Sports Digest | Timberwolves' Kevin Love breaks hand, out 6-8 weeks

BASKETBALL
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin Love will miss the next six to eight weeks after breaking his right hand in a workout on Wednesday. Love is a two-time All-Star who led the team in scoring and rebounding last season.

Charles, Catchings lead All-WNBA squad

NEW YORK – Connecticut’s Tina Charles was the leading vote-getter for the All-WNBA team, and Indiana’s Tamika Catchings earned her seventh first-team selection.
Joining Charles and Catchings on the first team were the Sparks’ Candace Parker, New York’s Cappie Pondexter and Minnesota’s Seimone Augustus.

Kings pick up options on Cousins, Fredette

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Sacramento Kings exercised the 2013-14 contract options of center DeMarcus Cousins and guard Jimmer Fredette.
Former Kentucky star Cousins is entering his third NBA season after being the fifth pick in the NBA Draft in 2010. He averaged 18.1 points and a team-high 11.0 rebounds per game last season.

NC State picked as ACC favorite at media day

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Carolina State is the preseason favorite to win the ACC championship.
The Wolfpack, with four starters back from a team that reached the NCAA round of 16, earned 26 of 53 first-place votes from media members at the league’s annual “Operation Basketball” media day. It is the first time N.C. State has been picked as the preseason favorite since the 1974-75 season.
Duke was second with 21 first-place votes, while North Carolina was third.
Football

Hearing set in Arkansas coach's bankruptcy

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A new hearing has been set for next month in Arkansas football coach John L. Smith’s $40.7 million bankruptcy filing.
The Nov. 14 hearing is to discuss a request by bankruptcy trustee John Lee to add special legal counsel. Smith filed for Chapter 7 liquidation of his debts on Sept. 6.

Former Ark. players sentenced for burglary

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Former Arkansas football players Marquel Wade and Andrew Peterson have been sentenced to six months in jail and five years’ probation for their roles in on-campus burglaries.
Wade and Peterson each pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of residential burglary in Washington County Circuit Court.

Spurrier might bench DT for throwing punch

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says he’ll discipline defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles for punching a player at LSU last week. Spurrier said the discipline would probably involve missing game time. A video on YouTube shows Quarles punching LSU center P.J. Lonergan in the facemask after a first-quarter play in the Tigers’ 23-21 victory.
• Notre Dame: Quarterback Everett Golson has been cleared by doctors to practice after he sustained a concussion in the Stanford game.
BASEBALL

'The Walking Man' dies

BOSTON – Eddie Yost, nicknamed “The Walking Man” because of his penchant for drawing bases on balls during an 18-year major league career, died Tuesday morning in Weston, Mass. He was 86.
• Blue Jays: Toronto claimed Marlins outfielder Scott Cousins and Yankees pitcher Cory Wade, a Kentucky Wesleyan product, off waivers.
• Brewers: Milwaukee said veteran reliever Livan Hernandez and catcher Yorvit Torrealba have become free agents after refusing outright assignments to the minor leagues.