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Packers quarterback Jordan Love threw for four touchdown passes yesterday in a 34-13 win
over the Arizona Cardinals.
A week after he was suspended for a game, White receiver Romeo Dobbs caught two of the scoring
passes.
The Cardinals had been mostly error-free coming into the contest, but they were penalized
13 times for 100 yards and coughed up the ball three times on turnovers.
Green Bay jumped out to a 24-0 lead, and the final result was never in question.
The Red Hot Houston Texans will visit Lambo Field this coming Sunday.
The ninth ranked Wisconsin volleyball team swept Northwestern in straight sets, three
to nothing yesterday afternoon at the UW Field House.
The badgers had a dozen blocks for the seventh time this season, while improving their
record to 11 and six.
Sarah Franklin led the way with 14 kills, and Lola Schumacher added 14 digs.
Wisconsin had five service aces, a bigger challenge awaits Wisconsin on Friday when number 11
organ visits.
Wisconsin's undefeated women's hockey team produced another offensive explosion in Sundays,
some of the three win over a ranked opponent from Minnesota Duluth.
The badgers have a record of six and all, Olivia Mobley and Maggie Chenle scored two goals
each.
The teams were tied after the first period, but three goals into the second put them up
to stay.
Goaltender Ava McNaughton stopped 20 shots, Wisconsin travels to Minnesota for a series next
weekend, starting Friday night.
The Milwaukee Bucks are hoping more stability will help them bounce back after exiting in
the first round of the playoffs each of its last two seasons.
The Bucks are coming off a tumultuous 23 to 24 campaign, in which they acquired Damien
Lillard just before training camp and changed coaches midway through the season.
They believe they can produce better results for coach Doc Rivers after having a full training
camp to work with them.
The key is making sure two-time MVP Yannis Antitucupo, Chris Middleton and Lillard all stay
healthy.
The Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers streak of 33 consecutive scoreless innings in the playoffs
has ended.
Brian Brazier gave up a lead-off homerun to Francisco Lendor of the New York Mets in the
first inning of game two.
Lendor connected on a two-two pitch to right field, a 395-foot shot that gave the Mets
a one-to-nothing lead.
Dodgers went with a bullpen game today and Brazier was the first of multiple relievers
who were set to pitch.
Dodgers pitchers tied the pro-season record of 33 consecutive scoreless innings and a
9-0-rout in game one of the National League Championship series.
Clayton Kershaw, as he plans to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers for his 18th season
next year.
The three-time NL-Sai Young Award winner isn't pitching in the current playoffs because
of a bone spur in his left big toe that sidelined him for the final months of the regular season.
The 36-year-old left-hander made just seven-starts this year going two-and-two as a 4.5-0-ERA
which were both career lows.
Last November, Kershaw had a left shoulder surgery and the recovery kept him out of action
until July 25th.
By the end of August, he was on the injured list with a toe injury.
He says he's going to come back next year and give it a go and see how it goes.
Kansas is number one in the AP Top 25 pre-season men's basketball pole ahead of Alabama and
two-time defending national champion Yukon.
The J-Hawks got 30 of 60 first place votes while the Crimson Tide received 14 and the Huskies
got a love-in.
Houston and Iowa State round out the top five followed by Gonzaga, Duke, Baylor, North
Carolina and Arizona.
The Big Ten has half of the top ten teams but the SEC has the most in the Top 25 overall
with nine.
That includes number 16.
Arkansas led by New Coach John Calipari and number 23 Kentucky where Mark Pope replaced
him.
And the WNBA had a record year in terms of growth in viewership and attendance and with
that, the players now want a bigger piece of the financial pie.
The players union and leak have until November 1st to potentially opt out of their current
collective bargaining agreement is likely that the players will decide to do so before
the deadline as they have a list of wants including increased salaries.
Now that the WNBA has entered a historic 11 year media night right steel with Disney,
Amazon, Prime and NBC for $200 million a year.
If the union does opt out, the current CBA will still be in effect until next season.
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Whatever they may be for WRCL sports, I'm Tim Theed.