Previews of the highest state semifinal playoff video games

Class 8A: No. 5 Brother Rice at No. 4 Warren Four p.m., Saturday Two sophomores -- working again Willie Shaw and quarterback Jack Lausch -- have performed key roles for Brother Rice (8-4), which is looking for its second straight journey to the 8A remaining. Shaw has 1,281 yards (an 8.2-yard common per carry) and 14 touchdowns on the bottom, whereas Lausch has 747 whole yards and 9 TDs. Warren (12-0) options the state’s most dominant protection, which has allowed 40 factors all season. Linemen Willis Singleton (Iowa State) and Seamus Mellican, linebacker Juan Delacruz and cornerback Josh Turner all have began 35 varsity video games, together with eight within the playoffs. Class 8A: No.

Despite poor end in World Cup, the U.S. retains prime spot in

USA Basketball has saved its No. 1 spot within the FIBA world males’s rankings, even after a disappointing seventh-place exhibiting within the World Cup that ended earlier this week. It’s now nine-years-and-counting within the prime spot for the U.S., which has held the No. 1 rating since successful the 2010 world championship. World Cup champion Spain stayed No. 2, Australia leaped eight spots to No. 3, World Cup finalist Argentina rose one spot to No. four and World Cup bronze-medalist France fell two slots to No. 5. FIBA’s rankings take outcomes from the newest eight years under consideration — which suggests the U.S. continues to be reaping level advantages from the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold

Texas A&M-Clemson, LSU-Texas prime CFB marquee in Week 2

The final lively school soccer coach aside from Clemson’s Dabo Swinney or Alabama’s Nick Saban to win the nationwide championship? Before these two cut up the final 4 titles — and earlier than Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, presently (however in all probability not for lengthy) a Fox Sports studio analyst, gained the primary College Football Playoff in January of 2015 — Jimbo Fisher and Florida State claimed all of the marbles to cap the 2013 season. Of course, a lot has modified since then. The Bowl Championship Series is a factor of the ever-more-distant previous. The mightiness of FSU’s program is, too. And some would say the identical about Fisher, a department on the Saban teaching

Is White Sox prime choose Andrew Vaughn first in line?

While White Sox first-round draft selection Andrew Vaughn will get acclimated to minor league baseball, he’s additionally listening to the up and coming prospects he hopes to play with in the future on the South Side. “Luis Robert getting called up to AAA, hitting two homers in his first game, that’s a really good sign,” Vaughn stated by telephone from Kannapolis this week. If Robert is watching what Vaughn is doing, he’ll know that he's batting .288/.415/.442 with a homer and 5 doubles in his first 14 video games at low Class A Kannapolis with a homer and walk-off single, and that in three ‘get your feet wet’ video games within the Arizona League earlier than