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4C II LSJ.COM AREA GOLF: HOLE IN ONE Pine Hills: Steven Roberts aced the 162-yard 3 rd hole with an 8-iron on July 25. Pine Hills: Phillip Wahlstrom aced the 133- yard 9th hole with a pitching wedge on July 28. AUTO RACING NASCAR: SPRINT CUP POINTS LEADERS Through July 26 1.Kevin 2.Joey 3.Dale Earnhardt 4.Jimmie 5.Martin Truex 6.Brad 7.Matt 8.Kurt 9.Jamie 10.Denny 11.Jeff 12.Ryan 13.Paul 14.Kasey 15.Clint 16.Carl 17.Aric 18.Greg 1 9.Austin 20.Kyle 21.Casey 2 2.Danica 23.AJ 2 4.David 2 5.Sam Hornish 26.Tony 2 7.Ricky Stenhouse 2 8.Trevor 29.David 3 0.Justin 3 1.Cole 32.Kyle 3 3.Brett 3 4.Alex 35.Michael 3 6.Matt 3 7.Josh 38.Michael 3 9.Jeb 4 0.Alex 41.Bobby 4 2.Brian 43.Reed 44.Michael 4 5.Mike 46.Eddie 4 7.Will 48.Ron Hornaday BASEBALL MILB: MIDWEST LEAGUE Eastern Division WLP ct. W.Mich.(Tigers)1813.581— Ft.Wayne B.Green (Rays) 1 7 1 5 531 1 1 2 x-Lansing Dayton S.Bend Lk.Co.(Indians) 1 4 1 8 438 4 1 2 Gt.Lkes Western Division WLPct.GB Kn.Co.(Dbacks)258.758— Peoria (Cards) 2 2 1 2 647 31 2 C.Rapids Beloit 101 2 Brlngtn Clinton (Mariners) 72 6 212 1 8 results Lake County 6,10 innings Fort Wayne 1 reat Lakes Bend 0 Clinton Rapids 4 ane County 4 uad Cities 3 Wisconsin 3 est Michigan Green 0,2 innings, results Peoria 1 Lansing at Lake South Bend at Great est Michigan Green 0,2 innings, comp.of susp.game Dayton at Fort edar Rapids at Burlington at Kane Quad Cities at West Michigan at Bowling games Great Lakes at Lake p.m. West Michigan at Fort p.m.

Cedar Rapids at Kane p.m. Burlington at p.m. Peoria at p.m. Wisconsin at Quad p.m. Lansing at Bowling p.m.

games Burlington at p.m. Wisconsin at Quad p.m. South Bend at p.m. Great Lakes at Lake p.m. Lansing at Bowling p.m.

West Michigan at Fort p.m. Cedar Rapids at Kane p.m. eoria at p.m. LANSING LUGNUTS UPCOMING GAMES Friday Lansing at Bowling p.m. at Bowling p.m.

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HOUSTON ASTROS Activated InF Jed Lowrie from the 60-day DL.Designated RHP Roberto Hernandez for assignment. KANSAS CITY ROYALS Activated INF-OF Ben Zobrist.Optioned OF Paulo Orlando to Omaha (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES Placed RHP Michael Pineda on the 15-day DL.Recalled RHP Bryan itchell and RHP Nick Goody from Wilkes-Barre RHP Caleb Cotham to EATTLE MARINERS Acquired OF Ramon Flores and RHP Jose Ramirez from the New York Yankees for OF Dustin Ackley.Recalled 1 Jesus Montero from Tacoma (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS Acquired LHP David Price from Detroit for LHP Daniel att Boyd and LHP Jairo Labourt. National League ATLANTA BRAVES Acquired INF Hector Oli Paco Rodriguez and RHP Zachary Bird from the Los Angeles Dodgers and 2016 competitive balance draft lottery election A for LHPs Luis Avilan and Alex Bronson Arroyo and Jim Johnson a nd INF Jose Peraza.

INCINNATI REDS Recalled LHP David Holmberg and RHP Keyvius Sampson from ouisville Kyle Skipworth to ensacola RHP Nate Adcock on he 15-day DL. IAMI MARLINS Acquired RHPs Kevin Brigham and Victor Araujo from he Los Angeles Dodgers for RHP Mat Latos, 1 Michael Morse and cash considerations. ITTSBURGH PIRATES Designated RHP ance Worley for assignment.Activated RHP Joe Blanton. ST.LOUIS CARDINALS Acquired OF-1B Brandon Moss from Cleveland for LHP Rob Kaminsky.Placed OF Matt Holliday on the 15- day DL.Recalled INF Greg Garcia from Memphis 1B Dan Johnson for assignment. NBA NEW YORK KNICKS Signed Kristaps Porzingis and Jerian Grant.

NFL ATLANTA FALCONS Placed OT Lamar Holmes on the PUP list. BUFFALO BILLS Placed DE Mario Williams, KDan Carpenter and CB Leodis McKelvin on the injury list and TE Chris Manhertz and CB Cam Thomas on the PUP list. AROLINA PANTHERS Signed WR Avius Capers and Matt Wile.Waived CB Gary Pe- ters.Placed Presley and TE Brandon Williams on the PUP list and OT Jonathan artin on the not report list. CINCINNATI BENGALS Signed WRs Desmond Lawrence and Greg Little.Waived WR Cobi Hamilton.Placed LB Ray Maualuga on the injury list. CLEVELAND BROWNS Placed LB Darius Marlon Moore and RB Glenn inston on the injury list.

DALLAS COWBOYS Placed RB Darren cFadden and LB Rolando McClain on the UP list and OL Chaz Mark Nze- cha and Shane McDermott on the non-football injury list.Announced the retirement of LB Keith Rivers. ENNESSEE TITANS Agreed to terms with Isaako Aaitui.Placed NT Sammie Hill on PUP list and TE Dorin Dickerson on injured eserve. COLLEGE IOWA Announced sophomore DB Solomon Warfield will transfer. OHIO STATE Suspended junior DE Joey Bos HB Jalin Marshall, senior WR orey Smith and junior HB Dontre Wilson one ame for violating department of athletics policy. is Michigan State official motto for 2015, and the Spartans have already set a new preseason bar.

he Amway Coaches Poll, released Thursday, has SU No. 6 the highest ranking in the coach- poll since the poll started in 1991. The previous high as No. 8, before last season, which ended with a Cotton Bowl win over Baylor and a second straight top-5 finish for the Spartans. It also ended with Ohio State as national champions, and the Buckeyes are No.

1in the preseason coaches poll which counts MSU coach Mark Dantonio and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh as voters with 62 of the 64 first-place votes. The Associated Press preseason poll comes out in August. MSU was No. 8 in last preseason AP poll as well. If the Spartans are higher than that this year, it will mark the highest preseason placement since starting the 1967 season ranked No.

3. MSU also is a near-unanimous choice to finish sec- nd in the Big Ten East this season, behind OSU, and antonio reminded reporters at Big Ten media sessions Thursday that last goals were not reached despite the overall success. where comes into play, for a program hoping to win the Big Ten and compete for a national title. Dantonio went with before he Rose Bowl championship season of 2013 and tarts before last season. come a long way since coming here in 2 007 with a number of things that we've been able to accomplish (but) I think our focus is to always continue to try to reach Dantonio said.

to our players last winter as we got together in winter workouts, and the first thing we talked about was just things that I just mentioned here. But, yet, we fell short of our goals. So with that being said, we need to continue to try and improve where we're at, move it The first big test comes Sept. 12 when Oregon ranked No. 5 in poll visits Spartan Stadium.

biggest MSU senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun said, to keep trying to prove ours elves. We need to do it SPARTANS Michigan St. ranked No. 6 but hopes to JOE REXRODE DETROIT FREE PRESS State Journal columnist Graham Couch is ranking he top 50 players in Michigan State football history. His list continues today with No.

8: Percy Almost every ballcarrier who ran against MSU in he late 1980s felt the powerful wrath of Snow. A fero- ious hitter, Snow is the second-leading tackler all-time, though his 463 stops during his final hree seasons are the most in a three-year span in chool history. As sophomore, he was the Rose Bowl VP, with 17 tackles, 15 of them solo. As a junior and enior, he was an All-American, a first-teamer in 1989, hen he also became the first player to win the Butk us and Lombardi awards together. Snow tallied dou- le-digit tackles 11times in His 23 stops against I llinois that season remain the most by an MSU player since the 1970s.

ollow the countdown and join the conversa- ion LSJ.com/blog/top50msufootball. the right Dantonio said. think it was very important that everybody win to some degree in the process. That there was retribution that had to be ade, but it still provided an opportunity for a young man to stay at the school he wanted to stay at. I hought that was important.

I think it needed to be his choice. If he opted out of the program, it was going to be by his choice. I did not want to dismiss Whether he misses any games or not, Williams is a ontender along with Gerald Holmes, Madre London a nd freshman LJ Scott to run the ball this season. a good football Dantonio said, missed an entire spring and entire summer of workouts. (He) come in early August with everyone else, so behind the Burbridge back MSU senior receiver Aaron Burb ridge missed most of spring ball with a foot injury, ut Dantonio said he should be all set for the start of reseason practice on Aug.

8. should be full Dantonio said. missed a lot of the conditioning aspects of it, so have to nurture him along from a conditioning a spect. But be ready to go, a reshman cleared by NCAA Freshman corner- ack Kaleel Gaines of Frostproof, Florida, had an issue with a core class for eligibility, but Dantonio said Gaines has been cleared and will join the Spartans in time for camp. Kaleel Gaines, he is Dantonio said.

petitioned the NCAA and I first want to congratulate ur compliance office. Holly Baumgartner sort of headed that up. Petitioned the NCAA yesterday for him to be eligible based on his high school not allowing aclass to be put on his transcript after Gaines is one of several young candidates for playing time in the MSU defensive backfield. idbits Dantonio confirmed that co-defensive coordinator Harlon Barnett will call defensive plays uring games from the coaching box, with suggestions from co-defensive coordinator Mike Tressel, who will coach from the field. After missing spring football with what Dantonio termed an redshirt freshman tackle Craig Evans is work- i ng with the team and has cut his weight to 318, Danton io said.

MSU withdrew its scholarship offer to 2016 verbal commitment and offensive lineman Ga- in Cupp last week after Cupp worked out at an Ohio State recruiting event. Cupp was reportedly offered by OSU on Thursday. Asked if he has a hard-line policy on commitments taking visits, Dantonio said: have a policy on Spartans Continued from Page 1C dicting their lasting arrival while still holding a ret urn ticket. I think what we learned is a lot harder to stay at the top than get to the senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun said Thursday. Those three-year-old scars are part of who the Spartans have become and why they keep winning and why tempered their dialogue.

his is a mature group, with 17 seniors listed on he preseason depth two-deep, all of whom experienced the peek at prominence several years ago, and swift and painful stumble back toward its four-decade pedigree. Among those 17 seniors, Calhoun, quarterback onnor Cook and center Jack Allen. The 2012 season is what changed Cook said. went from 2010 winning our conference, 2011making to the first ever Big Ten championship game and losing, and then winning six (regular season) games in 2012. way we all felt that season, I even playing and I felt crappy.

No one ever wanted to eel that way ever again. And I think we made a pact back then to do whatever (it took), no matter what is. Ithink maybe guys did fall into that complacency ubble after that 2011season, going into 2012, like, just going to Linebacker Denicos Allen infamously predicted aRose Bowl in 2012 if, of course, the national championship fell through. This for a team without a roven quarterback or wideout or nose tackle. The lack of all three helped send MSU to the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.

I think coming off the 2011season going into 2012, I know there was talk about should be should be MSU coach Mark Dantonio aid Thursday. I think all premature. I think you play yourself into those situations. You talk yourself into those he Spartans have done so now, winning 24 games in the two seasons since, 53 in the last five. he Rose Bowl came a year later than predicted, a long with a Big Ten title.

The maturity developed through frustration carried over to last season, nev- more so on display than during the three games after a kick-in-the-gut home loss to Ohio State. The headache of 2012 is now the anomaly. But it had to happen. was a big wake-up Jack Allen said. Allen, Cook and Calhoun were engaging Thursday.

But they try to win media day. Nothing can be won on a Thursday in July, they know. Words are more likely to poison than inspire. When a crass reporter asked Cook whether he would win the Ohio State starting quarterback competition if he played for the Buckeyes, he hes- i tate. not answering he said, looking toward the next question.

fact that been able to (win big) more often than Dantonio said, lends to alittle bit of maturity and discipline as how we go about our business. We won 11games last year, but I ould not say we met our goals. I would NOT say is this mantra, following up in 2013 and starts last year. slogans are losing their zip as his pro- ram loses its desire for bluster. Denicos way-too-bold prediction would a ctually work today.

But the Spartans no longer have any interest in puffing their chests. a sign of Dantonio said. a sign of being there and having been there and then riding he roller coaster down, PAUL BEATY ASSOCIATED PRESS Michigan State quarterback Connor Cook speaks to the media during Big Ten Football Media Days Thursday in Chicago. Couch Continued from Page 1C.