Former Boles Lady Hornet Bailey Miller, who just finished her college career with 28-4 Arizona State, is joining an Austin team in an indoor professional volleyball league.

The Austin team in the League One Volleyball league announced the addition of the 6-3 Miller.

As an outside hitter this past season at Arizona State, Miller earned first-team All-Big 12 honors, All-Pacific All-Region honors, academic all-district honors and was named to the honorable mention list on the American Volleyball Coaches Association’s all-America team.

Miller finished second on the team in kills for the season with 392 to go with 37 assists, 39 aces, 52 blocks and 293 digs.

She played two seasons at Arizona State and two at West Virginia after leading the Boles Lady Hornets in kills and blocks during her high school career.

There are other LOVB pro teams in Houston, Madison, Wisc., Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Ga., and Omaha, Neb.

League play starts on Jan. 7.

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Dr. Marcus Sedberry, a former Greenville Lion athlete, served as the General Manager for the University of Wisconsin’s football program this season.

His duties included overseeing roster management, player personnel and operations for the Badgers. He’s also served as a Deputy Athletic Director for Wisconsin.

Sedberry, who ran track at Nebraska after running on a state finalist 4x400 relay for the Greenville Lions, has also been an administrator at Baylor, Central Florida, Arkansas and in the National Football League with the Philadelphia Eagles.

His father Marvin Sedberry Sr. coached three stints as the head football coach of the Greenville Lions and his brother Marvin Sedberry Jr. is the head football coach of the Terrell Tigers.

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Nevaeh Zavala’s double-double helped High Point to an 85-83 double-overtime women’s basketball victory over Yale.

Zavala, a 6-0 senior from Royse City, scored 21 points and pulled down a team-high 14 rebounds.

Zavala is averaging 9.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for the 11-2 Panthers, who’ll next play at North Carolina-Asheville on Dec. 31.

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Maggie Hutka, a 6-0 junior from Royse City,scored two points and pulled down a rebound during Montana’s 90-85 women’s basketball victory over Tarleton State.

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Brett Nix, a former Wolfe City basketball player, has scored 14 points and pulled down three rebounds in two basketball games this season for Oklahoma Science and Arts.

Nix, a 6-0 freshman who transferred from Wayland Baptist, is shooting 57.1% from 3-point range for the 5-8 Drovers.

Norfolk’s Keyshawn Davis will return to the boxing ring next month at Madison Square Garden — his first fight since a hometown title bout unraveled at Scope and spurred Davis to announce a break from the sport.

Davis will fight former world title challenger Jamaine Ortiz at MSG on Jan. 31 in a 12-round junior welterweight match. Davis (13-0 with nine knockouts), was stripped of his World Boxing Organization lightweight championship belt June 7 after his missed weight for his scheduled match at Scope against Edwin De Los Santos.

The next day, the card that included Davis’ two brothers went on without Davis, but it was marred by a post-fight scuffle involving Keyshawn and Keon Davis after Kelvin Davis’ first professional loss.

Two months later, Davis announced he was taking a break from boxing and apologized to his hometown.

“I hate what happened, but what happened is going to change me,” Davis, 26, said during an August interview on “The Ariel Helwani Show.”

“To Norfolk, to my town, like, y’all know how much I love y’all,” Davis said. “Y’all know how much I put y’all on a pedestal, so for me to act out that way … on the same week that the state and the city gave me an award. … I was wrong. … In terms of Norfolk, I apologize for putting us on that pedestal and making us look so (expletive) bad.”

Ortiz (20-2-1, 10 KOs) has won three straight fights since losing a decision to Teofimo Lopez for the WBO junior welterweight world title. The Davis-Ortiz bout is part of the undercard of a main event between Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson.

Davis, a silver medalist at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, became the WBO lightweight world champion with a knockout of Denys Berinchyk on Feb. 14.

This is a developing story.

NEW YORK — Eighty-two. Seventy-three. Seventy-two. Eighty-two. Eighty-three. Eighty-two. Eighty-two — and now 29.

Mikal Bridges’ track record of perfect attendance reads like an NBA head coach’s fantasy.

Mike Brown is living that fantasy in real time during his first season at Madison Square Garden, guiding a Knicks team with championship aspirations. Bridges isn’t just a premier two-way wing capable of locking down the league’s best scorers one night and detonating offensively the next.

He’s also the league’s reigning, uncontested iron man. If there’s any certainty to the Knicks’ season this year, it’s Bridges suiting up for tipoff every night.

And in a league increasingly shaped by load management and star absences, Bridges’ availability has become its own competitive advantage — one you can’t quite put a price on (though the Knicks might argue otherwise after surrendering five first-round picks to acquire him from Brooklyn, then signing him to a four-year, $150 million extension this summer).

“The best ability is availability, and to have that is a big thing,” Brown said after practice in Tarrytown earlier this month, just before the team boarded its flight to Las Vegas for the NBA Cup semifinal. “And anybody — everybody — would love to have that.”

Bridges is the only current player to appear in 500 consecutive games, with 600 looming. He and Golden State’s Buddy Hield are the only active players who haven’t missed a game over the past five seasons. And in 2023, after a midseason trade from Phoenix to Brooklyn created an extra contest on his schedule, Bridges became the first player since Josh Smith in 2014-15 to appear in 83 regular-season games.

On Christmas Day against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridges will move into 11th place all time in consecutive games played, surpassing James Donaldson’s mark of 586 set in 1981. He can pass Jack Twyman and John Stockton (tied for ninth at 609) as soon as January, and overtake Andre Miller’s 632-game streak to stand alone in eighth place by season’s end.

“He takes care of his body. He does a great job taking care of his body,” Brown said. “I don’t know what his sleep patterns are like, but I know that he works extremely hard with his preparation. And when you work as hard as he does with your preparation, usually good things happen. And then probably got good genes. So thanks mama.”

Bridges hasn’t missed a game since high school. He played 116 straight at Villanova, where Jalen Brunson first saw the lengths his teammate would go to just to be available.

Now reunited in New York, Brunson says nothing has changed.

“He takes care of his body. He works tremendously hard,” Brunson said. “He’s a psychopath when it comes to his craft. So he’s really locked in with everything he needs to do to make sure he’s ready. And that’s just who he’s been since I’ve met him.”

A psychopath?

“That’s not my story to tell,” Brunson said with a grin. “But he’s a lunatic for sure.”

Bridges owned the label moments later.

“Maybe a little bit of a psychopath, but nothing crazy,” he said. “Just trying to take care of it every single day. Try to stay up on it.”

What might read as lunacy from the outside has become ritual for the NBA’s longest-standing iron man.

“I take advantage of the cold tubs, always get a massage before the game, the stretcher routine and everything,” Bridges said. “I think it’s just being consistent with it. It’s a long season with a lot of emotions going on. People tend to stop doing all the things. I just try to be consistent all the time and continue to do all the things that are going to get me prepared for the game.”

Bridges isn’t chasing records. But if he finishes this season with perfect attendance once again, he’ll reach 638 consecutive games played. To catch A.C. Green’s NBA record of 1,192 straight appearances, Bridges would need 555 more — roughly seven additional seasons.

That would take him to age 37. A lot of basketball to play. A lot of mileage to accrue. But maybe not quite an impossible feat for the basketball psychopath on the loose at the Garden this season.

CHICAGO — Now would be a good time for all Chicago White Sox fans to declare their true feelings about the state of the organization as the team ends 2025 on an upbeat note.

Is the hard part of the rebuild finally over, or is “Mune Time” a mirage?

The signing of Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami, whom Sox general manager Chris Getz described as a “superstar,” capped off a year in which their most valuable asset was Pope Leo XIV, who was not on the payroll and whose contributions were relegated solely to the marketing of the team.

The pope couldn’t prevent the Sox from their third straight season of 100-plus losses. He could not rush the ownership switch and put Justin Ishbia in Jerry Reinsdorf’s chair. And he couldn’t move the chains on the Sox’s pursuit of a new ballpark in the South Loop.

All he really did was make Sox fans proud that the pope was one of theirs. That and $14 will buy you a beer at Sox Park.

But now the Sox have someone to replace Pope Leo as the centerpiece of the 2026 marketing plan, and the selling of Mune will be something to watch. He made a good first impression Monday at his introductory news conference in the auditorium that was virtually abandoned during the Pedro Grifol era.

Murakami said all the right things through his interpreter about wanting to be a White Sox, and Getz hyped the signing by saying “to be able to have him now wear a White Sox uniform, it cannot be overstated how significant that is.”

So how significant is it?

Financially, not so much. His two-year, $34 million deal pales in comparison to the five-year, $75 million deal for Andrew Benintendi in 2022, the biggest in White Sox history. It’s also not anywhere near the four-year, $73 million deal for Yasmani Grandal in 2019, which signaled the Sox were ending their rebuild and trying to win.

“The signing of Grandal was a mind-blowing one to be honest, especially with (catcher James) McCann having such a great year,” Dallas Keuchel said at the 2020 SoxFest. “It fortifies us (having) two of the best backstops in the league, and that’s really where you build from.”

It didn’t end well on the South Side for Keuchel or Grandal, and the Benintendi deal hasn’t exactly worked out as planned either. But the Murakami signing was mind-blowing in its own way because who thought the Sox could convince a power-hitting free agent to come to the South Side on a two-year deal?

“My main priority was to find the best fit,” Murakami said. “Whether the contract was long or not wasn’t really a factor for myself. I just really believe in the city and the organization, really, really happy to be here.”

It’s here that it must be noted Murakami is going to strike out quite a bit and might be a liability in the field at third or first base. No reason to worry about that now. If he can hit 35-40 home runs and not be a butcher, he’ll be worth the investment.

What he brings to the Sox is hope, which has been missing since the downfall began under Tony La Russa in the summer of 2022. His replacement, Grifol, proved to be the wrong messenger, and executives Ken Williams and Rick Hahn were subsequently fired. Hahn was replaced by Getz after Reinsdorf declined to search for a general manager outside the organization, citing the need to win quickly. Getz was given total control.

“Except when it comes to spending money,” Reinsdorf said that day. “But every owner reserves that right. But now I lost my train of thought. I feel like Mitch McConnell.”

Getz’s first two seasons have been less than inspiring, but an improved core and a manager with a calming presence in Will Venable made the second half of ’25 tolerable. And now he convinced Reinsdorf to go all in on Murakami, who fit the financial profile of a Sox free agent.

Getz said “when we identify a player that we feel like has a chance to really come into the organization and fit with what we’re trying to accomplish, you know I have a conversation with Jerry about it. And in this case, the more we talked about it, obviously talking about Mune and what he’s capable of doing on the field, the international connection, he got more and more excited.”

Well, the two-year commitment at Aldi prices probably got Reinsdorf excited as well. He’s not a Whole Foods kind of guy, as we’ve seen.

We don’t know if Mune, as he was referred to Monday, can take the Sox to the next step of the rebuild, as Grandal and Keuchel did in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. At the very least he’ll get some of the Japanese reporters covering the Los Angeles Dodgers at Camelback Ranch this spring to take the short hike over to the Sox clubhouse and check in on the newest Japanese sensation.

Murakami said he got great reviews of Chicago from Cubs players Seiya Suzuki and Shota Imanaga, and hopefully he can match their popularity in his two-year stint. Sox fans could use a superstar, especially one who can hit home runs and help them win some games.

“Obviously I’ve heard that this club has lost a lot of games in the past, but that is in the past,” he said. “I only look forward.”

That’s always the best direction to look.

Maybe he’ll blow our minds in 2026, leading the Sox out of the rebuild desert and getting the pope off the hook.

It’s worth a shot.

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