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Making the right choices on the floor is important for any basketball team. As No. 15 West Virginia prepares to open its season Wednesday against Northern Iowa in the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic in Sioux Falls, S.D., coach Bob Huggins and his players are emphasizing the need for discipline across the board. “The national champion may not be the best team, but the team that manages these circumstances the best,” Huggins said.

Trevor Ariza is on the move for the third time this week, going to Oklahoma City from Detroit along with Dallas’ Justin Jackson in a three-team trade. Also in the deal, the Mavericks sent Delon Wright to the Pistons for James Johnson, a person with knowledge of the details said early Saturday. Ariza was sent from Portland to Houston two days before the draft, then shipped to the Pistons on draft night Wednesday.

Denver needed another big with Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee signing with the Pistons.

Here are today’s keys to victor for Nebraska vs. Illinois, along with the HuskerOnline score predictions for Saturday.

Oklahoma City has been in teardown mode ever since trading Paul George and Russell Westbrook.

As a rejuvenated France take on Scotland at Murrayfield tomorrow afternoon for top spot in Group B of the bedevilled Autumn Nations Cup, they do so with the full backing of their president, Bernard Laporte, who believes that “a sense of hope and possibility” has been restored to French rugby by the exploits of the new generation. France have grown in stature since Laporte brought in Fabien Galthie and Raphael Ibanez last year to overhaul a national team who have been in the wilderness for a decade, without a championship title since 2010. Even if Laporte is the first to acknowledge that “these are early days and we must be humble”, the former head coach and trophy-garnering ex-manager at Toulon as well as France minister for sport insists that the days of not knowing what sort of French team would turn up on any given day are behind Les Bleus. “Yes, let us hope we have laid that cliche to rest,” Laporte told The Telegraph. “The last 10 years has not been good enough for French rugby. We have had too many foreigners in the game, our players in general have not been fit enough, the coaching support staff for Les Bleus was too threadbare, our style has been random and confused, our young players were not getting enough opportunity to prosper – there were a lot of issues there. “We believe now that we have made a start in resolving things, to give us some hope for the future, an air of positivity and of possibility. “The national team are the shop window, or the locomotive if you like, the engine that drives so much, that pulls everything along behind. We have to rise again. It is not right to say that we will win the World Cup in 2023.

CHICAGO — Theo Epstein’s resignation as Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations stunned more than the baseball world. Epstein’s departure with one year remaining on his contract affected the entire Chicago sports landscape this week. Here’s a look at the winners and losers from Epstein’s decision, which was announced Tuesday. ___ Winner: Theo Epstein The future Hall of Famer leaves his …

CHICAGO — In the aftermath of yet another disheartening setback Monday night, Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy again clung to the most reliable life raft he has. Culture. Team unity. Resolve. “Persistence over resistance,” Nagy preached. And a little while later … “We’re fighters,” he said. “Just keep fighting and staying together, and eventually something here will hopefully change.” …