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Dec 1, 2025
Staff photo by Ari Selvey Minnesota Valley Lutheran’s Blake Sexton blows by a Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton defender during a nonconference boys basketball game Monday at MVL High School.
NEW ULM — Minnesota Valley Lutheran opened up the boys basketball season with a tough loss against a strong team, falling 78-48 to Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Monday.
“The Bauer brothers [Daulton and Gavin] are unbelievable,” MVL head coach Kory Kettner said. “They’re just so, so well coached. Nick James is one of the best coaches in southern Minnesota. It was going to be tough coming into it, I knew it was going to be.”
Gavin Bauer led the Bulldogs with 28 points, while Dalton Bauer had 22 points.
Owen Birkholz led the Chargers with 16 points, while Pierson Brau had 15
JWP made it tough for MVL to move the ball effectively, disrupting the passing lanes to the tune of 30 turnovers for the Chargers.
Staff photo by Ari Selvey Minnesota Valley Lutheran’s Pierson Brau puts up a layup during a nonconference boys basketball game against Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Monday at MVL High School.
MVL started off the game well, taking a 9-4 lead, with Birkholz making a layup and a 3-pointer early on. JWP tied the game at 12, but another Birkholz 3 gave the Chargers a 15-12 lead.
“We were knocking shots early,” Kettner said. “But unfortunately when the ball doesn’t move they way it should move, it gets tough. We just didn’t move the ball well enough, period. Everything seemed to be off the bounce and one-on-one, and you can’t beat good teams when you play that way.”
However, JWP took control of the game with a 12-0 run to go up 32-17. Blake Sexton broke the scoring drought with a layup, and Birkholz made another 3 and Brau made two free throws to make it a 39-24 game, but the Bulldogs went on a 9-2 run to close out the half with a 47-26 lead.
Brau scored 5 points quickly in the second half to make it a 49-31 game, but another 16-2 run by JWP put the game out of reach for good.
Reserves entered with 7:40 to play as the Bulldogs held a 74-43 advantage as the game wound down.
MVL (0-1) will look to have a better showing Friday as they host Springfield.
“We’ve got film, so we can go back and watch it and we can see the things that worked,” Kettner said. “Which wasn’t a lot, but there’s things that you can learn from when you get beat like this too and I think it just gets everybody’s attention that we’re not there yet. That’s fine, it’s a long season and we’re going to get better.”

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Amazon’s Prime Video has made TVA Sports Direct the latest add-on subscription available to its users in Canada.
The French-language sports streaming service can now be accessed by Prime Video subscribers for a monthly fee of $17.99, or on an annual plan for $179.99. It joins such sports streamers available on the platform as DAZN, Rogers Sports & Media’s Sportsnet, Bell Media/ESPN’s TSN and RDS, and Fubo Sports, among others.
Operated by Quebecor Media’s TVA Group, TVA Sports Direct offers French-language broadcasts of over 250 NHL regular-season games as well as the entire playoffs, including the Stanley Cup Finals.
Other sports included on the service include regular-season and playoff games from Major League Baseball, Formula E and NASCAR Canada auto racing, Women’s Tennis Association tournaments, Canadian university football from U Sports, UFC combat sports events and boxing gales from Quebec’s Eye of the Tiger Management.
In a statement, Daniel Slepak, Prime Video’s head of marketplace for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, said “[the] addition reinforces our commitment to providing Canadian customers with diverse content that matters to them, making it easier for French-speaking sports fans to enjoy premium coverage of their favourite games.”
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North Alabama used a strong second-half effort to pull away for a 73-66 road win over Jacksonville State on Monday.
The visiting Lions trailed by eight points heading into halftime, but outscored Jax State 47-32 in the second half to secure the victory.
Junior Canin Jefferson led the comeback effort with 14 of his 16 points coming in the second half, while Donte Bacchus added 12 in the second half to lead UNA to its first road win of the year.
Bacchus finished with 19 points and nine rebounds to lead the Lions’ scoring efforts, and Corneilous Williams grabbed a game-high 13 rebounds and scored 17 points.
North Alabama has now won three of the last four matchups against the Gamecocks. Jax State leads the overall series 59-38 in a rivalry that dates back to the 1949-50 season.
“Our guys today just stayed the course the whole time,” North Alabama coach Tony Pujol said on the radio broadcast following the win. “They locked into the scouting report — I thought they did a tremendous job there — and I thought what they did was they just had a no-quit mentality. It was great in the huddles.
“They just stayed positive the whole time, good or bad, they just stayed positive.”
The Gamecocks were held to a 12-for-35 mark from the field in the second half and just made three of their 16 shots from beyond the arc after going 6-for-9 from 3-point range in the first half of the matchup.
Jamar Franklin led Jax State to a first-half lead with 13 points, going 4-for-5 from 3-point range. Tulsa transfer Jaye Nash also dished out five of his eight assists in the first half of the matchup.
Louisiana transfer Mostapha El Moutaouakkil totaled 19 points — 15 in the second half — to lead Jax State in the loss, with Alabama A&M transfer AC Bryant scoring 18 points and logging a game-high eight rebounds.
“Whenever you’re playing a team that’s coached by coach Harper, you have to be ready,” Pujol said of Jax State. “You’re always going to get not only a coach that understands the game and coaches at a high level, but his players play to their identity, which is that they’re going to play hard, they’re going to really grind games out. If you’re not ready for that, they can make you look pretty bad.”
The Lions got their first lead of the second half on a 3-pointer from Tank Washington with 10:05 left to play before a 3-pointer from Bryant and a pair of free throws from Phenix City native Jacoby Hill.
After a back-and-forth period that saw four lead changes, a layup from Bacchus with 2:53 left to play gave the Lions a lead they never lost; Coffee Springs native Dallas Howell hit a 3-pointer a little over a minute later.
“We came in here with high energy and just stuck together,” Bacchus said. “Every day, this is brick by brick, just coming every day in practice, just competing and staying up, and it just paid off. I’m happy we were able to get this win and just stay together.”
North Alabama (4-4) will face San Francisco on Wednesday at 9 p.m. in California. Jax State (3-4) will host Division II AUM on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Pete Mathews Coliseum. Both games will be streamed on ESPN+.
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Starting Monday, Missourians could legally bet on sports either using mobile apps or by going in-person to casinos.
At a sparsely populated Horseshoe Casino in downtown St. Louis Monday afternoon, the Caesar’s sportsbook was mostly deserted. But St. Louis resident Rick Porter braved the snow to place a bet in person. He was already at the casino to play poker nearby.
Porter was placing a bet on Monday night’s Patriots-Giants game.
“When you’re watching the game it gives you something to cheer for,” Porter said.
He said he has driven across the river to Illinois several times to place bets, and he is glad he doesn’t have to do that anymore.
Former St. Louis Rams wide receiver Isaac Bruce bet on the same game at a DraftKings event Monday, picking the Patriots to win.
Bruce said betting can add another layer of emotion to sports for fans and athletes but advised that his fellow athletes stay focused on the game and ignore any extra pressure that might come from sports betting.
“We talk often about ignoring the outside noise,” Bruce said. “So being focused on what’s going on in your locker room, the way you play and your mission is to go out and win and perform and become a better player.”
DraftKings is one of two platforms that received an untethered license from the Missouri Gaming Commission, meaning it does not have to partner with a sports team or a casino. However, it does have a partnership with the St. Louis Blues. The other untethered license went to Circa Sports.
People can place bets electronically and at casinos around the state on several other platforms as well.
DraftKings Chief Responsible Gaming Officer Lori Kalani said she is committed to preventing problem gambling. She said she implemented a new tool called My Stat Sheet where users can view a personalized dashboard that includes time and money spent on the platform.
“We develop these tools because good experiences start with responsible decisions,” Kalani said.
Missouri Speaker of the House Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, who was in St. Louis at the DraftKings event, said much of the tax revenue from legal sports betting in the state is expected to go to public schools.
“That will help public school students get their education, have access to the help that they need, and it will help public schools,” Patterson said. “As a father of public school students, I think that’s one of the things that we really have to highlight here today.”
However, it’s unclear how much revenue schools will get.
According to the Missouri Gaming Commission, a 10% tax will be applied on the adjusted gross revenue received by sports betting. That revenue will first go to the commission to reimburse expenses incurred by regulating sports wagering.
Afterward, the greater of either $5 million or 10% of the annual tax revenues will go to the Missouri Department of Mental Health to address compulsive gambling.
The remainder of the money earned by the state will go to the Missouri Department of Education.
Missouri Gaming Commission Jan Zimmerman said it’s too soon to predict the revenue the state will see, but there are some initial estimates of between $20-28 million.

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