EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State removed the last shades of doubt about who will replace Connor Cook under center this season.Head coach Mark Dantonio said Monday that Tyler OConnor will start the season opener at quarterback.Hes the No. 1 guy, Dantonio said. Hes had a good enough camp to say that at this point.OConnor played in four games last season for the Spartans, throwing for 133 yards and two touchdowns. The fifth-year senior most notably started during the teams upset win against Ohio State in Columbus in November 2015, when Cook was injured.OConnor said earlier this month that he has approached the offseason and this training camp with the mentality that hes the starting quarterback. He has been the presumptive heir to Cook for the past year, but Dantonio didnt publicly declare him a starter until Monday.Dantonio didnt rule out the possibility of another quarterback playing in some form this season. Senior Damion Terry and sophomore Brian Lewerke are competing for the No. 2 spot. Dantonio said that battle will continue this week in camp.Michigan State opens its season at home on Sept. 2 against Furman.Nike Air Force 1 Low Γυναικεια .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. Nike Air Force Προσφορες . Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. http://www.airforce1greece.com/ . Woodson said during a radio interview Thursday that the Knicks Carmelo Anthony doesnt get the same calls as other superstars. SF Air Force 1 Φθηνα . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. Nike Air Force Γυναικεια . Pierce was ejected in the third quarter of Indianas 103-86 win Monday. George Hill stole a bad pass and was going in for a layup, and Pierce hustled back and appeared to be trying to wrap him up.INDIANAPOLIS -- Brandon Knight and the Phoenix Suns backups outlasted the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.Knight scored 17 points and helped the bench players combine for an NBA season-best 78 points in the Suns 116-96 victory over the Pacers.Jared Dudley added 16 points, Alan Williams had 15 points, and Devin Booker and Leandro Barbosa 13 each. The Suns improved to 4-9 with their second road victory.Every day is like a blank canvas for us, coach Earl Watson said. The good thing is, were the artists of that blank canvas. The mindset in getting our guys to learn to bring it every night is the process, the journey for us.Myles Turner led the Pacers with 22 points, and Jeff Teague had 21 points and seven assists.We went through the motions. We were on our heels, Indiana coach Nate McMillan said. It was bad out there. The game should fire you up. When they toss the ball up, you should be ready to go and (on Friday) we werent.The Pacers rallied to take their first lead with 7:46 left in the third quarter on Turners basket. But the Suns pulled ahead again, with Knight scoring all 12 points of his points in the period in a 2 1/2-minute stretch. Phoenix outscored Indiana 27-14 in the fourth.Basketball is a game of runs and we were able to get stops eventually, Knight said. They started making a lot of shots and when we got consecutive stops, it led to us getting baskets.Pacers All-Star Paul George did not play for the second time in four games. Hes battling soreness in his left ankle after turning his ankle in Indianas overtime loss at Philadelphia on Nov. 11. Hes scheduled for an MRI on Saturday to assess the severity of the injury.TIP-INS:Phoenix: The game wass the fourth back-to-back Phoenix has played through 13 games .dddddddddddd... Eric Bledsoe and Alex Len were both called for technical fouls for arguing foul calls with official Dan Crawford. ... Phoenix is 2-1 against the Eastern Conference. ... The Suns have won 16 of the last 22 meetings with the Pacers and nine of the last 12 at Indiana.Indiana: Rodney Stuckey played for the first time since opening night after missing 10 games with strained right hamstring. ... CJ Miles left the game with three minutes left in the first quarter with a left knee injury and did not return to the game ... The contest was the fourth in a stretch for the Pacers that has them playing eight of nine games at home.REMEMBERING HOOSIERS:Hoosiers screenwriter Angelo Pizzo and director David Anspaugh, along with actors who portrayed fictional Hickory High School in the 1986 basketball classic -- including Maris Valainis, who played Jimmy Chitwood -- were in attendance. The Pacers first Hickory Night coincides with the 30th anniversary of the movies release.BLUEGRASS STATE SUPPORTWith four Kentucky products on the roster, the Suns had a contingency of about 75 fans cheering behind their bench Friday. Lexington is roughly 190 miles from Indianapolis, and the Kentucky fans watched solid performances from Knight, Booker, Bledsoe and rookie Tyler Ulis.UP NEXT:Phoenix visits Philadelphia on Saturday in the fourth game of a six-game trip.Indiana is on the road Sunday at Oklahoma City, then hosts defending Western Conference champion Golden State on Monday. ' ' '
