Rybakina Upsets Sabalenka; Wins Australian Open

And for your sports news, we're joined now by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave, how are you doing today? I'm doing well, Arlene. How are you? I'm doing fine. A little far away today, but still waiting for the sports. So let's get started. Dave, we've got NBA, we've got college basketball, and we've also got some Super Bowl news. But let's get started with tennis because the women's number one player was upset today in the Australian Open Finals. And I want to know what you make of it. Yeah, top-ranked Arena Savalinka upset by fifth-ranked Elita Ravikina in three sets today to win the Australian Open title. And Ravikina, she had to come back to do this. Now, they split the first two sets. In the third set, though, Savalinka took a commanding three-nothing lead. She won the first three games before Ravikina stormed back, winning five games in a row. She then served out the match for the title. Now, this is Ravikina's second major title, first at the Australian Open. And with it, she'll soon be ranked third next week when the new rankings come out. So congratulations to her on her big win. Meanwhile, the men's championship will be decided tomorrow. Number one-ranked Carlos Alcarez will take on fourth-ranked Novak Djokovic. That match scheduled to start at 3.30 a.m. Eastern Time early tomorrow morning. Now, Alcarez, this is the one grand slam event he has not won. Meanwhile, Djokovic, he has won this more than any more than anyone else, 10 times in all, and he's a perfect 10-0 in the finals. This is going to be a much-watched match there. You know, I'm still surprised that tennis is going on for so long, but let's look at some NBA news. Now, the league today suspended nine-time all-star Paul George 25 games for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy. Now, what do you know about this? You know, not a lot. Now, George did, or sorry, Paul George did respond telling ESPN, quote, over the past few years, I've discussed the importance of mental health, health, and in the course of recently seeking treatment for an issue of my own, I made the mistake of taking an improper medication, end quote. I mean, it's going to be a costly mistake too here, Arlene. Paul's 25-game suspension will cost him approximately $11 million in salary loss. Meanwhile, his team, the Philadelphia 76ers, they're having a bounce-back season. They're sixth right now in the Eastern Conference with a 26-21 record. They've got those three all-stars. You've got Paul George, Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid, but for various reasons, those three have only played 17 games out of their total of 47 games this season. This suspension is only going to make this matter worse. Now, Paul's suspension, it begins today. Philadelphia takes on the New Orleans Pelicans tonight. He won't return to action until March 25th when they play at Chicago. At that point, there's only going to be 10 games left in the regular season, so a very significant suspension here. Yeah, I would say so. I mean, wow, they're not messing around here. They're not messing around 25 games. It's like almost a third of the season. My goodness, and only 10 games will be left after that. That's amazing. Yeah. So, let's shift gears. We're going to go to college basketball. We have a number of ranked teams in action today. Where do you think things stand now? Yeah, a lot of teams in action today. Let's get you updated on some scores here. Now, let's start in the ACC. Fourth-ranked Duke, one at Virginia Tech today, 72-58. Blue Devils, now 9-0 in conference play, 20-1 overall on the season. In the Big 12, 10th-ranked Houston beat Cincinnati 76-54. Cougars now 7-1 in the Big 12, 19-2 overall. Let's actually go to some more scores here. Number one, Arizona State undefeated, winning at Arizona State, 87-74. Wildcats now 22-1 on the season, 9-0 in the Big 12 as they lead everyone there. In the ACC, 20th-ranked Louisville beat SMU 88-74. Cardinals now 15-6 on the season. And finally, 24th-ranked Miami of Ohio beat Northern Illinois 85-61 to stay undefeated at 22-0. Miami of Ohio is the only other team besides Arizona to be undefeated. They're both teams at 22-0. Now, tonight we've got some more ranked teams in action. Number two, UConn. Number six, Gonzaga. And, of course, Kansas right now is playing BYU. We've got a lot of ranked teams here going on today. Another busy day for you, but we're going to move on to Super Bowl news. The big game is just over a week away, and one of the highlights for those of us who like watching it on TV is the unique Super Bowl ad. So, do you have a sneak peek of one that you can show us today? I definitely do, Arlene. This is going to be an ad for Instacart. It looks like it's supposed to be a couple of, you know, 80s Eurodisco stars. Even the TV formatting looks like it's from the 80s. I'm sure, though, you'll recognize at least one of the performers. Let's go ahead and play that right now. Instacart lets you choose your bananas. Get them just how you like. Instacart lets you choose your bananas. So, that was actor Ben Stiller there, of course, crashing out at the end. Plus, we had recording artist Benson Boone there, and a very funny Super Bowl ad. Again, that was for Instacart. If you missed it, there was a couple of pieces of fruit there. I guess that was for the Instacart part, but one of the funny commercials that we'll see on Super Bowl Sunday, which is now eight days away. Well, maybe that's an example of what's yet to come. Yet to come, exactly, Arlene. All right, Dave, thank you so much for those updates. Thanks, Arlene.