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BUDGET CUTS-UNEMPLOYMENT Budget cuts to reduce unemployment benefits PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota will be reducing extended unemployment compensation benefits by nearly 17 percent as part of federal budget cuts. The South Dakota Department of...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A $19 million basketball facility opening in Sioux Falls in the fall will host an NBA preseason game and a major college men's basketball game. The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/12wrHAj) the Minnesota Timberwolves...

Faint chants could be heard as Andrew Goudelock stepped to the free-throw line late in the first quarter. “MVP!” fans yelled halfheartedly inside Staples Center, as if they were almost embarrassed it had come to this for the Lakers. The...

The NBA Development League has selected Lakers guard Andrew Goudelock as the 2012-13 most valuable player. Goudelock averaged 21.4 points and 5.8 assists for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of Hidalgo, Texas. The 6-foot-3 guard also played for the Sioux...

Desperate for backcourt help, the Lakers re-signed Andrew Goudelock, a second-year guard who averaged 4.4 points for them last season. Goudelock, 24, was never afraid to shoot the ball but was waived during exhibition season in October. He averaged...

   Before Erik Spoelstra could wish Pat Riley a happy 68th birthday Wednesday he first had to find him.    "Pat has actually been very busy," Spoelstra said. "Every game you put on TV, if there's a college game going on, he's at it. I don't care, he can...

The best thing for the Milwaukee Bucks is if they can persuade J.J. Redick to become a fan of ice fishing and stay for a while. The Bucks really don't know it yet. But with J.J.'s presence, they improved their team on the court, on the practice floor,...

The Lakers have reassigned center Robert Sacre to the D-Fenders. Sacre, taken with the 60th and final pick of the 2012 NBA draft, will join the Lakers' D-League affiliate for the third time this season.  In three games for the D-Fenders, Sacre...

|TODAY| No Events   |TV SPORTS| Soccer—Premier League, Newcastle at Manchester United, 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2) College Football—Little Caesars Pizza Bowl, Western Kentucky vs. Central Michigan, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN) NBA Basketball—...

The latest dispute in the NBA is for the birds. Or not for the birds. The New Orleans Hornets want a nickname change. They want to become the New Orleans Pelicans. The state bird in Louisiana is the pelican, but it doesn't sound like a good nickname...

Orlando Magic brass haven’t decided yet whether rookies such as DeQuan Jones or Kyle O’Quinn will spend any time this season in the NBA Development League. There’s a complicating factor: The Magic’s D-League affiliate is located...

Sioux Falls will host Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference basketball tournaments from 2014-16. The eight-team men's and women's conference tournaments will take place at the 160,000-square-foot, five-sided Sanford Pentagon, which is currently under...