MLB – Major League Baseball
Yesterday
New York Mets 10, Detroit Tigers 8
Chicago White Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 5
Chicago Cubs 7, Atlanta Braves 6 – 10 Innings

Mets 10, Tigers 8 – Soto ties career high with 6 RBIs, hits grand slam to lead Mets over Tigers 10-8
Juan Soto tied his career high with six RBIs, hitting a grand slam and a tiebreaking, two-run triple to lead the New York Mets over the Detroit Tigers 10-8. Soto’s fourth-inning homer off Charlie Morton put the Mets ahead 6-3. After Detroit tied the score, Soto gave the Mets an 8-6 lead when he tripled off Drew Sommers, who lost in his first big league decision. Soto has 36 homers. He is 11 for 26 with a 1.446 OPS with runners in scoring position since Aug. 1. New York maintained a four-game lead over Cincinnati for the final NL wild card.

White Sox 6, Twins 5 – Montgomery, Meidroth HRs, Baldwin, Tauchman RBI doubles lead White Sox past Twins 6-5
Colson Montgomery and Chase Meidroth homered and Brooks Baldwin and Mike Tauchman hit consecutive run-scoring doubles as the Chicago White Sox rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5. The White Sox trailed 5-4 in the eighth inning before Baldwin and Tauchman hit back-to-back RBI doubles off Justin Topa (1-4). Kyle Alexander (5-13), the sixth of seven pitchers for the White Sox, earned the win. Jordan Leasure retired all four batters he faced to earn his fifth save of the season. Royce Lewis homered and Byron Buxton drove in two runs for Minnesota.

Cubs 7, Braves 6 – F/10 – Carson Kelly delivers the Cubs a wild 7-6 victory over the Braves
Carson Kelly hit a tying two-run homer in the eighth inning and a game-ending single in the 10th, sending the Chicago Cubs to a wild 7-6 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Ian Happ had three hits for Chicago, including his 19th homer. Dansby Swanson drove in two runs, and Matt Shaw had a run-scoring double. Seiya Suzuki began the Cubs’ 10th on second as the automatic runner. Suzuki advanced on Nico Hoerner’s one-out grounder to second before Kelly hit a liner into the corner in left off John Brebbia. Andrew Kittredge worked a perfect 10th for the win.

Tonight
N.Y. Mets (McLean 3-0) at Detroit (Gipson-Long 0-1), 6:40 p.m.  News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 6:10p
Chicago White Sox (Martin 5-9) at Minnesota (Woods Richardson 5-4), 7:40 p.m.
Atlanta (Wentz 5-4) at Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-6), 7:40 p.m.

NCAAFB – College Football – Week 1
Friday
Michigan State 23, Western Michigan 6
Central Michigan 16, San Jose State 14

Saturday
(14) Michigan 34, New Mexico 17
Texas State 52, Eastern Michigan 27

Sunday
(10) Miami 27, (6) Notre Dame 24

NCAAFB – Michigan’s targeting call appeal is denied, LB Barham to miss 1st half at OU
Michigan linebacker Jaishawn Barham will miss the first half of the Oklahoma game this week, following his ejection for targeting against New Mexico. Wolverines coach Sherrone Moore said Monday that the appeal to overturn the ruling was denied. Barham sacked Lobos quarterback Jack Layne and was called for targeting in the third quarter of the Wolverines’ 34-17 win. Michigan will play the Sooners on the road Saturday night, bringing Moore back to his alma mater.

NCAAFB – AP Poll preview: Buckeyes are poised to return to No. 1
As wrestling great Ric Flair famously said, to be the man, you gotta beat the man. Defending national champion Ohio State is still the man in college football. The purveyors of preseason rankings had anointed Texas because of what in retrospect was an overabundance of unjustified hype surrounding Arch Manning. Reality hit at the Horseshoe on Saturday, and now the Buckeyes are poised to jump Penn State and return to No. 1 when The Associated Press’ first regular-season Top 25 drops Tuesday. Look for No. 9 LSU to garner support for No. 1 after its 17-10 win over No. 4 Clemson.

NCAAFB – Army player and his dad save a man from flames after a car crash
An Army football player and his father pulled a man from a crashed car just before it burst into flames near the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, earning praise from the institution for “heroic” and “selfless” actions. Video of the daring rescue early Sunday shows sophomore safety Larry Pickett Jr. and his father, Larry Pickett Sr., grabbing the man out of the driver’s seat and carrying him away from the vehicle. Authorities say the white sedan smashed into a utility pole on Route 9W in Fort Montgomery, New York, about 4 miles from West Point. Video of the rescue, recorded by Pickett Jr.’s sister, Lauren, shows sparking wires surrounding the vehicle.

NCAAFB – Belichick’s college coaching debut at UNC ends in blowout loss to TCU
In his first game as a college coach, Bill Belichick’s North Carolina team started fast only to get blown out. TCU beat UNC 48-14 on Monday night. The Tar Heels scored a touchdown on the first possession, but then the Horned Frogs scored 41 straight points. That sent much of North Carolina’s sellout crowd fleeing for the exits long before the start of the fourth quarter. The 73-year-old Belichick is a first-time college coach. He won six Super Bowls as a head coach with the NFL’s New England Patriots.

WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association
Tonight
Indiana Fever at Phoenix Mercury, 10:00 p.m.

NFL – Parsons’ arrival in Green Bay excites his new teammates and has them thinking big
Micah Parsons’ arrival in Green Bay has his new Packers teammates believing any goal is realistic. Parsons practiced with his new teammates for the first time Monday. Green Bay acquired the superstar edge rusher Thursday in a deal that sent three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kenny Clark and two first-round picks to the Dallas Cowboys. Green Bay faces a time crunch trying to get Parsons ready for the start of the season. The Packers have two home games in a span of five days against 2024 NFC playoff teams. They host Detroit on Sunday and Washington the following Thursday.

Tennis – Naomi Osaka defeats Coco Gauff to reach her first major quarterfinal since 2021
Naomi Osaka has eliminated Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 at the U.S. Open to reach her first Grand Slam quarterfinal in more than 4 1/2 years. The No. 23-seeded Osaka played far more consistent and confident tennis than No. 3 Gauff in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday. Osaka will meet No. 11 Karolina Muchova on Wednesday for a semifinal berth. Osaka is a 27-year-old who was born in Japan and moved to the U.S. with her family at age 3. She has won four major championships, all on hard courts. That includes titles at the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020. Gauff’s two Slam trophies came at Flushing Meadows in 2023 and the French Open this June.

Tennis – Sinner back in quarters by routing Bublik
Jannik Sinner dominated the only player other than Carlos Alcaraz who has defeated him this season, routing Alexander Bublik 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 on Monday night to return to the U.S. Open quarterfinals. The top-seeded Sinner’s victory took just 1 hour, 21 minutes, the second-shortest completed match in the tournament. A first-round victory for Tomas Machac was a minute shorter. Sinner lost to Bublik in June in Halle, Germany, in a warm-up tournament before Wimbledon, but that was played on a grass court. Sinner has won 25 straight Grand Slam matches on hard courts, including the last two Australian Open titles along with his first U.S. Open trophy last year.

MWL – Midwest League Baseball
Tonight
Great Lakes Loons at Lake County Captains, 6:35 p.m.
Fort Wayne Tin Caps at West Michigan Whitecaps, 6:35 p.m.
Lansing Lugnuts at Dayton Dragons, 7:05 p.m.
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at South Bend Cubs, 7:05 p.m.  Sports Radio WSBT 6:45p

MHSAA – Michigan High School Athletic Association
Tonight
Boys Soccer
Portage Central at St. Joseph, 6:30 p.m.
Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Central, 6:30 p.m.
Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at Mattawan, 6:30 p.m.
Battle Creek Lakeview at Battle Creek Central, 6:30 p.m.
Portage Northern at Gull Lake, 6:30 p.m.
Coldwater at Niles, 7:00 p.m.
Bridgman at Michigan Lutheran, 5:00 p.m.
Howardsville Christian at Covert, 6:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Christian at Harper Creek, 6:30 p.m.
Wyoming Potter’s House at Kalamazoo Hackett, 5:30 p.m.

Girls Volleyball
St. Joseph, South Haven, Edwardsburg at Dowagiac, 5:00 p.m.
Hartford at Our Lady of the Lake, 6:00 p.m.
South Bend St. Joseph at Buchanan, 6:00 p.m.
Bloomingdale, Martin, GR West Michigan Aviation Academy at Comstock, 5:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Homeschool at Kalamazoo Hackett, 6:30 p.m.

Girls Swimming and Diving
Bridgman/Lakeshore at Kalamazoo Central, 6:00 p.m.
Mattawan at Kalamazoo Loy Norrix

Cross Country
Harper Creek Optimist Invitational, 5:50 p.m.
St. Joseph, Sturgis, Harper Creek, BC Pennfield, Bronson, Colon, Hanover-Horton, Jonesville, Parchment, Battle Creek St. Philip

Berrien Springs Shamrock Invitational, 4:00 p.m.
Berrien Springs, Lakeshore, Buchanan, Coloma, Dowagiac, Eau Claire, Edwardsburg, Kalamazoo Hackett, Niles, South Haven, River Valley

Boys Tennis
Lakeshore at Portage Northern, 4:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Loy Norrix at St. Joseph, 4:00 p.m.

Girls Golf
South Haven at Big Rapids Invite, 9:00 a.m.