BASKETBALL

Just three days after he was waived by the New York Knicks, Nathan Knight agreed to a two-way deal with the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics announced the signing on the team’s social media platforms.

Knight, 26, has spent three seasons in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks and the Minnesota Timberwolves. He appeared in 38 regular-season games for the Timberwolves last season, averaging 3.7 points and 1.5 rebounds. He shot 56.8% from the field and 36.4% from the 3-point range.

Knight had been in the Knicks’ training camp until being waived on Thursday. Now, the 6-foot-9 forward has a chance to boost Boston’s frontcourt depth.

Boston had an open spot after waiving Jay Scrubb. Knight becomes the Celtics’ third player on a two-way deal, along with Neemias Queta and JD Davison.

ATTACK: An American basketball player with a professional Polish women’s club was beaten and left with a head injury midweek, with the attacker later detained, according to officials and reports in Polish media.

Mikayla Cowling, who plays for VBW Arka Gdynia, was attacked late Wednesday in a music club in Gdansk, a city in northern Poland, according to the RMF FM broadcaster, which also quoted the club saying the “brutal beating” left her with a fractured eye socket, among other injuries.

HOCKEY

NHL: Alex DeBrincat continued his hot start with his fifth career hat trick and the Detroit Red Wings extended their winning streak to five games by defeating road-weary Calgary.

DeBrincat, acquired in an offseason trade with Ottawa, increased his season goal total to a league-high eight.

COLLEGES

FOOTBALL: Georgia extended its streak of No. 1 rankings in The Associated Press poll to 19 weeks, the third best in the history of the rankings, and Alabama moved back into the top 10.

The Bulldogs received 38 of 63 first-place votes, their second-lowest total of the season, after an off week, but still bested No. 2 Michigan, 1,536 points to 1,504.

Georgia’s No. 1 streak, which started on Oct. 9, 2022, is behind only Miami’s streak of 21 weeks from 2001-02 and USC’s 33 in a row from 2003-05.

The Wolverines received 19 first-place votes after their latest blowout, 49-0 against Michigan State on Saturday night.

Ohio State held steady at No. 3 after winning a top-10 matchup with Penn State. The Nittany Lions slipped three spots to 10th. The Buckeyes received three first-place votes, as did No. 4 Florida State.

No. 5 Washington and No. 6 Oklahoma held their spots after close calls against unranked teams at home. No. 7 Texas and No. 8 Oregon each moved up a spot.

No. 9 Alabama returned to the top 10 after falling out in mid-September, which snapped a streak of 128 top-10 appearances that dated back to 2015. The Crimson Tide beat Tennessee for their sixth straight victory.

• Michigan State Athletic Director Alan Haller said he has suspended an employee involved in allowing Adolf Hitler’s image to be shown on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan.

The employee, who was not named, will be paid pending an investigation that will help to determine potential action in the future. Haller said no one in the department viewed the entire video, exposing a failure in its process.

WOMEN’S SOCCER: Lara Kirkby and Abby Kraemer staked Maine (9-1-5, 4-1-2 America East) to an early 2-0 lead, but Binghamton (5-4-6, 4-0-3) rallied for a 2-2 draw in Vestal, New York.

GOLF

LPGA: Australian Minjee Lee weathered a late rally by Alison Lee and defeated the American with a birdie on the first playoff hole in the LPGA South Korea tournament.

Both players finished at 16-under 272 on the Seowon Valley Country Club course outside Seoul.

Defending champion Lydia Ko, a South Korean-born New Zealander, shot 69 to finish at 14 under in third place.

PGA: American Collin Morikawa called winning the Zozo Championship “incredible,” a special way to close the season for a player whose great grandparents emigrated from Japan.

But more important was a victory – anywhere – after a 27-month winless streak that started prompting questions about his game.

He broke through with a 7-under par 63 for a six-shot victory at Narashino Country Club just outside Tokyo.

Americans Beau Hossler and Eric Cole were in second, six back, with closing-round 70s.

CHAMPIONS: Harrison Frazar won his first PGA Tour Champions title, making an 8-foot birdie on the first extra hole at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia.

Frazar forced a playoff with Richard Green when he birdied the 18th hole for a 3-under 69 to finish at 11 under.

Steve Stricker clinched his first Charles Schwab Cup title with two postseason events still to be played, even though he skipped the tournament.

EUROPEAN TOUR: Adrian Meronk won the Andalucia Masters in An Roque, Spain, for his third victory of the season.

After the disappointment of not being picked for the European team that defeated the United States for the Ryder Cup, Meronk overcame two bogeys in his first three holes to shoot a 6-under 66. He finished at 16 under, earning a one-stroke win over Matti Schmid (71) at the Real Club de Golf Sotogrande in southern Spain.

AUTO RACING

FORMULA ONE: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen charged to a record-tying 15th victory of the season and 50th of his career, climbing from sixth on the starting grid to win the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

The three-time F1 champion had to work much harder than usual in a season of almost complete domination. But the power of his Red Bull and the right pit stop strategy navigated Verstappen to the finish line 2.2 seconds ahead of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who was later disqualified when his car failed a postrace inspection.

TENNIS

JAPAN OPEN: Ben Shelton won his first ATP Tour title, beating Aslan Karatsev, 7-5, 6-1.

The 21-year-old American, who reached the U.S. Open semifinals last month, will rise to a career-high No. 15 in the ATP’s rankings on Monday, having started the season at No. 96.