PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) - The expanded Big Ten will place Ohio State and Michigan into different divisions. The conference announced its divisional breakdown Wednesday night, though neither division has been named. Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota and Northwestern will make up one division when the league grows to 12 teams in 2012. Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue and Indiana are in the other. » read more 

PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) _ Hold your breath, Big Ten fans: The conference will announce Wednesday evening how it intends to break into two, six-team divisions starting next season. » read more 

MILWAUKEE (AP) _Baseball commissioner Bud Selig, along with owners of the Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland A's and Boston Red Sox, are donating an undisclosed amount of money to the University of Wisconsin.

The donations were announced on Friday at a news conference at Miller Park.

Donations from Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, A's owner Lew Wolff and Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner will go toward a scholarship in Selig's name. » read more 

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) _ Kevin Harvick passed Denny Hamlin with 11 laps to go, then held on to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at Michigan International Speedway. Harvick's No. 29 team gambled by staying on the track instead of making a pit stop during a late caution. It paid off with a momentum-building victory Sunday for the series points leader.  » read more 

BRAINERD, Minn. -- Results Friday after the first one of three rounds of qualifying for the 29th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway, 17th of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series. Qualifying will continue Saturday for Sunday's final eliminations. » read more 

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The Big Ten has chosen Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis as the site for the first Big Ten football championship game in 2011. John Dedman, spokesman for the Indiana Sports Corp., said the Big Ten approached Indianapolis to host the event, and there was no formal bidding process. » read more 

PRESS RELEASE - ST. SCHOLASTICA

Women's Track & Field Announces 2010-11 Recruiting Class
DULUTH, Minn. – Head St. Scholastica track & field coach Kirk Nauman has announced the recruiting class for his women’s team for the upcoming year. A list of the class is as follows. » read more 

PRESS RELEASE - DECC HALL OF FAME

Denney, Griak, Ross, Ujdur named to 2010 DECC Athletic Hall of Fame Class
Duluth, Minn. – A U.S. Olympic ski jumper from Duluth, a long-time collegiate track and cross country coach from Duluth, a legendary high school hockey coach from International Falls and a major league baseball pitcher from Hermantown make up the 2010 Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Hall of Fame class. » read more 

LAS VEGAS (AP) Brock Lesnar rallied from a horrific first-round beating to stop Shane Carwin with a choke in the second round, defending his heavyweight title at UFC 116 on Saturday night.

Lesnar won his first fight in nearly a year despite taking a pounding in the opening minutes from Carwin, the previously undefeated interim champion.

Lesnar, the intimidating former professional wrestler and the UFC's biggest pay-per-view star, took down Carwin in the second round. » read more 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesotan Brock Lesnar is returning to the Octagon after a bout of intestinal illness nearly killed him last year.

The UFC heavyweight champion meets Shane Carwin at UFC 116 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Lesnar says that in the year he's been away, he's improved his boxing and kickboxing skills and his diet, but his conditioning going into the fight is still a question.

Lesnar grew up on a dairy farm in Webster, S.D., and was an NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion at the University of Minnesota and later wrestled professionally with World Wrestlin » read more