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MINNEAPOLIS -- Andrew Wiggins: 47.All five Los Angeles Lakers starters: 47.Wiggins hit 14 of 21 shots to blow past his previous career high of 36, leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 125-99 victory over the Lakers on Sunday night.Im finding myself, finding things Im good at and things I need to work on, said Wiggins, nine games into his third season in the league. The game has kind of slowed down for me a little bit. Im able to read defenses better now and see how the defense is set.Wiggins hit 17 of 22 free throws and Nemanja Bjelica added a career-high 24 points and eight rebounds for the Timberwolves, who played without starting guard Zach LaVine and reserve forward Shabazz Muhammad. Both missed the game with sore right knees.Lou Williams scored 13 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter for the Lakers, who got 47 points from their starters and 52 from their bench. Julius Randle had 14 points and six rebounds and Jordan Clarkson scored 14.You let a player as good as him get an additional 22 free chances on that, one hes going to score a lot and two hes going to get hot because hes in a rhythm from all the free throws hes shooting, Lakers coach Luke Walton said. We couldnt really contain him tonight.Wiggins was a team-best plus-34 in 41 minutes, and LaVine showered his close friend with Gatorade during his postgame television interview. The Wolves went 13 of 27 from 3-point range, many of them clean shots coming after the defense collapsed on Wiggins.I think hes just scratching the surface, Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau said. I think he can do a lot more.The game featured two of the most promising young cores in the league, with Wiggins, LaVine and Karl-Anthony Towns hoping to end Minnesotas 12-year playoff drought and DAngelo Russell, Randle and Brandon Ingram reviving the Lakers in the post-Kobe era.Entering the season, the Lakers were believed to be a step behind the Wolves in the process, but they won six of their first 10 games while Minnesota got off to a disappointing 2-6 start.Both teams played on Saturday night, but the Wolves were finishing a rare home back-to-back, and appeared to have the fresher legs all night. The Timberwolves scored 21 points off of 17 Lakers turnovers.TIP-INSLakers: C Timofey Mozgov was in foul trouble all game, playing just 15 minutes before fouling out. ... Ingram played after being listed as questionable with a sprained ankle suffered on Saturday night in New Orleans. Ingram finished with 10 points in 26 minutes. ... The Lakers wrapped up their three-game road trip at 2-1.Timberwolves: Wiggins scored a career-high 25 points in the first half. ... F Brandon Rush missed his fourth straight game, and coach Tom Thibodeau revealed that Rush has been dealing with a bruised big toe on his right foot.BJELICA STARTSWith LaVine injured, Thibodeau inserted the 6-foot-10 Bjelica, normally a power forward, into the lineup at small forward and moved Wiggins to shooting guard. The former Euroleague MVP made five 3s and also had three steals and a block.I thought he played a beautiful game tonight, Thibodeau said. He made really good decisions.LAKERS BENCHThe second unit has been a strength for the Lakers all season, averaging 52.1 points per game in the first 10. The leading scorer from the game has come from their bench in eight of 11 games so far this season.No excuse, Russell said of playing three games on the road in four nights. We just lost.TOWNS STRUGGLESTowns finished with 22 points and 12 rebounds, but he really had to work for it. The reigning rookie of the year made 7 of 22 shots, including just 6 of 10 free throws.UP NEXTLakers: Head home from a three-game road trip to face Brooklyn on Tuesday.Timberwolves: Continue a four-game home stand with a game against the Hornets on Tuesday. Tony Phillips Jersey . The Nashville Predators were glad their captain was still on their side. Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Frankie Montas Jersey . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. But underneath the professional exterior he was, and is, compellingly human. https://www.cheapathleticsonline.com/385m-rollie-fingers-jersey-athletics.html .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Bert Campaneris Athletics Jersey . Any real chance at payback wont come until the playoff. Still, Pittsburgh knows its taut 3-2 win over the Bruins on Wednesday night is a pretty good place to start laying the groundwork. "They are a very good defensive team," Penguins forward Brandon Sutter said. Khris Davis Jersey . Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off. Long-time feud finally finishes One of footballs longest cold wars finally thawed this week when, after 14 years, North Melbournes football boss Geoff Walsh broke bread again with Kangaroos former dual premiership coach, Denis Pagan.The pair, who guided the Kangaroos to the 1996 and 1999 premierships and were once great friends, had not spoken since late 2002. That all changed on Tuesday at OConnells pub in South Melbourne.The source of their angst revolved, of course, around money.Walsh, as CEO at the time, put a revised contract to Pagan in 2002 but it was considerably less than the coach felt he deserved. The club was in a precarious financial position at the time and Pagan was being handsomely remunerated as it was, so Walsh suggested a revamped deal that was more performance-based and involved a smaller base salary.Their last conversation was at the Hilton Hotel at the end of that season when Walsh said to Pagan: So what are you doing: are you staying or going?Pagan knocked back the deal, and shortly afterwards accepted an offer from Carlton president John Elliott to coach the Blues, causing a massive rift with not just the Roos but his old mate Walshy.These days a successful real estate agent in Moonee Ponds, Pagan, at 68, was philosophical when discussing the get-together with Walsh, and veteran football journalist Mike Sheahan, and how age mellowed even the fieriest of temperaments.You get older and a bit more mature, Pagan told ESPN this week. And I realised Id been shooting the messenger, which is unfair.We had a great lunch together talking about some of the funny things that happened in our time at North - and there were plenty. You forget what a good bloke he is ...!The pair will catch up again at Norths 20-year premiership anniversary gala ball on Friday night, and then again at a players reunion at a pub on Saturday, when they will have the even bigger job of reconciling the clubs captain and vice-captain from that era, Wayne Carey and Anthony Stevens.Ross as ruthless as ever Fremantle coach Ross Lyon has proved he is as ruthless as ever, even though his team is languishing near the bottom of the ladder with a 3-11 win-loss record.Following the Dockers lacklustre 48-point loss to Collingwood at the MCG on Friday night, Lyon refused to allow his Victorian-raised players to stay in Melbourne ahead of the clubs bye weekend.Ten players took to the field in the Round 14 loss who were recruited from Victoria - David Mundy, Zac Dawson, Hayden Crozier, Nick Suban, Zach Clarke, Michael Barlow, Matthew Taberner, Darcy Tucker, Tom Sheridan and Sam Collins.Instead, they were forced to return to Perth for three days of recovery and review, before being allowed to fly back home.Players are traditionally allowed to return to, or remain in, their home state immediately after their last match leading into the bye round.But the notoriously hard-nosed Lyon decided his players hadnt earned that privilege, as last years minor premiers endure a season from hell. Their only wins have come against lowly-ranked Essendon, Brisbane and Port Adelaide.MCC search begins All eyes now turn to the Melbourne Cricket Club, which is seeking a new chief executive for the first time in 17 years following the retirement of Stephen Gough.Goughy as everyone knows him, had a fair old innings. He started out as a teacher and part-time scout at Carlton before joining the Blues full-time as recruiting manager.From there he became football manager and then chief executive, before taking the job with the MCC, one of the plum assignments in Australian sport.Gough was the first MCC CEO (before he started the quaint job title was secretary) with a football background and with former Melbourne ruckman Stephen Smith now the club president, it is the first time the winter game has delivered the two most powerful positions at the MCC.Some would say, given the revenue the winter game delivers to the MCC, it was about time.The MCC has promised a global search to find Goughs replacement, but youd have to think it is the sort of position to be filled by a local. Brit Paul Serjeant replaced Ian Collins as the head of Etihad Stadium and his failure to understand the role and the importance of the AFL is one reason why he didnt last all that long.The shame is that Brian Cook recently signed a contract extension to remain as chief executive of Geelong, because to run the MCG would be the crowning achievement of what has been a brilliant career in sports administration.ddddddddddddPerhaps an administrator with a background in cricket will take charge once again.Whoever gets the job at the MCC will come well credentialed and well prepared. It is hard to think of a peak Australian sports organisation that goes about its business with as little fuss and controversy.Mosquito fleet? Continuing a long tradition of exotic names in Australian football, Vic Country last week fielded a youngster in the under-16s carnival called Irving Mosquito.Joining the likes of Nakia Cockatoo and Che Cockatoo-Collins, Mosquito is an indigenous player who hails from Maffra in Gippsland.A small forward-flanker type with plenty of skill, he played in Vic Countrys under-16 team last weekend, alongside (among others) Bill Brownless son Oscar, against Vic Metro.And the word is he goes all right, making newspaper headline writers around the country positively rub their hands together with glee.Ex-VFL star saunters over the ditch One of the greatest players to never play AFL has been poached to lead a rugby fortress across the ditch.VFL legend Nick Sautner has been appointed general manager of New Zealands Eden Park - the countrys largest stadium.Sautner, a nine-time Ian Frosty Miller medallist as the VFLs leading goalkicker, was previously chief commercial operator and general manager at Melbournes Etihad Stadium, where he was being groomed to be the heir to outgoing chief executive Ian Collins.But he was sensationally sacked in June 2013 after it was revealed he traded lucrative Medallion Club tickets for goods and services, including meat from a butcher, a car battery, and flowers for his girlfriend.The Sandringham Zebras champion later became chief commercial officer of the West Australian Football Commission.The flamboyant Saunter, who booted 873 goals in an outstanding 260-game VFL career, is considered one of the unluckiest players to never make it onto an AFL list after more than a decade dominating the goal square in second-tier leagues.His most recent appointment could prove a coup for St Kilda. Sautner, a Saints fan, should be in the ideal position to help the club achieve its goal of playing regular games in New Zealand.The fix is in The anomalies in the dogs breakfast known as the annual AFL fixture are many and varied.There are so many non-negotiables that have to be factored into the draw - blockbusters between the biggest-drawing Melbourne teams, two derbies in the four AFL states outside Victoria, Anzac Day, Queens Birthday and Dreamtime games, and so on - that the end result becomes a contrived, compromised mess.This means that North Melbourne have more consecutive six-day breaks (six) in 2016 than any other team. Yet four of their likely top-eight opponents (Geelong, Adelaide, Western Bulldogs, GWS) have precisely zero consecutive six-day breaks.Its the first time in a couple of years any club has had more than two consecutive six-day breaks in a season. Little wonder the Roos were looking a little tired and bedraggled against Adelaide last Thursday, having come off two straight six-day breaks, against a team that had just enjoyed a bye round.GWS played Geelong in Round 2 and Round 11, and cross-town rivals Sydney in Round 3 and Round 12, but dont play North Melbourne at all until Round 23. Then, if both teams have shored up places in the top-eight and cant improve their finals position, its possible itll be dead rubber anyway.As we say, a contrived, compromised mess.RANDOM STATS OF THE WEEK:218 - The number of games Geelongs Joel Selwood has played before reaching 50 losses. Which is a heck of a record, but still some way behind Harry Collier who played 231 games in Collingwoods all-conquering era of the 1920s and 30s before experiencing his 50th defeat.435 - Most disposals by a Brownlow Medallist after 14 rounds - St Kildas Robert Harvey in 1998. Funnily enough, the same number as Paddy Dangerfield has racked up at the same stage this year.212 - ESPNs very own Nick Riewoldt is set to join Ted Whitten in third spot on the all-time VFL/AFL captains ladder when he leads St Kilda out in his 212th game this weekend. Stephen Kernahan (Carl) leads the way as the most capped captain with 226 games, followed by Dick Reynolds (Ess) on 224 and now Riewoldt and Whitten on 212. ' ' '