Tonje and Crowl each score 17 and slow-starting Wisconsin blows past Appalachian State 87-56

John Tonje and Steven Crowl scored 17 points each, Wisconsin took command with a huge first-half run, and the Badgers defeated Appalachian State 87-56 on Sunday to complete a busy first week of the season. The Badgers (3-0) defeated Holy Cross on Monday and Montana State on Thursday before taking on Appalachian State (1-2) which was also playing its third game in seven days. Wisconsin fell behind 17-8 in the first eight minutes of this one before ripping off a 24-0 run for a 32-17 lead with a little under three minutes remaining in the half.

Neto cancels out Martinelli’s opener as Chelsea and Arsenal share spoils

There were people on the pitch, Chelsea substitutes to be precise, the joy of everyone connected to the club overflowing. Pedro Neto had produced the equaliser with a vicious low drive from distance and if it did not turn out to be the statement victory that Enzo Maresca and his players wanted – a first against a so-called Big Six rival – they could see the merit in a battling draw.

For Arsenal, this was a better performance than some of those of late and yet it was not the result that Mikel Arteta had called for, the one to silence the noise that has built around his club. It was another example of them losing the lead in a big game – after the draws against Manchester City and Liverpool – and it meant they have not won in four Premier League games, a sequence that has yielded two points. They are now nine behind the leaders, Liverpool. Is it too much to recover?

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