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ANN ARBOR — DenardRobinson took the snap,took a knee and set offa long, loud, maize-and-blue celebration in the BigHouse.

Robinsonaccountedfor fivetouch-downs,helping17th-ranked Michigan beatOhio State 40-34 on Sat-urday and snap a school-record seven-game losingstreak against the Wolver-ines’ archrival.

“This game is more thana win,” defensive end RyanVan Bergen said. “It’s biggerthan that. It encompassesway more.”

Michigan (10-2, 6-2 Big

Ten) was forced to settle fora six-point lead with 1:59left on Brendan Gibbons’career-long 43-yard fieldgoal after two apparent TDswere negated by a videoreview and then penalties.

The Buckeyes (6-6, 3-5) had achance towin thegame ontheir finaldrive, butfreshman

Braxton Miller sailed a passover Deviser Posey’s headon what could’ve been a 76-yard TD and threw an inter-ception to Courtney Avery.

Michigan finally won agame in the storied seriesbecause it had a better quar-terback than Ohio State, fora change.

UM ends droughtagainst Buckeyes

MichiganState’s B.J.Cunninghamscores atouchdownafter catchinga 29-yardpass from KirkCousins againstNorthwestern’sDaniel JonesduringSaturday’sgame inEvanston, Ill.Cunninghamhad sixreceptionsand twotouchdowns ina 31-17 win.

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EVANSTON, Ill. — Allweek long Michigan Statevowed to look straightahead at Northwesterninstead of a week down theroad tothe BigTen cham-pionshipgame.

TheSpartanswere trueto theirword,beatingNorth-western 31-17 on Saturdayin a competitive tuneup.

With a spot in next Sat-urday’s title game secured,Michigan State wasn’t aboutto coast in the regular sea-son finale.

Michigan State (10-2, 7-1)

wanted 10 wins, and eventhough the Spartans hadalready clinched the Leg-ends Division by virtue of atiebreaker over Michigan,they wanted to ensure thebest record in their division.

All of it was accomplishedon a driz-zly dayat RyanField.

“Wewantedto havemomen-tum goinginto nextweek,”Spartans

coach Mark Dantonio said.“We’ll have that,”

Keshawn Martin returneda punt 57 yards for a TDjust before half, Kirk Cous-ins became the school’s

Big plays lift MSU

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Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson runs for a 41-yardtouchdown during Saturday’s game against Ohio State in Ann Arbor.He ran for two TDs and threw for three in a 40-34 win.

MSU 31, N’western 17Dec. 3: Big TenChampionship, MichiganState (10-2) vs. Wisconsin(10-2) at IndianapolisTV: 8 p.m., FOX• For more coverage, go tomlive.com/spartans

UM 40, Ohio State 34Next: Bowl game, TBA•For more coverage, visitmlive.com/wolverines

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NEW YORK — Afternearly two years of bick-ering, NBA players andowners are back on thesame side.

“We want to play bas-ketball,” CommissionerDavid Stern said.

Come Christmas Day,they should be.

The sides reached atentative agreement earlySaturday to end the149-day lockout andhope to begin the delayedseason with a marqueetripleheader Dec. 25. Most

of a season that seemedin jeopardy of being lostentirely will be salvagedif both sides approve thehandshake deal.

Barring a changein scheduling, the2011-12 season willopen with the BostonCeltics at New YorkKnicks, followed byMiami at Dallas in anNBA finals rematchbefore MVP DerrickRose and Chicago visitingKobe Bryant and the LosAngeles Lakers.

Neither side providedmany specifics about thedeal, and legal hurdles

must be cleared beforeplay begins again.

“We thought it was inboth of our interest to tryto reach a resolution and

save the game,” unionexecutive directorBilly Hunter said.

After a secret meet-ing this week that gotthe broken processback on track, thesides met for morethan 15 hours Friday,

working to save the sea-son. Stern said the agree-ment was “subject to avariety of approvals andvery complex machina-tions, but we’re optimistic

that will all come to passand that the NBA seasonwill begin Dec. 25.”

The league plans a66-game season and aimsto open training campsDec. 9, with free agencyopening at the same time.Stern has said it wouldtake about 30 days froman agreement to playingthe first game.

“All I feel right now is‘finally,’ ” Miami Heat starDwyane Wade told TheAssociated Press.

Just 12 days after talksbroke down and Stern

Merry Christmas, NBA fans

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Spartans post consecutive 10-winseasons for first time in history

Chargers turntables in rematchBILL KHANbkhan@flintjournal.com | 810-766-6184

DETROIT — The brightlights of Ford Field didn’tintimidate Garrett Poug-net.

Playing on the biggeststage in Michigan highschool football, Pougnetturned in one of the great-est performances ever bya Flint Powers Catholicquarterback.

The junior signal-callermade clutch play afterclutch play, putting thefinishing touches on oneof the most dramaticturnarounds in state his-tory. He threw for fourtouchdowns as the Char-gers upset No. 1-rankedLansing Catholic Central56-26 in the state Division5 championship game Sat-urday.

Powers became the firstteam to win a state cham-pionship after going 1-8the previous season. TheChargers were 0-2 and 2-4early in the season, one ofthose losses being a 37-17decision to Lansing Catho-lic on Sept. 1.

“It’s amazing,” PowersAll-State lineman DannyO’Brien said. “Nobodyexpected us to be here.All you need is your team-mates and your coaches,and you can get it donewith hard work.”

Pougnet stole the showfrom Lansing Catho-lic quarterback CooperRush, who broke the statesingle-season touchdownpass record in the gameby increasing his totalto 48 with three moreagainst the Chargers.

Pougnet was 12-for-15for 258 yards, four touch-downs and no intercep-tions. He ran 14 times for155 yards and two touch-downs. After Powers wentthree-and-out on its firstpossession, the Chargersscored touchdowns oneight straight drives to seta school scoring recordand tie the state finalsmark of 56 points setearlier in the day by Divi-sion 7 champion SaginawNouvel.

“You can’t play quarter-back if you don’t want tobe the center of attention,if you don’t want the ball,”Powers coach Bob Buckelsaid. “Garrett wants theball. He wants to run theball every play. ... Every-thing we’ve added in ouroffense is so he gets theball more.”

Pougnet made big playsin difficult circumstances.He had a 12-yard touch-down pass to Spencer Har-chick on third-and-nine,ran 69 yards for a touch-down on third-and-10,

and threw a 34-yardtouchdown pass toPrescott Myers on fourth-and-4. Pougnet also threwa key 27-yard pass toDanny Meissner on third-and-8 from Powers’ 4-yardline on the Chargers’ thirdtouchdown drive.

“This week in prac-tice, Coach Buckel keptsaying that the whole

atmosphere at Ford Field,we have to take it in, butstay focused when thegame rolls around andnot be in awe,” Poug-net said. “So we did. Westayed focused. Tonight,our offense executed somuch. It’s the highest ouroffense has performed allyear. Our receivers put upsome big numbers and

made some key catches. Ithelped me.”

Rush, a Central Michi-gan University recruit,finished 26-for-41 for 291yards, three touchdownsand one interception. Heran 11 times for 30 yardsand a touchdown.

Pougnet said he neverput additional pressureon himself to match orexceed Rush.

“Cooper Rush is a greatquarterback,” Pougnetsaid. “This week in prac-tice and film, I just tried toworry about my game andnot focus on any otherthings.”

With Pougnet pull-ing the trigger, Meissnercaught five passes for 120yards and a touchdown,and Myers caught threepasses for 93 yards andtwo touchdowns.

Powers made a state-ment in the first half,grabbing a 28-13 halftimelead. The Chargers didn’tlet up in the second half,scoring on all but the finaldrive of the game.

Pougnet powers title

Powers Catholic’s Idris Hobdy tackles Lansing Catholic Central’sCooper Rush as Powers’ Chris Koenigsknecht trails the play.

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Powers Catholic quarterback Garrett Pougnet is pushed out of bounds by Lansing Catholicdefensive back Kyle Oswald during Saturday’s Division 5 state championship game at Ford Fieldin Detroit. Pougnet threw for 258 yards and four touchdowns, and the Chargers won 56-26.

ERIC WOODYARDewoodyard@flintjournal.com | 810-766-6184

Last season’s ending stilldoesn’t sit well with the girls bas-ketball team at Goodrich.

The Martians were upset indouble-overtime by DearbornDivine Child in the Class B semifi-nals at the Breslin Center in EastLansing. Divine Child later wouldgo on to capture the school’s fifthstate title by knocking off ThreeRivers in the final game, 43-35.

Goodrich’s players feel like thatcould have been them instead.

“I look back and I really wishthat we could have pulled thatgame out,” said Taylor Gleason, areturning All-State guard for theMartians. “We didn’t really endup where we wanted to last year,and we were hoping to get to thefinals, but this year we’re moredetermined.”

Four starters, two transfers,and five of the top six players arereturning to Goodrich’s roster thisyear.

The Martians ended the 2010-11season with a 24-2 record. Goodrichnow is ready to prove to everyonethat it is not only the top team inthe Flint area, but in the state aswell.

“I think getting back to theBreslin Center and finishing thejob is very important to them,”Goodrich coach Jason Gray said.“With so many returners we havethe ability to do that.”

Both Gleason and her team-mate Aketra Sevillian alreadyhave committed to colleges in theBig Ten. They are only juniors,but each of them has played onvarsity since they entered highschool as freshmen.

Gleason chose the Universityof Michigan and Sevillian pickedPenn State in the off-season.Their early decisions have alreadyexposed them to what it takes toexcel on the next level and theyboth plan to instill those teachingsinto their teammates.

“Now we have the ‘X’ on ourback with us being a top-ratedteam, so we’ve been workingreally hard,” said Sevillian, whoaveraged 10 points and 3.5 stealsas a sophomore. “I’ve noticed inpractice that we have more lead-

ers, and with us going to Divi-sion I colleges we know what isexpected out of us.”

Senior forward Frankie Joubranwill play a key role, too. She post-ed nightly averages of 12.5 pointsand 4.5 rebounds in her juniorcampaign and earned Second-Team all-conference recognition.

Guard Destiny Stephens andfreshman floor general TaniaDavis also have transferred to

Goodrich from Grand Blancmiddle and high school and willadd depth to the group. The twoalready are familiar with thesquad because they played withSevillian, Gleason, and Joubranthis past summer on the All Michi-gan AAU travel team.

Davis and Stephens certainlyhave impressed Gray with theirtalents.

“What Destiny does for us is

that she’s a lights-out shooter andshe does a lot of things good, buther shooting abilities are goingto be real important to our squadthis year,” Gray said. “Tania is avery nice young player with greathands and a real good nose forthe basketball on offense anddefense, and she’ll make us a lotmore deep and a little quicker anda lot better.”

Stephens and her family recent-ly relocated to the Goodrich areabut she may not be eligible to playuntil next semester. Gray is wait-ing to hear back from the MHSAAabout the decision and hopes tofind out before Friday’s seasonopener against Grand Blanc.

“I’m trying to see what we looklike with some different parts,”said Gray.

“We always find out right awaywhere some of our deficiencieslie so we’ve got to be ready comeopening night.”

With the loss of their formertwo-time all-state pick SamanthaZirzow — to graduation — andother low-post options, the Mar-tians will become more guard-ori-ented. The Martians are a smallerunit but their ambition has height-ened.

“I feel that we should prove thatwe should have won it last year,”Gleason said. “We deserve to goall the way this year.”

Goodrich wants another shot

ERIC HAMMISehammis@flintjournal.com | 810-766-6184

He was a businessman, entrepreneur,donor and supporter of many in addi-tion to being an outstanding athlete atthe high school and college levels.

But regardless of how Jack Gogginswill be remembered, his legacy in theFlint area will echo for years to comeas a member of the Greater Flint AreaSports Hall of Fame.

Goggins, who died on ThanksgivingDay 2010 at age 76, is posthumouslybeing awarded the Special ServiceAward. He’ll be inducted Saturday atGenesys Conference and Banquet Center.

Although Goggins was a star athleteat St. Michael High School, where heearned 15 varsity letters in four sports,he may be best remembered for helpingmany people as an adult. Goggins hadthe means to do that after co-foundingCompak/Webcor and Security PackagingInc., which is now known as Northgate.

A humble man who didn’t publicizehis philanthropy, Goggins declined theSpecial Service Award in 2009, becausehe didn’t want to be recognized forhelping others.

“After my father passed, the familybegan going through some of his per-sonal belongings, and we began to findthank you letters that dated back to the1970s,” said son Andy Goggins. “He dida lot of things secretly, and that’s theway he wanted it.”

Goggins first made a name for him-self at St. Mike’s, where he was a mem-ber of the football, basketball, baseballand track teams. He also played half-back on the football team at WayneState University, where he experiencedthe highlight of his athletic career.

Andy Goggins chuckles when tellingthe story, which involved Wayne State’spatented halfback option pass play. Theopponent was Louisville, whose quarter-back was a guy named Johnny Unitas.

“The other halfback was Vic Zucco,who had a pretty extensive career withthe (NFL’s Chicago) Bears,” Gogginssaid. “Every time they practiced the play,the pitch went to Vic Zucco, who was avery good passer. My dad never threw apass in his life, not even in high school.

“So they pitched to my dad by mis-take and my dad threw what he called‘a wounded duck,’ a wobbly pass that(the receiver) caught and ran for atouchdown. My dad threw one pass inhis life, and they beat Johnny Unitas.”

After graduation, Goggins returnedto the Flint area in 1957 and remainedactive in sports at St. Mike’s, where hewas an assistant football coach under

the legendary Tom Smith before takingthe top job himself.

Goggins had a strong faith, and in thelate 1960s became a key force in help-ing raise funds to build Powers Catholic.Jack and Sally Goggins sent all six oftheir children to Powers, and Jack wasa lifelong supporter of all the Chargerathletic teams. Andy Goggins said hisfather’s proudest accomplishment wasseeing all six of his kids return hometo live in Flushing, raise their childrenthere and have them attend school at St.Robert Bellarmine and Powers.

While Jack was among Powers’ mostavid fans, he supported all high schoolathletes in Genesee County. Providing,of course, they weren’t squaring offagainst his beloved Chargers.

“Jack was one of the most positivepeople I have ever met,” said Goggins’godson Bill Haley, superintendent ofschools at Carman-Ainsworth whocoached baseball and basketball at Pow-ers. “He was close to Powers and all theteams in the county. I never heard himsay no or anything negative in terms ofhelping or supporting someone.”

Goggins was a regular at Powers’sporting events until shortly before hisdeath.

“He absolutely lived for it,” AndyGoggins said. “He went to games upuntil his final week. That kept himgoing when he was in the wheelchair.They let him park behind the goal postso he could see the (football) game.”

Nobody would have enjoyed Powers’remarkable run to Saturday’s Division5 state football championship at FordField more than Jack Goggins.

Andy Goggins said he is sure hisfather would be at Ford Field in spirit,rooting for the Chargers.

When the football season began,Andy Goggins showed up at Pow-ers’ opener and made sure to yell “Beready!” — his dad’s catch phrase.

When Powers parent Sharon Cramerheard Andy Goggins, she asked whatthe heck “Be ready” meant, and afterhearing the explanation, Cramer beganmaking signs bearing those words.

“She takes them to school, playerscarry them, fans carry them,” AndyGoggins said. “They’ve been holdingthese signs at every game. The lastgame, she took one and put it on the 50(yard line) and said nobody can sit herebecause Jack was sitting there.

“I took a picture of my dad’s tomb-stone. The only thing it says on it is mydad’s name, the day he was born, theday he died and ‘Be Ready.’ (That) washis cheer and his life thing. Be readyfor everything.”

Goggins’ legacy continues

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Taylor Gleason of Goodrich was an All-State performer last season as asophomore, when the Martians advanced to the Class B state semifinals. Gleasonhas committed to the University of Michigan.

1. Taylor GleasonGoodrich, Jr.

Notable: Committed to theUniversity of Michigan. Gleasonaveraged 11.5 points, 4.5 assists,and three steals as a sophomore.She was named to the AssociatedPress Class B All-State first teamlast season and first-team AllConference.

2. Kristen LongDurand, Sr.

Notable: Already has 1,332 careerpoints and notched a career-high 41 points in a game lastseason. Averaged 23.4 points, 4.6rebounds, 4.3 assists, and 4 stealsas a junior. She was named to theAssociated Press Class B All-Statefirst team and has committed toWayne State University.

3. Aketra SevillianGoodrich, Jr.

Notable: Is a two-year varsitystarter who averaged 10.5 pointsand 3.5 steals as a sophomore.Already has committed to PennState. She earned First-Team allconference honors last seasonand was an honorable mentionnominee on the 2010-11 FlintJournal All-Area team.

4. Dy’man WebbFlint Hamady, Sr.

Notable: Was nowhere near thefocal point of last year’s offense— playing alongside two all-staters— but still averaged 7.1 points,6.5 rebounds, 2.5 steals, and 2.6assists per game. She committedto the University of Alabama atBirmingham.

5. Emily WendlingFlushing, Sr.

Notable: Earned First-Team AllBig Nine honors and a Class Ahonorable mention as a junior.Has played on varsity since herfreshman year. Averaged 14 pointsand 10 rebounds last season.

6. Sparkle TaylorFlint Northwestern, Jr.

Notable: Helped lead Northwesternto its first district title since 1999in March. Averaged 13.4 points,8.8 rebounds and 2.4 steals as asophomore.

7. Frankie JoubranGoodrich, Sr.

Notable: Has played on varsitysince her freshman campaign.Averaged 12.5 points and 4.5rebounds last season while helpingthe Martians reach the Class Bstate semifinals.

8. Simone GillumFlushing, Sr.

Notable: Averaged 10 points and 8rebounds last season while leadingher team to the district finals.Earned First Team All Big Ninerecognition as a junior.

9. Mykel ThompsonFlint Northern, Sr.

Notable: Posted 16 points pergame for the Vikings last season.First team All-Saginaw ValleyLeague as a junior.

10. Lariah StevensFlint Southwestern, Sr.

Notable: Averaged 14 points andfive assists last season. Earnedsecond-team All-Saginaw Valleyrecognition as a junior.

Flint-area players to watch

“We weren’t facing thesame team we did the sec-ond week,” Cougars coachJim Ahern said. “He’s movedsome kids around, he’sbrought some kids up. Hechanged a little bit of whatthey’re doing offensively. ...When you lose a game, alot of times you think of thethings you did bad, but theyplayed really well.”

A 1-yard run by Pougneton the first drive of the sec-ond half increased Powers’lead to 35-13. The Cougarsresponded with a 4-yardtouchdown run by Rush, butPowers scored the next twotouchdowns on a 34-yardcatch by Myers and a 36-yard run by Nick Sullivan.

After Rush’s final touch-down pass of his record-set-

ting season, a 33-yarder toConnor Bartlett with 8:32left, Powers tied the statefinals scoring record on a15-yard run by Harchickand Javier Guerra’s extrapoint with 5:22 to go.

It appeared the Cougarsmight handle Powers eas-ily, as they did in the teams’first meeting, when Rushthrew a 7-yard touchdownpass to Matt Macksood onthe game’s first drive.

A turning point came whenRush was stopped short ofa first down on fourth-and-inches on the next LansingCatholic drive. Two playslater, Powers got on theboard when Pougnet hitMeissner with a 53-yard TD.

It’s the second statechampionship for the Char-

gers, who were Division 4champions in 2005.Powers 7 21 14 14 — 56Lansing CC 6 7 7 6 — 26

First quarterLCC — Matt Macksood 7 pass from Cooper Rush

(kick failed), 7:09Powers — Danny Meissner 52 pass from Garrett

Pougnet (Javier Guerra kick), 1:58Second quarter

Powers — Spencer Harchick 12 pass fromGarrett Pougnet (Javier Guerra kick), 8:41

Powers — Garrett Pougnet 69 run (kick failed), 4:45LCC — Connor Bartlett 48 pass from Connor

Rush (Rory Liesman kick), 3:32Powers — Prescott Myers 37 pass from Garrett

Pougnet (Danny Meissner pass from GarrettPougnet), :47

Third quarterPowers — Garrett Pougnet 1 run (Javier Guerra

kick), 6:32LCC — Cooper Rush 4 run (Rory Liesman kick),

3:01Powers — Prescott Myers 34 pass from Garrett

Pougnet (Javier Guerra kick), :37Fourth quarter

Powers — Nick Sullivan 36 run (Javier Guerrakick), 10:44

LCC — Connor Bartlett 33 pass from CooperRush (pass failed), 8:32

Powers — Spencer Harchick 15 run (JavierGuerra kick), 5:22

From B1 — POWERS Chargers win second football state championship

TUESDAYHockey

Grand Blanc vs. Pinckney, Arctic Coliseum, 6p.m.

Girls basketballBridgeport at Lake Fenton, 7 p.m.Clarkston at Davison, 7 p.m.Beecher at Northern, 7 p.m.Southwestern at Northwestern, 7 p.m.Grand Blanc at Carman-Ainsworth, 7 p.m.Holly at Milford, 7 p.m.Lapeer East at LakeVille, 7 p.m.Linden at Lake Orion, 7 p.m.Midland Dow at Flushing, 7:30 p.m.North Branch at Imlay City, 7:30 p.m.Rochester Hills Stoney Creek at Brandon, 7 p.m.Atherton at Montrose, 7 p.m.Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes at Bendle, 7

p.m.Genesee at Genesee Christian, 6 p.m.Durand at Perry, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAYHockey

Fenton vs. Davison, Perani Arena, 7 p.m.Swartz Creek vs. Kearsley, Iceland Arenas, 8 p.m.Goodrich vs. Lapeer West, Polar Palace, 7:30

p.m.Girls basketball

Millington at Owendale-Gagetown, 7:30 p.m.THURSDAY

Boys basketballDavison Faith Baptist at Rochester Hills Christian,

3:30 p.m.Girls basketball

Davison at Northern, 7 p.m.Carman-Ainsworth at Swartz Creek, 7 p.m.

FRIDAYGirls basketball

Carrollton at Birch Run, 7:30 p.m.Durand at Vassar, 7:30 p.m.Fenton at Hartland, 7 p.m.International Academy at Bridgeport, 7:30 p.m.Northwestern at Clio, 7 p.m.Goodrich at Grand Blanc, 7 p.m.Imlay City at Lapeer West, 7 p.m.Lake Fenton at Holly, 7 p.m.Livonia Ladywood at Powers Catholic, 7 p.m.LakeVille at Millington, 7:30 p.m.Oxford at Brandon, 7 p.m.Saginaw at Flushing, 7 p.m.Mt. Morris at Genesee Christian, 6 p.m.Bendle at Atherton, 7 p.m.Byron at Bentley, 7 p.m.Dryden at Genesee, 7 p.m.New Lothrop at Webberville, 7 p.m.

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Steven Stull’s goal with9:20 left in the third periodgave Davison a 2-1 hockeyvictory over Kearsley onWednesday at Perani Arena.

Davison’s Alex Dunckelalso scored. David Arper-burn made 22 saves for theCardinals (2-0). Jon Rileyscored, and Brent Smilesmade 20 saves for Kearsley.

Davison (2-1) hostsFenton at 7 p.m. Monday.Kearsley plays at SwartzCreek at 8 p.m. Monday.

• East Grand Rapids 3, Davi-son 1: In the Holiday Tour-nament in Chelsea, DrewVandeputte scored, BrandonPirtle and Lucas Mitchellassisted, and Jake Rye had17 saves for Davison.

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and FieldsBILL KHANbkhan@flintjournal.com | 810-766-6184and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Grand Blanc has pro-duced some outstandinghigh school quarterbacksand wide receivers overthe years, but a strongcase could be made thatthe Bobcats’ greatestaerial combo was on thefootball field this season.

Grand Blanc hadthree Associated PressAll-State quarterbacksbefore this season, butnever one who waspaired with an all-statereceiver.

That has changedwith the inclusion ofjunior quarterback BartWilliams and seniorreceiver Jordan Fieldson The AP’s Division 1-2All-State team.

The other Flint-areaall-staters in Division1-2 are Carman-Ain-sworth senior ShaneBarron as a special-ist and Fenton seniorKenny Allen as a punter.

The team was selectedby a 10-member panelof media members fromthroughout Michigan.

A junior varsity quar-terback last year, Wil-liams' greatest athleticaccomplishments hadbeen on the basketballcourt, where he wasa member of GrandBlanc's varsity since hisfreshman year. He won aduel for the quarterbackjob in the preseason,then embarked on arecord-breaking season.

Williams set Flint-arearecords with 3,210 pass-ing yards and 37 touch-down passes, going226-for-387 and throw-ing 11 interceptions.He broke the recordsof 3,138 yards set byLinden's Cody Marks in2009 and 35 touchdownpasses set by Bendle'sBrent Combs in 2005.

He made a name forhimself by playing hisbest when it matteredmost, going 84-for-135(.622) for 1,088 yards,13 touchdowns and fourinterceptions in threestate playoff games.

His favorite receiverwas Fields, who verballyhas committed to Cen-tral Michigan University,most likely as a defensiveback.

Fields had nearlytwice as many catchesand yards as GrandBlanc's No. 2 receiver,hauling in 67 passesfor 1,088 yards and 13touchdowns. He hadsix interceptions and 31tackles on defense.

Like Williams, Fieldswas a standout in clutchsituations.

He caught 27 passesfor 385 yards and sixtouchdowns in threeplayoff games, including

a 10-yard scoring strikein the first of three over-times against Holt in thefirst round. His 27-yardtouchdown catch with1:13 left gave GrandBlanc a 21-18 victoryover Brighton in a battlebetween the co-cham-pions in the KensingtonLakes Athletic Associa-tion West Division.

Barron got the spe-cialist position, whichis given to a player whois outstanding in morethan one role.

Barron received spe-cial mention All-Statelast year as a widereceiver, but moved toquarterback this season.He also played run-ning back during hisfour-year career at Car-man-Ainsworth. Barronplayed defensive backand was a dangerouskick and punt returner.

He is Carman-Ain-sworth's first AP All-Stater since defensiveback Otis Wiley in 2004.

Barron rushed for aschool-record 337 yardsagainst Flushing, finish-ing the season with 1,367yards and 16 touchdownson 164 carries. He threwfor four touchdowns,going 25-for-73 for 335yards. He caught twopasses for 78 yards and ascore. Defensively, he had35 tackles, two intercep-tions and five deflections.He picked off two passes.Barron accounted for1,802 all-purpose yards.

Allen will attend theUniversity of Michi-gan to be a punter asa preferred walk-on.He is Fenton's first APAll-Stater since kickerJud Hudnut, a two-timeselection, in 1986.

Allen punted 36 timesfor an average of 39.4yards. He put 16 puntsinside the 20-yard line,nine inside the 10 andseven inside the five. Hehad six punts of at least50 yards.

As a kicker, he was8-for-11 on field goals,kicking a season-best 45-yarder with 1:55 left tobeat Linden on Sept. 1.

Fenton linebacker JoeDelavergne and Hollypunter Austin Hopkinreceived honorable men-tion.

The 2011 AssociatedPress Division 1-2 All-State team has nineplayers who were select-ed unanimously andfour others who receivednine of a possible 10first-place votes.

Prescott Line ofOxford edged out othertop candidates.

Line is a 6-1, 205-pound running back whoalso started at linebacker.Line, who committedto Southern MethodistUniversity, is a four-yearvarsity player.

“We didn’t givePrescott much of a rest,ever (because of inju-ries),” coach Bud Rowleysaid. “When the gamewas on the line, he mighthave had five or six playsoff the entire game.”

Grand Blanc duoon all-state team ERIC WOODYARD

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Andre Dirrell’s last bout took placein the Motor City.

The Flint boxer’s next opponentwill be against a Motown native.

Dirrell is officially scheduled tomake his highly anticipated return to

boxing Dec. 30 against38-year-old DarrylCunningham. Thebout will be televisednationally on Showtimefrom Palm Springs,Calif., and will be partof a fight card featureformer middleweightchampion JermainTaylor.

“Above all, I’m justhappy I’m getting back in that ring,”said Dirrell, who hasn’t fought sinceMarch 27, 2010. “I’ve been waitingfor this for the longest and I know it’sbeen 17 months (and) it has seemedlike forever.”

Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO’s) last beatArthur Abraham via disqualificationin Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena. The fightwas stopped after Abraham nailedDirrell with an illegal blow at the 1:13mark of the 11th round.

Dirrell was far ahead in points onthe judge’s cards at the time of Abra-ham’s illegal punch, which knockedhim unconscious. He suffered fromneurological problems after the matchand dropped out of Showtime’s SuperSix World Boxing Classic.

The 2004 Olympic bronze medalistsays his medical conditions now arecleared. He also said that his camp wasin search of a good television deal aswell as the perfect tune-up fighter forhis return and that contributed to thedelay in his getting back in the ring.

Dirrell also said Abraham’s dirtypunch won’t have any lingering effectson his ability to take risks in the ring.

“I’m not worried about what hap-pened in the past,” said Dirrell. “Theonly thing I’m worried about is that Ihaven’t been there in 17 months, soI might have the jitters a little morethan I usually do, but it won’t be any-thing I can’t handle. I’m just moreanxious than anything.”

His uncle and trainer, Leon LawsonJr., picked Cunningham, because hefelt he could pose a stiff challenge forhis nephew’s skills.

Cunningham (24-2, 10 KOs) hasn’tlost a bout since 2007. He is rated asthe No. 14 middleweight boxer in theUnited States, according to boxrec.com.

“Darryl is no pushover,” said Law-son Jr. “We wanted to bring Andreback right so that way we can get himready for the elite guys in the division.

So that’s why we chose him.”Although he’s not overlooking Cun-

ningham’s talents, Dirrell feels he willdominate his target.

“Detroit, Flint and Midwest stylesare pretty much all the same,” Dirrellsaid. “He’s somewhat of a boxer, hetries to brawl, but he will be in a verydangerous situation when he doesthat. And me being a slick boxer, Ithink I’ll be able to outbox anyone,especially the ones in the Midwest.”

Dirrell is training at the Mayweath-er Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nev.,alongside his younger brother Antho-ny Dirrell. Anthony will be fightingnext month on Showtime, too. He willface Renan St. Juste on Friday at theChumash Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif.

Since Andre’s break from the sport,he married his high school sweetheart,Alaia, and they gave birth to theirthird child in the summer. AlthoughDirrell’s family life has been intact, headmitted that it was tough to be awayfrom his job.

“I would be sitting there watchingthe Super Six tournament, and watch-ing (Andre) Ward and (Carl) Frochwin and when you watch it, being an

athlete, it feels like you’re watching itgo by,” said Dirrell. “Especially whenyou know that you’re at that level andit’s your time to shine and a mishapsuch as mine sets you back.”

Dirrell, 28, is aware that time waitsfor no man and it was hard for himto be out of the loop for such a longstint. The time away from his profes-sion was a very stressful period.

“I’ve cried plenty of times just sit-ting there watching Floyd Mayweatherwork out,” Dirrell said. “Now he getsa chance to watch me work out, andit was me knowing that I can be thatman and be that champion.”

If things go as planned in Dirrell’sreturn, he may get a title shot soon.The Dirrell camp has reportedly beenin contact with Lucian Bute — the cur-rent IBF super middleweight champi-on — and his handlers. Bute (34-0, 24KOs) could be a potential challengerif Dirrell takes care of business nextmonth.

“I know I’ve got a lot in store formyself and 2012 will be a big yearno doubt,” said Dirrell. “But it’s realimportant that I go in there and give agood showing.”

Dirrell to face Cunningham next

JERRY S. MENDOZA | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Super middeweight Arthur Abraham, left, received a standing eight count after this knockdown by Andre Dirrell in the seventh round of the Super Six World Boxing Classic at JoeLouis Arena in Detroit in March 2010.

Andre Dirrell

ERIC WOODYARDewoodyard@flintjournal.com | 810-766-6184

There isn’t necessarily a “new” headboys varsity basketball coach at FlintNorthwestern.

Lamont Torbert already is familiarwith the program.

Torbert will take over for DaveBush this season as Northwestern’slatest sideline leader.

“This is a job I always dreamedabout since I graduated from here,”said Torbert, a former three-yearvarsity athlete in basketball, football,and baseball at Northwestern. “I havealways had the desire to coach theboys varsity team.”

Bush resigned in October. He’dcoached the Wildcats since 2003 andfinished with a 110-73 record.

Torbert has remained familiarwith the Wildcats’ athletic programsince1994. His younger brother, KelvinTorbert, was an All-American hoop-ster for the Wildcats and Lamont alsocoached the girls varsity program forthe last two years.

Torbert led Northwestern’s girls totheir first district title since 1999 witha 59-32 victory over Clio last season.They also finished with a 15-9 record.

He says his decision to leave thegirls program was a tough one.

“The girls understood that my goalwas to coach the boys varsity teamand I spoke to them about it often,”Torbert said. “I came far with the girls,and I miss them already.”

Prior to Torbert’s work with thegirls team, he also coached the boysjunior varsity squad for five years atNorthwestern. The transition into hiscurrent position has been relativelyeasy, because he had already estab-lished a good rapport with the group.

“It was a hard decision to letLamont do the boys because thenwe were stuck without a girls coachwith no time,” said Jeff Whiteley,Northwestern’s athletic director. “Butin the end, we figured out that Lamontwould be the best to slide over intothat boys program and get it.”

Whiteley will now serve as the girls’coach. He previously completed 10

years as a boys basketball coach atSouthwestern before stepping down topursue an athletic director position atCentral and later Northwestern.

Whiteley had a 155-85 varsityrecord at Southwestern. He alsocoached the junior varsity for fiveseasons. His teams won the three CitySeries titles, two Saginaw Valley Con-ference championships, six districtcrowns, and two regionals. They madeit to the Breslin Center twice.

At Central, Whitely briefly filled infor the girls varsity coaching positionfor the final three games of the yearin 2008. That is his only other girlscoaching experience but he doesn’tthink there is much of a difference ingenders.

“Basketball is basketball,” saidWhiteley. “Girls personalities aredefinitely different than boys person-alities, and there’s bad and positiveswith both boys and girls.”

Northwestern’s boys will kick offits season at home on Dec. 6 againstPowers Catholic. The girls will hostSouthwestern on Tuesday.

Coach Torbert moves to Northwestern’s boys basketball team

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Associated Press

AP BCS Team Record This Week (Sat.unless noted) Next Week

1 1 LSU 12-0 beat (3) Arkansas, 41-17, Fr. SEC title2 2 Alabama 11-1 beat Auburn, 42-14 Bowl TBD3 3 Arkansas 10-2 lost at (1) LSU, 41-17, Fr. Bowl TBD4 6 Stanford 10-1 (22) Notre Dame, 8 p.m. Bowl TBD5 4 Oklahoma St. 10-1 Idle (12) Oklahoma6 5 Virginia Tech 11-1 beat (24) Virginia, 38-0 ACC title7 7 Boise State 10-1 beat Wyoming, 36-14 New Mexico8 8 Houston 12-0 beat Tulsa, 48-16 (Fr.) CUSA title9 10 Oregon 10-2 beat Oregon St., 49-21 Pac-12 title

10 — Southern Cal 9-2 UCLA, 10 p.m. End of season11 14 Michigan St. 10-2 beat N’western, 31-17 Big Ten title12 9 Oklahoma 9-2 beat Iowa State, 26-6 at (5) Okla. St.13 13 Georgia 10-2 beat (25) Ga. Tech, 31-17 SEC title14 12 South Carolina 9-2 (18) Clemson, 7:45 p.m. Bowl TBD15 16 Wisconsin 10-2 beat (20) Penn St., 45-7 Big Ten or Bowl16 11 Kansas State 9-2 Idle Iowa State17 15 Michigan 10-2 beat Ohio State, 40-34 Bowl TBD18 17 Clemson 9-2 at (14) S. Carolina, 7:45 p.m. ACC title19 20 TCU 9-2 Idle UNLV20 19 Penn State 9-3 lost at (15)Wisconsin, 45-7 Big Ten or Bowl21 18 Baylor 7-3 Texas Tech, 7 p.m. Texas22 21 Nebraska 9-3 beat Iowa, 20-7 (Fr.) Bowl TBD22 22 Notre Dame 8-3 at (4) Stanford, 8 p.m. Bowl TBD24 — Virginia 8-4 lost to (6) Va.Tech, 38-0 BowlTBD25 23 Georgia Tech 8-4 lost to (13) Georgia, 31-17 Bowl TBD— 24 Auburn 7-5 lost to (2) Alabama, 42-14 BowlTBD— 25 Texas 7-4 beat Tex. A&M, 27-25, Th. at (21) Baylor

ANN ARBOR — Weall saw what happenedbetween Michigan andMichigan State on the field.It was clear-cut, borderlineresounding,in how theSpartanscarried thatday.

But whatif the BowlChampion-ship Seriesfinds itself reduced to achoice between Michiganand Michigan State forinclusion in its big-buckssweepstakes?

Michigan State, culledout by the BCS last year infavor of a Wisconsin teamwith the same record, andwhich it defeated, will suf-fer a similar fate again.

That’s what.First, this scenario is

completely plausible. Thepotential end result, if itoccurs, will have nothing todo with reasonable thoughtor fairness, save for rawdata of win-loss records,because if Michigan Stateshould lose the inauguralconference championshipgame to either Wisconsin orPenn State, then see a10-2 Michigan team select-ed over it for a BCS bowl,the lash-out from EastLansing will reverberate ona level totally unlike lastyear’s.

And no one who under-stands college football willblame them for it, whichpurports that anyone reallyunderstands college foot-ball.

But with Michigan’s winover Ohio State on Satur-day, it is a virtual given thatthe Big Ten will have two

teams in BCS bowls.One will be the winner of

the Big Ten ChampionshipGame, next Saturday inIndianapolis.

The other will be Michi-gan.

That will be true eventhough the Spartans beatNorthwestern on Saturdayand finished the 12-gameseason with the samerecord as Michigan, a head-to-head victory, and a divi-sion championship in thefirst year of the Big Tendivisional split.

Unless the Spartans winthe conference champion-ship and go to the RoseBowl, they’re probably head-ed to Tampa for the Out-back, which not only is thename of the bowl, but wherethey are in the pecking orderif they finish 10-3, against a10-2 Wolverines team.

Given what happenedOct. 15, when MichiganState again ruled the statewith a 28-14 win againstMichigan, to see the Spar-tans punished for losing aconference championship

game that everybody wantsto play in, and that the Wol-verines won’t, would stink.

Especially after whathappened last year, whenMichigan State lost outon a BCS bid to Wiscon-sin, to have it happen thisway would be unfair. Theconspiracy theorists wouldhave great fun with it.

And to have Michiganbenefit from it all?

Well, at least Spartansfootball has decades ofexperience with the crush-ing disappointment of near-miss cruelty.

Why Michigan? Becausethe numbers support them.And coming off one of themost distressing periods inprogram history, and fiveyears removed from theirlast major bowl, the allurefor a BCS bowl would betoo great.

Michigan and MichiganState both have fan basesthat would flock to the bowlsite, and if U-M fans arefeeling major-bowl with-drawal, what of MSU fanswho last went to the Rose

Bowl 24 years ago? AnyBCS bid constitutes Spartanheaven.

Michigan State can alle-viate all of this by winningthe Big Ten title game.

Failing that, there is noway the Spartans get amajor bowl bid, at 10-3,over a 10-2 Wolverinesteam. And Wisconsin andPenn State, both 9-2 enter-ing their elimination gameon Saturday, are in pre-cisely the same position ofneeding to win the confer-ence championship or fallbehind Michigan in thepecking order.

There also is the issueof the BCS rankings, withMSU 14th, Michigan 15th,Wisconsin 16th and PennState 19th entering Sat-urday. With the win, theWolverines now will fin-ish higher than everyoneexcept the conferencechampion.

For all the negatives thata conference championshipgame can cause for a teamthat gets punished for los-ing it, there is some clearimpact. Penn State-Wis-consin was for high stakes.Michigan State-Northwest-ern actually was dimin-ished by the championshipformat. And Michigan-OhioState, because of the confer-ence pecking order, was ele-vated to a one-game playofffor a Michigan BCS berth.

But this isn’t debatable:Michigan could beat OhioState and get rewarded fornot playing in the confer-ence championship game.

The system of conferencechampionship games andBCS hocus-pocus is inter-esting, yes. Fair is some-thing no one ever promised.

UM still can beat MSU

DAVIDMayo

CARLOS OSORIO | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Michigan head coach Brady Hoke reacts during the closing secondsof Michigan’s 40-34 win over Ohio State in Ann Arbor.

career TD pass leader withtwo more and MichiganState’s league-best defensecame up with six sacks.

“We’re 60 minutes fromthe Rose Bowl,” Cousinssaid, now afforded theopportunity to project amatchup with Penn State orWisconsin.

“We had a very challeng-ing schedule, and we feltlike it was as tough as any-body’s in the conference,so the fact we could win 10and only lose one (confer-ence) game ... says a lotabout what we can accom-plish here.”

Cousins threw a 33-yardTD to B.J. Cunningham inthe third quarter and hithim again on a juggling29-yard TD pass with 5:17left to complete a 93-yarddrive. It was the 62nd careertouchdown pass for Cous-ins, breaking the schoolrecord held by Jeff Smoker(61).

“None of those touch-downs I threw by myself— I passed to someone, Ihad an offensive linemanprotecting me,” said Cous-ins, who is 21-4 as starterthe last two seasons. “Anyindividual records are a tes-tament to the team, and themore records we can pile upshows how special the team

has been.”Northwestern (6-6, 3-5)

had its four-game winningstreak snapped in the regu-lar-season finale and nowhopes for a bowl bid. TheWildcats closed to 24-17early in the final quarteron Dan Persa’s 12-yard TDpass to Demetrius Fields,set up by a clutch fourth-down pass from Persa toJeremy Ebert.

The Wildcats got theball back at the MSU 47,but a holding penalty andJerel Worthy’s sack ofPersa forced a punt, andthen MSU went on its long,game-clinching drive.

“It’s tough,” Persa said.“We had high expectationscoming into the season.”

Cousins completed 14 of20 for 214 yards and Cun-ningham had six catches for120 yards. Persa completed23 of 32 for 245 yards andtwo TDs.

Michigan State scoredtwo touchdowns in the final1:40 of the second quarter,including Martin’s puntreturn, and took a 17-3 leadat the intermission.

Instead of being ahead,all of a sudden Northwest-ern was behind by twotouchdowns.

“It drives me crazy whenwe don’t win and it drives

me up a wall,” Northwest-ern coach Pat Fitzgeraldsaid. “I expect to win, and Iexpect to win everything wedo. To not do that six timesthis year is disappointing.”

With the score tied at3-3, Northwestern wasdriving when TreyvonGreen fumbled after ahit by Max Bullough andMichigan State’s DenzelDrone recovered at theSpartan 3 with just morethan five minutes left in thehalf. Northwestern calleda timeout — presumably tohave the play reviewed —but Michigan State retainedpossession.

MSU then took off on a97-yard drive — Cousinshit Brian Linthicum for 15yards and heaved a 46-yard-er to Martin that carried tothe NU 7. Le’Veon Bell thencarried the final 7 yards fora TD, completing an eight-play march that put theSpartans up 10-3.

The Spartans defensethen forced a Northwesternpunt and Martin fieldedBrandon Williams’ boot,broke to his right, signaledto blockers and sailed in fora 17-3 lead. The two TDscame just 66 seconds apart.

“I wasn’t able to catch it,but the bounce was good,”Martin said.

“As soon as I caught it,I saw a little seam to theright. I went up the field alittle bit and broke it to theright and after that it wasjust trusting my speed.

“It was great blocking onthat return. It was a greatreturn at a good time.”

Northwestern respondedquickly once the second halfbegan.

The Wildcats’ Drake Dunsmore got wide open on ablown coverage, hauledin a Persa pass and raceddownfield on a 69-yard playbefore he knocked out atthe 3. One play later, Persaflipped a 2-yard TD to Jer-emy Ebert and two min-utes into the third quarter,Northwestern was back inthe game at 17-10.

But Cousins had a third-down keeper of 8 yards fora first down to keep theSpartans moving. And thenon a third-and-13 he rolledout and avoided the rushbefore making a beautifulthrow to Cunningham fora 33-yard TD that made it24-10.

Northwestern lost seniordefensive back JordanMabin to a right shoulderinjury in the first quarterand it was a costly injuredagainst the Spartans’ tal-ented passing attack.

From B1 — MSU Spartans quarterback Kirk Cousins passes Jeff Smoker as career touchdown leader

Robinson was 14 of 17 —completing 11 straight passesduring one stretch — for167 yards with TD passes toKevin Koger, Junior Heming-way and Martavious Odoms.He ran 26 times for 170 yardsand two more scores and losta fumble.

Miller was 14 of 25 for235 yards with TD passes toPosey and Corey Brown. Heran 16 times for 100 yardsand a score.

The Wolverines also hadmore success creating holesfor their featured runningback.

Fitzgerald Toussaint had120 yards rushing, but didn’tscore because video reviewoverturned his apparent TDlate in the game. He wasruled down before gettingin the end zone. Robinsonthen had a TD run negatedby a holding penalty — andyet another flag after theplay pushed Michigan backto the Ohio State 26, forcing

Gibbons to make the longestfield goal of his career toforce the Buckeyes to score aTD to win.

“There wasn’t a doubt inmy mind,” Michigan coachBrady Hoke said.

Ohio State’s Dan Herronwas held to 37 yards rushingand a TD on 15 carries, butthe Wolverines had troubleslowing down Miller justas they had previously withTroy Smith, who started OhioState’s winning streak in2004, and Terrelle Pryor whoextended it with last year’swin.

Pryor, though, wasn’taround to win again in TheGame. He left Ohio State inthe wake of being caught upin a cash-for-Buckeyes mem-orabilia scandal that resultedin coach Jim Tressel’s depar-ture and several other play-ers serving multiple-gamesuspensions in what becamethe program’s worst seasonon the field since 1999.

The Buckeyes already havesaid they won’t pass up thechance to go to a bowl game— if the NCAA allows themto play in the postseason.

Regardless, former Floridacoach Urban Meyer is widelyexpected to take over theprogram.

Former Ohio State run-ning back and 1995 HeismanTrophy winner Eddie Georgesaid the fact that Meyerwasn’t in Ann Arbor withhis ESPN crew was anotherobvious sign that he’s thenext coach of the Buckeyes.

“I think it’s pretty muchset in stone,” George toldThe Associated Press onSaturday morning at Michi-gan Stadium, where hewas working as an analyst.“There are rumors alreadyabout what he’s signing forand who’s coaching withhim. After this game, thechatter is obviously going toget even louder and I thinkwe’ll know something defi-

nitely by Monday.”Michigan, meanwhile,

might be in a BCS bowlgame for the first time since2006 under first-year coachHoke, who took many ofRich Rodriguez’s players andhelped them perform muchbetter this season.

Michigan Stadium’s fieldwas filled with fans after theWolverines finally beat theBuckeyes, ending a droughtthat lasted more than 2,900days as the players werereminded each day theystepped into SchembechlerHall.

The public-addressannouncer tried in vain toget the field cleared for thebands, but they stayed ina cluster around the block‘M’ at midfield and weresprinkled throughout the restof the field as they soaked upthe moment. About 20 min-utes later, Michigan’s bandfinally was able to take thefield.

From B1 — MICHIGAN Hoke says, ‘There wasn’t a doubt in my mind’ Wolverines would beat rivals

Stars• Kellen Moore, Boise

State, threw three touch-down passes, includinga last-ditch 46-yarder onthe final play of the firsthalf, to lead the No. 7Broncos to a 36-14 vic-tory over Wyoming.

• Aaron Murray,Georgia, threw fourtouchdown passes andthe No. 13 Bulldogsextended their domina-tion over No. 25 GeorgiaTech, pulling away for a31-17 victory.

• Mike Glennon,North Carolina State,threw for a career-highfive touchdowns, ranfor another score andled the Wolfpack’s rallyfrom 27 points down inthe second half to beatMaryland 56-41.

• D.J. Williams,Grambling State, threwthree touchdowns toMario Louis in a 36-12victory over SouthernUniversity in the 38thannual Bayou Classic.

• Trent Richard-son rushed 27 times acareer-high 203 yards tolift No. 2 Alabama to a42-14 victory over rivalAuburn on Saturday.Richardson caught a5-yard touchdown passin his final chance toimpress Heisman Tro-phy voters. He had runsof 35 and 57 yards to setup second-half scores.

Who’s No. 2?BCS No. 2 Alabama

(11-1, 7-1 Southeast-ern Conference) nowmust wait and see if itsresume is good enoughto secure a shot at asecond national title inthree years. No. 4 Okla-homa State (10-1) andNo. 1 LSU (12-0) havebig games remaining.No. 3 Arkansas (10-2)fell out of the chase witha 41-17 loss to LSU onFriday. The other teamswith one or fewer lossesare No. 5 Virginia Tech(11-1), No. 6 Stanford(10-1), No. 7 Boise State(10-1) and No. 8 Hous-ton (12-0)

Chasing BarryMontee Ball scored

four more touchdownsin his pursuit of anNCAA record, poweringNo. 15 Wisconsin to a45-7 rout of No. 20 PennState and a spot in thisweek’s Big Ten champi-onship game. Ball hasscored 34 touchdownsthis season for the Bad-gers (10-2, 6-2 Big Ten),the second-most in asingle season in NCAAhistory. Barry Sandersholds the record, scor-ing 39 for OklahomaState in 11 games in the1988 season.

ACC rematchLogan Thomas threw

for two touchdowns andran for one and DavidWilson scored on twolong runs in the secondhalf as No. 6 VirginiaTech shut out No. 24 Vir-ginia 38-0 on Saturday.The Hokies (11-1, 7-1Atlantic Coast Confer-ence) earned the league’sCoastal Division title and

a rematch with No. 18Clemson in this week-end’s ACC championshipgame in Charlotte.

Boilers bowl bound?Purdue’s 33-25 win

over Indiana makes theBoilermakers (6-6, 4-4Big Ten) bowl-eligiblefor the first time undercoach Danny Hope. Butthe Boilermakers arenot guaranteed a bowlspot because 10 Big Tenteams are eligible forthe league’s eight bowlberths.

Pac-12 titleLaMichael James ran

for 142 yards beforeleaving with whatappeared to be a leftelbow injury, andNo. 9 Oregon beatOregon State 49-21Saturday to clinch thePac-12 North and a spotin the conference’s firstchampionship game. TheDucks (10-2, 8-1 Pac-12)will host UCLA on Fri-day night with a chanceto win their third straightconference title and aspot in the Rose Bowl.

End of an eraKansas and Missouri’s

120-year-old footballrivalry could be over.

The “Border War,” asgenerations have calledit, actually traces itsroots to real bloodshed,the violent border clash-es between free stateKansas and slave stateMissouri in the 1850sand ’60s.

But all that historyand tradition ground toa halt Saturday whenthe Jayhawks and Tigersmet for the 120th timeon a raw and windy dayin Kansas City, whereit began with that firstgame in 1891.

Missouri is headingto the SoutheasternConference next season.Missouri has offered tocontinue as nonconfer-ence rivals.

Number32 — Touchdown

passes by Georgia’sAaron Murray this sea-son, extending his ownteam record.

Friday games• No. 1 LSU wrapped

up the SEC West on Fri-day with a convincing41-17 victory over No. 3Arkansas, marking thethird time this seasonLSU had beaten a teamranked third or higher.The 12-0 Tigers may geta bid to the BCS titlegame even if they loseto Georgia in the SECtitle game.

• Case Keenum threwfor 457 yards and fivetouchdowns, PatrickEdwards had 181 yardsreceiving and fourscores and Houstonearned a spot in theConference USA cham-pionship.

One more victory inthe C-USA champion-ship game Saturdayat home against eitherSouthern Mississippi orMarshall and the Cou-gars (12-0, 8-0) will earntheir first BCS bid.

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declared the NBA could be head-ed to a “nuclear winter,” he satnext to Hunter to announce the10-year deal, with either side ableto opt out after the sixth year.

“For myself, it’s great to be apart of this particular momentin terms of giving our fans whatthey wanted and wanted to see,”said Derek Fisher, the presidentof the players’ association.

A majority on each side isneeded to approve the agreement,first reported by CBSSports.com.The NBA needs votes from 15 of29 owners. (The league owns theNew Orleans Hornets.) Stern saidthe labor committee plans to dis-cuss the agreement Saturday andexpects them to endorse it andrecommend to the full board.

The union needs a simplemajority of its 430-plus members.That process is a bit more compli-cated after the players dissolvedthe union Nov. 14. Now, theymust drop their antitrust lawsuitin Minnesota and reform theunion before voting on the deal.

Because the union disbanded, anew collective bargaining agree-ment can only be completed oncethe union has reformed. Drugtesting and other issues still mustbe negotiated between the playersand the league, which also mustdismiss its lawsuit filed in NewYork.

“We’re very pleased we’ve comethis far,” Stern said. “There’s stilla lot of work to be done.”

The sides will quickly returnto work Saturday, speaking withattorneys and their own commit-tees to keep the process moving.

When the NBA returns, own-ers hope to find the type ofparity that exists in the NFL,where the small-market GreenBay Packers are the currentchampions. The NBA has beendominated in recent years by thebiggest spenders, with Boston,Los Angeles and Dallas winningthe last four titles.

“I think it will largely preventthe high-spending teams fromcompeting in the free-agent mar-ket the way they’ve been able toin the past. It’s not the system wesought out to get in terms of aharder cap, but the luxury tax isharsher than it was. We hope it’s

effective,” deputy commissionerAdam Silver said. “We feel ulti-mately it will give fans in everycommunity hope that their teamcan compete for championships.”

The league hopes fans comeright back, despite their angerover a work stoppage that fol-lowed such a successful season.But owners wanted more of theleague’s $4 billion in annual rev-enues after players were guar-anteed 57 percent of basketball-related income in the old deal.

Participating in the talks for theleague were Stern, Silver, Spursowner Peter Holt, the chairman ofthe labor relations committee, andattorneys Rick Buchanan and DanRube. The players were repre-sented by executive director BillyHunter, president Derek Fisher,vice president Maurice Evans,attorney Ron Klempner and econ-omist Kevin Murphy.

Owners locked out the playersJuly 1, and the sides spent mostof the summer and fall battlingover the division of revenues andother changes owners wantedin a new collective bargainingagreement. They said they losthundreds of millions of dollarsin each year of the former deal,ratified in 2005, and they wanteda system in which the big-marketteams wouldn’t have the ability

to outspend their smaller coun-terparts. Players fought againstthose changes, not wanting to seeany teams taken out of the marketwhen they became free agents.

“This was not an easy agree-ment for anyone. The owners camein having suffered substantial loss-es and feeling the system wasn’tworking fairly across all teams,”Silver said. “I certainly know theplayers had strong views aboutexpectations in terms of what theyshould be getting from the system.It required a lot of compromisefrom both parties’ part.”

Even the final day had turbu-lent patches. It required multiplecalls with the owners’ labor rela-tions committee, all the whileknowing another breakdown intalks would mean not only theloss of the Christmas schedule butpossibly even the entire season.

“We resolved, despite someeven bumps this evening, that thegreater good required us to knockourselves out and come to this ten-tative understanding,” Stern said.

He denied the litigation was afactor in accelerating a deal, butthings happened relatively quicklyafter the players filed a suit thatcould have won them some $6 bil-lion in damages.

“For us the litigation is some-thing that just has to be dealt

with,” Stern said. “It was not thereason for the settlement. The rea-son for the settlement was we’vegot fans, we’ve got players whowould like to play and we’ve gotothers who are dependent on us.”

It finally yielded the secondshortened season in NBA his-tory, joining the 1998-99 lockoutthat reduced the schedule to 50games. This time the league willmiss 16 games off the normalschedule.

Though the deal’s expectedto be approved, it may not beunanimous as there are factionsof hard-liners in both camps whowill be unhappy with substantiveportions of the deal.

But getting what the own-ers wanted took a toll. Stern,after more than 27 years as theleague’s commissioner, hoped toclose a deal much sooner but wascommitted for fighting for theowners’ wishes even at the risk ofdamaging his legacy. Hunter dealtwith anger from agents and evenquestions from his own playersabout his strategy, wondering whyit could so long for the players touse the threat of litigation to givethem leverage that had otherwiseeluded them.

The sides met just twice in thefirst two months of the lockoutbefore stepping up the pace inSeptember, when it was alreadytoo late to open camps on time.The sides tried meeting in smallgroups, large groups and evenmediation, but nothing sparkedcompromise.

Things changed this week withthe entrance of Jim Quinn, a for-mer NBPA counsel who had goodrelationships on both sides. Themeeting Friday was held at theoffice of his law firm, though hedid not take part.

Hunter said the terms of thedeal would come out shortly,preferring to keep them privateuntil they could be shared withthe players. They might not likethe deal, but it will be betterthan what many of them feared.Resigned to possibly missing theseason, some had signed dealsoverseas so they would havesome paycheck.

Instead, they’re a step closer toreturning home.

From B1 — NBA Drug testing and other issues still must be negotiated between the players and the league, which also must dismiss its lawsuit

SETH WENIG | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Surrounded by NBA players including former Detroit Piston Chauncey Billups,left, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association BillyHunter, center, speaks to the media during a news conference Nov. 14 in NewYork. NBA players and owners reached a tentative agreement Saturday that willallow teams to begin a shortened season on Christmas Day.

Everybody takea deep breath

Ndamukong Suh maybe the one who flipped outin Detroit’s game againstGreen Bay, taking a cheapshot at a Packers offensivelineman, but he’s not theonly one who needs help.

So do we.From the moment the

Lions defensive tackleburst onto the scene last

season witha powerfulpreseasontakedown ofClevelandquarterbackJake Del-homme, hisapproach

to the game — and moreimportantly, his integrity— has been questioned.

From the media to thefans to the NFL itself, “IsSuh a dirty player? Is Suh adirty player?” has usurped“What is the meaning oflife?” as the grand questionfacing our entire species.

It’s as if our collectivementality can’t operatewithout crystallizing theissue into a single word thatmay or may not accuratelyreflect reality. The importantthing is, “Hey, we’ve got ourword to describe any andeverything Suh ever doesfor the remainder of his profootball career.”

Well, sorry, it’s not thateasy. Life generally isn’t.

Look, there’s no way I’mgoing to defend Suh’s attackon Evan Dietrich-Smith. Heclearly pushed his helmetinto the ground and kickedtoward him as he wasremoving himself from thesituation, as he put it. Evenless defensible was his half-hearted apology and post-game explanation.

We don’t know what wasgoing on in the trenches,though. As any football fanknows, there’s a lot of stuffthat goes on amongst themountainous men that wouldmake our nose hairs curl.

"It’s all the time,” saidveteran defensive tackleCorey Williams, when askedhow often things occur thatmake him want to retali-ate. “Just about every play,you’re going to get hit inthe back, you’re going toget held, you’re going to getcheap-shotted. But like theyalways say, the second guyto do it is always the one toget caught.”

Suh may or may not havebeen antagonized by Diet-rich-Smith or his Packersteammates. We don’t knowif there was anything saidor done beforehand to drawa reaction from Suh. GreenBay obviously was awareof his temper; it’s certainlynot a stretch to think theplayers thought they couldbenefit from some taunts orperhaps some jabs.

But did anybody catchour reaction to Suh?

“My GOD, did you seewhat he DID?! He smashedhis helmet into the turf and

kicked him! Criminal! Thatman is out of control!”

My personal favorite? “Heshould be gone for the restof the season!”

Some have even called forChrysler and other sponsorsto pull Suh from their ads.

And I thought Suh over-reacted.

First, Dietrich-Smith’shelmet wasn’t “smashedinto the turf.” Pushed threetimes? Yes. And Suh didn’tstomp him. Trust me, Suhdidn’t stomp him. If the6-foot-5, 300-pounder did,it would have been a LOTuglier.

It may have even beenenough to draw legend-ary New York native andPackers tough guy AndrewQuarless from his perch onthe sidelines. The 6-foot-4,250-pounder said Suh was“lucky I wasn’t on the field.Lucky. I’m a New Yorker. Idon’t go for that stuff.”

(Uhh, OK, Andy. I’m sureyour unmatched self-control

was the first thing Ndamu-kong gave thanks for beforeenjoying his late Thanksgiv-ing dinner.)

Now, none of my clarifi-cation is meant to defendSuh. His behavior wasout of bounds; completelyunacceptable and the NFLshould punish him witha fine and a suspension,regardless of his second,more acceptable (thoughmore contrived), apology onFacebook.

It’s just to point out howskewed our minds can be— we see what we see, real-ity be damned. You don’thave to be extreme in yourdescription to believe Suhwas out of line and shouldbe punished. If his true aimwas to gore Dietrich-Smith,he would have attacked himfar more aggressively.

These aren’t the awesome-ly violent actions of a mania-cal sociopath who is hope-lessly spiraling out of control,as some would have you

believe. More accurately, Ithink they’re the actions of asupremely gifted, intelligent,but quasi-narcissistic athletewho plays on the edge.

It’s up to head coach JimSchwartz, the Detroit Lionsand the NFL to make sureSuh understands wherehe’s going wrong, and moreimportantly, to put a stopto it. That doesn’t mean hedoesn’t get to commit a pen-alty again.

Occasional overaggres-sive play — a facemask, aroughing the passer, a pushout of bounds — is going tohappen as one of the NFL’sbest defensive players, whohas an old-school, chip-on-the-shoulder, play-to-the-whistle-and-not-one-second-before approach.

That’s a far cry fromfighting an opponent afterthe play. Can we, as footballfans and media, recognizethe difference?

Suh’s veteran teammatesalso must play a role.

Even giving him thebenefit of the doubt — andwe’re not — Suh strucka devastating blow onlyto his own team with hisefforts on Thanksgiving.The Lions had just accom-plished the monumentaltask of turning away thePackers in the red zoneby holding them to a fieldgoal. Detroit would havefaced a 10-point deficit.Instead, Green Bay got itstouchdown, and anotherone on its next series, toend the game halfwaythrough the third quarter.

“He’s got to learn to con-trol his temper,” Williamssaid.

“There are going to betimes when people cheap-shot you. They alwayscatch the second guy; theymight not catch the firstone. That’s just somethingyou have to learn in thisleague. If they hit you,knock you down, you canalways get them back onthe next play. ...

“Me, being a veteran, Ifeel like that’s one of myjobs is to get the young guysdown the right road.”

The NFL itself has itsown problems as it tries tomarket a violent, mascu-line sport as one of finesse— one that appeals to every-one. Only time will tell howsuccessful it will be.

Because of the collectivenature of media and fans,those two entities will notchange. It’s something Suhneeds to truly understand.He’s made little attempt to,so far.

He’s shown contempt forwhat he considers unfairtreatment by the media. Butit makes no sense to criti-cize the media for not reallyknowing him, then admit-ting in the next breath he’llnever let anyone get closeto him.

In the end, maybe this isan incident that will helpSuh understand if he’sgoing to play on edge, he’dbetter make sure there’s apretty strong guard rail tokeep him from going over.

Suh not the only one who needs help

PHILIPZaroo

CARLOS OSORIO | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may face disciplinary action, including a possible multiple-game suspension, for his role inan on-field altercation with Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — After beingplaced on injured reserve,Jahvid Best’s season is over,leaving the Detroit Lionsto try to piece together aneffective running game.

Best has been botheredby concussion problems andhasn’t played since Oct. 16,when the Lions lost to SanFrancisco. After starting 5-0,Detroit has lost four of six.

The team says the moveis expected to become offi-cial next week.

Best’s agent did notimmediately return an emailseeking comment.

Best also missed time dur-ing this preseason becauseof a concussion, and whenhe was a college player atCalifornia, he missed a fewgames after a fall knockedhim out and sent him to thehospital with a concussionand sore back.

The Lions drafted Best inthe first round in 2010. Heran for 555 yards as a rookielast season and caught 58passes despite toe problems.

He started the first sixgames of this season, run-ning for 390 yards on 84carries. Lions coach JimSchwartz said Best startedexperiencing “concussion-like symptoms” after the lossto San Francisco.

The loss of Best is anotherblow to the Lions’ depletedrunning attack. Jerome Har-rison had surgery last monthfor a brain tumor, and rookieMikel Leshoure tore his leftAchilles tendon before theseason even started.

Kevin Smith gave Detroita boost, running for 140yards in a win over Caro-lina, but Smith went downwith a right ankle injuryin Thursday’s 27-15 loss toGreen Bay.

Lions putBest on IR

B6 SUNDAY,NOVEMBER 27,2011 mlive.comTHE FLINT JOURNALSPORTS

Sports Briefs

SUNDAYWomen’s College Basketball

• 2 p.m. (ESPN) Baylor atTennessee.• 3 p.m. (BIGTEN) DePaul atNorthwestern.• 5 p.m. (BIGTEN) LSU at OhioState.

College Basketball• 1 p.m. (BIGTEN) Chicago Stateat Illinois.• 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Old SpiceClassic, Third Place.• 6:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Old SpiceClassic, Final.• 7 p.m. (BIGTEN) Butler atIndiana.• 9 p.m. (ESPN2) 76 Classic, Final.

NFL Football• 1 p.m. (5) Buffalo at New YorkJets.• 4 p.m. (5) New England atPhiladelphia.• 4 p.m. (66) Chicago at Oakland.• 8:15 p.m. (25) Pittsburgh atKansas City.

Golf• 7:30 p.m. (GOLF) AmericanCentury Championship. (Taped)

NHL Hockey• 1:30 p.m. (FSD) Nashville atDETROIT.

Tennis• 5 a.m. (ESPN2) ATP BarclaysWorld Tour Finals, Semifinals.(Same-day Tape)

12:30 p.m. (ESPN2) ATPBarclays World Tour Finals, Final.

MONDAYCollege Basketball

• 5 p.m. (BIGTEN) Coppin Stateat Purdue. (Taped)• 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Xavier atVanderbilt.• 8:30 p.m. (FSD) Georgia atColorado.

NFL Football• 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) New YorkGiants at New Orleans.

NHL Hockey• 7:30 p.m. (VS) Tampa Bay atMinnesota.

TUESDAYCollege Basketball

• 7 p.m. (ESPN2) MICHIGAN atVirginia.• 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Illinois atMaryland.• 7:30 p.m. (FSD) Great AlaskaShootout, Championship. (Taped)• 9 p.m. (ESPN2) Miami atPurdue.• 9:30 p.m. (ESPN) Duke at OhioState.

NHL Hockey• 7:30 p.m. (VS) Pittsburgh atNew York Rangers.

Soccer• 2:30 p.m. (FSD) UEFAChampions League Arsenal vs.Borussia Dortmund. (Taped)

On Television

FOOTBALLNFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE

EastW L T Pct PF PA

New England 7 3 0 .700 293 203N.Y. Jets 5 5 0 .500 228 217Buffalo 5 5 0 .500 237 253Miami 3 8 0 .273 212 206

SouthW L T Pct PF PA

Houston 7 3 0 .700 273 166Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 195Jacksonville 3 7 0 .300 125 180Indianapolis 0 10 0 .000 131 300

NorthW L T Pct PF PA

Baltimore 8 3 0 .727 272 182Pittsburgh 7 3 0 .700 220 179Cincinnati 6 4 0 .600 236 195Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 145 193

WestW L T Pct PF PA

Oakland 6 4 0 .600 235 254Denver 5 5 0 .500 205 247San Diego 4 6 0 .400 236 259Kansas City 4 6 0 .400 144 252

NFL NATIONAL CONFERENCEEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 7 4 0 .636 270 225N.Y. Giants 6 4 0 .600 228 228Philadelphia 4 6 0 .400 237 213Washington 3 7 0 .300 160 205

SouthW L T Pct PF PA

New Orleans 7 3 0 .700 313 228Atlanta 6 4 0 .600 235 213Tampa Bay 4 6 0 .400 182 268Carolina 2 8 0 .200 225 286

NorthW L T Pct PF PA

Green Bay 11 0 0 1.000 382 227Chicago 7 3 0 .700 268 207Detroit 7 4 0 .636 316 246Minnesota 2 8 0 .200 200 271

WestW L T Pct PF PA

San Francisco 9 2 0 .818 262 161Seattle 4 6 0 .400 168 209Arizona 3 7 0 .300 190 236St. Louis 2 8 0 .200 120 247

Thursday’s GamesGreen Bay 27, Detroit 15Dallas 20, Miami 19Baltimore 16, San Francisco 6

Sunday’s GamesArizona at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Tampa Bay at Tennessee, 1 p.m.Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.Carolina at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m.Chicago at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Washington at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.Denver at San Diego, 4:15 p.m.New England at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s GameN.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 1Philadelphia at Seattle, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 4Kansas City at Chicago, 1 p.m.Atlanta at Houston, 1 p.m.Denver at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.N.Y. Jets at Washington, 1 p.m.Oakland at Miami, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Indianapolis at New England, 1 p.m.Baltimore at Cleveland, 4:05 p.m.St. Louis at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m.Dallas at Arizona, 4:15 p.m.Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 4:15 p.m.Detroit at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 5San Diego at Jacksonville, 8:30 p.m.

COLLEGE SCORESSaturday’s Games

EASTCincinnati 30, Syracuse 13New Haven 44, Kutztown 37Salisbury 49, Kean 47St. John Fisher 27, Delaware Valley 14Stony Brook 31, Albany (NY) 28UConn 40, Rutgers 22Wesley 49, Linfield 34

SOUTHAlabama 42, Auburn 14Cent. Arkansas 34, Tennessee Tech 14Delta St. 42, North Alabama 14FAU 38, UAB 35FIU 31, Middle Tennessee 18Georgetown (Ky.) 26, St. Francis (Ind.) 14Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17Grambling St. 36, Southern U. 12James Madison 20, E. Kentucky 17Kentucky 10, Tennessee 7Louisiana Tech 44, New Mexico St. 0Marshall 34, East Carolina 27, OTNC State 56, Maryland 41North Carolina 37, Duke 21North Greenville 58, Mars Hill 32Old Dominion 35, Norfolk St. 18Southern Miss. 44, Memphis 7Vanderbilt 41, Wake Forest 7

Virginia Tech 38, Virginia 0W. Kentucky 41, Troy 18Winston-Salem 35, California (Pa.) 28

MIDWESTMarian (Ind.) 49, St. Francis (Ill.) 7Michigan 40, Ohio St. 34Michigan St. 31, Northwestern 17Minnesota 27, Illinois 7Missouri 24, Kansas 10Mount Union 30, Centre 10Pittsburg St. 31, Washburn 22Purdue 33, Indiana 25St. Thomas (Minn.) 38, Monmouth (Ill.) 10St. Xavier 22, Mid-Am Nazarene 14Wabash 29, North Central 28Wayne (Mich.) 38, Nebraska-Kearney 20Wis.-Whitewater 41, Franklin 14Wisconsin 45, Penn St. 7

SOUTHWESTMary Hardin-Baylor 49, McMurry 20NW Missouri St. 38, Midwestern St. 31Oklahoma 26, Iowa St. 6SMU 27, Rice 24

FAR WESTArizona 45, Louisiana-Lafayette 37Boise St. 36, Wyoming 14Carroll (Mont.) 17, Azusa Pacific 14Minn. Duluth 24, CSU-Pueblo 21Oregon 49, Oregon St. 21Utah St. 21, Nevada 17

Friday’s GamesEAST

Bowling Green 42, Buffalo 28Temple 34, Kent St. 16West Virginia 21, Pittsburgh 20

SOUTHBoston College 24, Miami 17LSU 41, Arkansas 17Louisville 34, South Florida 24UCF 31, UTEP 14

MIDWESTN. Illinois 18, E. Michigan 12Nebraska 20, Iowa 7Toledo 45, Ball St. 28W. Michigan 68, Akron 19

SOUTHWESTHouston 48, Tulsa 16

FAR WESTColorado 17, Utah 14California 47, Arizona St. 38

BIG TEN CONFERENCELegends

Conf All GamesW L W L PF PA

Michigan St. 7 1 10 2 362 185Michigan 6 2 10 2 410 206Nebraska 5 3 9 3 366 274Iowa 4 4 7 5 344 279Northwestern 3 5 6 6 354 327Minnesota 2 6 3 9 221 380

LeadersConf All Games

W L W L PF PAWisconsin 6 2 10 2 538 182Penn St. 6 2 9 3 237 188Purdue 4 4 6 6 313 317Ohio St. 3 5 6 6 301 249Illinois 2 6 6 6 274 241Indiana 0 8 1 11 257 448

Friday’s GamesNebraska 20, Iowa 7

Saturday, Nov. 26Michigan 40, Ohio St. 34Michigan St. 31, Northwestern 17Purdue 33, Indiana 25Wisconsin 45, Penn St. 7Minnesota 27, Illinois 7

SATURDAY’S GAMESNo. 11 MICHIGAN ST. 31,NORTHWESTERN 17

Michigan St. 3 14 7 7 — 31Northwestern 0 3 7 7 — 17

First QuarterMSU—FG Conroy 25, 4:00.

Second QuarterNU—FG Budzien 34, 14:03.MSU—Bell 7 run (Conroy kick), 1:40.MSU—Martin 57 punt return (Conroy

kick), :34.Third Quarter

NU—Ebert 2 pass from Persa (Budzienkick), 13:02.

MSU—Cunningham 33 pass fromCousins (Conroy kick), 7:35.

Fourth QuarterNU—Fields 12 pass from Persa (Budzien

kick), 13:57.MSU—Cunningham 29 pass from

Cousins (Conroy kick), 5:17.A—32,172.

MSU NUFirst downs 20 21Rushes-yards 36-166 41-117Passing 214 253Comp-Att-Int 14-20-1 24-34-0Return Yards 57 0Punts-Avg. 4-39.0 4-44.3Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1Penalties-Yards 8-66 6-70Time of Possession 29:10 30:18

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Michigan St., Bell 16-86,

Baker 15-47, Cousins 4-25, Martin 1-8.Northwestern, Schmidt 14-39, Green 7-32,Mark 2-20, Colter 4-18, Siemian 1-14,Team 1-(minus 1), Persa 12-(minus 5).

PASSING—Michigan St., Cousins 14-20-1-214. Northwestern, Persa 23-32-0-245,Siemian 1-2-0-8.

RECEIVING—Michigan St., Cunningham

6-120, Linthicum 3-31, Bell 3-6, Martin 2-57. Northwestern, Ebert 7-39, Colter 6-44,Fields 4-36, C.Jones 3-20, Lawrence 2-37,Dunsmore 1-69, Schmidt 1-8.

No. 17 MICHIGAN 40, OHIO ST. 34

Ohio St. 7 17 0 10 — 34Michigan 16 7 7 10 — 40

First QuarterOSU—C.Brown 54 pass from B.Miller

(Basil kick), 12:43.Mich—D.Robinson 41 run (Gibbons

kick), 9:15.Mich—Safety, 7:41.Mich—Hemingway 26 pass from

D.Robinson (Gibbons kick), 3:02.Second Quarter

OSU—FG Basil 45, 10:37.OSU—B.Miller 19 run (Basil kick), 7:51.Mich—D.Robinson 6 run (Gibbons kick),

3:16.OSU—Posey 43 pass from B.Miller (Basil

kick), 1:21.Third Quarter

Mich—Odoms 20 pass from D.Robinson(Gibbons kick), 9:05.

Fourth QuarterOSU—FG Basil 21, 12:50.Mich—Koger 4 pass from D.Robinson

(Gibbons kick), 8:32.OSU—Herron 4 run (Basil kick), 7:09.Mich—FG Gibbons 43, 1:59.A—114,132.

OSU MichFirst downs 18 23Rushes-yards 31-137 50-277Passing 235 167Comp-Att-Int 14-26-1 14-17-0Return Yards 0 1Punts-Avg. 3-40.0 2-47.5Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-1Penalties-Yards 5-47 3-29Time of Possession 24:50 35:10

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Ohio St., B.Miller 16-100,

Herron 15-37. Michigan, D.Robinson 26-170,Toussaint 20-120, Hopkins 1-3, Smith 1-3,Team 1-(minus 2), Hagerup 1-(minus 17).

PASSING—Ohio St., B.Miller 14-25-1-235, Team 0-1-0-0. Michigan, D.Robinson14-17-0-167.

RECEIVING—Ohio St., J.Hall 4-32,Posey 3-58, C.Brown 2-76, Stoneburner1-36, Fragel 1-20, Herron 1-6, D.Smith1-6, Boren 1-1. Michigan, Koger 4-40,Hemingway 2-45, Dileo 2-32, Odoms 2-25,Gallon 2-11, Roundtree 1-8, Toussaint 1-6.

MHSAA FINALSDivision 1

Detroit Cass Tech 49, Detroit C.C. 13Division 2

Birmingham Brother Rice 24, Lowell 14Division 4

Zeeland West 45, Marine City 7Division 5

Flint Powers 56, Lansing Catholic 26Division 6

Ithaca 42, Constantine 14Division 7

Saginaw Nouvel 56, Pewamo-Westphalia 26Division 8

Mendon 33, Fowler 0

AP DIVISION 1-2 ALL-STATE TEAMThe 2011 Associated Press Division 1-2

All-State football team, which is selected byMichigan sports writers and broadcasters:

PLAYER OF THE YEARPrescott Line, Oxford.

QUARTERBACKSGabe Dean, Lowell, 5-10, 195, Sr., Bart

Williams, Grand Blanc, 6-5, 180, Jr.RUNNING BACKS

Drake Johnson, Ann Arbor Pioneer, 6-1,215, Sr.

Juwan Lewis, Muskegon, 5-11, 210, Sr.Prescott Line, Oxford, 6-1, 205, Sr.Dennis Norfleet, Detroit King, 5-8, 178, Sr.

WIDE RECEIVERSAaron Burbridge, Farmington Hills

Harrison, 6-2, 185, Sr.Danny Cotter, Grand Haven, 6-2, 170, Sr.Jordan Fields, Grand Blanc, 6-1, 180, Sr.

LINEMENBen Braden, Rockford, 6-7, 320, Sr.Matt Godin, Detroit Catholic Central, 6-6,

267, Sr.Mario Ojemudia, Farmington Hills

Harrison, 6-3, 225, Sr.Ron Thompson, Southfield, 6-4, 230, Sr.Cameron Dillard, Canton, 6-3, 285, Jr.Steven Elmer, Midland, 6-6, 305, Jr.

LINEBACKERSJoe Bacci, Romeo, 6-2, 225, Sr.Royce Jenkins-Stone, Detroit Cass Tech,

6-2, 225, Sr.Roman Mares, Holland West Ottawa,

5-11, 195, Sr.Angelo Corona, Muskegon, 6-2, 220, Jr.Collin Schlosser, Grand Rapids Forest

Hills Central, 6-0, 205, Jr.DEFENSIVE BACKS

Mike Abiragi, Warren De La Salle, 5-9,182, Sr.

Tony Annese, Rochester Adams, 6-2,205, Sr.

Terry Richardson, Detroit Cass Tech,5-9, 165, Sr.

KC Zenner, Rockford, 6-0, 187, Jr.SPECIALIST

Shane Barron, Flint Carman-Ainsworth,

5-10, 170, Sr.PUNTER

Kenny Allen, Fenton, 6-3, 175, Sr.PLACEKICKER

Evan Fischer, Holt, 5-10, 175, Sr.COACH OF THE YEAR

Ryan Mullins, Port Huron.

SPECIAL MENTION (nominees receiv-ing two or more votes from the 10-mem-ber panel):

QUARTERBACKS: Austin Pichiotino,Bay City Western; Shane Morris, WarrenDe La Salle.

WIDE RECEIVER: Jordan Woods, AnnArbor Skyline.

LINEMEN: Kyle Knapp, Portage Central;Taylor Moton, Okemos; Ahmed Leila,Dearborn Fordson; Dylan Anderson,Birmingham Brother Rice.

LINEBACKERS: Bryan Smith,Temperance Bedford; Tyler Goble,Plymouth; Kyle Ready, Gibraltar Carlson.

DEFENSIVE BACK: Winslow Chapman,Port Huron.

SPECIALIST: Shane Dokey, Brighton.PUNTERS: Austin Hopkin, Holly; R.J.

Bain, Birmingham Brother Rice.PLACEKICKERS: Steven Mette,

Rockford; Dan Gojcaj, Utica Eisenhower.HONORABLE MENTION (nominees

receiving one or no votes from the 10-member panel):

QUARTERBACKS: Mark LaPrairie,Rockford; Scott Staal, Grand Haven;Sebastian Johnson, Adrian; Andrew Copp,Ann Arbor Skyline.

RUNNING BACKS: Dakota Smith,Grand Haven; Brandon Allen, HollandWest Ottawa; Avery Chatman, Midland;Yenta Sanders, Saginaw Arthur Hill;Shane Dokey, Brighton; Devin Church,Birmingham Brother Rice.

WIDE RECEIVERS: Hunter Prince,Hudsonville; Kevin Rich, Grand RapidsNorthview; Tyler Frank, Adrian; JaleelCanty, Lansing Everett; Devon Funchess,Farmington Hills Harrison; Quinn Kotsko,Port Huron Northern; Theron Wilson, AnnArbor Skyline; Aaron Doriot, MuskegonMona Shores.

LINEMEN: Pierce Watson, Lowell; ColtHarrrington, Greenville; Andrew Wylie,Midland; Kodi Kieler, Gibraltar Carlson;Jacob Notario, Monroe; Alec Hastings,Mattawan; Ben Steward, Holt; CoryArnouts, Grand Ledge; David Crule, UticaEisenhower; Kyle Moran, Port Huron; JordanStrope, Traverse City West; Robert Ritche,Plymouth; Mohammed Awwad, Ann ArborPioneer; Tanner Brewer, Ypsilanti Lincoln.

LINEBACKERS: Jake Stehely, Lowell;Anthony DeDamos, Rockford; KasaimKoonnala, Marquette; Troy Cross, WarrenCousino; James Mills, Lansing Everett;Chris Hagan, East Lansing; Jamal Lyles,Southfield-Lathrup; Anthony Darkangelo,Detroit Catholic Central; Hunter Matt,Wyandotte Roosevelt; Joe Delavergne,Fenton; Zach Collins, Clarkston.

DEFENSIVE BACKS: Ryan Verhelst,Holland West Ottawa; ValorianCunningham, Kalamazoo Loy Norrix;Alfonso Vultaggio, Utica Eisenhower; JoshCox, Warren De La Salle; Dave Racey,Detroit Catholic Central; Austin Hopkin,Holly; Kevin Buford, Canton.

SPECIALISTS: Nils Eastburg, GrandRapids Forest Hills Central; CharlesProctor, Bay City Western; Nick Amador,Adrian; Leviticus Payne, Southfield; JakeVento, Farmington Hills Harrison.

PUNTERS: Austin Hopkin, Holly; R.J.Bain, Birmingham Brother Rice.

PLACEKICKERS: Kevin Cronin, TraverseCity West; Dylan Mulder, Saline.

COACH: Rob Lantzy, Utica Eisenhower.

BASKETBALLMAJOR COLLEGE SCORES

Saturday’s GamesEAST

CCSU 92, Hartford 58Columbia 59, Manhattan 41Delaware 81, Lafayette 78Hofstra 63, Cleveland St. 53Morehead St. 68, Princeton 56Oregon St. 66, Towson 46St. Francis (NY) 79, NJIT 60Vermont 64, Siena 62Youngstown St. 60, St. Francis (Pa.) 59

SOUTHAppalachian St. 81, Milligan 58Davidson 70, UNC Wilmington 67East Carolina 78, Chowan 62Harding 71, Louisiana-Monroe 68Howard 67, William & Mary 58

MIDWESTIowa 82, IPFW 72Nebraska 76, S. Dakota St. 64Purdue 78, Coppin St. 57UMKC 93, Longwood 53Wofford 56, Prairie View 49

SOUTHWESTPepperdine 70, UTSA 64, OTW. Carolina 62, Florida A&M 46

FAR WESTTennessee St. 69, Morgan St. 64

TOURNAMENTBattle 4 Atlantis Third Place

UConn 78, Florida St. 76, OT

Friday’s GamesEAST

Albany (NY) 69, Navy 62Bucknell 62, Princeton 56Cleveland St. 63, Boston U. 62James Madison 86, Rider 69Morehead St. 61, West Alabama 52Pittsburgh 78, Penn 58Rhode Island 85, Hofstra 73Robert Morris 51, La Salle 44

SOUTHAuburn 78, Nicholls St. 57Chattanooga 65, Savannah St. 63Clemson 59, Furman 49Florida 107, Jacksonville 62Lamar 85, Tennessee Tech 65Louisville 59, Ohio 54Maryland 73, Florida Gulf Coast 67Mississippi 64, Miami 61, OTMississippi St. 76, UT-Martin 50NC A&T 88, Barber-Scotia 53NC State 82, Elon 67North Florida 69, Jackson St. 60Northwestern St. 66, Jacksonville St. 61, OTSC-Upstate 78, Texas-Pan American 63San Diego 64, New Orleans 56Tulane 83, Alcorn St. 41Vanderbilt 95, Monmouth (NJ) 73Virginia 68, Green Bay 42

MIDWESTBYU 76, Nevada 55Creighton 104, Campbell 81Longwood 70, Prairie View 67Marshall 73, Cincinnati 69, OTNorthwestern 63, Stony Brook 58Oakland 89, Utah Valley 83Ohio St. 80, Valparaiso 47S. Illinois 73, Chicago St. 57UMKC 64, Wofford 58, OTWichita St. 68, UAB 46Wisconsin 66, Bradley 43Xavier 70, Georgia 56

SOUTHWESTIowa St. 64, Providence 54N. Colorado 74, W. Carolina 57N. Iowa 64, Rice 60Southern U. 64, Florida A&M 61

FAR WESTCal Poly 62, Morgan St. 61Hawaii 75, Pacific 70Louisiana Tech 73, Md.-Eastern Shore 54MVSU 90, Tennessee St. 89, 2OTNorth Carolina 87, South Carolina 62UNLV 66, Southern Cal 55Washington 88, Houston Baptist 65Wyoming 65, Portland St. 51

TOURNAMENT76 ClassicSemifinals

Oklahoma 85, Santa Clara 73Saint Louis 80, Villanova 68

Consolation BracketBoston College 66, UC Riverside 62, OTNew Mexico 72, Washington St. 62

Battle 4 AtlantisSemifinals

Harvard 46, Florida St. 41UCF 68, UConn 63

Consolation BracketColl. of Charleston 68, UNC Asheville 66UMass 89, Utah 75

Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska ShootoutSemifinals

Southern Miss. 80, New Mexico St. 72Murray St. 70, San Francisco 67

Consolation BracketCent. Michigan 82, UC Irvine 72Dartmouth 64, Alaska-Anchorage 52

Dick’s Sporting Goods NIT Season TipChampionship

Syracuse 69, Stanford 63Third Place

Virginia Tech 59, Oklahoma St. 57Old Spice Classic

SemifinalsDayton 56, Fairfield 49Minnesota 76, Indiana St. 69

Consolation BracketArizona St. 84, Wake Forest 56DePaul 76, Texas Tech 70

COLLEGE SCHEDULESunday, Nov. 27

EASTRobert Morris at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

SOUTHNorth Texas at Mississippi St., 2:30 p.m.St. Bonaventure at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m.San Diego at Tulane, 7 p.m.VCU at Alabama, 9:30 p.m.

MIDWESTMichigan St. at E. Michigan, NoonChicago St. at Illinois, 1 p.m.Calumet at Ball St., 2 p.m.Temple at Bowling Green, 2 p.m.Bryant at Notre Dame, 2 p.m.Binghamton at Missouri, 3 p.m.Bethune-Cookman at Illinois St., 3:05 p.m.Butler at Indiana, 7 p.m.

SOUTHWESTGeorgia Southern at SMU, 3 p.m.

FAR WESTLouisiana Tech at Wyoming, 9 p.m.

TOURNAMENTS76 Classic

At Anaheim, Calif.Seventh Place

UC Riverside vs. Washington State, 1:30 p.m.Fifth Place

Boston College vs. New Mexico, 4 p.m.Third Place

Villanova vs. Santa Clara, 6:30 p.m.Championship

Saint Louis vs. Oklahoma, 9 p.m.Old Spice ClassicAt Orlando, Fla.Seventh Place

Texas Tech vs. Wake Forest, 11:30 a.m.Fifth Place

DePaul vs. Arizona St., 2 p.m.Third Place

Indiana St. vs. Fairfield, 4:30 p.m.Championship

Minnesota vs. Dayton, 7 p.m.Shamrock Office Solutions Classic

At Moraga, Calif.First Round

San Francisco St. at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), 7 p.m.Jacksonville St. vs. Weber St., 9:30 p.m.

HOCKEYNHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic DivisionGP W L OT Pt GF GA

Pittsburgh 23 13 6 4 30 73 56Phila. 23 13 7 3 29 80 68NY Rngrs 20 12 5 3 27 56 43New Jersey 22 12 9 1 25 57 58NY Islndrs 21 6 11 4 16 41 68

Northeast DivisionGP W L OT Pt GF GA

Boston 22 14 7 1 29 75 47Toronto 23 13 8 2 28 74 73Buffalo 23 13 9 1 27 67 61Montreal 23 10 10 3 23 58 56Ottawa 22 10 10 2 22 65 76

Southeast DivisionGP W L OT Pt GF GA

Florida 23 12 7 4 28 64 59Wash. 22 12 9 1 25 70 73Tampa By 22 11 9 2 24 62 69Winnipeg 23 9 10 4 22 66 74Carolina 24 8 12 4 20 57 79

NHL WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

GP W L OT Pt GF GADetroit 22 14 7 1 29 65 49Chicago 23 13 7 3 29 77 73St. Louis 22 12 8 2 26 55 48Nashville 22 10 8 4 24 58 61Columbus 22 6 13 3 15 53 73

Northwest DivisionGP W L OT Pt GF GA

Minnesota 22 13 6 3 29 52 47Edmonton 23 12 9 2 26 64 58Vancouver 22 12 9 1 25 66 57Colorado 23 10 12 1 21 61 70Calgary 21 8 12 1 17 45 58

Pacific DivisionGP W L OT Pt GF GA

San Jose 19 13 5 1 27 58 43Dallas 22 13 8 1 27 59 61LA 22 11 7 4 26 54 53Phoenix 21 11 7 3 25 58 56Anaheim 22 6 12 4 16 48 71NOTE: Two points for a win, one point forovertime loss.

Friday’s GamesDetroit 3, Boston 2, SOToronto 4, Dallas 3, SONew Jersey 1, N.Y. Islanders 0Philadelphia 3, Montreal 1Edmonton 5, Minnesota 2N.Y. Rangers 6, Washington 3Chicago 6, Anaheim 5Pittsburgh 6, Ottawa 3Winnipeg 3, Carolina 1Columbus 5, Buffalo 1Tampa Bay 2, Florida 1, OTSt. Louis 2, Calgary 0Vancouver 5, Phoenix 0

Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2N.Y. Rangers 2, Philadelphia 0Colorado 5, Edmonton 2Boston 4, Winnipeg 2Buffalo 5, Washington 1Tampa Bay 5, Florida 1Detroit 4, Nashville 1Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7 p.m.Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m.Vancouver at San Jose, 10 p.m.Chicago at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesCarolina at Ottawa, 5 p.m.St. Louis at Columbus, 6 p.m.Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.Toronto at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Monday’s GamesTampa Bay at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.Nashville at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S SUMMARYRED WINGS 4, PREDATORS 1

Nashville 0 0 1 — 1Detroit 1 2 1 — 4

First Period—1, Detroit, V.Filppula 6(Bertuzzi, Zetterberg), 13:23 (pp).

Second Period—2, Detroit, Zetterberg5 (Hudler, V.Filppula), 1:31. 3, Detroit,V.Filppula 7 (Hudler, Kindl), 8:34.

Third Period—4, Detroit, Cleary 4 (Helm),4:03. 5, Nashville, Hillen 1 (C.Wilson,Erat), 5:34.

Shots on Goal—Nashville 3-5-11—19.Detroit 14-11-12—37.

Power-play opportunities—Nashville 0 of3; Detroit 1 of 2.

Goalies—Nashville, Rinne 10-7-4 (37 shots-

33 saves). Detroit, Howard 13-5-1 (19-18).A—20,066 (20,066). T—2:15.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARYRED WINGS 3, BRUINS 2 (SO)

Detroit 1 1 0 0 — 3Boston 0 1 1 0 — 2

Detroit won shootout 2-1First Period—1, Detroit, V.Filppula 5

(Zetterberg, White), 12:43.Second Period—2, Boston, Paille 3

(Horton), 4:05. 3, Detroit, Datsyuk 6(Bertuzzi, Franzen), 4:40.

Third Period—4, Boston, Bergeron 5, 7:52.Overtime—None.Shootout—Detroit 2 (Datsyuk G, Hudler

NG, Bertuzzi G), Boston 1 (Seguin NG,Peverley NG, Horton G).

Shots on Goal—Detroit 6-14-10-1—31.Boston 13-10-18-2—43.

Power-play opportunities—Detroit 0 of 3;Boston 0 of 2.

Goalies—Detroit, Howard 12-5-1 (43shots-41 saves). Boston, Rask 3-3-1 (31-29).

A—17,565 (17,565). T—2:33.

TRANSACTIONSFOOTBALL

National Football LeagueNFL—Fined Seattle S Kam Chancellor

$40,000 for unnecessary roughnessagainst St. Louis TE Lance Kendricks.Fined Denver LB Von Miller $25,000 forroughing New York Jets’ QB Mark Sanchezin a Nov. 17 game. Fined San FranciscoS Dashon Goldson $25,000 for punchingArizona WR Early Doucet and fined Doucet$10,000 for unnecessary roughness whenhe struck Goldson in the helmet area ina Nov. 20 game. Fined Miami S TyroneCulver $20,000 for unnecessary roughnessin a Nov. 20 game against Buffalo. FinedPhiladelphia WR-KR DeSean Jackson$10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct andPhiladelphia DT Trevor Laws was fined$7,500 for unnecessary roughness in aNov. 20 game at the New York Giants.

DETROIT—Placed RB Jahvid Best oninjured reserve.

JACKSONVILLE—Placed CB DerekCox on injured reserve. Signed QB DanLeFevour off Indianapolis’ practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS—Signed OT AustinHoward from Baltimore’s practice squad.

ST. LOUIS—Placed WR Mark Claytonand OT Jason Smith on injured reserve.Signed WR Nick Miller.

BASEBALLAmerican League

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Named ChiliDavis hitting coach.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

NHL—Suspended New York Rangers FAndre Deveaux three games for an illegalcheck to the head of Florida F TomasFleischmann in a Nov. 23 game. Fined NewYork Islanders F John Tavares $2,500, forslashing New Jersey F Zach Parise Friday.

BUFFALO SABRES—Recalled F ZackKassian from Rochester (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Recalled DRoman Josi from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS—Recalled FCarl Hagelin and F John Mitchell fromConnecticut (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Reassigned FBlair Jones to Norfolk (AHL).

American Hockey LeagueAHL—Suspended Worcester D Matt

Pelech two games as a consequence of anillegal check to the head of an opponent ina Nov. 23 game at Manchester.

ECHLECHL—Suspended Idaho’s Chris Hepp

two games and fined him an undisclosedamount as a result of his actions in a Nov.23 game at Colorado.

ELMIRA JACKALS—Announced D MattCampanale was returned to the team byBinghamton (AHL) and F Louie Caporussoand F Jack Downing were recalled byBinghamton.

MOTORSPORTSNASCAR—Fined Kurt Busch $50,000 for

poor behavior during the Sprint Cup finaleat Homestead-Miami Speedway.

COLLEGEMIAMI—Agreed to terms with football

coach Al Golden to a four-year contractextension, through Feb. 1, 2020.

ON THIS DATENOV. 27

1960 — Detroit’s Gordie Howe scoreshis 1,000th point with an assist as the RedWings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs.

1966 — The Washington Redskins set anNFL regular-season record for most pointsscored, in a 72-41 victory over the NewYork Giants. Both teams also set recordswith 16 TDs and 113 total points.

1980 — Dave Williams returns EddieMurray’s opening kickoff in overtime95 yards to give the Chicago Bears a23-17 victory over the Detroit Lions onThanksgiving Day. The Bears tied the gamewith no time remaining in regulation.

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Auto RacingNASCAR fines Kurt Busch $50,000

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR finedKurt Busch $50,000 on Friday for hispoor behavior during the Sprint Cupfinale last weekend at Homestead-MiamiSpeedway.

NASCAR cited both an obscene ges-ture Busch made inside his car and himbeing verbally abusive to a reporter infining the 2004 Cup champion.

“Kurt Busch showed disrespecttoward a media member, an incidentthat followed similar inappropriatemedia confrontations earlier in theseason,” NASCAR said in a statementannouncing the penalty.

Busch had a transmission problemearly in Sunday’s race that sent hisPenske Racing Dodge to the garage. Hisin-car camera caught him making anobscene gesture during that time.

While his team made repairs, Buschwaited to be interviewed by an ESPNreporter, and a fan videotaped Buschbeing verbally abusive while waiting.

BaseballChili Davis becomes A’s hitting coach

OAKLAND, Calif. — Bob Melvin andChili Davis have remained close friendssince their days as teammates with theSan Francisco Giants as young majorleaguers. Twice before, Melvin hadexpressed interest in hiring Davis ashis hitting coach — in Seattle and againwith the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Davis is on Melvin’s staff at last, hiredSaturday as Oakland’s hitting coach tocomplete the A’s staff heading into 2012.

BasketballPolice search Syracuse coach’s home

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police involved ina sexual-abuse investigation of SyracuseUniversity assistant basketball coachBernie Fine are searching his home.

New York State Police spokesmanJack Keller says troopers were called toassist the U.S. attorney’s office at thesearch. Assistant U.S. Attorney WilliamPericak says he “can’t confirm or deny”an investigation.

The Post-Standard newspaper report-ed Friday four state troopers stood atthe end of the driveway at Fine’s sub-urban home. It said at least six policevehicles were parked on the street.

Fine has been accused of sexuallyabusing two men beginning when theywere teens in the 1980s. He has deniedthe allegations. The university hasplaced him on administrative leave.

FootballSaginaw Nouvel wins, 56-26

DETROIT — Bennett Lewis rushed for200 yards and tied a state record withfive touchdowns as Saginaw Nouveloverwhelmed Pewamo-Westphalia 56-26Saturday in the Division 7 title game atFord Field.

Zeeland West wins, 45-7DETROIT — Brad Mesbergen

returned a kickoff and an interceptionfor touchdowns as Zeeland West beatMarine City 45-7 Friday at Ford Field forthe Division 4 state championship.

Ithaca wins 42-14DETROIT — Travis Smith passed for

299 yards and one touchdown and ran fortwo more as Ithaca beat Constantine 42-14 in the Division 6 title game Friday atFord Field. The Yellowjackets won theirsecond straight Division 6 title. Constan-tine was trying to match its 2004 title.

Brother Rice wins 24-24DETROIT — Devin Church ran for

250 yards and three touchdowns as Bir-mingham Brother Rice beat Lowell 24-14 for its first Division 2 state title since2005 Friday at Ford Field.

The Warriors won the title despitegoing 5-4 in the regular season.

Mendon wins, 33-0DETROIT — Tyler Harris scored three

touchdowns as Mendon won its sixthstate title with a 33-0 rout of Fowler inthe Division 8 title game Friday at FordField in Detroit.

Harris got things started the first timeMendon (14-0) touched the ball, takinga punt return 84 yards for a touchdown.

Cass Tech wins 49-13DETROIT — Freshman quarterback

Jayru Campbell threw five touchdownpasses to lead Detroit Cass Tech to astunning 49-13 rout of Detroit Catho-lic Central in the Division 1 title gameSaturday at Ford Field. Royce Jenkins-Stone gave the Technicians (11-3) a 6-0lead with a 32-yard run in the first quar-ter, and Campbell made it 14-0 with a46-yard TD pass to Lile Ruben.

Packers LB Erik Walden arrestedGREEN BAY, Wis. — Green Bay Pack-

ers outside linebacker Erik Walden wasarrested Friday on suspicion of felonydomestic violence/substantial batteryand will remain in the Brown CountyJail until at least Monday.

Walden allegedly assaulted his live-ingirlfriend at the couple’s apartment inLawrence, just outside of Green Bay.Because of Thanksgiving, the BrownCounty Court is closed for the weekend,so while Walden’s teammates have thenext three days off following the team’s27-15 Thanksgiving Day victory atDetroit, Walden will remain in jail.

HockeyWings win fourth straight game

DETROIT — Put Valtteri Filppula any-where around the net and good thingstend to happen. Especially lately.

Filppula scored a pair of goals, runninghis point total to five over the Detroit RedWings’ last six games in a 4-1 win overNashville on Saturday at Joe Louis Arena.

Detroit (14-7-1) has now won fourconsecutive games.