory over Colorado.

After missing 84 games with a fractured right rib, Judge went 0-for-3 and did not make any plays while handling right field for six innings. Schlittler (13-6) allowed one run on three hits in seven innings, striking out 10 without a walk as New York earned its sixth win in nine games.

Adael Amador hit a tying homer to open the third as the Rockies dropped their fifth straight road game. Gabriel Hughes (0-7) allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits in five innings.

Rays 7, Braves 1

Freddy Peralta pitched six strong innings and visiting Tampa Bay hit four home runs en route to a victory over Atlanta in the opener of a three-game series featuring division leaders.

The Rays won for the third time in four games to maintain a four-game edge over the New York Yankees in the American League East. Peralta (8-11) allowed one run on five hits.

The Braves took their third loss in four games but remain four games ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East. AJ Smith-Shawver (0-2) pitched 3 1/3 innings and gave up four runs on five hits.

Guardians 9, Orioles 5

Travis Bazzana hit a three-run homer and Cleveland scored in four different innings to beat host Baltimore.

Brayan Rocchio had two hits and knocked in two runs for the Guardians, who evened the three-game series by winning for the fourth time in their last six games. Angel Martinez, Petey Halpin and Patrick Bailey also provided two hits.

Pete Alonso hit a two-run home run, but the Orioles couldn’t dig out of a 6-0 hole. Baltimore lost for the seventh time in eight games.

Twins 3, Tigers 2

Kody Clemens blasted a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning and visiting Minnesota held on for a victory over Detroit.

Clemens’ 25th homer of the season made a winner of Minnesota starter Dean Kremer (3-5), who allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. It was Kremer’s second victory since he was acquired from Baltimore in a trade early last month. Josh Bell knocked in the other run for the Twins.

Kevin McGonigle’s two-run homer accounted for the Tigers’ offense. Detroit starter Drew Anderson gave up three runs and four hits in 5 1/3 innings.

Blue Jays 4, Athletics 2

Josh Smith and Kazuma Okamoto smacked back-to-back homers and Jose Soriano tossed seven strong innings to help Toronto record a victory over the Athletics in West Sacramento, Calif.

Alejandro Kirk added an RBI single for the Blue Jays, who remain one game behind Cleveland for the third and final American League wild-card position. Smith, Okamoto and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. each had two hits for Toronto, which won for the eighth time in 11 games.

Carlos Cortes and Donovan Walton homered for the Athletics, who had won five of their previous six games. Walton and Henry Bolte had two hits apiece.

Dodgers 3, Reds 2

Tarik Skubal pitched into the eighth inning, Will Smith hit his first home run since May and Los Angeles increased its winning streak to six games with a victory over visiting Cincinnati.

Teoscar Hernandez delivered a go-ahead single in the fifth inning for the Dodgers. Skubal (9-7) gave up two runs on four hits over 7 1/3 innings, and Tanner Scott pitched the ninth inning for his 22nd save.

Elly De La Cruz hit a mammoth home run and threw out a runner at home plate from shallow center field but could not prevent the Reds from falling to 0-2 at the start of a six-game road trip. Nick Lodolo (3-4) gave up three runs on five hits over 4 2/3 innings.

Astros 6, Phillies 5

Christian Walker hit an early three-run homer and visiting Houston held on for a victory over Philadelphia.

Hayden Wesneski (5-1) allowed three runs and five hits over six innings for Houston. Daulton Varsho homered for the Astros as part of a 3-for-5 night, while Cam Smith also went deep. Walker finished with two hits, as did Yainer Diaz.

The Phillies rallied from a 5-0 deficit to get within 6-5 on Edmundo Sosa’s ninth-inning RBI double against Josh Hader. Andrew Painter (3-9) was charged with five runs and 10 hits in five frames. Trea Turner registered two hits, including a homer.

Pirates 9, White Sox 3

Spencer Horwitz had two hits and drove in three runs, including an RBI single in a five-run first inning, and Bubba Chandler pitched six sharp innings as visiting Pittsburgh routed Chicago.

Every starter had at least one hit for the Pirates, who won for the seventh time in nine games. Oneil Cruz and Rafael Flores Jr. paced Pittsburgh’s 18-hit attack with three hits apiece. Chandler (7-9) yielded two runs on four hits.

Andrew Benintendi and Kyle Teel both had two hits for the White Sox, who have lost four of six. Sean Burke (8-7) was hammered for seven runs on eight hits in 1 1/3 innings.

Diamondbacks 5, Royals 3 (11 innings)

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. tripled to drive in the go-ahead run in the 11th, Ketel Marte capped a two-run inning with a sacrifice fly, and Arizona extended its winning streak to four with a victory at Kansas City.

Tim Tawa socked a solo homer in the ninth to give the Diamondbacks a 2-0 lead, but John Rave hit a two-out, two-run homer off Juan Morillo to tie it at 2-2. Each team scored a run in the 10th before Arizona won it off Anthony Gose (1-1) in the 11th.

Diamondbacks reliever Blake Walston (1-0) left the bases loaded in the 10th and retired all three batters he faced in the 11th. Arizona starter Corbin Burnes tossed three scoreless innings in his season debut.

Mets 7, Marlins 5

Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto and Brett Baty homered off Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara as New York defeated host Miami for its fifth victory in six games.

Mets starter Sean Manaea (5-7) was perfect through five innings but wound up allowing five hits and four runs without getting an out in the sixth. Kodai Senga yielded a run in the ninth but still earned his seventh save in seven tries.

Alcantara (13-10) gave up seven hits and seven runs in 4 1/3 innings. Jakob Marsee had three hits and an RBI for the Marlins, who lost for the fifth time in six games.

Padres 5, Nationals 4

Luis Campusano’s two-out RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning capped a four-run rally that lifted San Diego to a win over visiting Washington.

Campusano knocked in Manny Machado, whose two-run single off Erik Tolman (0-1) tied the game at 4. Padres reliever David Morgan (3-1) got one out on one pitch, and Adrian Morejon garnered his third save with a 1-2-3 ninth.

Andres Chaparro and Yohandy Morales hit solo homers for the Nationals. Erik Tolman (0-1) entered in the eighth with a 4-1 lead but let in three inherited runners and had one charged to him.

Angels 6, Red Sox 1

Reid Detmers pitched six scoreless innings and Zach Neto hit a two-run homer to help visiting Los Angeles end Boston’s five-game winning streak.

Detmers (5-8) allowed just one hit, a first-inning single by Wilyer Abreu. He struck out nine and walked one. Neto went 4-for-5 as the Angels got just their third win in 15 games.

Red Sox starter Patrick Sandoval (1-5) allowed four runs on 10 hits in six innings. Nick Sogard collected two of Boston’s four hits and had the team’s lone RBI.

Rangers 10, Mariners 5

Corey Seager, Wyatt Langford and Danny Jansen hit home runs as Texas routed host Seattle.

Cal Quantrill (8-5) pitched six innings to win for the fourth time in his past five starts. He allowed three runs on five hits as the Rangers won their second in a row.

The Mariners have lost four of the first five games on their seven-game homestand. The primary highlight for Seattle was a tape-measure home run by rookie Lazaro Montes in the fourth inning. Bryce Miller (4-9) surrendered four runs in 3 2/3 innings.

Giants 2, Cardinals 1

Landen Roupp threw six shutout innings, Bryce Eldridge and Christian Koss smacked home runs and San Francisco beat visiting St. Louis for the second day in a row.

Reiver Sanmartin, Carson Seymour and Joel Kuhnel (seventh save) combined with Roupp (9-13) on a five-hitter. Koss had two hits for the Giants, who will shoot for their first home series sweep of the season Wednesday afternoon when the three-game set concludes.

Cardinals starter Quinn Mathews (1-3) completed six innings, limiting the Giants to two runs on five hits. Bryan Torres singled home a run in the ninth.

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NBA NEWS

REPORT: PELICANS ACQUIRE AJ JOHNSON, TAJ GIBSON FROM GRIZZLIES

The New Orleans Pelicans acquired AJ Johnson and Taj Gibson from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Jordan Hawkins and Micah Peavy, a future second-round draft pick and a future second-round pick swap, ESPN reported on Tuesday.

Johnson, 21, averaged 3.3 points and 1.1 rebounds in 48 games off the bench last season, split between the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks.

The well-traveled guard previously was part of the Anthony Davis blockbuster deal between Washington and Dallas last February before the Mavericks traded him to the Grizzlies in July. Johnson initially was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 23rd overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.

Gibson, 41, averaged 3.4 points and 2.7 rebounds in 10 games (one start) with Memphis last season.

Hawkins, 24, contributed 5.1 points and 1.7 boards in 51 games (one start) with New Orleans last season. The UConn product was the 14th overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft.

Peavy, 25, averaged 4.3 points and 1.9 rebounds in 61 games (four starts) during his rookie season with the Pelicans in 2025-26.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

LSU CRACKS TOP 10, OREGON SLIPS AND WOLVERINES FALL OUT OF AP TOP 25 AFTER SECOND-CHANCE HAIL MARY

LSU jumped back into the top 10 in the first Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the regular season on Tuesday, Oregon slipped out of the top five and Michigan fell out of the rankings altogether after it needed a second-chance Hail Mary try at home to beat Western Michigan.

Ohio State remained No. 1 by a wide margin entering its showdown with No. 4 Texas on Saturday. The Buckeyes received 46 first-place votes from the voting panel of 69 writers and broadcasters. The other 23 first-place votes were divided among six teams.

Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas and Indiana each moved up one spot with Oregon going from No. 2 to No. 6 following a 34-27 win over Boise State as a 25.5-point favorite. Miami, LSU, Mississippi and Texas A&M rounded out the top 10.

Defending national champion Indiana received the second-most No. 1 votes, with eight. LSU got five, Notre Dame four, Oregon three, Texas two and Miami one.

LSU made one of the biggest statements of Week 1 with its 51-10 rout of Clemson in Lane Kiffin’s debut in Baton Rouge. Courtroom drama over the eligibility status of LSU players trying to return to college from NFL training camps took the spotlight in the days leading up to the game, and then Sam Leavitt and his highly paid teammates made fast work of Clemson.

LSU’s rise from No. 11 to No. 8 gave the Tigers their first top-10 ranking since they were No. 4 after a 4-0 start last season. The Tigers went 3-6 the rest of the way, Brian Kelly was fired at midseason and Kiffin was hired away from Mississippi with the charge of restoring LSU to its former glory.

LSU’s promotion bumped Oklahoma out of the top 10. The Sooners shut out UTEP 51-0 and will take a No. 11 ranking into their visit to Michigan. That matchup lost some luster in light of Michigan’s slogging offensive performance against Western Michigan, a game the Wolverines won 13-12 after one second was put back on the clock at the end of the game. That was just enough time for Bryce Underwood to throw a second Hail Mary, this one landing in the hands of JJ Buchanan.

In and out

Virginia rode an impressive Week 0 win over North Carolina State to a No. 25 ranking. It’s the first time since 2005 the Cavaliers have been ranked in a first regular-season poll. They finished No. 16 in the final Top 25 last season but received just one vote in the preseason poll.

Michigan went from No. 16 to to out of the Top 25, the first time since at least 2008 that a team ranked so high was bounced after a win. Kansas State went from No. 17 to unranked after holding off North Dakota of the Football Championship Subdivision last year.

Poll points

— Seven teams with first-place votes are the most since the same number got first-place votes in the 2016 preseason poll. It’s the most in a regular-season poll since seven got first-place votes Sept. 2, 2014.

— Of the 25 ranked teams, 24 won in the same week for the first time since Week 1 in 2019.

— Louisville held onto its No. 24 ranking after losing 41-38 to Mississippi on a walk-off field goal. The Cardinals became the lowest-ranked team since at least 2008 to stay in the Top 25 after a loss.

Conference call

SEC (9 ranked teams): No. 2 Georgia, No. 4 Texas, No. 8 LSU, No. 9 Mississippi, No. 10 Texas A&M, No. 11 Oklahoma, No. 12 Alabama, No. 18 Tennessee, No. 23 Missouri.

Big Ten (7): No. 1 Ohio State, No. 5 Indiana, No. 6 Oregon, No. 14 USC, No. 16 Penn State, No. 19 Washington, No. 21 Iowa.

ACC (4): No. 7 Miami, No. 17 SMU, No. 24 Louisville, No. 25 Virginia.

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SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE LEADERS TO DISCUSS KICKING LSU OUT OF LEAGUE OVER PLAYER ELIGIBILITY DISPUTE

Leaders of the Southeastern Conference will meet Thursday to discuss whether to take the extraordinary step of kicking LSU out of the league in the wake of an ugly feud over whether players who spent time in the NFL should be allowed back on the team’s roster this season.

On Tuesday, the SEC amended the federal lawsuit it filed against LSU last week, asking the judge in the case to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the school from taking action to block or interfere with the Thursday meeting of university presidents and chancellors.

A vote of at least two-thirds of the conference’s CEOs would be needed to dump LSU, which is a founding member of the conference that was started in 1933. A declaration that Commissioner Greg Sankey included with the league’s legal filing made the planned meeting sound like more than posturing. In it, Sankey said school presidents met last Friday.

“The consensus … was and continues to be that LSU’s continued membership in the conference would be inconsistent with the publicly stated values and principles of the conference and its remaining member institutions” even if LSU doesn’t put the former NFL players on its roster,” he said.

An LSU spokesman declined immediate comment.

The SEC established a rule forbidding teams to bring players with NFL experience back on their roster but last Friday, a Louisiana court barred the league from enforcing it, a decision that was heartily celebrated by the state’s governor and attorney general.

Two of the players, Zxavian Harris and Dae’Quan Wright, have been practicing with the team but were not placed on the roster in advance of last Saturday’s 51-10 win over Clemson. They still could be added, and Sankey made note of two roster spots that have been left open for that possibility.

In a statement, the SEC said it has the right to establish rules and “a commitment to those rules and to the core principles of the Southeastern Conference is an essential element of SEC membership.”

“Today’s filing is necessary to defend that right and preserve the Conference’s ability to govern competition among its members,” the statement said.

Sankey took it a step further, saying in his declaration that SEC presidents were concerned LSU’s president, Wade Rousse, and athletic director Verge Ausberry had no “meaningful control” over new coach Lane Kiffin or the football program.

“In light of the recalcitrance, lack of institutional control, and serious harm caused by the statements and conduct of LSU,” the school presidents, other than Rousse, called for the meeting, Sankey said.

He said the meeting was to consider kicking out LSU “whether LSU renounces its intention to roster and play professional players on its football team, or not.”

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MAC APPEALS MICHIGAN-WESTERN MICHIGAN RESULT, ASKS NCAA AND CFP TO RECOGNIZE BRONCOS AS WINNER

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — The Mid-American Conference appealed the outcome of the Michigan-Western Michigan game on Tuesday and asked NCAA and College Football Playoff administrators to recognize the Broncos as the actual winner.

Michigan won 13-12 on a Hail Mary pass after the replay official put one second back on the clock. The stadium clock and the one shown on television showed zeroes after Bryce Underwood’s first Hail Mary was thrown out the back of the end zone.

The Big Ten had said in a statement that time had not expired on a separate clock embedded within its replay system. Western Michigan and the MAC initially accepted the explanation, but that had changed by Tuesday.

“After further study and investigation, it is now evident that replay protocol was not properly followed in determining whether time remained on the game clock at the conclusion of the Western Michigan vs. Michigan football game,” MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in a statement.

Messages seeking comment were sent to the NCAA and CFP.

Steinbrecher said the established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained. Instead, he said, the Big Ten replay crew relied upon the clock feed embedded within its replay system. As a result, one second was placed back on the game clock and an additional play was awarded.

“This was not a judgment regarding the proper amount of time to place on the clock,” Steinbrecher said. “It was an error in the application of the established replay protocol governing this specific end-of-game timing situation. Had the protocol been properly followed and the program-feed clock been used, no additional play would have been awarded, and Western Michigan would have won the game, 12–7.”

The MAC is requesting the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee and the CFP recognize Western Michigan as the actual winner for purposes of their respective rankings, evaluations and selection deliberations.

Michigan was ranked No. 16 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll but dropped out of the rankings Tuesday.

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GOLF NEWS

LPGA Tour

SOLHEIM CUP

Site: Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Course: Bernardus Golf. Yardage: 6,557. Par: 72.

Television: Friday-Saturday, 1:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 5 a.m. to noon (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Team USA.

Last time: The Americans never trailed after the opening session and built a 10-6 advantage going into singles on their way to a 15½-12½ victory at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia.

Captains: Anna Nordqvist (Europe) and Angela Stanford (United States).

Notes: This is the 20th edition of the Solheim Cup and the first time the matches are held in the Netherlands. … Europe has captured the cup five of the last eight times and has not lost on home soil since 2015 in Germany. … Only five of the 12 Americans have won an LPGA tournament since the last Solheim Cup. … Angela Stanford (United States) and Anna Nordqvist (Europe) are the captains. Nordqvist has announced her retirement from the LPGA Tour. … Nelly Korda has 23 victories worldwide. The rest of the U.S. team has combined for 18 wins. … Nordqvist’s four rookies include Lottie Woad, who is No. 8 in the women’s world ranking. … The Americans return nine players from the 2024 team that won in Virginia. … Charley Hull and Carlota Ciganda are playing in their eighth Solheim Cup, the most of any player. Korda and Megan Khang are the most experienced Americans. This is their fifth time playing in the matches.

European tour

AMGEN IRISH OPEN

Site: Doonbeg, Ireland.

Course: Trump International GL. Yardage: 6,838. Par: 70.

Prize money: $6 million. Winner’s share: $1 million.

Television: Thursday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Golf Channel); Friday, 4:30-10 a.m. (Golf Channel mobile), 1-2 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (CNBC); Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (CNBC).

Defending champion: Rory McIlroy.

Race to Dubai leader: Patrick Reed.

Last week: Thriston Lawrence won the Omega European Masters.

Notes: Rory McIlroy begins a fall schedule of six tournaments on three continents, starting with his home open where he is defending champion. … This is the first year for the Irish Open to be played at Trump International, and President Donald Trump is expected to visit on the weekend. … Jon Rahm is in the field, making his first European tour start since the Scottish Open. Rahm won the Irish Open in 2017 and 2019. … Other LIV Golf players in the field include Joaquin Niemann, Sergio Garcia, Tyrrell Hatton, Thomas Petry, Adrian Meronk and Thomas Detry. Garcia and Niemann received sponsor invitations. … Brooks Koepka is playing on a sponsor exemption, his first appearance since he failed to qualify for the PGA Tour postseason. … Eugenio Chacarra is up to No. 3 in the Race to Dubai as he tries to secure one of 10 PGA Tour cards at the end of the season. … Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is in the field.

PGA Tour Champions

SANFORD INTERNATIONAL

Site: Sioux City, South Dakota.

Course: Minnehaha CC. Yardage: 6,747. Par: 70.

Prize money: $2.2 million. Winner’s share: $330,000.

Television: Friday, 2-5 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday, 2-2:30 p.m. (Golf Channel mobile), 2:30-5 p.m. (Golf Channel); Sunday, 1:30-5 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Defending champion: Retief Goosen.

Charles Schwab Cup leader: Stewart Cink.

Last tournament: Steven Alker won The Ally Challenge.

Notes: Steve Stricker, a four-time winner of the Sanford International, is playing for the second week in a row. He tied for 55th last week in Michigan. … Steven Alker won on the Legends Tour last week in Northern Ireland, after having won the previous two events on the PGA Tour Champions. He is not in the field this week. … The two sponsor exemptions went to Mario Tiziani and Jamie Donaldson, who won the clinching point for Europe in the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles. … Stewart Cink, the four-time winner this year who leads the Charles Schwab Cup, is not playing this week. … Zach Johnson has three wins in his rookie season on the Champions and is playing this week, though he is nearly $1 million behind Cink in the Schwab Cup standings. … George McNeil, Ernie Els and Miguel Angel Jimenez are the only players in the top 10 of the Schwab Cup who have yet to win this year. Each has gone over $1 million in season earnings.

Korn Ferry Tour

SIMMONS BANK OPEN

Site: Franklin, Tennessee.

Course: Vanderbilt Legends Club. Yardage: 7,197. Par: 70.

Prize money: $1.5 million. Winner’s share: $270,000.

Television: Thursday, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Friday-Sunday, 4-5 p.m. (Golf Channel mobile), 5-7 p.m. (Golf Channel).

Previous winner: Zach Bauchou.

Points leader: Ross Steelman.

Last tournament: Yuta Sugiura won the AdventHealth Championship.

Next week: Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

PGA Tour

Last tournament: Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship.

Next week: Biltmore Championship Asheville.

FedEx Cup champion: Scottie Scheffler.

Online: https://www.pgatour.com/

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Other tours

Epson Tour: Guardian Championship, RTJ Golf Trail at Capitol Hill (Senator), Prattville, Alabama. Previous winner: Melanie Green. Online: https://www.epsontour.com/

Japan Golf Tour: Shinhan Donghae Open, Jack Nicklaus GC, Incheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Kazuki Higa. Online: https://www.jgto.org/en/

Challenge Tour: English Trophy, The Caversham, Reading, England. Defending champion: New tournament. Online: https://www.europeantour.com/hotelplanner-tour/

PGA Tour Americas: Digital Commerce Group Open, Uplands GC, Victoria, British Columbia. Previous winner: Drew Nesbitt. Online: https://www.pgatour.com/americas

Sunshine Tour: SunBet Challenge, The Woods at Mount Edgecombe, Durban, South Africa. Defending champion: Louis Albertse. Online: https://sunshinetour.com/

Japan LPGA: Sony JLPGA Championship, Katayamazu GC (Hakusan), Ishikawa, Japan. Defending champion: Shina Kanazawa. Online: https://www.lpga.or.jp/en/

Korea LPGA: KB Financial Group Golden Life Championship, Blackstone Icheon GC, Icheon, South Korea. Defending champion: Hyunjo Yoo. Online: https://klpga.co.kr/

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TOP INDIANA PRESS RELEASES/HEADLINES

COLTS FOOTBALL

COLTS RELEASE FIRST UNOFFICIAL DEPTH CHART OF 2026 REGULAR SEASON

For the first time since December, Daniel Jones will be QB1 when the Colts take the field Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Although a few starters saw playing time in the preseason finale against the Detroit Lions, others have yet to see playing time throughout preseason games and Sunday will be fans’ first look at Jones and several other players in 2026.

Onto the unofficial depth chart:

OFFENSE

WR: Alec Pierce, Laquon Treadwell

LT: Bernhard Raimann

LG: Quenton Nelson, Dalton Tucker

C: Tanor Bortolini, Sedrick Van Pran-Granger

RG: Matt Goncalves, Jalen Farmer

RT: Jalen Travis, Luke Tenuta

TE: Tyler Warren, Mo Alie-Cox, Drew Ogletree

WR: Josh Downs

WR: Keenan Allen, Ashton Dulin, Deion Burks

QB: Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson Sr., Riley Leonard

RB: Jonathan Taylor, Seth McGowan, DJ Giddens

DEFENSE

DE: Arden Key, Jaylahn Tuimoloau, George Gumbs Jr.

DT: DeForest Buckner, Adetomiwa Adebawore

NT: Grover Stewart, Jerry Tillery, Tim Smith

DE: Laiatu Latu, Micheal Clemons, Caden Curry

WLB: Jaylon Carlies, Bryce Boettcher, Tahj Chambers

MLB: Akeem Davis-Gaither, CJ Allen, Austin Ajiake

CB: Charvarius Ward Sr., Jonathan Edwards

FS: Cam Bynum, Jonathan Owens

SS: AJ Haulcy, Hunter Wohler

N: Justin Walley, Kapena Gushiken

CB: Sauce Gardner

SPECIAL TEAMS

P: Rigoberto Sanchez

PK: Spencer Shrader

H: Rigoberto Sanchez

LS: Luke Rhodes

KR: Ashton Dulin, Seth McGowan

PR: Josh Downs, Ashton Dulin

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COLTS DC LOU ANARUMO TUESDAY PRESSER: https://www.colts.com/video/lou-anarumo-previews-indianapolis-colts-defense-vs-baltimore-ravens-offense-in-week-1-2026-week-1-media-availability

COLTS DC BOB COOTER TUESDAY PRESSER: https://www.colts.com/video/indianapolis-colts-oc-jim-bob-cooter-on-week-1-vs-baltimore-ravens-daniel-jones-jonathan-taylor-tyler-warren-2026-week-1-media-availability

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The Indianapolis Colts today signed tackle Luke Tenuta to the 53-man roster from the practice squad and waived cornerback Jaylon Jones. The team also signed tight end Kenny Fletcher Jr. to the practice squad.

Tenuta, 6-8, 314 pounds, was signed to the team’s practice squad on August 31, 2026. He participated in Indianapolis’ 2026 offseason program and training camp. Tenuta has played in seven career games in his time with the Colts (2025-26, 2022), Arizona Cardinals (2024), Green Bay Packers (2022-23) and Buffalo Bills (2022). In 2025, he spent time on Indianapolis’ active roster and practice squad. Tenuta saw action in four games.

Jones, 6-2, 203 pounds, was selected by the Colts in the seventh round (221st overall) of the 2023 NFL Draft. He appeared in 44 career games (29 starts) and registered 157 tackles (108 solo), 5.0 tackles for loss, 21 passes defensed, two interceptions, one forced fumble and five special teams stops.

Fletcher Jr., 6-3, 250 pounds, participated in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 2026 offseason program and training camp. He was originally signed by the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent on May 8, 2026. Collegiately, Fletcher Jr. played in 41 career games (16 starts) at Rutgers (2022-25) and compiled 46 receptions for 373 yards (8.1 avg.) and two touchdowns. He began his career as a defensive end and registered 10 tackles (four solo), 4.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and one forced fumble in his first two seasons.

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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

INDIANAPOLIS – Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder/first baseman Ryan O’Hearn today began a major league rehab assignment with the Indianapolis Indians and doubled in his first at-bat, but the club fell to the Omaha Storm Chasers, 6-1, on Tuesday night at Victory Field. Mitch Jebb went 1-for-4 with a walk to extend his on-base streak to 17 contests.

The Storm Chasers (30-32, 63-73) quickly jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third inning on a two-out, two-run double from Brett Squires. Four more Omaha runs came across in the fifth frame for a 6-0 advantage. Squires drove in his third run of the game with an RBI single, Drew Waters smashed a two-run homer and Jacob Berry doubled home Carson Roccaforte.

The Indians (36-28, 67-72) pushed their lone run across the board in the bottom of the eighth inning on an RBI single by Tyler Callihan.

Thomas Harrington (L, 2-7) allowed six runs but struck out seven across his 4.2 innings of work for the Indians. Tony Gonsolin (W, 1-1) authored 5.0 shutout stanzas for the Storm Chasers.

Indianapolis and Omaha continue this week’s six-game series, the final homestand at Victory Field this season, on Wednesday night at 6:35 PM ET. Pittsburgh’s No. 16 prospect, LHP Hunter Barco (4-7, 4.05), is scheduled to start for the Indians with RHP Henry Williams (5-4, 5.56) in line for the Storm Chasers.

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INDIANA FOOTBALL

CHARLIE BECKER PRESSER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5pGFc6sflA

ROLIJAH HARDY PRESSER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI-pAwC2kXA

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INDIANA VOLLEYBALL

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – For the first time in the regular season, fans will get the chance to watch the 21st-ranked Indiana volleyball team (3-2, 0-0 B1G) at Wilkinson Hall. After five games in 10 days across four different cities, the Hoosiers make the journey home for the Indiana Invitational on Thursday (Sept. 10) and Friday (Sept. 11) evening.

A grueling beginning to the season was intentional under ninth-year head coach Steve Aird to get his team accustomed to playing good teams in big environments. Nothing will change as his squad prepares to play a pair of NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago. Cal Poly (Thursday) and Eastern Illinois (Friday) will come to Bloomington for a round-robin event this weekend.

As IU continues to work out its offensive lineup, third-year Ella Boersema continues to shine in any position she’s asked to play. The Indiana native provided 21 kills on the right side in a win over No. 12 Texas A&M and flipped back to the middle to score 16 kills in Monday’s victory over Southern Indiana. She’s second on the team with 3.26 kills per set and is hitting a team-best .357 on the year.

Team success on the offensive side of things continues to run through second-year setter Teodora Krickovic. She’s averaging 9.79 assists per set and 1.89 digs per set. In addition to that, she’s tapped in 17 kills including a season-best seven against No. 12 Texas A&M. IU continues to bolster its hitting percentage after a tough start to the year.

Both of IU’s games this weekend will start at 7 p.m. Cal Poly will take the court against IU on Thursday (Sept. 10) evening while Eastern Illinois will wrap up the invitational on Friday (Sept. 11). The two opposing teams will play a neutral site game as well on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m.

Gameday Details

(RV) Cal Poly (3-2) vs. #21 Indiana (3-2)

Thursday, September 10th | 7 p.m. ET | Wilkinson Hall (Bloomington, Ind.)

TV: B1G+ (Brooks White, Sam Egan and Allie Halm)

Live Video | Live Stats

Eastern Illinois (1-5) vs. #21 Indiana (3-2)

Friday, September 11th | 7 p.m. ET | Wilkinson Hall (Bloomington, Ind.)

TV: B1G+ (Nicholas Bobay, Jack Rizzo and Olivia Pierce)

Live Video | Live Stats

A Win Would

CAL POLY: Be the second win of the year against a team that made last year’s regional semifinals. It would also improve IU to 34-9 in the last four years at Wilkinson Hall.

EASTERN ILLINOIS: Be the 10th win in program history against Eastern Illinois and the second of the year against an OVC program.

BOTH: Put the Hoosiers at five wins during the early portion of the season and move then to 35-9 at Wilkinson Hall since 2023.

Stats and Trends

• Indiana to play first two home games this year against Cal Poly and Eastern Illinois.

• IU has finished .500 or better in each of the last four seasons – the program has won 80 games since 2022.

• Since the beginning of 2023, the Hoosiers are 33-9 inside the friendly confines of Wilkinson Hall.

Notable

WINNING AT HOME: Dating back to 2023, the Hoosiers have won 23-consecutive matches against unranked opponents at Wilkinson Hall. That includes a run of nine non-conference teams in that same stretch. Wins over Cal Poly and Eastern Illinois would improve IU to 35-9 at Wilkinson Hall since the 2023 season.

BOERSEMA’S BIG WEEK: Third-year middle blocker Ella Boersema averaged 3.44 kills per set in four games last week. That included 21 kills as an opposite hitter against No. 12 Texas A&M and 16 as a middle blocker against Southern Indiana. She hit .441 over that stretch of play for the Hoosiers.

BIG T OFFENSE: Second-year setter Teodora Krickovic has become a much bigger offensive threat during her second college campaign. Over the last two years, IU is 4-0 when she records at least five kills in a match. That includes games against No. 12 Texas A&M (7) and Southern Indiana (5) this season.

CALIFORNIA CONNECTION: Between Cal Poly (13) and Indiana (4), there will be 17 kids from the state of California involved in Thursday’s match in Bloomington. Both of each team’s leading scorers – Jaidyn Jager, Indiana (3.42 kills per set) and Kendall Beshear, Cal Poly (3.44 kills per set) – are from the Golden State.

STEPPING UP: In win over Southern Indiana, middle blockers Ella Boersema (16) and Victoria Gray (11) combined for 27 kills. It was the first time that IU had a pair of middle blockers each reach double figures in the same match since 2023 (at Northwestern – Oct. 29, 2023, Rammelsberg – 15, Kjolhede – 10).

EMERGING HELP: Third-year opposite hitter Avery Daum made her first start on the right side with seven kills and four blocks against Southern Indiana. She has been a fantastic practice player for the Hoosiers and finally got her chance to shine. All five primary attackers had at least seven kills in the win.

KEEP CLIMBING: Second-year setter Teodora Krickovic is closing in on 1,500 career assists during her time in Bloomington. She would only be the 12th setter in program history to hit that plateau. The Serbian has 1,398 over the last two years and is averaging 10.59 assists per set in her career.

TALLYING WINS: Since the 2022 campaign (four-plus years), Indiana has racked up 80 wins under head coach Steve Aird. That includes at least 15 wins in each full season during that stretch. IU will be looking to reach that plateau again for the fifth-straight year.

Scouting the Opponent

(RV) Cal Poly (3-2, 0-0 Big West)

• After a fantastic season in 2025, Cal Poly’s expectations remain high this year. That’s reflected in a non-conference schedule that sees them play Texas A&M, Indiana, Arizona State and Stanford. A veteran group is led by outside hitters Kendal Beshear (3.44 kills per set) and Emma Fredrick (3.22 kills per set).

• Setter Alexis Haury is familiar with the Hoosiers, having been the starting setter for Washington in last year’s match at Wilkinson Hall. She averages 10.39 assists per set for an offense that hits .222 in the first two weeks of the year. The Mustangs offer up 2.06 blocks per set as well.

Eastern Illinois (1-5, 0-0 OVC)

• The Panthers have embarked on a challenging schedule of their own. They have dropped five-straight games with defeats to Wright State, Dayton, BYU, Long Beach State and Wyoming. Head coach Ryan Millar is one of the best middle blockers to ever play for the U.S. Men’s National team. He was a three-time Olympian for the Americans.

• Katie Kopshever, a veteran pin attacker from Indiana, is the team’s leading scorer with 3.52 kills per set. Five other players have between 11 and 37 kills this year. Setter Alanys Nieves took over the reins of the offense against Wyoming with 40 helpers. The Panthers have just 30 total blocks on the year.

Inside the Series

Cal Poly

• Indiana and Cal Poly have never played in volleyball. However, the two schools did recently play in men’s soccer with the Hoosiers coming out on top. The last school from the Big West that IU played in volleyball was against Long Beach State in 2023.

Eastern Illinois

• These two sides have played just twice since 1985 but played nearly every season before that. IU leads the all-time series 9-2 with a win in the most recent contest in 2011.

• The first volleyball match in program history (1975) actually came against Eastern Illinois and resulted in a win for the Hoosiers. In 1981, the first year that women’s volleyball was an NCAA sanctioned sport, IU beat Eastern Illinois again.

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PURDUE VOLLEYBALL

Wednesday, September 9

IU Indy (3-3) at #14 Purdue (2-2)

6:30 p.m. ET | Holloway Gymnasium

STREAM: B1G+

MAMBU/TINDALL: LEADING THE BIG TEN

Purdue’s Addy Tindall and Mimi Mambu tie for #2 in the league for kills/set (4.06). Purdue’s the only school with two players ranked in the top-8.

The pair combined for just three attack errors vs. Texas A&M in 58 attempts.

HISTORY MADE

With the first win of the 2026 season, head coach Dave Shondell will become the outright all-time winningest head coach in Purdue Athletics history, surpassing men’s basketball legend Gene Keady, earning 513 wins.

Shondell ranks No. 2 among active head coaches for wins at their current Power 4 program (trails only Jerritt Elliott of Texas, in his 26th season with 638 Longhorn victories).

A GAUNTLET TO START THE SEASON

Purdue is competing in its toughest start to the season in program history, seeing three top-18 ranked opponents in the first four matches.

The Boilers face seven opponents in the first 17 days of the season (which includes NCAA-mandatory off-days), with over half of the opponents vs. top-18 ranked teams. This also includes three in the first six days of play – a stretch that included the defending national champions.

LAST WEEK AT A GLANCE

Last week, Purdue went 2-1 as the squad continued a gauntlet to start the season, playing three matches in a six-day span.

The Boilers averaged a .238 clip with 14.45 kills/set, 15.18 digs/set and 2.50 blocks per set.

Lameen “Mimi” Mambu led the team with 4.18 kills per set, doing so on a .250 clip.

Kate Hansen led the team in efficiency and blocks, totaling 13 (1.18/set) and a .395 attack %.

Ryan McAleer put up a defensive clinic vs. Georgia where she racked up 27 digs and was one assist shy of a double-double. Overall last week, she averaged 4.27 digs per set.

Taylor Anderson continues to improve, totaling 11 blocks (second only to Hansen), 31 digs (second only to McAleer) while totaling 116 assists (10.55/set).

The team’s most efficient set was .462% vs. #12 Texas A&M. Overall, they hit at least .333 in four sets and held opponents under .200 for four sets.

NEWCOMERS BY THE NUMBERS: 2026 CONTRIBUTIONS

Overall, 67% of the team’s points have been generated by newcomers: 182 of 271.5 points.

Newcomers (freshmen and transfers) have combined for 157 of the team’s 221 kills (71%).

In the back row, veteran libero Ryan McAleer is joined almost exclusively by newcomers (exception: Grace Heaney and Taylor Anderson’s full rotation – newcomers seen in the back include MaryKate Scheumann, Elle Schara, Kate Hansen).

BACK ROW STRENGTH

Three players posted double-digit digs in the match vs. #13 Creighton: freshman defensive specialist MaryKate Scheumann (13), junior libero Ryan McAleer (14) and senior setter Taylor Anderson (then-career-high 17).

Against Georgia, Purdue combined for 89 digs– the most by a Purdue team since 2021 (89 vs. Illinois on October 1, 2021). 27 of those digs were by Ryan McAleer, a career-high 18 by Taylor Anderson and 16 by Grace Heaney.

KATE HANSEN: ON THE SCENE

Kate Hansen, a senior transfer from Clemson (previously Texas Tech), has proven lethal in the front row.

She led the team vs. #18 TCU with a .429 clip (7-1-14) and three blocks.

Against #12 Texas A&M, she also posted a 7-1-11 attack (.545%) with six blocks – trailing only Taylor Anderson in the match.

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COACH BARRY ODOM PRESSER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbgwe_9aOjU

OC JOSH HENSON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekYl6YOOqa0

DC KEVIN KANE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtPasCt73s

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NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL

COACH MARCUS FREEMAN: https://fightingirish.com/news/2026/09/8/rice-marcus-freeman-weekly-press-conference-9826-notre-dame-football

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INJURIES WILL KEEP TWO STARTERS OUT FOR NO. 3 NOTRE DAME FOR ‘A COUPLE WEEKS’

Notre Dame safety Brauntae Johnson and defensive lineman Jason Onye have been ruled out of Saturday’s home opener against Rice and are expected to miss multiple weeks, coach Marcus Freeman said Tuesday.

His usual Monday weekly news conference was pushed back one day because their season opener was played Sunday night.

Both starters suffered left foot injuries during the first half of the 41-13 victory over Wisconsin. Neither returned to the game.

“We expect them back at some point this season, but they’re not going to be back next week, it’s going to be a couple weeks. That’s why you have depth,” Freeman said. “I feel good about the depth in the D-line room, I feel good about the depth of the DB’s room, the safeties room. But everybody’s roles increase when you lose two starters like Tay and Jason.”

Johnson was a second team selection on the Associated Press preseason All-American team after making eight starts and recording 48 tackles and four interceptions in 2025. Onye just made his first career start and has 53 tackles, including one Sunday, and 3 1/2 sacks during his six seasons with the Irish (1-0).

Freeman cited three possible replacements for Johnson — Luke Talich, Joey O’Brien and Ethan Long.

The Irish (1-0) consider Talich, a fourth-year player from Wyoming, a starter. He had four tackles Saturday after recording 25 tackles, one for loss, and three interceptions last season. Long, from Connecticut, appeared in four games in 2025, his first season in South Bend, and made three tackles. O’Brien is a Pennsylvania native in his first season at Notre Dame.

Notre Dame also has a strong depth chart along the defensive line and typically rotates players throughout the game, but Freeman expects Francis Brewu, a transfer from Pittsburgh who had three tackles in his Notre Dame debut, and Tionne Gray, a third-year player from St. Louis, to help replace Onye. Gray made three starts last year and had five tackles Sunday.

“With Jason being out, there’s a little bit more on everybody’s plate,” Freeman said. “But Tionne and Francis both played well, they played really well on Sunday. It was great to see both those guys were difference makers.”

Freeman also delivered encouraging news about injured linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, who did not play Sunday as he continues to recover from last year’s torn anterior cruciate ligament. Officially, he’s questionable against Rice, but Freeman is hopeful Viliamu-Asa will play Saturday.

He had 85 tackles and four sacks in 25 games during his first two college seasons despite making only three starts.

“He’s trending in a way we expect him to be out there Saturday,” Freeman said. “How much is to be determined, but at some point we’ve got to say ‘OK, here’s the start. You’re not going to be out there and pick up where you left off.’ So his practice volume has continuously increased. We were intentional about the work we put in last week to see if he could get to the point where mentally and physically he was ready to go, and we think we were a couple of days away.”

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NOTRE DAME VOLLEYBALL

ATHENS, Ga. – The Notre Dame volleyball team fell Tuesday night to Georgia in four sets, 25-20, 20-25, 9-25, 17-25 to drop to 1-3 on the season.

Sydney Helmers led the way offensively, totaling 13 kills, seven digs and two service aces. Helmers has been in double figures kills in all four matches this season.

Angie Desamours put up a career-high 11 kills to go along with three digs and a block. Chichi Nnaji also was in double figures with 10 kills, tying her career-high.

Defensively, Maya Evens led the team with 13 digs while Grace Langer had four blocks. Mae Kordas and Anna Bjork chipped in three blocks each as well.

Lily Fenton logged 19 assists and six digs and Maya Baker contributed 13 assists and eight digs as both Irish setters continued to see the floor.

Notre Dame returns to action this weekend for the Steve Baumrind Invitational hosted by the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. The Irish open the three-day tournament against Northern Kentucky on Friday at 4:30 p.m. 

How it happened

Set 1:

Kills from Angie Desamours and Chichi Nnaji followed by a service ace from Maya Evens vaulted Notre Dame to a 4-2 early lead

The Irish led 15-11 at the technical timeout behind three kills from Desamours and a pair of kills each from Nnaji and Sydney Helmers

A 3-0 Irish run, highlighted by a Chloe Hooker Ace, made it 19-13 Notre Dame and forced a Georgia timeout

The Bulldogs used a 5-1 scoring stint to cut the gap to 22-20 Irish

It was too little too late as back-to-back kills from Helmers followed by a Bulldogs’ attack error clinched the opening set for Notre Dame, 25-20

Five different Irish recorded kills, led by five from Helmers

Set 2:

Up 5-4, Georgia went on a quick 4-0 burst to take a 9-4 lead early in the set

The Bulldogs led 15-9 at the technical timeout

Both teams exchanged points throughout the rest of the set, as Georgia tied the match up with a 25-20 second set win

Set 3:

Georgia opened the set with 11 straight points to force the Irish into using both of their timeouts

The Bulldogs led 15-3 at the technical timeout

Georgia won the set 25-9 to take a 2-1 match lead

Set 4:

A pivotal set opened up with a 3-2 Irish lead after kills from Nnaji and Desamours

Later in the set, Georgia scored five of six points to take an 11-5 lead

A Bulldog service ace forced an Irish timeout with Notre Dame trailing 7-14

The momentum continued for Georgia, leading 20-10

The Bulldogs went on to win the set 25-17

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BUTLER VOLLEYBALL

Evanston, Ill. – The Northwestern Wildcats defeated the Butler Bulldogs 3-1 on Tuesday evening. With the loss, the Bulldogs are now 5-2 on the young season. 

Bulldog Bites 

Jersey Loyer led the squad with 14 digs.  

Raegan Durbin recorded 13 kills, including four in the fourth set. She also totaled eight digs.  

Elise Ward tallied 10 kills, including four in the first set. She also tallied three blocks and one assist.    

Zoe McDonald recorded nine kills, posting three kills in both sets three and four. She also tallied three blocks. 

Sawyer Jones recorded seven kills, including three in set two. She also tallied two blocks and one assist.   

On the Record with Head Coach Kyle Shonell

“I was incredibly proud of our outside hitter play tonight. Raegan and Elise came out strong, and Northwestern never really found an answer. We weren’t able to slow them down in the ways that we should have, and Northwestern had a massive size advantage but beat us by outworking us when it mattered.”

Set 1 Northwestern (25-21)

Both sides traded points to open the set as the Wildcats took a narrow 15-13 lead at the halfway point of set one. The Bulldogs and Wildcats continued to trade points throughout the first set. It would be the Wildcats who would take set one 25-21.

Set 2 Butler (25-19)

The Bulldogs opened set two trailing the Wildcats but quickly turned it around to take a  15-13 lead at the halfway point of set two. The Bulldogs continued to put pressure on the Wildcats, not letting them crawl back into the set. And it would be Butler who’d take set two, 25-19.

Set 3 Northwestern (25-17)

Butler continued to trade points with the Wildcats to open set three, and the Wildcats took an advantage of 15-9 in the middle of the frame. The Bulldogs continued to fight to try and close the gap. It would be the Wildcats who would take set three 25-17. 

Set 4 Northwestern (25-20)

The Bulldogs opened set four with a back-and-forth scoring battle, with the Wildcats taking a 15-13 edge midway through set four. The Bulldogs continued to fight back and came within one. However, it would be the Wildcats who’d close it out at take set four and match victory 25-20  

Up Next 

Butler will return home to host Bellarmine on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Then the Bulldogs will travel to Louisville, Ky., to play Bellarmine on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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BUTLER WOMEN’S SOCCER

The Butler women’s soccer team will face IU Indy in downtown Indianapolis on Thursday before hosting Central Michigan this weekend.

The Bulldogs (2-2-1) are coming off a 2-1 road victory at St. Thomas this past week. The Jaguars (2-3-1) lost to Notre Dame last weekend, while the Chippewas (2-3-1) most recently lost to No. 16 Wisconsin.

Butler at IU Indy

September 10 | 7 pm

at IU Indy (2-3-1, 0-0-0 Horizon League)

Location: Indianapolis, Ind. | Carroll Stadium

Watch: ESPN+

Bulldog Bits

           (as of Tuesday, 9/8)

Addison Ash leads the BIG EAST and is 29th nationally with 5.80 saves per match.

Chloe Brecht is 3rd in the conference and 48th nationally with a .636 shooting accuracy.

(last week at St. Thomas)

Riley Gumm was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll after punching in the game-winning goal. It was her career-first goal.

Lola Pepper’s goal was the first of her career.

Brecht’s assist was her first this season and the fifth of her career.

The victory was the 200th win for Co-Head Coach Tari St. John, both at Butler and in her career. Her first win at Butler came on August 27, 2006, on the road at Western Kentucky, and her 200th came in her 398th contest. Now in her 21st season, she has averaged just under 10 wins a season.

IU Indy

Head Coach: Angela Berry White (Second Season)

Goals: 11 (1.83 per match)

Assists: 13

Shots On Goal: 51-93 (.548)

Points Leader: Annaliese Black 7 (2g, 3a)

GK Saves: 32 (.627)

Series: Butler leads, 17-3-1 

Streak: Butler, W10

Most Recent: Sept. 11, 2025 (at Butler) Butler 2, IU Indy 0

Butler has shutout victories in 7 of 10 matches in the current winning streak.

IU Indy’s most recent win (3-1) was in 2010. 

Central Michigan

Head Coach: James DeCosemo (First Season)

Goals: 12 (2.0 per match)

Assists: 12

Shots On Goal: 27-58 (.466)

Points Leader: Ella Betzold 4 (3g, 1a)

GK Saves: 26 (.667)

Series: Butler, 1-0-0                    

Streak: Butler, W1

Most Recent: Aug. 14, 2025 (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Butler 2, Central Michigan 0

Last season’s contest was the only meeting in the series.

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IU INDY VOLLEYBALL

INDIANAPOLIS – After earning a pair of wins at the Hampton Inn Invitational, the IU Indy volleyball team faces a busy stretch this week, with four matches in four days beginning Wednesday night at Purdue.

The Jaguars will travel to West Lafayette for a 6:30 p.m. matchup with the Boilermakers on Wednesday, Sept. 9, before heading south to San Antonio, Texas, for the Roadrunner Classic at UTSA. IU Indy will play East Texas A&M and Gonzaga on Friday before closing the weekend against host UTSA on Saturday.

The Jags enter the week at 3-3 after winning two of three matches at The Jungle last weekend. IU Indy opened the Hampton Inn Invitational with a 3-0 sweep of Ohio, fell to Marshall in four sets and then rallied for a thrilling five-set victory over Akron.

Sophomore Jillian Tippmann enters the week with plenty of momentum after being named the Under Armour Horizon League Player of the Week on Tuesday. Tippmann led the Jaguars to their 2-1 weekend while averaging 4.42 kills per set and hitting .366. She ranked second among Horizon League players in both kills and hitting percentage for the week.

Tippmann has been IU Indy’s primary offensive weapon throughout the opening weeks of the season. She has totaled 90 kills through six matches, including a career-high-tying 21 kills against Marshall and 19 kills in Saturday’s win over Akron. Against Akron, she hit .341 while adding five digs and two blocks.

Freshman Bailey Sinish has also made an immediate impact. The Fort Wayne native has recorded 79 kills through the first six matches, including 19 kills against Akron, while hitting .424 against Marshall. Sinish and Tippmann give the Jaguars a strong one-two punch on the outside as IU Indy enters another demanding weekend.

Behind them, senior setter Grace Purichia continues to direct the offense. The reigning Horizon League Setter of the Year has accumulated 228 assists through six matches, including 50 in the five-set win over Akron. Purichia also added 11 digs and two blocks in the victory.

Sophomore libero Laura Roeder has anchored the defensive effort, recording 18 digs against Akron, while junior middle blocker Lila Britt leads the Jaguars with 11 total blocks on the season.

TEST AT PURDUE

The Jaguars’ week begins with one of their toughest opponents of the season as they travel to face Purdue.

The Boilermakers enter Wednesday’s matchup at 2-2 after opening the season with wins against Texas A&M and Georgia, before falling No. 18 TCU in straight sets Sunday.

Purdue features a veteran-heavy roster that includes senior setter Taylor Anderson, who led the nation in assists last season, along with several key returners and highly touted newcomers. The Boilermakers also entered 2026 coming off a 24-7 campaign that included a third-place Big Ten finish and an NCAA Regional Final appearance.

Wednesday’s match is scheduled for 6:30 PM ET at Holloway Gymnasium.

ROADRUNNER CLASSIC AWAITS

Following the Purdue match, the Jaguars will make the trip to San Antonio for three matches in the Roadrunner Classic.

IU Indy opens Friday at 11:30 AM ET against East Texas A&M, marking the first meeting between the two programs. The Lions enter the weekend after defeating St. John’s in four sets to improve to 5-1, their best start to a season since 2013.

The Jags will then return to the court Friday evening at 5:00 PM ET against Gonzaga before facing host UTSA at 2:00 PM ET Saturday to close the tournament.

UTSA enters the week at 3-2 after opening its home schedule with a pair of victories. The Roadrunners swept Tarleton State on Sept. 4, hitting .344 while holding the Texans to a .009 hitting percentage. Sydney Bryant led UTSA with 11 kills in the win, while Ledisi Kpea recorded six blocks.

IU Indy’s match against Purdue will be broadcast on B1G+ while their match against UTSA Is slated for ESPN+.

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IU INDY MEN’S SOCCER

DeKALB, Ill. – The IU Indianapolis men’s soccer team will open Horizon League play on Wednesday night (Sept. 9) when the Jaguars trek to league newcomer Northern Illinois (3-2) for a 4:00 p.m. CT (5 Eastern) kickoff. The Jaguars enter play on a three-game winning streak while NIU has won two-in-a-row. 

Head coach Keegan Boom’s team has reeled off three straight 1-0 wins over Lindenwood, Bowling Green and Southern Indiana and not conceded a score since the season-opening 2-1 defeat at Louisville. In goal, freshman Peter Field has been brilliant with a 0.50 goals against average and three shutouts behind a sturdy back line. Defensively, senior Jago Thompson-Roberts and juniors Jai Dindiyal and Luke Gonda have played all 360 minutes and limited opponents to a combined 15 shots on goal the past three games. 

Offensively, Jose Antonio Herrera has converted three penalty kicks to fuel the offense while freshman Thomas Weinrich has the team’s lone score from the run of play. Freshman Santiago Sanchez has continued to be the catalyst, drawing multiple PK opportunities from his midfield spot. 

QUOTABLE

“I’m incredibly proud of the team with tonight’s performance. It was 90 minutes of battle in the heat and the guys worked hard for each other. Everyone stepped up when needed and performed their roles very well. A third clean sheet in a row to top off a a third consecutive win gives us confidence going into conference play,” Boom said following the 1-0 road win at Southern Indiana last Wednesday. 

UNRANKED

Despite going on the road and earning a win over a previously unbeaten Southern Indiana team last week, the Jaguars dropped from the United Soccer Coaches North Region polls. IU Indy was previously No. 10 in the polls, but dropped from the rankings this week, being replaced by Lindenwood. It marked the second straight week the top nine spots were occupied by Big Ten teams. 

AWARDS

Freshman Peter Field was named the #HLMSOC Defensive Player of the Week after back-to-back shutouts over Lindenwood and Bowling Green. Lindenwood entered play as the reigning Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) champs while the win over BGSU was the Jaguars’ first victory over the Falcons since 2004. He was also named TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week honorable mention for his efforts and was named to the Unigol Team of the Week. 

KNOW YOUR FOE

Northern Illinois is 3-2 to start the season with wins over Butler, UIC and Eastern Illinois. Three different Huskies have tallied two goals on the season as NIU is paced by Vance Sheffield’s five points. Tobias Crear and Luka Vasic also enter play with a pair of goals. In goal, Cayden Crawford has a 1.80 goals against average and 21 saves in five appearances. The Huskies are 1-1 at home this season with a win over UIC and a loss to Marquette.  

SERIES HISTORY

IU Indy is 4-3 all-time against NIU and 1-1 in two meetings in DeKalb. NIU defeated the Jaguars 2-1 in Indy last season and won three of the past four meetings between the two programs. 

UP NEXT

The Jags will open a stretch of three straight home matches this weekend when they host Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday (Sept. 12) at 5:00 p.m. at Carroll Stadium on ESPN+.

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INDIANA STATE FOOTBALL

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State football continues the 2026 season on the road this weekend as the Sycamores travel to Eastern Illinois on Saturday, September 12. Kickoff at O’Brien Stadium is set for 7 p.m. ET with the game to be carried live on ESPN+ and 105.5 The Legend.

Game Preview

About the Matchup

Saturday night’s contest features the 92nd meeting all-time between Indiana State and Eastern Illinois and the eighth in the last 10 years. Eastern Illinois holds the 46-41-4 all-time advantage in the series, while Indiana State has won four of the seven in the Curt Mallory coaching era, including last season’s 38-14 win against the Panthers at Memorial Stadium.

The Sycamores built a 17-0 halftime lead last season on September 6, 2025, as Indiana State utilized strong early play from quarterback Elijah Owens (9-for-10, 67 passing yards, 1 TD, 50 rushing yards), before an injury put Keegan Patterson on the field. The Sycamores continued to ride the momentum with Patterson going 11-of-17 for 111 yards and a pair of scores, while Braxton Sampson and Logan Wilson combined for six TFL, 1.5 sacks, and a forced fumble in the win.

The Indiana State win snapped a two-game losing streak to EIU, including a 27-20 defeat the last time the Sycamores traveled to Charleston, Ill. and O’Brien Stadium.

Against the Ohio Valley Conference

Indiana State has lined up against four current members of the Ohio Valley Conference, including their 2026 season-opener against SEMO two weeks ago. The Sycamores have an all-time record of 66-78-4 against current members of the OVC.

The Sycamores fell in the season opener to SEMO on August 28, 2026, as Indiana State was unable to rid their second half momentum in falling to the Redhawks, 23-21. Trailing 17-7 in the third quarter, Elijah Owens turned it on with a touchdown pass to Jayden Reed, before setting up a second Indiana State touchdown with a 43-yard completion to BJ Wuest to swing the advantage back to the Sycamores with the 21-20 lead. However, Indiana State was unable to answer a late SEMO field goal in taking the season-opening loss.

Indiana State is 41-46-4 all-time against EIU, 5-5 against SEMO, 1-1 against Tennessee Tech, and 19-26 against Western Illinois.

Quarterback Takedowns

Indiana State’s three sacks in the 2026 season have all been the first quarterback sacks by Robert Beasley, Peter Eyabi, and Micah McNair in their Sycamore career. The Sycamore trio have highlighted a defensive presence that currently ranks 48th in the NCAA FCS in sacks per game (1.5).

First Sacks at Indiana State

Peter Eyabi – vs. SEMO (2nd Quarter, 12-yard Loss)

Robert Beasley – at Purdue (2nd Quarter, 8-yard Loss)

Micah McNair – at Purdue (4th Quarter, 8-yard Loss)

Sycamores in the FCS Top 25 Statistical Leaderboards

Through the first two weeks of the 2026 season, the Sycamores are making their mark on the NCAA FCS statistical standings sitting inside the Top 40 in multiple team and Top 50 in multiple individual categories.

Team Rankings

1st – 4th Down Conversion Pct Defense (0.000)

1st – Fumbles Lost (0)

1st – Red Zone Offense (1.000)

15th – Passing Yards per Completion (14.46)

25th – Passing Offense (253.0)

25th – Team Passing Efficiency (154.45)

28th – Rushing Defense (115.0)

33rd – Completion Pct (0.648)

35th – Turnovers Lost (2)

38th – 3rd Down Conversion Pct (0.444) 

Individual Rankings

1st – Field Goal Percentage (Sebastian Lopez – 100.0%)

15th – Receiving Touchdowns (Jayden Reed – 2)

16th – Total Tackles (Nic Yatsko – 10.5)

25th – Punting (Spencer Conrad – 42.2)

31st – Field Goals per Game (Sebastian Lopez – 1.00)

32nd – Completion Percentage (Elijah Owens – 65.3%)

32nd – Solo Tackles (Nic Yatsko – 5.00)

34th – Yards per Pass Attempt (Elijah Owens – 7.94)

40th – Total Offense (Elijah Owens – 230.0)

42nd – Passing Efficiency (Elijah Owens – 141.4)

44th – Passed Defended (Kaleb Harris – 1.00)

44th – Passing Yards per Completion (Elijah Owens – 12.16)

45th – Completions per Game (Elijah Owens – 16.00)

45th – Total Touchdowns (Jayden Reed – 2)

50th – Passing Yards (Elijah Owens – 389)

50th – Tackles for Loss (Kaleb Harris – 1.25)

Owens Enters Top 10

Indiana State quarterback Elijah Owens is about to enter rare air in the Sycamore career annals as the redshirt junior quarterback is on the brink of becoming just the eighth player in program history to sit in the Top 10 in both career total offensive yards and career passing yards. He enters the weekend against EIU with 3,628 career offensive yards (10th all-time) and 2,733 career passing yards (11th all-time) with sights set on moving even higher this year.

Top 10 Career Offensive Yards

1. Jeff Miller (1982-85) 7,519 yards

8. Ronnie Fouch (2011-12) 4,182 yards

9. Julian Reese (2001-02) 4,109 yards

10. Elijah Owens (2023-pres.) 3,467 yards

Top 10 Career Passing Yards

1. Mike Perish (2012-14) 6,716 yards

7. Julian Reese (2001-02) 2,961 yards

8. Kevin Cox (1993-96) 2,885 yards

9. Kyle Frondorf (1986-88) 2,778 yards

10. Blayne Baggett (2005) 2,741 yards

Elijah Owens (2023-pres.) 2,733 yards

Scoring Touchdowns

Indiana State has found a new big play receiving threat in freshman Jayden Reed as the wide receiver heads into the third week of the 2026 season looking to continue a touchdown streak. Reed hauled in scores of 25 yards (SEMO) and 45 yards (at Purdue) over the first two weeks of the 2026 season and leads the Sycamores with seven receptions for 114 yards on the year.

Reed is one of three Sycamores to score their first touchdown in the Indiana State Blue & White to date this season, joined by running backs Ashton Hayes (SEMO) and Max McCool (at Purdue).

First Indiana State Touchdowns

Ashton Hayes – 4th Quarter vs. SEMO (1-yard TD Run)

Jayden Reed – 4th Quarter vs. SEMO (25-yard TD Reception)

Max McCool – 4th Quarter at Purdue (1-yard TD Run)

Big Play Threats

Two games into the season and the big play potential from the Indiana State offense has never been more apparent as five different Sycamores have recorded a catch of at least 40 yards this year. After BJ Wuest (43) and Torey French (42) all posted long receptions in the opener against SEMO, Jayden Reed (45), Thomas Amankwaa (55), and Tyler Nansel (41) also eclipsed the mark this past Friday at Purdue.

Just six wide receivers combined for 13 receptions of 40 or more yards in the 2025 with Rashad Rochelle accounting for eight of them.

40-plus yard receptions in 2026

55 yards – Thomas Amankwaa (4th Quarter at Purdue)

45 yards (TD) – Jayden Reed (4th Quarter at Purdue)

43 yards – BJ Wuest (3rd Quarter vs. SEMO)

42 yards – Torey French (1st Quarter vs. SEMO)

41 yards – Tyler Nansel (2nd Quarter vs. Purdue)

First Starts in 2026

Over the first two games of the 2026 season, Indiana State has featured several players making their initial starts in the Sycamore Blue and White.

First Starts Against SEMO – Andy Hertlein (OL), BJ Wuest (WR), Devin Johnson (DB), Mason Keifer (DL), Prinz Guitian (OL), Ashton Hayes (RB), Tyler Nansel (TE), Anthony Walk Jr. (DB).

First Starts Against EIU – Aaron Ball (RB), Jayden Reed (WR), Justice Musser (OL), Micah McNair (LB)

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PURDUE FT. WAYNE MEN’S SOCCER

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Purdue Fort Wayne hosts NAIA foe Defiance on Wednesday (Sept. 9) in the final non-league game of the season for the Mastodons. Kick at the Hefner Soccer Complex is set for 7 p.m.

Game Day Information

Who: Defiance Yellow Jackets

When: Wednesday, September 9 | 7 PM 

Know Your Foe

Defiance is 0-4-1 so far this season, with losses at Taylor, Ohio Christian, Indiana Northwest and Manchester. The Yellow Jackets played to a 3-3 tied at Kentucky Christian at the end of August. Defiance has scored six goals on 35 shots on goal, while allowing 18 goals and recording 19 saves. 

Series History

The Mastodons and Yellow Jackets meet for the first time in 37 years on Thursday. Their last meeting resulted in a 6-0 Purdue Fort Wayne victory in Defiance, Ohio.

A Record-Setting Party

The Purdue Fort Wayne men’s and women’s soccer teams drew a combined record crowd of 1,229 fans to the Hefner Soccer Complex for the annual Party at the Pitch on Thursday (Sept. 3). The crowd set a new home record for the programs.

Last Time Out

Five different Mastodons found the back of the net as Purdue Fort Wayne earned its first win of the season over Manchester at Party at the Pitch. Brandon Razo opened the scoring in the sixth minute with his second consecutive goal. Jonny Hernandez followed 12 minutes later with his first collegiate goal, assisted by Christian Agyekum and Max Titterington. Jackson Liley added to the Mastodons’ lead with a shot into the bottom-right corner of the net. Eason Haller added his first collegiate goal in the 65th minute before Antonio Tiscareno found the back of the net just over two minutes later to make it 5-0. Daven Arias assisted on Tiscareno’s goal, marking his first assist of the season. 

Poll

Purdue Fort Wayne was picked to finish fourth in the 2026 Horizon League Preseason Poll. The ‘Dons were edged by Cleveland State (111), Green Bay (95) and league-newcomer Northern Illinois (92).

Coming Up

The Mastodons kickoff Horizon League play at IU Indy on Saturday (Sept. 12) at 5 p.m.

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EVANSVILLE MEN’S SOCCER

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville men’s soccer team dropped a 1-0 decision to No. 21 Louisville on Tuesday night at Arad McCutchan Stadium, with the Cardinals scoring the lone goal in the 81st minute.

Evansville recorded the first shot of the night in the fourth minute when Ben Zec sent an attempt off target. Louisville controlled possession for much of the opening 20 minutes, generating three shots from Braydon Sellers during the stretch.

The Aces created another quality opportunity in the 27th minute when Rodrigo Zambrana found space near the top of the box. His attempt was blocked by a Louisville defender.

The Cardinals put together their most dangerous sequence of the first half in the 31st minute, recording three shots in a matter of seconds. Hugo Amo, the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Goalkeeper of the Week, came up with back-to-back saves before the Evansville defense blocked Louisville’s third attempt to keep the match scoreless.

Each team added two more shots before the end of the half as the teams entered the break tied 0-0.

Evansville continued to create opportunities early in the second half, with Alejandro Fernandez recording a shot in the 48th minute. Fernandez found another opportunity in the 64th minute, but his attempt was blocked. Louisville generated several chances over the next 10 minutes, but the Aces’ defense continued to keep the Cardinals off the scoreboard.

Fernandez nearly put Evansville in front in the 76th minute, finding himself with a prime opportunity in front of the net, but Louisville’s goalkeeper made the save.

Louisville broke through in the 81st minute when Giacomo Zizza, the Cardinals’ leading scorer, converted a free kick from just outside the top of the box to give Louisville a 1-0 advantage.

The Aces continued to push for an equalizer in the closing minutes and earned a set-piece opportunity with less than 20 seconds remaining. Amo got a shot off on the play, but Evansville was unable to find the back of the net as Louisville held on for the victory.

With the loss, Evansville moves to 0-4-1 on the season, while Louisville improves to 5-0-1. The Aces return to action on Friday when they travel to St. Charles, Mo., to take on Lindenwood.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Following a strong performance in Evansville’s first result of the season, Hugo Amo (Burgos, Spain/Casper CC) has been named Missouri Valley Conference Goalkeeper of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday afternoon.

Amo played all 90 minutes in goal for the Aces in Friday’s 1-1 draw at Kentucky, recording two saves while helping lead an Evansville defense that blocked five shots.

The weekly honor is the first of Amo’s career and is the first MVC weekly award for Evansville this season.

Through four matches, Amo ranks third in the MVC with 3.25 saves per game and sixth with 13 total saves.

Amo and the Purple Aces are back in action Tuesday evening for a non-conference matchup against No. 21 Louisville at Arad McCutchan Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m., with the match streaming live on ESPN+.

Evansville will then travel to Lindenwood on Friday for its next road contest.

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EVANSVILLE WOMEN’S SOCCER

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Junior defender Brielle LaBerge (Cumming, Ga./Forsyth Central) was named Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week on Tuesday, earning her second MVC weekly honor of the season, the league office announced.

LaBerge helped lead the Aces to a 2-0 shutout victory over Austin Peay Thursday night at Arad McCutchan Stadium. The junior recorded three shots on goal and scored twice while playing 86 minutes for an Evansville defense that posted its second clean sheet of the season.

LaBerge opened the scoring with a spectacular goal in the first half. After receiving the ball with space along the left side of the field, she advanced toward goal before unleashing a 30-yard right-footed shot that bent into the top-left corner and out of reach of the Austin Peay goalkeeper.

She added her second goal of the night in the second half, converting a penalty kick to complete the first brace of her career. LaBerge’s two-goal performance marked the first multi-goal game by an Ace since Taylor Johnson in 2024.

LaBerge previously earned MVC Defensive Player of the Week honors on August 18 after helping Evansville to a 1-1 result against Purdue.

Through four matches this season, LaBerge ranks fifth in the MVC with 1.25 points per game. She also ranks tied for ninth in the conference with two goals and ranks tied for fourth with 0.50 goals per game.

LaBerge and the Purple Aces return to action Thursday, traveling to Middle Tennessee for a non-conference matchup. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. CT.

Evansville returns home on September 19, hosting Southern Illinois in its first MVC matchup of the season at Arad McCutchan Stadium.

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SOUTHERN INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER

EVANSVILLE, Ind.- University of Southern Indiana Men’s Soccer fell to Bellarmine University Tuesday evening in a 2-1 battle at Strassweg Field.

The Screaming Eagles (0-2-2) fought back from an early deficit to tie the match late in the first half, but the Knights (4-0-1) scored the go-ahead goal late in the second half.

Sophomore midfielder Edin Cvorovic led the stat sheet with the team’s first goal of the season at home on his only shot of the contest. He was followed by junior midfielder Ahiro Nakamae, sophomore midfielder Nolan Stevens, and sophomore forward Kadiri Bello, all of whom each took one shot. Sophomore goalkeeper Jacob English made seven saves in the game, bringing his season total to 22.

Bellarmine came out aggressive early in the match, but English was up to the task with three early saves in the first 15 minutes. However, in the 18th minute of the match, the Knights’ junior forward Johan Nissen-Lie found the back of the net to go up 1-0.

The Screaming Eagles found an offensive spark later in the first half, as Cvorovic rocketed a shot from outside the top of the box to score his first goal of the season and knot the game at one going into halftime.

Much like the first half, USI was held to the defensive end of the field for much of the half, facing more pressure by Bellarmine’s attack. In the 71st minute of the match, Bellarmine’s Nissen-Lie scored his second goal of the match off a deflection to push the Knights back ahead, 2-1. In the waning minutes, the Screaming Eagles made a final offensive push, but a shot from Bello missed just high of the goal. One final quality opportunity never came for USI before the final whistle.

USI Men’s Soccer will travel to Marquette University on Saturday, September 12, to kick off a four-game road trip. Saturday’s match against Marquette starts at 1 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPN+, with live stats available on usiscreamingeagles.com .

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VALPOMEN’S GOLF

The Valparaiso University men’s golf team teed off the 2026-2027 season on Tuesday, playing the first round and the majority of the second round at Iowa’s ANF Fall Classic at the par-72, 7481-yard Blue Top Ridge in Riverside, Iowa. The Beacons had a few holes left in Round 2 when play was halted due to darkness. The remainder of the tournament will be played on Wednesday.

How It Happened

Junior Rob Politza (Lemont, Ill. / Lemont Township) was Valpo’s Round-1 leader, carding a 2-under 70 to begin his season.

The par-5 fourth hole was kind to the Beacons in the opening round, as Politza, redshirt senior Ryan Somerville (Aurora, Ontario / Aurora) and senior Adam Melliere (Zionsville, Ind. / Zionsville) all eagled that hole.

In the second round, Somerville climbed 11 places on the leaderboard and is at +3 for the tournament through 35 holes. He is tied for 31st in the 86-player field, the best among Beacons. Somerville is even in the second round with one hole remaining.

Freshman Tyler Samaan (Elgin, Ill. / Burlington) recovered from an 80 (+8) in his first collegiate round by trimming nine strokes off that score in Round 2. He elevated 25 places on the player leaderboard to crack the top 50, leaving off with one hole remaining in the second round.  

As a team, the Beacons are at +43 for the tournament, ranking 11th of 14 on the leaderboard. Valpo is ahead of Evansville, Chicago State and Eastern Illinois.

South Dakota is atop the team leaderboard at -17, while Cole Witherow of the Coyotes holds the individual lead going into Day 2 at -10.

Up Next

The conclusion of the event will take place on Wednesday at Blue Top Ridge in Riverside, Iowa. A link to live scoring via Clippd is available on ValpoAthletics.com.  

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VALPO WOMEN’S SOCCER

Valpo (2-4-1, 0-0-0 MVC)

Thursday, Sept. 10 – Oakland (1-3-1) – 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 13 – Southern Indiana (0-5-2) – 1 p.m.

Next Up in Valpo Soccer: The Valpo soccer team closes out the nonconference campaign this week with a pair of home matches on Brown Field, hosting Oakland Thursday evening and Southern Indiana Sunday afternoon. The latter match will serve as the program’s Senior Day match.

Previously: The Beacons split their two matches last week, earning a 2-0 road win at Purdue Fort Wayne before falling 2-0 at the hands of perennial NCAA Tournament program Milwaukee.

Looking Ahead: Valpo opens the Missouri Valley Conference schedule next Sunday, Sept. 20 as it hosts defending MVC regular season champion Drake.

Following the Beacons: Both of this week’s matches will be broadcast live on ESPN+, and live stats for both matches will be available at ValpoAthletics.com. All home matches will be broadcast live on ESPN+ as part of The Valley on ESPN, while select road fixtures will also have live video available. 

Head Coach John Marovich: In his 19th season at the helm of the Valpo program, John Marovich holds a 143-143-54 (.500) record both overall and at Valpo as a head coach. The 2014 Horizon League Coach of the Year and the head of the 2022 MVC Coaching Staff of the Year, Marovich is Valpo’s all-time leader in victories.

Series Notes: Oakland – The Golden Grizzlies own a 12-5-2 advantage in the all-time series, which includes stretches where the programs shared conference affiliation in the Mid-Continent Conference (1999-2006) and the Horizon League (2013-16). Last season, in the first meeting between the two programs in six years, Valpo and Oakland played to a 1-1 draw in Rochester – each side converted a penalty kick in the tie, with Molly O’Rear scoring for the Beacons.

Southern Indiana – The Beacons and Screaming Eagles are meeting for the second time, with USI prevailing last season in Evansville by a 2-0 final in the first meeting.

Scouting the Opposition: Oakland – The Golden Grizzlies enter Thursday’s match at 1-3-1 on the season, most recently playing to a scoreless draw with Rochester Christian despite a 42-2 advantage in shots. Oakland has been held scoreless since a 3-0 season-opening win over Mercyhurst. OU was picked in fifth place in the Horizon League preseason poll.

Southern Indiana – The Screaming Eagles enter the week at 0-5-2 on the season, with a matchup against Cleveland State Thursday prior to their visit to Brown Field on Sunday. USI was picked in third place in the OVC preseason poll.

Celebrating the Seniors: Valpo will honor its senior class on Sunday prior to its match against USI, recognizing seven team members in their final season with the Beacons: Alex Arnold, Daisy Boardman, Tatum Coleman, Julianna De Simone, Eve Miller, Emma Paraskos and Carly Stewart.

On the Horizon: Valpo’s match against Oakland on Thursday marks its third straight contest against a Horizon League foe, following matchups with Purdue Fort Wayne and Milwaukee last week. This is actually the second straight season the Beacons have played three straight against teams out of the Horizon League, as the 2025 schedule opened with Detroit Mercy, Oakland and Purdue Fort Wayne. It is also the second time this season Valpo has played three consecutive fixtures against teams out of the same conference, as the season opened with OVC foes Eastern Illinois, SIUE and Western Michigan.

Looking For Nonconference Success: With a pair of wins this week, the Beacons would close out their nonconference slate at .500 with a 4-4-1 record. That would mark the fifth time in the last seven seasons that Valpo has finished .500 or better in the nonconference schedule.

Home Sweet Home: It will be nearly a month before Valpo’s next road trip, as the Beacons close nonconference play with a pair of home matches before opening the MVC schedule with two matches on Brown Field.  It is the first time Valpo will have played four straight home matches since playing five in a row back in the Eastgate Field days in September and October 2008. The 28-day stretch between games away from home will be the longest such stretch in program history.

Weather or Not: Maybe it’s a good thing the Beacons won’t be traveling for a while, as inclement weather seems to follow them around on the road. Valpo had a delay of around two hours for lightning last week in its match at Purdue Fort Wayne, already the third time this season it has dealt with a lightning delay in a road fixture – the start of the season opener at Eastern Illinois was delayed a half hour, while the match at SIUE featured a lightning delay of around 45 minutes late in the first half.

Rock On, Raco: Freshman Sofia Raco has made an immediate impact on the Beacons’ attack in her rookie season. Raco tallied an assist in each of the first two weekends of action, and most recently scored the eventual match-winning goal in Valpo’s victory at Purdue Fort Wayne last Thursday. Raco’s four points are tied for third-most on the team.

Brace Yourself: Sophomore Martha Goddard did a lot of things last year as a rookie on her way to MVC All-Freshman Team honors, but she added a new accomplishment to her resume in the Western Illinois win. Goddard stepped up to a penalty kick and dispatched it for her first goal of the season in the 67th minute, and then capped the scoring with a 75th-minute strike for her first career brace. She added her team-high third goal of the year last week in the win at Purdue Fort Wayne, giving her six goals for her collegiate career.

Clean Sheet: Junior goalkeeper Salange Bell boasted 16 shutouts in goal in her two seasons at Montclair State, but picked up her first clean sheet at the D-I level last week, blanking Purdue Fort Wayne. Bell went on to make a season-high seven saves last time out at Milwaukee.

A Big Win: Valpo’s 4-0 victory over Western Illinois was the program’s largest margin of victory and most goals scored since downing the Leathernecks 5-1 last season. It also marked the program’s largest home victory since a 5-1 win over Chicago State Aug. 31, 2023.

Stringing Together Multiple Goals: The Beacons found the back of the net eight times over a three-match stretch, bookending the four-goal performance against WIU with multiple goals against SIUE and Detroit Mercy. It is the first time Valpo has scored at least two goals in three straight contests since doing so in a three-match stretch in MVC play versus Evansville, Belmont and Murray State in October 2022.

A Rare Defeat: The Beacons’ loss to Detroit Mercy was notable in that they fell despite finding the back of the net twice. Valpo entered the day 31-0-3 in its previous 34 matches when scoring at least two goals. Prior to the loss to the Titans, the last time Valpo had dropped such a match came in a 3-2 defeat at Indiana State Oct. 5, 2019.

Back-to-Back: Sophomore Brylie Walos entered the second weekend of play without a collegiate goal to her credit and having taken just 10 shot attempts in 19 career matches, but she made sure she wouldn’t exit the weekend that way. Walos found the back of the net in the eighth minute against Western Illinois for the eventual match-winner, and followed against UDM with a 71st-minute goal which brought the Beacons to within 3-2. She is the first Valpo player to net a goal in consecutive matches since Molly O’Rear did so against Western Illinois and Drake mid-September last season.

One, Two, Three Goal Involvements: Junior Ashley Trippeer came into the WIU match with one goal and no assists across her 37 collegiate matches before playing a part in three of Valpo’s four goals in the win. Trippeer delivered the primary assist on Walos’ match-winner, scored her second collegiate goal in the 13th minute and registered the assist on Goddard’s second goal to make it three goal involvements on the evening. Trippeer is the first Valpo player with a multi-assist match since Molly O’Rear did so at Western Illinois last year, and the first with three goal involvements in a match since O’Rear and Kiara Desiderio did so in the aforementioned match.

Just Helping Out: Junior Alyssa Thomas tallied one assist apiece in each of her first two collegiate seasons, but has outdone her career total already this season. Thomas assisted on Valpo’s second goal in the draw at SIUE, on the match-winning goal in the win over WIU and on the Beacons’ first goal against Detroit Mercy. She is the first Beacon to accomplish that since Martha Goddard did so last year in nonconference play — prior to that, you have to go back to 2017 to find a Valpo player with helpers in three consecutive contests.

Picking Up Where She Left Off: It’s no surprise to see sophomore Kiara Desiderio celebrating goals, and she has done so twice already this season, giving the Beacons the lead in the 81st minute at SIUE in the eventual draw and getting Valpo on the board late in the first half against Detroit Mercy. Desiderio now has nine goals in 24 collegiate matches, including seven in 15 matches in nonconference action. The sophomore also picked up an assist on Valpo’s second goal versus UDM, the third time in her career she has had multiple goal involvements in a match.

Preseason Honoree: Coming off a rookie campaign in which she was named the Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year, sophomore Kiara Desiderio was named to the Preseason All-MVC Team. Desiderio, who became Valpo’s first Freshman of the Year since joining the Valley and was also a Second Team All-MVC choice, kicked off her Beacon career with a team-high seven goals in 2025 — tied for third-most by a freshman in program history. She ranked third in the MVC in goals and fifth in points (15), while also being tied for seventh nationally in goals by a freshman.

Who’s Back: The Beacons return 16 players who saw action on the pitch last season, including eight regular starters. That group accounted for 73.4% of the team’s minutes played by field players in 2025, including six players who played over 1,000 minutes – led by junior Ashley Trippeer, who played 1,397 minutes.

Who’s Gone: Valpo graduated four seniors from last year’s squad and had five other offseason departures. Notably, Second Team All-MVC honoree Molly O’Rear and starting goalkeeper Kate Sheridan were among the group of seniors.

Who’s New: The Beacons welcome nine new players to the program this season: seven true freshmen, one Division I transfer and one Division III transfer.

Good as Goddard: Sophomore forward Martha Goddard returns for her second season in the Brown and Gold after a strong rookie campaign. An MVC All-Freshman Team selection, Goddard tallied three goals and recorded five assists, the latter mark matching the program record for assists by a freshman. She was tied for second in the MVC in assists and tied for fourth on Valpo’s overall single-season chart. Goddard became the first Valpo player to register an assist in three consecutive contests since 2017.

Looking Back at Last Year: Valpo posted a 5-8-4 overall record in 2025 and went 2-4-3 in MVC play, earning eight more points in the Valley than the previous season despite playing one fewer conference game and raising its winning percentage 162 points year-over-year. The Beacons scored 21 goals while surrendering 28 goals, improving their goal differential by 21 goals over 2024. This all came with the vast majority of field player minutes coming from underclassmen, as the 2025 Beacons had 41.2% of their field player minutes played by freshman and 42.3% by sophomores. Kiara Desiderio was named the MVC Freshman of the Year and was joined by Molly O’Rear on the Second Team All-MVC, while Martha Goddard joined Desiderio on the MVC All-Freshman Team.

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MARIAN ATHLETICS

AT HOME THIS WEEK

Monday, Sept. 7

– Men’s Soccer won, 6-0, vs. St. Mary-of-the-Woods

Thursday, Sept. 10

– Men’s Soccer Developmental Team vs. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 7 p.m.

– Cycling vs. USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships

Friday, Sept. 11

– Cycling vs. USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships

Saturday, Sept. 12

– (RV) Volleyball vs. Saint Francis (Ind.), 1 p.m.

– Men’s Soccer vs. #3 Indiana Tech, 7 p.m.

– Cycling vs. USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships

Sunday, Sept. 13

– Cycling vs. USA Cycling Collegiate Track National Championships (if necessary)

MEN’S GOLF

– 11th-ranked Marian Men’s Golf placed fifth as a team in the Mid-South Classic in Newton, Kansas last week

– Drew Hardin was the top Knights finisher; freshman Ryan Cesare recorded a hole-in-one in his first collegiate round

– This week, the Knights take on the Wildcat Invitational hosted at Purdue University on Monday and Tuesday

WOMEN’S SOCCER

– 5th-ranked Women’s Soccer played to a scoreless draw with second-ranked and defending NAIA national runner-up Cumberlands on Tuesday

– The Knights followed up with road wins at Saint Xavier (5-1) on Saturday and at Olivet Nazarene (4-1) on Monday

– MU had five different goal scorers in the win over SXU before Sienna Mullen and Lauren Marsh both recorded braces in the win over ONU

VOLLEYBALL

– Marian Volleyball improved to 2-0 in Crossroads League play on Wednesday, sweeping Goshen on the road

– The Knights traveled to Parkville, Missouri where they earned sweeps over Central Baptist and Mission, while suffering a five-set loss against host Park in a thriller on Friday

– MU faces sixth-ranked Indiana Wesleyan on the road on Wednesday before making its debut at home this season on Saturday against Saint Francis (Ind.) at 1 p.m. in the Physical Education Center

MEN’S SOCCER

– Marian Men’s Soccer picked up a 4-1 win over Saint Xavier on Wednesday before defeating Judson 2-0 at home on Saturday

– Samuel Wehaus and Triston Evans swept Crossroads League Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week honors 

– The Knights extended their win streak to five matches on Monday with a 6-0 win over St. Mary-of-the-Woods, when Wehaus recorded a hat trick to extend his nation-leading goal tally to 10

– Marian returns to Ascension St. Vincent Field on Saturday with a showdown with third-ranked Indiana Tech at 7 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY

– 8th-ranked Marian Men’s Cross Country brought home the team title at the Mastodon Alumni Open, beating out host Division I Purdue Fort Wayne in the process

– Benjamin Riehle was the top collegiate finisher in the meet, finishing second overall

– The sixth-ranked women placed second as a team in the Mastodon Alumni Open; Gracynn Hinkley was the top Marian finisher, placing fourth overall

FOOTBALL

– 12th-ranked Marian Football picked up its first win of the season on Saturday in dominant fashion, blitzing Defiance on the road, 53-0

– All three phases of the ball scored touchdowns in the game, as Cade Houseman and CJ Harris were named MSFA Defensive and Special Teams Players of the Weeks, respectively, as both found the end zone

– The Marian defense earned its third shutout in two seasons, while also recording two safeties in the game

– The Knights play in the final game of their season-opening three-game road trip, facing 17th-ranked Saint Francis (Ind.) in the Franciscan Bowl at 7 p.m. on Saturday

RUGBY

– 7th-ranked Marian Rugby opened its season with a thrilling 27-20 win over the University of Kentucky on Saturday night at Kuntz Stadium

– The Wildcats possessed the ball trailing by a single possession, but the Knights kept Kentucky from scoring to earn the well-deserved win in front of a packed Kuntz Stadium crowd

– Marian heads to New York this weekend, facing top-ranked and defending NCR Division I national champion St. Bonaventure on Saturday at 1 p.m.

MEN’S TENNIS

– Marian Men’s Tennis opened up its fall season with the DePauw Invitational Saturday and Sunday

– Freshman David Deumer won the men’s singles top flight bracket and Maël Doerfler won the third-ranked flight title

WOMEN’S GOLF

– Marian Women’s Golf opens its fall season this week, traveling to Purdue University to compete in the Wildcat Fall Invite hosted by Indiana Wesleyan

CYCLING

– Marian Men’s and Women’s Cycling compete in the USA Cycling Track National Championships hosted at the Major Taylor Velodrome Thursday through Saturday

– Sunday is scheduled as a weather make-up day if weather affects the schedule of events

– The Knights look to add upon its USA Cycling national championships, as Marian won its 54th Collegiate Omnium Championship in program history at this event last season, the program’s third consecutive Track National Championship

WOMEN’S TENNIS

– Marian Women’s Tennis opens its fall season this weekend at the DePauw Invitational on Saturday and Sunday

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

Men’s Soccer packs the house this Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7 PM. Grab a voucher at the gate for a FREE halftime giveaway. First come, first served!

The Fall Pep Rally is rescheduled for next Monday, Sept. 14 at 6 PM in the Amphitheater with food, giveaways, and more!

Looking ahead to Family Weekend next Saturday, Sept. 19, there will be plenty happening across campus:

Marian Mile | 8 AM check-in, 9 AM race

Nursing Student Success | 9–11 AM

Family Tailgate | 10 AM–12:45 PM

Knight Village | 10 AM–12:20 PM

Family Fun + Knightro’s Alley | 11 AM–12:45 PM

Picnic Lunch | 11 AM–12:45 PM

Cooling Station | 11 AM–1 PM

Our first home football game is next Saturday at 1:05 PM as the Knights take on Madonna! Grab a voucher at the gate to redeem FREE Marian merchandise at halftime, while supplies last.

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MARIAN MEN’S GOLF

West Lafayette, Ind. — The 11th-ranked Marian University men’s golf team placed sixth at the Wildcat Invitational hosted at Purdue University’s Ackerman-Allen Course on Tuesday.

Senior Lane Zedrick fired a four-under par 67 in his final round, good for the second lowest round of the day to rise to a runner-up finish at the event.

HOW IT HAPPENED

– Zedrick picked up three birdies on the front to go out in 33; an eagle at the par-5 16th helped him shoot a four-under 67

– Kai Warner added a T-5 finish with an even-par 71 to remain at 5-over for the tournament.

– Drew Hardin finished T-27 with a final-round 79

– Ryan Cesare shot a 76 to improve to a T-37 finish as the Knights’ individual

– Brody Holubar (40) and Drew Werkley (T41) rounded out the Marian lineup

UP NEXT

– The Knights are off of competition next week before returning at the Northern Iowa National Invitational in Le Mars, Iowa, Sept. 21 and 22

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MARIAN WOMEN’S GOLF

WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. – The Marian women’s golf team closes out its season opener, finishing tied for second overall in the Wildcat Fall Invite, hosted at Purdue University. 

The Knights finished tied for second with Dalton State at 908 (304-306-298); SCAD Savannah led with a 906 (307-302-297). Other Crossroads League schools were in attendance, with Indiana Wesleyan finishing fourth and Taylor finishing sixth. 

Miley Kennard led the way, finishing tied for fourth with a 70 in the final round, two strokes under par. Kennard also recorded five birdies throughout the round. Emma Weiler was the next to finish for Marian, placing 16th with a score of 77 in round three, tallying one birdie. Jordan Adam was close behind, finishing tied for 17th with a score of 74 in round three, recording four birdies in the round. Hailey Kirkland finished 21st with a score of 77, tallying a pair of birdies in the round. Marian Kennard rounded out the team score, finishing tied for 34th with a round score of 79, tallying one birdie in round three. Competing individually, Alex Reschly finished tied for fourth with a round score of 73 and tallied four birdies. 

The Knights will be back in action on September 14th and 15th as they travel to Keiser to compete in the Keiser Seahawks Shootout.

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UINDY VOLLEYBALL

INDIANAPOLIS – Indianapolis senior defensive specialist Macy Bruton, was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference/Athletic Solutions Defensive Players of the Week in women’s volleyball, it was announced by the league office Tuesday.

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Macy Bruton, (RV) Indianapolis

Sr. | DS | Crawfordsville, Ind.

Major: Sports Management

Team Results: 3-0 W at California (PA), 3-0 W vs. Ursuline (9/4) | 3-0 W vs. Point Park, 3-0 W at Wheeling (9/5)

Named to Wheeling Hall of Fame/Alumni All-Tournament Team after helping UIndy go 4-0 and remain undefeated (8-0) for the program’s best start since 2009

Registered 77 digs (6.42/set) and just one reception error in 12 sets

Added nine assists, two aces, and one kill

Best performance came against California (PA), tallying career-high 28 digs and two assists

Came up one dig shy of the program record for digs in a three-set match

Earns first career Defensive Player of the Week Award

Last Greyhounds’ Defensive Player of the Week: Bri Heffernan (9/21/15)

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UINDY FOOTBALL

WACO, Texas – After enduring its first loss of the season over the weekend, the UIndy football team fell eight spots to No. 17 in this week’s AFCA DII Coaches Poll. The Greyhounds are coming off a 30-10 home loss to in-region Findlay last Saturday.

Ferris State remained atop the weekly poll, while Findlay jumped from 15th to 10th. In all, nine Super Region 3 teams rank in the top 22.

AFCA DIVISION II COACHES POLL

RK SCHOOL (1st-place votes) REC PTS PREV

1. Ferris St. (31) 2-0 775 1

2. Harding 1-0 744 2

3. Kutztown 1-0 707 3

4. Minnesota St. 2-0 666 4

5. CSU Pueblo 2-0 647 5

6. Grand Valley St. 2-0 626 7

7. Northwest Missouri St. 1-0 579 8

8. Western Colorado 2-0 536 11

9. Central Washington 0-1 480 6

10. Findlay 1-0 477 15

11. Newberry 1-0 463 13

12. Western Oregon 2-0 421 17

13. Slippery Rock 1-0 361 18

14. Indiana (Pa.) 1-0 329 22

15. Minnesota-Duluth 1-1 316 19

16. Valdosta St. 2-0 284 23

17. UIndy 1-1 247 9

18. Northeastern St. 2-0 225 24

19. Ashland 0-1 170 12

20. Michigan Tech 2-0 127 NR

21. Benedict 2-0 115 NR

22. Augustana (S.D.) 1-1 112 16

23. Frostburg St. 0-1 71 14

24. Emporia St. 2-0 60 NR

25. Pittsburg St. 0-2 57 10

Others Receiving Votes:  West Alabama, 55; Central Oklahoma, 52; Fort Hays St., 41; Carson-Newman, 38; UT Permian Basin, 36; Northwood, 35; California (Pa.), 30; Virginia St., 24; Davenport, 23; Lenoir-Rhyne, 20; East Stroudsburg, 18; Shepherd, 18; North Greenville, 17; Henderson St., 14; Ouachita Baptist, 9; Concord, 8; Virginia Union, 7; East Central, 6; Black Hills St., 5; Fayetteville St., 4; MSU Moorhead, 4; Wingate, 4; Northern St., 3; Walsh, 3; Saginaw Valley St., 2; Arkansas Tech, 1; Assumption, 1; Lincoln (Mo.), 1; Wayne St. (Neb.), 1.

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ROSE HULMAN WOMEN’S SOCCER

GREENVILLE, Ill. – The Fightin’ Engineers’ win streak continued as they secured their most dominant victory of the season. Rose-Hulman took down the Greenville Panthers by a score of 7-1, improving to 3-0 on the year.

Junior Sydnee Schuler quickly got Rose-Hulman on the board with a goal four minutes in, and she added her second goal of the game in the 11th minute.

The Panthers would respond with a 19th-minute goal by Maddie Cooke, which cut the lead to one. It would only take four minutes for Rose-Hulman to put the momentum back on their side, as senior Ally Smith’s shot found the back of the net to extend the lead to 3-1.

Sophomore Makayla Doherty would score Rose-Hulman’s first goal of the second half, which came in the 54th minute. She would match Schuler with a team-high two goals in the 67th minute, where her shot beat the keeper to make it a 5-1 game.

The Fightin’ Engineers continued to thrive, with freshman Delaney Untermeyer scoring her second goal of the season in the 75th minute. With less than one minute remaining, sophomore Ava Klaus recorded the first goal of her collegiate career to cap off a 7-1 victory.

Rose-Hulman outshot Greenville 32-5 in the match, and they would attempt 16 shots on goal, while allowing just two shots on target. The team would also attempt eight corner kicks, while the Panthers were unable to attempt a corner kick for the entire game.

Rose-Hulman will return to Terre Haute as they host the reigning national champions, #1 WashU, on Thursday, September 10 at 7 PM.

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TAYLOR MEN’S TENNIS

UPLAND, Ind. – The Taylor University men’s tennis team opened its season in dominant fashion, sweeping Indiana University East 7-0 in Tuesday’s dual match.

The Trojans (1-0) dropped just one set across nine matches, surviving a tiebreak in doubles and answering a slow start in singles to complete the shutout of the Wildcats (0-1).

TU claimed the doubles point first, going 3-for-3 across the flights. At No. 1, Graham Beukelman and Tyler Lane needed a tiebreak to hold off Nacho Sanchez and Connor Burk, 7-6. Joseph Harper and Abel Prude rolled at No. 2, moving past Quinton Gieseking and Gavin Weaver 6-1, and Joshua Clegg and Matthew Williams blanked JT Atherton and Jace Wilkerson 6-0 at No. 3 to close out the point.

The early momentum carried into singles play as Caleb Taflinger (No. 5) and Beukelman (No. 3) each turned in 6-0, 6-0 wins. Harper followed with a 6-3, 6-3 win at No. 4, and Josh Dawson closed out the bottom of the order with a 6-2, 6-0 decision at No. 6.

In the top singles match, Lane dropped the tight opening set 7-6 to Sanchez before regrouping to take the second 6-0, before Sanchez retired. Prude also saw his match at No. 2 end in retirement, up 6-1, 4-0 on Weaver.

TU returns to action Thursday, making the short trip to play Anderson University with a 6 p.m. first serve.

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TAYLOR WOMEN’S TENNIS

UPLAND, Ind. – The Taylor University women’s tennis team opened its fall season with a 4-3 win over Indiana University East on Tuesday at the Taylor Tennis Complex, overcoming a lost doubles point by taking four of six singles matches.

The result moved the Trojans to 1-0 in the season’s first match for both programs, while the Cougars fell to 0-1.

Indiana East swept the doubles point to open the match, with Gracie Helms and Brooke Schafstall clipping Maddy Fuqua and Giselli Reschke 7-6 at the No. 1 flight. Adaysha Smiley and Pia Ziegelmeier topped Jillian Darby and Liza Brouwer 6-3 at No. 2, and Mackenzie Davis and Ava Griggs defeated Ellie Schaufelberger and Anna Stone 6-2 at No. 3 doubles.

Taylor bounced back and answered in singles play as Reschke blanked Schafstall 6-3, 6-2 at No. 2 in her TU debut, and Schaufelberger and Evy Danemayer added straight-set wins at the No. 5 and 6 matchups, defeating Griggs (6-2, 6-2) and Maria Lopez (6-3, 6-4), respectively.

A big moment in the match came at No. 1 singles as Fuqua dropped the opening set to Helms, 6-4, then leveled the match with a 6-2 second set. With the match tied at a set apiece, Fuqua closed it out in a third-set match tiebreak, 10-8, to complete the comeback.

Indiana East posted singles victories at No. 3 (Ziegelmeier defeated Sydney Crisp) and No. 4, as Smiley outlasted Brouwer in a three-setter, 6-4, 3-6, 10-7.

TU returns to action Thursday, making the short trip to play Anderson University with a 6 p.m. first serve.

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TAYLOR MEN’S GOLF

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Taylor men’s golf team opened its fall season with a strong second-place showing at the Indiana Wesleyan Fall invitational. The Trojans took the lead into Tuesday’s final round, before No. 19 Indiana Wesleyan overtook them for the title.

Tayor played well throughout, shooting team scores of 290, 289 and 293 over the 54-hole tournament. Despite ending 10 shots back of the title, the unranked Trojans finished 13 strokes up on No. 11 Marian in the team standings and took second-of-nine.

Freshman Hayden Fox led five Trojans in the top-15, taking fifth with a score of 215 and rounds of 75, 69 and 71. Porter Dick and Aaron Fulda followed in seventh and 10th with scores of 216 and 218. Dick and Fulda each carded their best scores in the first round, with sub-par totals of 70 and 71. Davis Formsma and Tanner Conklin rounded out TU’s top-five in a tie for 14th at 220.

Taylor will look to build on the strong opening when it continues its fall season on September 14 and 15 at the Pikeville Collegiate in Prestonburg, Kentucky.

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TAYLOR WOMEN’S GOLF

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new-look lineup for the No. 20 Taylor women’s golf team was led by a familiar face at the 54-hole Indiana Wesleyan Wildcat Invitational on Monday and Tuesday, as Eleanor Schuitema tied for first to pace the Trojans.

Schuitema fired rounds of 72, 76 and a career-best 69 to finish in a tie for first at 217, marking the fifth time in her collegiate career that the junior had topped the individual leaderboard. Schuitema proceeded to play two rounds in a head-to-head playoff with SCAD Savannah’s Yunyi Luo, before Luo claimed the title with a second-hole birdie.

Presley White and Sophia Stanton impressed for TU in their collegiate debuts, as the freshmen finished in sixth and 14th respectively to join Schuitema near the top of the leaderboard. White carded rounds of 76, 73, 76 to end at 225, and Stanton shot 77, 74, 76 to end at 227.

The trio’s strong performances led No. 20 Taylor to a three-round score of 919, which put the Trojans back of the No. 1, No. 3, No. 5, No. 6 and No. 14 teams in the latest NAIA Top-25 Poll. TU finished ahead of the No. 15 and No. 24 teams.

No. 20 Taylor’s next outing is set for September 14 and 15 at the Pikeville Collegiate in Prestonburg, Kentucky.

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TAYLOR FOOTBALL

UPLAND, Ind. – The Mid-States Football Association honored Jedidiah Galvin and Reid Messer on Monday as its MSFA Mideast League’s Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week. The duo helped RV Taylor secure a 38-31 win over RV Saint Xavier two days prior.

Galvin ripped off seven runs over 10 yards and broke loose for touchdown sprints of 95, 68, 53 and 15 yards to account for four of TU’s five touchdowns in the victory. Galvin’s 319 rushing yards were just 20 shy of matching Taylor’s single-game record.

With the outing, Galvin ranks No. 1 in the NAIA with 383 yards rushing this season, No. 1 with 191.5 rushing yards per game and No. 6 with four rushing touchdowns.

Messer made his impact on the defensive side of the ball, hauling in two interceptions, including one in the TU endzone to take points off the board for Saint Xavier. Messer also added seven tackles and two additional pass breakups.

Messer now ranks No. 2 in the NAIA with the two interceptions and No. 6 with a trio of pass breakups through the Purple and Gray’s first two outings.

The MSFA Player-of-the-Week honor is the first for Galvin and Messer this season and is the third career honor for Messer.

Galvin and Messer’s honors are the first for the Taylor football program this season and give Taylor Athletics a total of nine weekly league honors already in the 2026-2027 year.

RV Taylor (1-1) will return to action on Saturday, September 12 with a 2:00 pm (ET) start at RV Saint Francis of Illinois (0-2).

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TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

1901 – The White Sox sweep a doubleheader – and the four-game series – with Boston by scores of 4 – 3 and 6 – 4. Boston’s Buck Freeman belts his 12th homer of the year.

1902:

John T. Brush sells the Cincinnati Reds to Julius and Max Fleischmann, George B. Cox, and August “Garry” Herrmann for $150,000. Brush then buys control of the Giants from Andrew Freedman.

In Philadelphia, 17,291 see the Athletics beat Baltimore twice, while 172 watch the Phils play Pittsburgh. With the A’s 1902 attendance almost four times that of the Phillies, and the American League planning to oppose the weak Giants in New York, pressure mounts among National League directors for peace talks.

1904 – Cold weather keeps the crowd to 1,844 in New York as Joe McGinnity allows 12 Phillies hits but wins his 31st. The nitecap is called after five innings and no score.

1907:

The Giants play their fifth doubleheader in a week, splitting shutouts with Boston. New York takes the opener, 10 – 0, then Irv Young outpitches Christy Mathewson, 1 – 0, in the seven-inning nitecap.

Boston’s Cy Young and the A’s Rube Waddell battle to a 13-inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.

1908 – In a 7 – 3 New York win, the Giants steal nine bases off Brooklyn’s Billy Maloney, an outfielder pressed into service as a catcher. That’s enough to make him quit the game. Following the game John McGraw makes his stage debut in a show at the Hippodrome. He has a small part in the show “Sporting Days”.

1909:

Bill Dinneen, winner of three games in the first World Series, is released by the St. Louis Browns and becomes an American League umpire, a position he will hold through 1937.

George Gibson of Pittsburgh catches his 112th consecutive game, breaking Chief Zimmer’s 1890 record. His streak will end at 140.

In Philadelphia, the Athletics pound the Highlanders 11 – 3 behind the 5-hit pitching of Cy Morgan. Morgan does not allow a home run in this game, nor in any of the subsequent 96 games of his career, a span totaling 668 IP, the longest homerless streak to close out a modern era career.

1912 – At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep two from Brooklyn, 2 – 1 and 7 – 2. Jeff Tesreau takes the opener and Christy Mathewson the nitecap.

1914:

Boston Braves’ hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7 – 0 .

Two days after tossing a two-hitter against the Athletics, Jack Bentley throws another one, as the Senators edge the Yankees 1 – 0. At age 19, Bentley becomes, and remains, the youngest modern era pitcher to throw consecutive shutouts, and the youngest of the many pitchers sharing the record for most consecutive shutouts allowing two hits or less.

1915:

Sporting goods manufacturer Al Spalding, one of the original players, managers, and executives of the National League, dies at 65 in San Diego, CA.

Boston’s Lefty Tyler allows just one Brooklyn hit, but loses, 1 – 0. Jeff Pfeffer is nearly as perfect, allowing two hits for the win. Brooklyn scores the lone run on a walk by Hy Myers, Gus Getz’s single, a double steal, and a sac fly.

1916:

New York Giant Pol Perritt beats the Phillies twice, winning 3 – 1 and 3 – 0.

Hippo Vaughn and Jimmy Lavender shut out the Pirates, 3 – 0 and 2 – 0, for a Cubs doubleheader victory.

In Washington, Boston’s Babe Ruth tops the Senators and Walter Johnson, 2 – 1. Ruth gives up four hits while Johnson allows eight. It is the Babe’s fourth win this season versus Johnson. Washington wins the nitecap, 4 – 3, in ten innings.

1917:

In Chicago, with the score tied 3 – 3 in the 10th inning between the Sox and the Indians, umpire Brick Owens forfeits the game to Chicago, 9 – 0, because of the “dilatory tactics” of the Tribe. Chicago now leads the American League by seven games. The Cleveland players protest Owens’ ruling in the 10th when, with two on and no outs, he calls Jack Graney out on a close play. The ensuing argument delays the game ten minutes with several Indians rolling on the ground and tossing their mitts. When Chicago’s first hitter, pitcher Dave Danforth, strikes out to open the bottom of the inning, Indian catcher Steve O’Neill fires the ball into center field, whereupon Owens calls the forfeit.

Grover Alexander beats New York’s Jeff Tesreau, 4 – 1. Ferdie Schupp takes the nitecap, 2 – 1, for New York, beating the Phils’ Eppa Rixey.

1918:

Finners Quinlan, an OF who last played in 1915, is wounded fighting in a battle at Argonne Wood, France. He loses an eye and his right leg.

In Game 4 of the World Series, Babe Ruth bats in two runs on a triple in the 4th and pitches seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tie it in the 8th, ending Ruth’s World Series record of 29 2/3 scoreless innings. Phil Douglas relieves Lefty Tyler for Chicago in the last of the 8th and throws away the game, first by a wild pitch, then with an error. Ruth is the winning pitcher, but Carl Mays relieves with two on and no out in the 9th.

1921 – An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit, 20 – 15. Each team has 20 hits.

1922:

Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 16 – 0 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his fifth straight game, his 37th of the year. George Sisler has three hits to keep his hitting streak alive, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in ten innings against Washington.

Danville’s Otto Pahlman (Three-I League) has his 50-game hitting streak stopped. Now in second place, he’ll end the century with the fourth longest streak ever in the minors.

1923 – In an International League game, the Syracuse Stars are leading 3 – 2 in the 7th and final inning when umpire George Magerkurth calls a Baltimore runner safe, giving the Orioles a last chance at bat. Stars manager Frank Shaughnessy protests and the fans agree with him by pouring out onto the field, and the ump awards the forfeit win to the O’s.

1924 – At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.

1926 – Trailing 6 – 3 at the end of eight innings, Brooklyn then makes nine hits and adds two walks to win going away, 12 – 6. A National League record five Brooklyn pinch hitters all deliver, including Dick Cox, who gets two hits, scores twice, and has two RBI in a nine-run 9th inning. Pinch hitter Moose Clabaugh also bats twice in the 9th, collecting a hit: the six pinch hits set a major-league record and the three pinch runners scoring ties a mark set in 1900. The Phils use a record-tying five pitchers in the 9th with Wayland Dean taking the loss. The Phils are again paced by Cy Williams, who clubs two homers in his first two at-bats (three in a row), before striking out in his next.

1928:

At Ebbets Field, the Robins come from behind to edge the Giants, 3 – 2, behind Dazzy Vance. Harvey Hendrick dinks a two-run homer in the 8th, off Larry Benton, to tie, and Jake Flowers singles with two out in the 9th to drive home the winner. The ecstatic fans respond by covering the field with straw hats.

A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A’s, 3 – 0 and 7 – 3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.

At age 37, Yankee P Urban Shocker dies of pneumonia in Denver, CO, where he had gone for his health. Only now does it become known that he had suffered from an enlarged heart and was unable to sleep lying down for two years. Shocker, who never had a losing season, was 18-6 in 1927 but appeared in only one game in 1928.

Chicago’s Alex Metzler breaks up a pitching duel between Ted Lyons and Willis Hudlin by cracking an 8th-inning pinch homer to tie Cleveland, 1 – 1. The Sox get one more, then explode for eight runs in the 9th inning to coast, 10 – 1. This is Metzler’s third and last roundtripper of the year and he will tie Bill Barrett for the team lead. His 55 RBIs will be second on the Sox.

The Cards blow a 7 – 3 lead and lose to Pittsburgh, 8 – 7. Their lead is cut to 2 1/2 games. Pete Alexander blows the lead, but the loss goes to reliever Art Reinhart. Chick Hafey and Jim Bottomley homer for the Cards, but the Bucs answer with the seven hits from the Waners. Paul, leading the National League with a .381 batting average, has four of them.

1931 – To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first match-up, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants, 7 – 2.

1932 – The Tigers beat the Yankees, 14 – 13, in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks, 4 – 1, in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.

1933 – Joe Hauser, of Minneapolis (American Association), hits two home runs to set all-time record of 69. Hauser also set the International League record mark at 63, with Baltimore in 1930.

1934 – In one of the most memorable games in Negro League history, the Pittsburgh Crawfords’ Satchel Paige duels the Philadelphia Stars’ Slim Jones to a 1 – 1 stalemate, called after nine innings due to darkness. Paige strikes out 12, and Jones, 9, before 30,000 at Yankee Stadium.

1935 – With the Cardinals’ Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4 – 3, the Cubs win their fifth and sixth straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5 – 1 and 2 – 1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead to a single game.

1936 – The Yankees sweep the Indians, 11 – 3 and 12 – 9, to clinch the pennant on the earliest date yet.

1938 – Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has four hits to bring his average over .300.

1939 – Jimmie Foxx is operated on for appendicitis, and will be out for the rest of the season. His 35 home runs will still win the title.

1945 – In the second game of the a doubleheader, Philadelphia A’s Dick Fowler tosses a 1 – 0 no-hitter against the Browns.

1948 – At the Polo Grounds, Dodger Rex Barney no-hits the Giants, 2 – 0.

1949 – Despite terrorizing the National League with his bat and baserunning during the season, Jackie Robinson is picked off base by Dave Koslo, the fourth time this year Giants pitchers have nabbed him.

1950:

Sal Maglie of the Giants hurls his fourth consecutive shutout, tying a major-league record, and beats the Dodgers, 2 – 0. Alvin Dark’s two homers provide the runs.

The Red Sox advance to within a half-game of the second-place Yankees by walloping the A’s, 8 – 3 and 11 – 3. All the Boston runs in the opener are unearned. In the second game, a seven-run 2nd inning allows Walt Masterson to win. Dom DiMaggio steals his 15th: this will be the most in the American League, the lowest league-leading total in history.

The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a doubleheader on April 30th, but was halted by darkness after nine innings deadlocked at 7 – 7. Rescheduled for August 10th, the contest was halted in the 7th with the score 1 – 1. Art Houtteman finally settles it with a 1 – 0, 12-inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap, 5 – 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.

1951:

Sal Maglie wins his 20th game to give the Giants a 2 – 1 win over the Dodgers’ Ralph Branca. Monte Irvin’s two-run homer in the 4th gives New York all its scoring, The Dodgers score in the 8th on a double by Duke Snider and a triple by Jackie Robinson. But 3B Bobby Thomson snags a ground ball, tags Robby, and throws to first for a double play.

The Indians use three 9th-inning bunts to edge the Browns, 4 – 3. Jim Hegan leads off with a bunt that rolls foul, but then drives a single past the pulled-in 3B Jack Maguire. Two more bunts and a sac fly give Mike Garcia his 19th win. Reliever Satchel Paige takes the loss.

The Yanks hit five homers – four off the Nats’ Dick Starr – to win, 7 – 5. Mickey Mantle’s leadoff homer on the first pitch, which starts the scoring, slams against the bottom of the flag holder on the top of the right field stands. Vic Raschi then wins the nitecap, 2 – 0, in a game called after the 6th inning because of darkness. Though Yankee Stadium has lights, unlike the National League, these cannot be used on Sunday. The Yankees (88-49) remain virtually tied with the Indians (88-51).

1952 – The Cardinals’ Stan Musial gets his 2,000th hit, off Curt Simmons, as the Cardinals lose, 4 – 2.

1953 – Mickey Mantle’s two-run home run off Chicago’s Billy Pierce caps a seven-run 5th inning, as New York wins, 9 – 3, at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company

1955 – After losing the opener to the Cubs, the Dodgers win the nitecap, 16 – 9, as pitcher Clem Labine gets his third home run of the year. Labine has just three hits all year, but all three are homers.

1958:

The Cardinals beat the Cubs, 8 – 7, with Jim Brosnan earning the win over his old team. Don Elston takes the loss. Ernie Banks hits his first home run in St. Louis in two years while Eddie Kasko cracks a grand slam.

Athletics 1B Preston Ward hits three home runs in a row in an 8 – 6 win against Baltimore.

1961 – On Whitey Ford Day at Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris hits his 56th homer, off Cleveland’s Mudcat Grant, as the Yanks come from behind to win, 8 – 7, New York scores four in the 9th to enable Luis Arroyo to pick up his 12th relief win in a row.

1962 – Boston’s Lou Clinton makes four stellar grabs in the outfield and adds a homer, triple and single as the Red Sox trip the Yankees, 9 – 3, in 16 innings at Yankee Stadium. Dick Radatz takes over for Hal Kolstad and pitches nine innings of relief before leaving in the 16th for a pinch hitter.

1964 – The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Cleveland GM Gabe Paul has requested economic surveys of the Seattle, WA market in anticipation of a possible Indians move to the Northwest.

1965:

The Angels waive Lou Clinton and both the Indians and the Athletics claim him. Since the rule on waivers is that the team lowest in the standings gets first dibs, Clinton joins the Athletics. He arrives in mid-game and appears as a pinch-hitter, striking out, as California beats the A’s, 7 – 2. He and the Athletics then learn after the game that Clinton has been awarded to the Indians because the Athletics’ claim was filed after the 24-hour claiming period had expired. Charlie Finley knew this before Clinton reported to the Athletics, but manager Haywood Sullivan, fed up with Finley’s second-guessing, didn’t answer the telephone during the game, and therefore didn’t find out.

Sandy Koufax’s perfect game against the Cubs bests Bob Hendley’s one-hit effort, 1 – 0. It is the Dodgers southpaw’s record fourth no-hitter.

1967 – White Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3 – 0 lead into the 9th inning, but a seven-run frame keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7 – 3 win at Chicago. Chicago is now in fourth place, two games back, with the Red Sox in third place just a half-game behind.

1968 – Joe Gordon is hired to manage the expansion Kansas City Royals in 1969.

1969:

Atlanta’s Phil Niekro joins the 20-win circle for the first time with a 2 – 1 defeat of the Dodgers. The victory pulls the Braves into third place, one and a half games from the National League West lead.

With a 3 – 2 win, Tom Seaver hands Chicago its sixth straight loss, giving the Mets a sweep of two games. New York now trails the Cubs by one half game.

1970:

Pitching in his second major league game, Reds rookie Milt Wilcox pitches a 5 – 0 shutout over the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain’s season with a 3-5 record.

California’s Alex Johnson becomes the third player in history to put one into the center field bleachers at Comiskey Park when he connects in the 6th against Chicago’s Billy Wynne in a 2 – 1 loss in eight innings. The Sox also win the opener, 11 – 4, to break their eight-game losing streak. Bill Melton leads the five-homer offense with a pair and five RBIs.

1974 – At Fenway Park, the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 6 – 3, for their first win in Boston since July 31st of last year. The Yankees have won two of 24 games at Fenway since 1972.

1975 – The Cubs’ Bill Madlock suffers an “incomplete fracture” of his right thumb when hit by a Bruce Kison pitch in a 6 – 5 win over the Pirates. He will be out for two weeks but will return and win his first batting title, finishing at .354.

1976:

At Texas, Rod Carew hits a pinch grand slam in the 7th for the Twins, as Minnesota wins, 6 – 0. It is Carew’s third grand slam of the year. Dave Goltz twirls the shutout.

George Brett is 5 for 5 to lead the Royals to a 6 – 5 win over the Angels in ten innings.

1977 – In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years. Boston prevails today, 5 – 1 and 8 – 6.

1978 – Ron Guidry (21-2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that’s it. New York sends 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win, 7 – 0, against Dennis Eckersley and cut Boston’s lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his seventh shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout in Fenway Park since Ken Holtzman fired one on August 5, 1974.

1979 – The first-place Orioles romp to their seventh win in a row, larruping the Red Sox, 16 – 4. Rick Dempsey hits a grand slam for the Birds in their six-run 6th, and Al Bumbry adds a home run in the same frame. Jim Rice homers for the Bosox. Sox C Bob Montgomery is 1 for 2 in his last major league game. He is the last big league batter to wear a hard liner in his cap instead of a batting helmet.

1980 – Reds fireballer Mario Soto strikes out 15 Braves in a 7 – 1 Reds win in Atlanta.

1983:

Oakland’s first two batters, Rickey Henderson and Mike Davis, line homers off Toronto’s Jim Clancy. It turns out to be the margin of difference in a 7 – 5 win.

White Sox Britt Burns pitches a one-hit, 11 – 0, win over the Angels. California’s sole hit is Mike Brown’s single with two out in the 7th. Sox teammates Carlton Fisk, Tom Paciorek, and Greg Luzinski make it easy for Britt by clouting consecutive homers in the 1st inning.

1987 – Striking out 12 of the final 13 hitters and a total of 16, Nolan Ryan beats the Giants, 4 – 2. The “Ryan Express” whiffs Mike Aldrete to end the 7th inning notching his 4,500th career strikeout.

1988 – Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers and Rich Gossage as the only pitchers to save 300 games as Atlanta beats San Diego, 5 – 4, in 11 innings.

1989:

California’s Devon White steals four bases including second base, third base, and home in the same inning in the Angels’ 8 – 5 win over Boston. The Angels score three in the 8th to break a tie.

The Cubs’ Luis Salazar singles in the tying run in 8th, then doubles in the winner in the 10th to give Chicago a 3 – 2 win over St. Louis. The Cubs now lead the Cards by one and a half games. Yesterday, the Cubs blew a 7 – 2 lead to lose 9 – 8 to the Cards.

1990:

Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (two fielding and one throwing) in the 1st inning against the White Sox. It’s a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home, 13 – 3, snapping the Tigers’ seven-game winning streak.

Oakland beats New York, 7 – 3, to complete a twelve-game sweep of the Yankees this year. The season sweep is a first for the Yankees.

Seattle’s Matt Young strikes out four batters in the 1st inning of a 3 – 1 win over the Red Sox. He’s the second pitcher this year to K four batters in an inning.

1991 – At Cleveland, Eric Bell debuts for the Indians with three innings of scoreless relief, and leaves in the 8th with the score, 3 – 3. The Sox score a run and win, 4 – 3.

1992:

With the score tied, 7 – 7, in the bottom of the 6th, with two on, one out and first base open, the Cubs elect not to pitch to the red-hot Barry Bonds. Its the 28th intentional pass this season for Pittsburgh’s left fielder, thus breaking the Bucs’ single-season record, set in 1968 by Roberto Clemente. By season’s end, Bonds will extend his record total to 32. Today, however, the strategy in question will prove an absolute and instantaneous bust when Jeff King hits the first pitch following Bonds’ freebie over the left-field wall for his second career grand slam.

Philadelphia P Curt Schilling tosses a one-hit, 2 – 1 victory over the Mets. The lone hit is a home run by Bobby Bonilla in the 5th inning.

Milwaukee OF Robin Yount gets the 3,000th hit of his career in his team’s 5 – 4 loss to the Indians. He also becomes only the second player in history to record 200 home runs, 200 stolen bases and 100 triples, duplicating Willie Mays’ feat.

Following the resignation of Fay Vincent yesterday, Brewers owner Bud Selig is selected by the owners to serve as acting baseball commissioner until a permanent successor can be found. It will take nearly six years to name a permanent commissioner – and it will be Selig himself.

1993 – The major leagues vote to divide each league into three divisions, and add another round of postseason featuring one wild card team in each league.

1995 – In the Japanese Central League, the visiting Yakult Swallows beat the Yomiuri Giants behind Terry Bross’s no-hitter. Bross becomes only the second foreign-born pitcher to pitch a no-hitter.

1997:

Boston loses to the Yankees, 8 – 6, despite two RBIs for Nomar Garciaparra. The ribbies give Garciaparra 87 on the year, for a new major league record for leadoff men. Harvey Kuenn held the old mark with 85 in 1956 for Detroit.

Detroit P Scott Sanders hurls a one-hit, 4 – 0 shutout over the Rangers. 2B Domingo Cedeno’s single is the only Texas safety.

Hall of Fame member Richie Ashburn passes away of an apparent heart attack in his New York hotel room following broadcasting a Mets-Phillies game last night. The former Phillies Whiz Kid was an excellent contact hitter who once fouled off 14 pitches in one at-bat.

1998:

In Toronto’s 6 – 3 loss to the Indians in 13 innings, the Jays’ Alex Gonzalez strikes out six times. Tribe starter Dwight Gooden K’s him the first three times, while three relievers add strikeouts.

By defeating Boston, 7 – 5, the Yankees move 20 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Red Sox and clinch the American League East title. It ties the earliest date in American League history in which a flag has been captured.

1999:

In Baltimore’s 6 – 5 win over the Twins, Albert Belle drives in his 100th run, the ninth season in a row he’s had 100+ RBIs. On the minus side, Cal Ripken, Jr. grounds into his 324th double play to top Carl Yastrzemski for the all-time lead.

The Padres defeat the Expos, 10 – 3, in a game in which they are nearly allowed four outs in the 7th inning. When San Diego’s Reggie Sanders strikes out for the third out, the umpires don’t notice and the players do not leave the field. Phil Nevin comes to the plate and runs the count to 2-1 against Expos P Ted Lilly before someone in the Montreal dugout points out the problem to home plate umpire Jerry Layne.

In the Cubs’ 5 – 3 loss to the Reds, Sammy Sosa hits his 59th homer. Sosa has more homers than the Cubs have wins: 56. They’ve lost 31 of their last 39 games.

Baseball makes its debut in the All Africa Games. The host South African national team begins its cruise through the competition with a 43 – 0 romp over Lesotho. Braydon Bartle fans ten and allows one hit (a Rethabile Mosotho single) in five innings in the mercy rule win, Ian Holness goes deep four times and Carl Randall hits for the cycle. In the other game, Nigeria rallies for a 12 – 11 win over Zimbabwe as Michael Oguwuche gets the win with seven innings of relief and also raps three hits.

2000 – The Astros kick the Cubs, 14 – 4, hitting a team-record seven home runs in the process. Richard Hidalgo, Lance Berkman and Tim Bogar each hit a pair, with Daryle Ward adding another.

2001 – The Giants squeak by the Rockies, 9 – 4, in 11 innings. Barry Bonds hits three home runs in a game for the second time this season, giving him 63 for the year, besting Roger Maris’ mark of 61 for lefthanded hitters.

2002:

The Diamondbacks beat the Padres, 5 – 2, as Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the fifth consecutive season, extending his major league record.

Barry Bonds’ 610th career home run is the longest dinger ever hit in the three-year history of Pac Bell Park. The 491-foot blast sails over fans heads who are waiting in a food line in the center field bleachers.

2007:

The Brewers become the third team in major league history to open a game with three homers in a row. Rickie Weeks, J.J. Hardy and Ryan Braun connect against Phil Dumatrait in a 10 – 5 win over the Reds.

Todd Helton hits his 35th double of the season, this one against Joe Thatcher, in a 4 – 2 Rockies win. It makes him the first major leaguer ever to hit 35 or more doubles ten years in a row; even the legendary Tris Speaker had only had nine such consecutive seasons.

Curtis Granderson of the Tigers steals his 20th base after hitting his 20th home run yesterday. That gives him 20 or more doubles, triples, home runs and stolen bases on the season. The only prior players to do that in major league history were Frank Schulte (1911) and Willie Mays (1957). He will be joined by the Phillies’ Jimmy Rollins in a few days.

2009:

The 2009 Baseball World Cup begins. In the opener, Australia toasts the Czech national team, 17 – 4, as Tim Kennelly homers twice and Stefan Welch hits two doubles, a triple and a home run. Spain beats South Africa, 15 – 0, behind the pitching of Eric Gonzalez and a fine offense. Germany defeats China, 14 – 1, with Dominik Wulf leading the offense and Enorbel Marquez doing the mound work in a crucial match for their second-round hopes. Finally, the Netherlands Antilles edge Sweden, 10 – 8, with each team scoring six runs in an exciting 9th inning.

Derek Jeter ties the New York Yankees franchise record for hits held by Lou Gehrig, with his 2,721st hit in the 7th against the Rays. He will pass Gehrig in two days. In the game, Jorge Posada belts a three-run pinch homer in the 8th to give the Yanks a 4 – 2 win. The Rays, the AL East champions last year, have now lost eight straight and are almost out of the playoff race.

The Red Sox beat the Orioles, 7 – 5. Baltimore’s Brian Roberts hits his 50th double, becoming the fourth major leaguer to reach 50 three times, following Tris Speaker, Paul Waner and Stan Musial.

2010 – In Game 3 of the 2010 Holland Series, two records are broken and one tied as Neptunus tops the Amsterdam Pirates, 3 – 0. Amsterdam becomes the first team to lose a Holland Series game despite outhitting their opponents by six (9 to 3), while Neptunus sets a record for fewest hits by a Holland Series victor. Neptunus leadoff man Eugène Kingsale ties a Series record with four walks in one game.

2011 – The Tampa Bay Rays continue their late charge for a postseason berth by beating the Red Sox, 7 – 2, behind a complete game by Wade Davis. The Rays are now five and a half games behind Boston in the Wild Card race; the Red Sox, beset by injuries, have lost five of six and eight of 11.

2012:

B.J. Upton hits three home runs to back the pitching of James Shields as Tampa Bay shuts out Texas, 6 – 0. With the Yankees beating the Orioles, 13 – 3, the standings in the AL East have New York one game in front of Baltimore, and two ahead of Tampa Bay.

The Angels complete a three-game sweep of the Tigers with a 3 – 2 win. Rookie OF Mike Trout hits a lead-off homer for the second straight game and Zack Greinke pitches a five-hitter. After winning 15 of their last 18 games, the Angels have inserted themselves back into the playoff picture as they are now even with Tampa Bay, and one game behind Baltimore and Oakland.

The Czech national team, entering at 0-2, pulls off a stunning upset over the Netherlands, who had outscored their first two opponents 32-0, at the 2012 European Championship, winning, 3 – 2, in ten innings. Jakub Malik and Jan Drábek both drive in runs in the 10th off AAA hurler Loek van Mil, while Phillies minor leaguer Marek Minarik gets the victory. The star of the day, though, is 20-year-old Michal Sobotka, who holds the Netherlands to one unearned run in eight innings in a duel with Reds prospect Juan Carlos Sulbaran.

2013 – In a rare highlight for the Nationals this season, Gio Gonzalez pitches a one-hitter and is backed by five homers as the team rolls to an easy 9 – 0 win over the Mets. The Nats start off with a bang as Denard Span and Ryan Zimmerman greet Mets starter Carlos Torres with back-to-back long balls. Pinch-hitter Zach Lutz has the Mets’ only hit, a soft single that lands on the first base foul line to open the 7th.

2014:

The Tigers are again even with the Royals in the AL Central following a 4 – 2 win over their rivals. Max Scherzer is the winner while J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis both go deep. In the 9th, Tigers closer Joe Nathan escapes a two-on, none out jam with two strikeouts around picking Jarrod Dyson off second base.

Cubs 3B prospect Kris Bryant is named the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year after leading the minor leagues with 43 homers and a .661 slugging percentage between the AA Tennessee Smokies and AAA Iowa Cubs.

2016 – Rick Porcello of the Red Sox becomes the first twenty-game winner in the majors this season as he defeats the Blue Jays, 13 – 3. He is the first pitcher to reach the total for the Red Sox since Josh Beckett in 2007, and the win puts Boston two games ahead of Toronto in the AL East.

2017 – Jose Abreu hits for the cycle in the White Sox’s 13 -1 rout of the Giants in an interleague game pitting the holders of the worst record in each league. Abreu starts things off by homering off Jeff Samardzija in the 1st, the first of six Chicago players to go deep in the game as James Shields wins for only the third time this year.

2019

Following a 10 – 6 loss to the Yankees but less than a year after winning the World Series, the Red Sox fire President and General Manager Dave Dombrowski, the architect of that World Series triumph. He has received significant criticism for the large contracts handed out before the season to pitchers Nathan Eovaldi and Chris Sale, who have both failed to deliver, and for not re-signing closer Craig Kimbrel or even looking for an adequate replacement.

The Astros continue to pulverize opponents. One day after a 21 – 1 win over the Mariners, they hit a record six homers in the first two innings on their way to a 15 – 0 takedown of the Athletics. Rookie sensation Yordan Alvarez hits two of the homers, the second one landing in the upper deck, 416 feet away in right field at Minute Maid Park. He is only the second player to park a ball in that location, after Jeromy Burnitz who had done it in 2000. They add another homer later in the game to match the team record of seven set on this day in 2000. Scoring 36 runs while allowing only one over a two-game span is also a record.

Infielder Gavin Lux is named the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year after hitting a combined .347 with 26 homers, 99 runs and 76 RBIs in 113 games between the AA Tulsa Drillers and AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers.

2020:

At the urging of Roberto Clemente’s family, Major League Baseball pays tribute to its first Latin American superstar by allowing Puerto Rican players and others to wear his uniform number, 21, in his honor, on this day. This is akin to the wearing of #42 on Jackie Robinson Day. In addition, all members of the Pirates, Clemente’s former team, wear the number, the first time it has been worn by a team member since Clemente’s passing 48 years earlier.

It’s a day of high scoring games as the Braves set a team record by scoring 29 runs in a 29 – 9 win over the Marlins; the total is also the highest by a National League team since the start of the 20th Century, and ties the major league record for a home team. Adam Duvall leads the charge with his second three-homer game in a week, driving in nine runs. Also today, the Brewers shut out the Tigers, 19 – 0, slugging a team record 13 extra-base hits while Corbin Burnes limits the Bengals to one hit and no walks while striking out 11 in seven innings.

2021 – The Blue Jays complete a four-game sweep of the Yankees at New Yankee Stadium with a 6 – 4 win, pulling within a half-game of their division rivals in the race for the final wild card slot. The two teams are going in different directions, as the Jays have now won nine in a row, while the Yankees, who had put together a 13-game winning streak a couple of weeks ago, have lost six straight. Worse for them, they never held a lead even once in the four games, something no Yankees team had done in a four-game series since 1908, when they were still known as the “Highlanders”.

2022 – Major League Baseball announces the adoption of a number of changes to the rules to be introduced at the start of the 2023 season. They include a pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts, and larger bases. All of these changes have already been successfully tested in minor league games and aim to improve pace of play, reduce injuries and create more in-game action. They will be a resounding success.

2023:

Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws his second career no-hitter, the 100th in NPB annals, blanking the Chiba Lotte Marines, 4 – 0.

The Rättvik Butchers sweep the Swedish Elitserien finals in three games over the Stockholm Monarchs to repeat as Elitserien champs. The finale is a breeze as Joel Johnson and Sam Börjes hold Stockholm to one run while the Butchers score 11. Oskar Jerfsten finishes a triple shy of the cycle and drives in four.

2024 – The Pericos de Puebla complete a sweep of the Diablos Rojos del México in the Mexican League finals. Brooks Hall allows two hits in seven innings in the 4 – 2 win (none in the first five innings), with Tomohiro Anraku saving it. MVP José Marmolejos’s three-run homer off Julio Teherán is the big blow.

2025 – Down 6-2 in the 9th inning, ASD San Marino scores six times to top Parma in Game 4 of the 2025 Italian Series, taking the Series 3 games to 1. Marc Civit gets the win and Gabriel Lino falls a homer shy of the cycle, driving in the Series-winning run for the second time in four years.

Births[edit]

1856 – Ernie Burch, outfielder (d. 1892)

1857 – Abner Dalrymple, outfielder (d. 1939)

1858 – George Goodhart, minor league manager (d. 1932)

1872 – John Eubank, pitcher (d. 1958)

1877 – Frank Chance, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1924)

1880 – Ambrose Puttmann, pitcher (d. 1936)

1886 – Al Kellogg, pitcher (d. 1953)

1886 – Dots Miller, infielder (d. 1923)

1887 – Doc Johnston, infielder (d. 1961)

1887 – Mike Wilson (d. 1962)

1889 – Harry Thompson, pitcher (d. 1951)

1891 – Dan Costello, outfielder (d. 1936)

1892 – Tiny Graham, infielder (d. 1962)

1893 – Walt Kinney, pitcher (d. 1971)

1897 – Frankie Frisch, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1973)

1898 – Bill Engeln, umpire (d. 1968)

1898 – Stan Keyes, minor league outfielder (d. 1976)

1899 – Waite Hoyt, pitcher; Hall of Famer (d. 1984)

1899 – Winfield Welch, outfielder, manager (d. 1980)

1905 – Charlie Perkins, pitcher (d. 1988)

1907 – Sug Jones, infielder (d. 1982)

1909 – Harry Daughtry, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1985)

1909 – Johnny Marcum, pitcher (d. 1984)

1910 – Bud Thomas, pitcher (d. 2001)

1912 – Johnny Lazor, outfielder (d. 2002)

1913 – Hugh Mulcahy, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2001)

1914 – Hiroshi Kaneko, NPB infielder and pitcher (d. ????)

1917 – Torao Hiruki, NPB infielder (d. ????)

1917 – Tsuneo Tsuri, NPB pitcher (d. 1996)

1918 – Woody Crowson, pitcher (d. 1947)

1919 – Gabe Patterson, outfielder (d. 1991)

1922 – Masanori Mori, NPB outfielder (d. ????)

1924 – Hideo Ogishima, NPB outfielder (d. 2012)

1924 – Kazue Watanabe, NPB infielder (d. ????)

1926 – Ed Mickelson, infielder (d. 2025)

1926 – Elvin Stabelfeld, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)

1927 – Donald Spencer, minor league infielder (d. 2011)

1928 – Harold Danielson, minor league catcher

1930 – Larry Delo, minor league pitcher (d. 2006)

1931 – Earl Averill, catcher (d. 2015)

1931 – Pete Naton, catcher (d. 2013)

1932 – Yasunobu Matono, NPB outfielder

1935 – Shigeo Ogawa, NPB infielder

1935 – Jim Proctor, pitcher

1937 – June Raines, college coach

1937 – John Self, NPB infielder

1938 – Don DiChiara, minor league infielder (d. 2025)

1938 – Jay Ward, infielder (d. 2012)

1942 – Ron Stone, outfielder

1942 – Paul Roof, minor league pitcher

1943 – Hans Augustinus, Hoofdklasse catcher

1945 – Willem Broertjes, Hoofdklasse umpire (d. 2023)

1946 – Kerry Wither, Australian national team infielder

1949 – Woo-yeol Kim, KBO infielder and manager

1949 – Reggie Sanders, infielder (d. 2002)

1951 – Kazuhiko Okaji, NPB outfielder

1952 – John Bedard, minor league pitcher

1952 – Jerry Mumphrey, outfielder; All-Star

1952 – Hae-chong Park, KBO catcher

1952 – Garry Williams, Australian national team infielder

1953 – Steve Ratzer, pitcher

1956 – Peter Gahan, scout

1956 – Lung-Cheng Hsia, Hong Kong national team coach

1956 – Yukihiro Murakami, NPB pitcher

1958 – Lázaro Junco, Cuban league outfielder (d. 2026)

1959 – Tom Foley, infielder and coach

1959 – Kenji Miyamoto, NPB pitcher

1959 – Mike Pittman, minor league pitcher

1960 – Alvin Davis, infielder; All-Star

1960 – Alonso Téllez, minor league outfielder; Salon de la Fama

1961 – Mike Carnegie, Canadian national team pitcher

1961 – Jim Corsi, pitcher (d. 2022)

1962 – Joe Strong, pitcher

1964 – Greg Vella, minor league infielder

1965 – Wayne Davis, minor league outfielder

1965 – Chris Pinder, minor league pitcher

1965 – Todd Zeile, infielder

1966 – Chuck Carter, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)

1966 – Rob Flippo, minor league catcher

1967 – Kazutoshi Higuchi, NPB infielder

1967 – Dave Rypien, Canadian national team catcher

1969 – Hiroki Nobayashi, NPB infielder

1970 – Don Garvey, minor league infielder

1970 – Joey Hamilton, pitcher

1970 – André Lachance, Canadian women’s national team manager

1970 – Dan Miceli, pitcher

1971 – Robinson Checo, pitcher

1971 – Rich Lemons, minor league player

1972 – Fredy Corea, Nicaraguan national team pitcher

1972 – Melvin Cuevas, CPBL pitcher

1972 – Mike Hampton, pitcher; All-Star

1972 – Felix Rodriguez, pitcher

1973 – Kazuhisa Ishii, pitcher

1973 – Yuji Nerei, minor league outfielder

1974 – Cédric Fermond, French national team pitcher

1974 – Larry Rodríguez, minor league pitcher

1975 – Jeff Andra, minor league pitcher

1975 – Takahiko Hagiwara, NPB pitcher

1975 – Akio Shimizu, NPB pitcher

1976 – Roderick Simon, Hoofdklasse infielder

1977 – Kyle Snyder, pitcher

1978 – Kurt Ainsworth, pitcher

1980 – Todd Coffey, pitcher

1981 – Ryo Kawashima, NPB pitcher

1982 – Pedro Diaz, minor league pitcher

1982 – Llewellyn Gerber, South African national team pitcher

1983 – Jason Benetti, broadcaster

1983 – Alberto Bicet, Cuban league pitcher

1983 – Mike Costanzo, infielder

1983 – Kyle Davies, pitcher

1983 – Jacobo Garrido, Division de Honor infielder

1983 – Rhyne Hughes, infielder

1983 – Edwin Jackson, pitcher; All-Star

1983 – Ta-Yuan Kuan, CPBL pitcher

1983 – Alex Romero, outfielder

1983 – Go Yamaoka, Japanese national team catcher

1984 – Masanori Kikuchi, NPB pitcher

1984 – Brett Pill, infielder

1985 – Nick Derba, minor league catcher and college coach

1985 – Hirofumi Yamanaka, NPB pitcher

1986 – Michael Bowden, pitcher

1986 – Gustavo Espinoza, minor league pitcher

1986 – Tyler Kuhn, minor league player

1986 – Evan LeBlanc, minor league outfielder

1986 – Curt Smith, minor league infielder

1986 – Lei Yu, China Baseball League pitcher

1987 – Keith Cantwell, minor league pitcher

1987 – Quintin De Cuba, minor league infielder

1987 – Moon-hong Kim, South Korean national team infielder

1987 – Shu-Nin Tang, Hong Kong national team outfielder

1988 – David Kaye, drafted pitcher

1988 – Will Middlebrooks, infielder

1988 – Brandon Short, minor league outfielder

1988 – Angelo Songco, minor league infielder

1988 – Joey Terdoslavich, outfielder

1988 – Yuki Yamauchi, Japanese national team catcher

1989 – Jonathan Balentina, Netherlands Antilles national team pitcher

1989 – Virgil Hill, minor league outfielder

1989 – Anthony Ranaudo, pitcher

1989 – Dusty Robinson, minor league outfielder

1989 – Euclides Viloria, minor league pitcher

1989 – Reggie Williams, minor league outfielder

1990 – Billy Hamilton, outfielder

1990 – Tsuyoshi Ishizaki, NPB pitcher

1990 – Jordan Lucas, Bundesliga pitcher

1990 – Justin Willard, coach

1991 – Jake McGuiggan, minor league infielder

1992 – Pat Valaika, infielder

1992 – Alberto Varin, Italian Baseball League catcher

1992 – Sachiya Yamasaki, NPB pitcher

1993 – Hsiao-Yun Chen, Taiwanese national team outfielder

1993 – Shane Dawson, minor league pitcher

1993 – Jimmy Herget, pitcher

1993 – Po-Jung Wang, NPB outfielder

1993 – Alex Young, pitcher

1994 – Wil Crowe, pitcher

1994 – Koshiro Sakamoto, NPB pitcher

1996 – JoJo Romero, pitcher

1997 – Simon Andersson, Elitserien pitcher

1997 – Malik Blaise, minor league infielder

1998 – Niomar Gomez, minor league pitcher and coach

1998 – Alex Kachler, minor league outfielder

1998 – Hakeem Yatim, Indonesian national team infielder

1999 – Ben Brown, pitcher

1999 – Otto Kemp, infielder

2000 – Christoph Vanas, Austrian national team pitcher

2001 – Troy Taylor, pitcher

2002 – Yi-Chung Chen, CPBL pitcher

2002 – Benny Montgomery, minor league outfielder

2004 – Jonny Farmelo, minor league outfielder

Deaths[edit]

1889 – Jack Gorman, infielder (b. 1859)

1914 – Willie Garoni, pitcher (b. 1877)

1915 – Al Spalding, pitcher, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1850)

1916 – Bill Smith, outfielder; manager (b. 1854)

1923 – George Keerl, infielder (b. 1847)

1926 – Dick Conway, pitcher (b. 1865)

1927 – Bill McCaffrey, pitcher (b. 1862)

1928 – Urban Shocker, pitcher (b. 1890)

1934 – John Dobbs, outfielder (b. 1875)

1936 – Bill Betts, umpire (b. 1865)

1944 – Orlin Collier, pitcher (b. 1907)

1944 – Frank Shugart, infielder (b. 1866)

1949 – Len Madden, pitcher (b. 1890)

1949 – Hal Neubauer, pitcher (b. 1902)

1950 – Dad Risley, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1870)

1951 – Chappie Snodgrass, outfielder (b. 1870)

1957 – Ed Karger, pitcher (b. 1883)

1959 – Terry Lyons, infielder (b. 1908)

1961 – Jesse Barnes, pitcher (b. 1892)

1961 – Rube Oldring, outfielder (b. 1884)

1964 – Herschel Bennett, outfielder (b. 1896)

1964 – George Stueland, pitcher (b. 1899)

1972 – Will Jackman, pitcher (b. 1895)

1974 – Stanley Shubilla, minor league catcher (b. 1916)

1975 – Ken Jungels, pitcher (b. 1916)

1981 – Ernie Alten, pitcher (b. 1894)

1981 – Willie Haynes, pitcher (b. 1901)

1990 – Doc Cramer, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1905)

1991 – Les Rock, infielder (b. 1912)

1996 – Harry Hanebrink, infielder (b. 1927)

1996 – Johnny Pramesa, catcher (b. 1925)

1997 – Richie Ashburn, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1927)

1998 – Jerry Zimmerman, catcher (b. 1934)

1999 – Osamu Hirose, NPB infielder (b. 1947)

1999 – Catfish Hunter, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1946)

2004 – Shoichi Aoki, NPB pitcher (b. 1917)

2004 – Rose Gacioch, AAGPBL outfielder (b. 1915)

2004 – Yasushi Ohashi, NPB infielder (b. 1910)

2007 – Robert Pascal, minor league infielder (b. 1930)

2009 – Bob Flori, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1929)

2010 – Eddie Phillips, pinch runner (b. 1930)

2011 – Lefty Gilday, minor league pitcher (b. 1928)

2013 – Dale Powell, minor league infielder (b. 1927)

2014 – Louis-Philippe Grenier, Quebec Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1946)

2014 – Pablo Morales, IBAF executive (b. 1932)

2015 – Yoshio Bizen, NPB pitcher (b. 1933)

2016 – Les Hall, college coach (b. 1935)

2016 – Carl Miles, pitcher (b. 1918)

2016 – Alonso Pérez, IBAF executive (b. ~1944)

2017 – Jim Donohue, pitcher (b. 1937)

2018 – Paul Stuffel, pitcher (b. 1927)

2019 – Jim Archer, pitcher (b. 1932)

2019 – Jim Greengrass, outfielder (b. 1927)

2019 – Joe Keough, outfielder (b. 1946)

2022 – Ray Rippelmeyer, pitcher (b. 1933)

2023 – Mitsuyasu Hirano, NPB outfielder (b. 1949)

2024 – James Earl Jones, actor (b. 1931)

2024 – Minnie Mendoza, infielder (b. 1934)

2025 – Jim Dickson, pitcher (b. 1938)

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TV SPORTS TODAY

(All times Eastern)

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts

Wednesday, Sept. 9

COLLEGE GOLF

11:30 a.m.

GOLF — 2026 Folds of Honor Collegiate: Final Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich.

4:30 p.m.

GOLF — 2026 Folds of Honor Collegiate: Final Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich.

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)

6 p.m.

SECN — North Carolina at Kentucky

6:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Pittsburgh vs. Tennessee, Kissimmee, Fla.

7 p.m.

ACCN — Missouri at Louisville

8 p.m.

SECN — Miami at Florida

9 p.m.

ACCN — Texas at SMU

ESPN2 — Texas A&M vs. Stanford, Kissimmee, Fla.

CYCLING

8:30 a.m.

NBCSN — UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Stage 17

MLB BASEBALL

1 p.m.

MLBN — Minnesota at Detroit (1:10 p.m.)

4 p.m.

MLBN — Texas at Seattle (4:10 p.m.)

7 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at Atlanta (7:15 p.m.) OR Colorado at N.Y. Yankees (7:05 p.m.)

10 p.m.

MLBN — Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers (10:10 p.m.)

NFL FOOTBALL

8:20 p.m.

NBC — New England at Seattle

PEACOCK — New England at Seattle

TENNIS

11:30 a.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: U.S. Open, Quarterfinals, New York

7:30 p.m.

ESPN — ATP/WTA: U.S. Open, Quarterfinals, New York

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Thursday, Sept. 10

AUTO RACING

4:30 a.m. (Friday)

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, MADRING Sur, Madrid

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

8 p.m.

ACCN — Florida A&M at Miami

COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

7 p.m.

SECN — Vanderbilt at Georgia

9 p.m.

SECN — Texas at Arkansas

CYCLING

8:30 a.m.

NBCSN — UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Stage 18

GOLF

8:30 a.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open, First Round, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, Ireland

4 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, First Round, Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tenn.

1:30 a.m. (Friday)

GOLF — 2026 Solheim Cup: Team U.S. vs. Team Europe – 4 Morning Foursomes & 4 Afternoon Fourballs, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands

MLB BASEBALL

1 p.m.

MLBN — Houston at Philadelphia (1:05 p.m.)

7 p.m.

MLBN — Colorado at N.Y. Yankees (7:05 p.m.)

NFL FOOTBALL

8:35 p.m.

NETFLIX — San Francisco vs. L.A. Rams, Melbourne, Australia

TENNIS

7 p.m.

ESPN — WTA: U.S. Open, Semifinals, New York

_____

Friday, Sept. 11

AUTO RACING

4:30 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, MADRING Sur, Madrid

8 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, MADRING Sur, Madrid

3:30 a.m. (Saturday)

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, MADRING Sur, Madrid

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

7 p.m.

ACCN — Villanova at Louisville

ESPNU — Richmond at NC State

7:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Rutgers at Boston College

8 p.m.

FOX — Missouri at Kansas

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)

8 p.m.

SECN — Wisconsin at Texas A&M

CYCLING

8:30 a.m.

NBCSN — UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Stage 19

GOLF

1 p.m.

GOLF — DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open, Second Round, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, Ireland (taped)

2 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Sanford International, First Round, Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, S.D.

5 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, Second Round, Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tenn.

1:30 a.m. (Saturday)

GOLF — 2026 Solheim Cup: Team U.S. vs. Team Europe – 4 Morning Foursomes & 4 Afternoon Fourballs, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands

MLB BASEBALL

2 p.m.

MLBN — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (2:20 p.m.)

7 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Philadelphia at Atlanta (7:15 p.m.) OR L.A. Dodgers at Miami (7:10 p.m.)

7:40 p.m.

APPLE TV — Cincinnati at Milwaukee

10:15 p.m.

APPLE TV — San Diego at San Francisco

TENNIS

Noon

ESPN2 — WTA: U.S. Open, Doubles Championship, New York

3 p.m.

ESPN — ATP: U.S. Open, Semifinal, New York

7 p.m.

ESPN — ATP: U.S. Open, Semifinal, New York

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Saturday, Sept. 12

AUTO RACING

3:30 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, MADRING Sur, Madrid

7 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: Qualifying, MADRING Sur, Madrid

7:30 p.m.

CW — NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series: Fleetio 200 – The Chase, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.

6 a.m. (Sunday)

APPLE TV — Formula 1: TAG Heuer Gran Premio de España 2026, MADRING Sur, Madrid

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Noon

ABC — Arizona St. at Texas A&M

ACCN — ETSU at North Carolina

BTN — Howard at Indiana

CBSSN — South Florida at Army

CW — Old Dominion at Virginia Tech

ESPN — Oregon at Oklahoma St.

ESPN2 — Penn St. at Temple

ESPNU — Appalachian St. at East Carolina

FOX — Oklahoma at Michigan

FS1 — Wake Forest at Purdue

TNT — Washington St. at Kansas St.

12:45 p.m.

SECN — W. Kentucky at Georgia

3:30 p.m.

ABC — Alabama at Kentucky

ACCN — California at Syracuse

BTN — Regional Coverage: E. Michigan at Michigan St. OR Utah St. at Washington

CBS — Mississippi St. at Minnesota

CBSSN — Maryland at UConn

CW — UTSA at Texas St.

ESPN2 — UCF at Pittsburgh

FOX — Arizona at BYU

NBC — Rice at Notre Dame

PEACOCK — Rice at Notre Dame

3:45 p.m.

ESPNU — UNLV at North Texas

4:15 p.m.

SECN — Delaware at Vanderbilt

6 p.m.

USA — Memphis at Boise St.

7 p.m.

CBSSN — S. Utah at Colorado St.

ESPN — Tennessee at Georgia Tech

FS1 — Bowling Green at Nebraska

7:15 p.m.

BTN — Regional Coverage: San Diego St. at UCLA OR W. Illinois at Wisconsin

7:30 p.m.

ABC — Ohio St. at Texas

ACCN — Georgia Southern at Clemson

CBS — Texas Tech at Oregon St.

ESPNU — Navy at FAU

NBC — Iowa St. at Iowa

PEACOCK — Iowa St. at Iowa

7:45 p.m.

ESPN2 — Charlotte at Mississippi

SECN — Southern Miss at Auburn

10:15 p.m.

ESPN — Arkansas at Utah

10:30 p.m.

CBSSN — Sacramento St. at Fresno St.

CW — Montana St. at Nevada

11 p.m.

BTN — Louisiana-Lafayette at Southern Cal

GOLF

9:30 a.m.

CNBC — DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open, Third Round, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, Ireland

2:30 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Sanford International, Second Round, Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, S.D.

5 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, Third Round, Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tenn.

5 a.m. (Sunday)

GOLF — 2026 Solheim Cup: Team U.S. vs. Team Europe – 12 Singles Matches & Closing Ceremony, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands

MLB BASEBALL

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees (1:35 p.m.) OR Colorado at Detroit (1:10 p.m.)

4:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Kansas City at Boston (4:10 p.m.) OR Cleveland at Minnesota (4:10 p.m.)

7 p.m.

MLBN — Chicago White Sox at St. Louis (7:15 p.m.)

10 p.m.

MLBN — Seattle at Athletics (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.)

SOCCER (MEN’S)

10 a.m.

NBCSN — English Premier League: Fulham at Liverpool

USA — English Premier League: Hull City at Chelsea

1:30 p.m.

NBC — English Premier League: Everton at Tottenham Hotspur

3 p.m.

USA — English Premier League: Arsenal at Sunderland

TENNIS

4 p.m.

ESPN — WTA: U.S. Open, Championship, New York

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Sunday, Sept. 13

AUTO RACING

6 a.m.

APPLE TV — Formula 1: TAG Heuer Gran Premio de España 2026, MADRING Sur, Madrid

3 p.m.

USA — NASCAR Cup Series: Enjoy Illinois 300 – The Chase, World Wide Technology Raceway, Madison, Ill.

COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

Noon

ACCN — Stanford at Duke

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)

1 p.m.

ESPN2 — Paradise Invitational: TBD, Consolation, Nassau, Bahamas

3 p.m.

ESPN — Wisconsin at Texas

5 p.m.

ESPN — Paradise Invitational: TBD, Championship, Nassau, Bahamas

8 p.m.

ESPN — UCLA at Utah

CYCLING

10 p.m.

NBCSN — UCI: 2026 Vuelta a España, Final Stage (taped)

GOLF

5 a.m.

GOLF — 2026 Solheim Cup: Team U.S. vs. Team Europe – 12 Singles Matches & Closing Ceremony, Bernardus Golf, Cromvoirt, Netherlands

8:30 a.m.

CNBC — DP World Tour: Amgen Irish Open, Final Round, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel, Doonbeg, Ireland

2:30 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: Sanford International, Final Round, Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, S.D.

5 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, Final Round, Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin, Tenn.

MLB BASEBALL

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Houston at Tampa Bay (1:40 p.m.) OR Kansas City at Boston (1:35 p.m.)

4:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at Arizona (joined in progress) (4:10 p.m.) OR Seattle at Athletics (joined in progress) (4:05 p.m.)

7 p.m.

NBCSN — San Diego at San Francisco (7:20 p.m.)

PEACOCK — San Diego at San Francisco (7:20 p.m.)

NFL FOOTBALL

1 p.m.

CBS — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, Baltimore at Indianapolis, Cleveland at Jacksonville OR Buffalo at Houston

FOX — Regional Coverage: Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, New Orleans at Detroit, Atlanta at Pittsburgh OR Chicago at Carolina

4:25 p.m.

CBS — Regional Coverage: Green Bay at Minnesota OR Arizona at L.A. Chargers

FOX — Regional Coverage: Miami at Las Vegas OR Washington at Philadelphia

8:20 p.m.

NBC — Dallas at N.Y. Giants

PEACOCK — Dallas at N.Y. Giants

SOCCER (MEN’S)

9 a.m.

USA — English Premier League: Brighton & Hove Albion at Coventry City

11:30 a.m.

NBCSN — English Premier League: Manchester City at Manchester United

USA — Bundesliga: Bayern Munich at SV Elversberg

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

1 p.m.

ESPN — NWSL: Boston at Washington

TENNIS

2 p.m.

ABC — ATP: U.S. Open, Championship, New York

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