Tokyo 2020- Women's Indoor Volleyball Europe Qualifying
Remaining Round-Robin Games tomorrow
Pool A: Poland v. Azerbaijan
Poland is effectively guaranteed a semifinal spot but can take a 3-0 record into the semis/knockout stage with a win; Azerbaijan can't advance to the semis
Semifinals: Poland and the Netherlands

Pool B: Turkey v. Belgium
Put simply, winner -- semifinals, loser = eliminated (effectively what it is)

Pool B: Germany v. Croatia
Germany already into semifinals, Croatia playing for pride
Semifinals: Germany and Turkey OR Belgium


Tokyo 2020- Women's Indoor Volleyball Qualifying Results 
Just in: Argentina defeated Colombia 3-1

African qualifier Kenya and South American qualifier Argentina join already-qualified Russia, Brazil, United States, China, Serbia and Japan in the Olympic field this summer

The North American qualifier will start tomorrow and continue through Sunday


NCAA Men's Gymnastics
Army-West Point will host the West Point Open this weekend, with prelims tomorrow and finals on Saturday


NCAA Rifle
Army-West Point will open 2020 next Saturday against Kentucky and next Sunday against NC State

The Army-Navy Star Match will be Saturday, February 1st in Annapolis
Army-WP's NCAA Qualifier match will be Saturday, February 22nd against a TBD opponent


Soccer- Indian I-League tomorrow
Real Kashmir FC v. Punjab FC, 12:30 am Eastern


Soccer- Australian A-League early game tomorrow 
Newcastle United Jets v. Sydney FC, 3:30 am Eastern, ESPN+


NCAA Men's Basketball
Big Ten: Michigan def. Purdue 84-78 in 2OT


NCAA Women's Basketball
ACC: North Carolina def. NC State 66-60; Georgia Tech def. Florida State 67-52
SEC: South Carolina def. Arkansas 91-82; Mississippi State def. Missouri 79-64


MLB Signings
Edwin Encarnacion has signed a one-year deal with the White Sox for $12 million. Encarnacion has homered 415 times in his career and last season became the first in MLB history to play on three different continents in one season (Asia, Europe and North America)


Mixed Martial Arts- UFC
A strawweight rematch between former champions Rose Namajunas and Jessica Andrade is targeted for UFC 249 on Saturday, April 18th


Mixed Martial Arts- Bellator
Ava Knight (1-0 MMA, 19 wins in boxing) will take on Emilee Gettys at strawweight at Bellator 238 on Saturday, January 25th

The remaining men's featherweight Grand Prix quarterfinal bouts are set:
Darrion Caldwell v. Adam Borics, Bellator 238 (Saturday, January 25th)
Patricio Freire v. Pedro Carvalho, Bellator 241 (Main Event, Friday, March 13th)
Daniel Weichel v. Emmanuel Sanchez, Bellator 241 (Co-Main, Friday, March 13th)


Boxing 
All six fighters on tomorrow's Shields-Habazin card have successfully made weight. The opening bout will be a WBA-IBF super middleweight unification between Alicia Napoleon-Espinosa and Elin Cederroos; and the second bout will be Jaron Ennis v. Bakhityar Eyubov in a ten-round 145-pound bout. Ennis is 24-0 with twenty-two knockouts. The main event will see Claressa Shields v. Ivana Habazin for the vacant WBC and WBO 154-pound titles

A bout card on Saturday, April 18th in Queensberry, UK will include Daniel Dubois (main event) and Anthony Yarde (co-main event) against TBD opponents. Dubois is 14-0 with thirteen knockouts while Yarde is 18-1 with seventeen knockouts


Tokyo 2020 Soccer Qualifying
The U.S. men will start qualifying with group stage action between March 20th and 26th in a group along with Mexico, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Group B will see Canada, Haiti, Honduras and El Salvador

The United States women will start qualifying in nineteen days and counting against Costa Rica, Haiti and Panama


NBA News
Mavericks star Kristaps Porzingis has received a platelet-rich-plasma injection in his knee and is officially out for game against the Lakers (tomorrow) and Sixers (Saturday)

Thunder G Paul George (hamstring) won't play tomorrow against the Warriors

Kyrie Irving (shoulder) is hoping to return to game action next week. He hasn't played since November

Joel Embiid will be out at least one or two weeks due to hand ligament surgery stemming from a pinkie finger dislocation


College Football
Mike Leach will be the new head coach at Mississippi State


Soccer
The Espana Supercopa final will be on Sunday between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid