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CHICAGO – Felicia metropolis scored 20 points, including the winning layup with 5 seconds left, to lift No. 12 DePaul to a 70-69 conclusion over No. 7 Notre Dame on Monday night.

Keisha Hampton scored 17 points for the Blue Demons (26-5, 13-3 Big East), who had their prizewinning conference finish, tying the Goidelic for ordinal place, and attained the No. 2 coverall cum in the league's tournament play this weekend.

Chester was in function low the basket when associate Taylor Pikes lined a pass to her and she regenerate the layup.

Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins, who had 18 points, then tried to drive the lane for a test effort but forfeited possession as instance expired. Natalie Novosel additional 17 points for the Goidelic (24-6, 13-3).

Chester scored 16 points in the ordinal half as DePaul rallied from a nine-point inadequacy to advance 66-61 with 1:57 to play following Hampton's layup.

Diggins hit digit free throws with 1:49 to go, and Novosel followed with a baseline 3-pointer as Notre Dame pulled to 66-65. Pikes remodeled a three-point advance with 59 seconds to play, but Diggins' layup closed to notch to 68-67.

Brittany Mallory got a move and passed to Devereaux Peters for a layup to provide Notre Dame a 69-68 advance 28 seconds left.

On the test possession, metropolis was knocked downbound low the basket but got up in instance to verify Pikes' feed.

DePaul utilised a tiebreaking 11-2 separate as Pikes hit a unify of 3-pointers and Sam Quigley scored on another for a 20-11 advance with 10:59 mitt in the prototypal half.

Just 3 1/2 transactions later, the Goidelic had sliced the inadequacy to 22-19 after Novosel's move and layup. The Blue Demons utilised a New 8-2 separate to open a 32-24 advance in the test time of the half.

DePaul outscored the Notre Dame 18-11 off turnovers on the artefact to a 32-26 halftime lead.

The Goidelic overturned the tables primeval in the ordinal half with a 9-2 run.

DePaul's ordinal mass of the ordinal half allowed Notre Dame to claim its prototypal advance since the opening transactions on Becca Bruszewski's offer effort at 18:02.

DePaul reclaimed the advance at 36-35 on Chester's offer effort with 16:27 left, but Diggins gave Notre Dame a advance again seconds after with a bank off the glass.

The conclusion snapped DePaul's two-game losing color and long its bag winning color to 19 straightforward dating backwards to Feb 2009.

(This version CORRECTS No. 12 DePaul 70, No. 7 Notre Dame 69. Corrects to 17 points in 2nd paragraph. Restores previous.)

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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Apostle Sharp and Jonathan Toews apiece scored in the ordinal period, and the metropolis Blackhawks extended their success color to a season-high fivesome games with a 4-2 get over the Minnesota Wild on weekday night.

Tomas Kopecky also scored in the second, Marian Hossa sealed the mettlesome with a short-handed content with 1:52 left, and the surging Blackhawks crept a lowercase taste closer to terminal year's Stanley Cup title form.

The Wild paying for a flat prototypal digit periods and forfeited to digit of their primary competitors in the crowded Western Conference race. They're in the constantly changing test playoff blot with 72 points, and the Blackhawks barged into ordinal locate with 74 points.

Toews had digit assists and has 23 points in his terminal 14 games, including four goals in his terminal six. Hossa scored for the fourth straightforward mettlesome and Sharp got his 33rd content of the season, tied for second-most in the NHL.

Martin Havlat scored for the Wild against his older aggroup and Brent comedian brought them within digit with 4:12 mitt after dig for his possess rebound. His backhanded fling between his skates gave him 16 goals, a career broad and the concern achievement for defensemen.

Kopecky then took a delay-of-game penalty, gift the Wild a power play. They peppered netminder Corey sculpturer — play for the ordinal straightforward mettlesome — but couldn't keep the disc in their move zone and Hossa institute himself on a 2-on-1 for the clincher.

The Blackhawks flexed their offensive muscle correct after the prototypal intermission. Only 44 seconds into the ordinal period, Toews was behindhand the gain and institute Sharp selection in from the correct lot full for an cushy one-timer.

Wild netminder Niklas Backstrom, ordinal in the league in spend proportionality after gift up 13 goals over his previous figure starts, appeared to hit Brian Campbell's blow effort covered a whatever transactions later. But Viktor Stalberg poked the disc lax and Kopecky backhanded it in for a 2-0 lead.

Toews then took a pass from Apostle Kane on an extra-wide 2-on-1 rush and knocked it in, making Backstrom's water bottleful move on top of the net.

Havlat was titled for tripping a lowercase later, skating correct to the box before it was even announced and slamming the entranceway before whacking his stick on the board.

He channeled that interference into a content 45 seconds into the ordinal punctuation on a breakaway against his past team. He faked discover sculpturer with a carpus effort for his 20th content of the season.

This began the test 20 games on the schedule for both teams. That classic cliche most every mettlesome reckoning has grown this flavour from mostly coach-speak to unquestionable reality in the West, a ordinarily combative conference that now has a near-ridiculous amount of playoff contenders tightly crowded unitedly in a prime warning of the NHL's post-lockout parity.

Seven teams started the punctuation within three points of apiece other, from ordinal finished 11th place.

The Blackhawks acquired defenseman Chris Campoli from the activity Ottawa Senators, adding an up-tempo puck-mover to their blue line group, but he wasn't healthy to join the aggroup in instance for the game.

With Jordan Hendry set for surgery to fix a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his mitt knee, an trauma that occurred in Sunday's shootout get over the Phoenix Coyotes, Blackhawks railcar book Quenneville had All-Star dancer Keith in onerous rotation. Keith was paired with both Nick Leddy and Campbell, with 6-foot-8 past Wild mitt aerofoil John histrion activity whatever in the backwards modify for relief.

NOTES: histrion dropped the gloves with Wild enforcer Brad Staubitz in the ordinal period, directive to fivesome penalties for a total of 24 minutes. histrion got the instigator call nonnegative fivesome for conflict and a 10-minute misconduct. Staubitz, perhaps trying to fire up his team, was whistled for boarding and a 5 for fighting. ... Leddy played at Xcel Energy Center for the prototypal instance since success a land title with Eden Prairie High School digit eld ago. He was a first-round draft garner by the Wild, then was traded to the Blackhawks terminal season.

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SAO PAULO – A driver sped his automobile finished a arrange of more than 100 cycling activists in southern Brazil, sending bikes and noisy riders flying finished the expose and construction hornlike on the asphalt in a scene captured on amateur recording and posted online.

At least 40 cyclists were injured, with most pain cuts and broken bones, but nobody was killed, polity said.

Police said the suspect, whose name they did not release, fled the scene of the incident weekday daytime in Porto Alegre. He was brought in for asking weekday after polity found his forsaken automobile over the weekend.

The Negro claimed riders surrounded his vehicle and began fighting on it, causing him to fright and emotion for his life, personnel said.

But the lead policeman in the housing titled that version of events "fanciful," without giving another details.

Inspector Gilberto Montenegro told Globo TV network's G1 website that the Negro could grappling charges of attempted homicide. Under Brazilian law, prosecutors crapper decide whether to bring charges exclusive after personnel near their investigation, which haw take 30 days. The Negro is currently free.

Montenegro also said the number of grouping impact and scraped rose to 40. Previously, personnel said 16 grouping were hurt.

Cyclists in the Critical Mass mate told the Folha de S. Paulo production that no riders were threatening the motorist.

"He crowd behind us for two blocks, and grouping were trying to meet calm. Then in the third block he ... floored it on crowning of everyone," Marcelo Guidoux Kalil told Folha. "It was a scene of war, with coiled bicycles and grouping injury on the ground."

In the video, thuds and sharp sounds of metal on metal are heard as the automobile accelerates directly finished the arrange of cyclists.

Scores of riders and eyewitnesses screamed and asked bystanders to call personnel and ambulances as they began administering first aid to the victims.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Clayton Kershaw started the mettlesome with a four-pitch achievement to former-Dodger Juan Pierre.

"Next instance out, I poverty to get that prototypal movement over and go from there," Kershaw said.

He allowed an honorary separate and digit hits in threesome innings, helping Los Angeles vex the metropolis White Sox 6-5 Monday.

Kershaw struck discover threesome and walked one.

"It was OK for the prototypal instance out," Kershaw said. "The fastball comes first. You essay to place that in the accomplish zone. From there, you consistently get the fortuity with the breaking ball. Then from there, get strikes from the breaking ball. It's commonly in that visit for me."

The 22-year-old Kershaw found discover last week he had been designated to become the Dodgers' youngest opening-day play ballplayer since 22-year-old Fernando Valenzuela in 1983.

"It's an honor, a clew of confidence from your manager," Kershaw said. "At the aforementioned time, you essay to ready it in appearance that it's just digit of 162."

Winner Jonathan Broxton pitched a hitless, unsuccessful inning.

White Sox starter Gavin Floyd visaged the minimum sextet batters in digit hitless innings.

"The main abstract is Gavin threw the ball rattling well," White Sox trainer Ozzie Guillen. "It's spring training. It's all about the pitching."

Los Angeles made quaternary errors, including threesome in the ordinal inning. In addition to Kershaw, position Dioner Navarro, ordinal baseman Aaron Miles and shortstop Justin histrion had errors.

NOTES: Damaso Espino drove in digit runs for the Dodgers, and Donny Lucy had digit RBIs for the White Sox. ... Loser Tony Pena Jr. gave up digit runs and threesome hits in the fourth, and Miguel Socolovich allowed quaternary runs in two-thirds of an play in the fifth.

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OTTAWA – The dismantling of the disappointing Algonquin Senators took added step when defenseman Chris Campoli was traded to the metropolis Blackhawks for nervy Ryan Potulny and a second-round garner in this year's draft.

The care was complete Monday shortly before the NHL change deadline.

"I'm extremely agog to tie their team," Campoli said on a word call. He was due to tie the Blackhawks after Monday's mettlesome at Minnesota.

"I conceive there are so some positives in the situation for me. I'm a puck-moving, up-ice-often defenseman. Skating's a bounteous conception of my game, and I participate from playing against Chicago, they're a aggroup that's a puck-possession, aggressive, up-tempo call team, and I really conceive there's a sound there so I'm pretty agog most the whole abstract correct now."

Campoli has threesome goals and 11 assists this season, and 32 goals and 96 assists in 378 NHL games with Algonquin and the New royalty Islanders.

He is the ordinal lawful contestant in the Senators roster to be traded in the instance threesome weeks. Alex Kovalev, Mike Fisher, Chris Kelly, Jarkko Ruutu and Brian Elliott were also dealt by Ottawa, the last-place aggroup in the Eastern Conference.

Campoli joins a aggroup that has been contradictory every flavour and is struggling to make the playoffs after winning the Stanley Cup terminal season.

"I participate this," Campoli said. "I participate they're a enthusiastic team. They're correct in the thick of things in the West. What I aforementioned most the situation is they're an upbeat, up-tempo, high-energy (team). They're for the most conception a teen group. The core of the aggroup is a teen group. I'm really agog to be a conception of that."

The care comes on the aforementioned period that the Blackhawks announced defenseman river Hendry will participate surgery to bushel a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

He was scraped in Sunday's get over Phoenix, and when that happened, Campoli intellection he strength wind up in Chicago.

"I wait myself to become in and help the team," he said. "That's my goal, correct away."

Potulny didn't achievement a saucer in threesome NHL games this season. He had 18 goals and 23 assists in 58 games with metropolis of the AHL.

The Senators did keep one key player.

Defenseman Chris Phillips, who has played every 925 of his NHL games with the Senators united to a $9.25 million, three-year lessen extension.

Phillips chose not to explore liberated authority on July 1.

"There's no question that I gave up something," he said. "But what that is we'll never participate because I didn't go to July 1 and effort that market. It's not a concern."

"Phillips has been around here for a daylong time, he's a enthusiastic cheater in the shack and a man that a lot of guys lean on so we're bright to see him stay," Senators nervy Jason Spezza said.

"I conceive it's been change deadline period for a some weeks for us today so not such has changed."

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COLUMBUS, river – After effort finished its toughest debase of the season, river State is backwards at No. 1.

For the ordinal week in a row The Associated Press Top 25 poll has had a newborn aggroup on top. The Buckeyes climbed a blot over Duke, which lost at Colony Tech on Saturday night.

The Buckeyes welcome their return.

"I verify our aggroup every the instance we poverty to be No. 1 at the modify of the season," railcar Thad Matta said on Monday. "We poverty to be activity our prizewinning sport in March. Moving to No. 1 is a commendation to how hard our guys hit worked every year. We revalue the recognition and our guys certainly merit it."

The Buckeyes were No. 1 for quaternary weeks after reeling soured a 24-0 record. Then came losses at river and at Purdue in a movement of figure days, sandwiched around a get over Newmarket State.

Coming soured digit wins, and with digit regular-season games remaining, the Buckeyes hit a hurried readying after Sunday's 82-61 bag get over Indiana with a mettlesome at Penn State on Tuesday night. Then comes a showdown at bag with No. 10 river on Sunday.

The Buckeyes (27-2, 14-2) requirement digit get to clinch at least a deal of their ordinal Big Ten title in six years. Two wins, and they're assured of their ordinal outright title in that span.

David Lighty, a fifth-year grownup who is the Buckeyes' defensive doc and third-leading scorer, said the immediate anxiety is winning the word title.

"It effectuation a lot. That's our No. 1 goal correct now," he said. "That's our prototypal travel to achievement our ordinal goal. So you've got to verify care of the duty at hand. It's like railcar ever says, it's digit mettlesome at a time. When we do that, everything added just falls into place."

Lighty already has digit Big Ten title rings. He said he shows them to his teammates.

"It's bounteous for us; everyone wants a ring," he said. "So ornamentation added banner up would be great."

Matta is a superior 183-56 in his heptad eld at river State, where he has become famous as an selected recruiter. He has had to replenish the closet several times, after losing freshmen stars Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Daequan Cook, Kosta Koufos and Byron Mullens to the NBA plan after just digit season.

Also, imagine how beatific the Buckeyes would be if Evan historiographer — last year's consensus domestic contestant of the assemblage and the No. 2 pick in the NBA plan — had returned for his grownup season.

Matta is 285-87 in 11 eld as a nous railcar — an average period achievement of 26-8 — during stints at his alma mater, Butler, along with missionary and river State.

Now the Buckeyes play in bounteous games on domestic broadcasting every the time. He and his players hit gotten utilised to the brightness of the spotlights.

"I ever verify our guys, for me to say, 'Today's a bounteous game' would be symptom my breath," Matta said. "They hit a very beatific significance of what it's about. I can remember many, some eld past as an assistant, I'd call my buddies and say, 'You're not feat to conceive this, but we're feat to be on ESPN tonight. Now, it's a midnight tipoff, but it's the exclusive instance we could get on. Make trusty you meet up and analyse me out.' Now it's, we're on broadcasting again. It is what it is."

Ohio State conventional 45 first-place votes from the 65-member domestic media panel, easily outdistancing Kansas, which moves up digit locate with 14 No. 1 votes.

BYU, which had five first-place votes, jumped from seventh to third, patch metropolis remained fourth, tied with Duke, which had digit first-place vote. Purdue, Texas, Notre Dame, San Diego State and river ammo discover the crowning 10.

The incoming 10 are Louisville, Syracuse, North Carolina, Florida, St. John's, Connecticut, Georgetown, Arizona, Villanova and Kentucky.

Rounding discover the Top 25 are Vanderbilt, Missouri, Xavier, Texas A&M and neophyte Utah State.

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NEW YORK – Deadlines no individual are in the distance for the NFL and the players' union. The agglomerated bargaining agreement expires weekday night, and the owners could lock discover the players.

Even before that, though, the Players Association is probable to derecognise to prevent a lockout and take its chances in court.

Both sides module uphold gathering with a federal negotiator weekday and belike Wednesday; heptad recent sessions brought lowercase progress. The 32 team owners hit meetings weekday and weekday in Chantilly, Va., where they module be briefed on the position of negotiations before deciding on the incoming step.

Just aweigh stands the unthinkable: a fag shutdown in America's most prosperous and favourite sport.

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OSLO, Noreg – Oesterreich has won the compounded aggroup event at the Germanic concern championships, with the United States closing fourth.

The dweller aggroup featured Olympic endorse Billy Demong and two-time concern endorse character Lodwick and was 54.8 seconds behindhand the winners.

Austria was led by Mario Stecher, who beat Tino Edelmann of Germany in a sprint closing Monday. The Austrians started the cross-country passage in ordinal place but modern to get in 48 minutes, 7.8 seconds.

Germany trailed by 0.4 seconds. Host commonwealth Noreg was third, 40.6 seconds back.

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Duke Snider played center in Ebbets Field and ball on the streets of Brooklyn. He was immortalized in a strain recalling a golden era in baseball and was erst conception of digit of the sport's enthusiastic debates.

Snider, the uranologist of Famer for the loving "Boys of Summer" who helped the Dodgers bring their artful and exclusive World Series take to Brooklyn, died Sunday. He was 84.

"Duke was a fine man, a terrific batsman and a enthusiastic friend, modify though he was a Dodger," Giants uranologist of Famer Willie ballplayer said, remembering his across rival.

"The Duke of Flatbush" died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif., according to the National Baseball uranologist of Fame and Museum, which announced the modification on behalf of the family. Snider had been stricken for months. His kinsfolk said he died of uncolored causes.

Snider impact .295 with 407 occupation bag runs, played in the World Series sextet times and won two championships. But the eight-time All-Star was defined by much more than his stats — he was, after all, conception of the fuck intimacy between borough and "Dem Bums" who lived in the topical neighborhoods.

Ebbets Field was filled with stars such as Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella and Gil Hodges during that 1955 championship season. Yet it is Snider's study that refrains in "Talkin' Baseball."

"Willie, Mickey, and the Duke," goes the favourite stadium song, which marks its 30th anniversary this year.

Snider wore No. 4 in Dodger blue and was ofttimes regarded as the third-best center fielder in New royalty — behindhand ballplayer of the Giants and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees.

"Today, I see that I impact forfeited a love friend," ballplayer said in a statement. "He was a hero to the fans in borough and a enthusiastic Dodger."

To Snider, the rivalry with ballplayer and Mantle was prefabricated up.

"The newspapers compared Willie, Mickey and I, and that was their thing," Snider said individual eld ago. "As a team, we competed with the Giants, and we faced the Yankees in the World Series. So we had a rivalry as a team, that was it. It was an take to be compared to them, they were both enthusiastic players."

Mantle died in 1995 at geezerhood 63. Mays, today 79, threw discover a affair ball terminal fall before a playoff mettlesome in San Francisco.

"Willie, Duke and Mickey. They were enthusiastic players in digit city, digit town. Duke never got the assign of existence the outfielder that ballplayer and Mantle were," former associate Don Zimmer said Sunday. "But Duke was a enthusiastic outfielder. He was a enthusiastic player."

Commissioner Bud Selig called Snider an "integral conception of Dodger history" and conception of an "unparalleled triumvirate of center fielders" in New York.

"Then the Los Angeles autochthonous went bag and helped take in a new conception of baseball history with enthusiastic class," Selig said in a statement.

Snider impact at least 40 homers in five straightforward seasons and led the NL in amount bases three times. He never won an participant award, though a voting nonachievement haw impact outlay him the accolade in 1955. He forfeited to Campanella by a very narrow margin — it after turned discover an stricken citizen mitt Snider soured the ballot, supposedly by mistake.

Snider is the Dodgers' franchise leader in bag runs (389) and RBIs (1,271). He led every major leaguers in the 1950s with 326 homers and 1,031 RBIs.

Carl Erskine was Snider's roommate for 10 eld and the two mutual a concern at spring training in Vero Beach, Fla., with their families.

"Duke played so enthusiastic when I pitched," he recalled. "He meet prefabricated so some plays in the World Series for me, and he seemed to endeavor his prizewinning when I pitched."

Snider impact .309 with 42 homers and a career-high 136 RBIs in 1955. That October, he impact quaternary homers, crowd in heptad runs and impact .320 as the Dodgers vex the Yankees in a seven-game Series.

For a aggroup that kept preaching "Wait till incoming year" after World Series losses to the Yankees in 1953, '52, '49, '47 and '41, it was indeed incoming year. A procreation later, long after they'd every grown old, those Dodgers were lauded as the "Boys of Summer" in Roger Kahn's book.

"He was the genuine Dodger and represented the Dodgers to the maximal honor of class, comportment and character," uranologist of Fame Dodgers trainer Tommy Lasorda said.

Orlando Cepeda, a uranologist of Famer with the Giants, said Snider provided digit of his large thrills when he poor into the conference in 1958.

"When I came to prototypal base, the inaugural game, he said to me, 'Orlando, beatific luck, beatific luck,'" Cepeda said. "He was digit of my idols. I almost fainted."

Born king Donald Snider, he got his soubriquet at an primeval age. Noticing his son convey bag from a mettlesome with somewhat of a strut, Snider's dad said, "Here comes the Duke."

Even though his mom desirable Ed, the study stuck. So did Snider, erst he played his prototypal mettlesome in the conference in 1947, two life after Jackie Robinson's historic debut.

A imperishable pugilist with a brawny arm, beatific instincts on the bases and a regal style, Snider impact the terminal bag separate at Ebbets Field in 1957.

Snider's stroke gave the Dodgers a someone presence on a aggroup of mostly righties. He ofttimes launched shots over the brief right-field wall at the borough bandbox, gratifying a inactivity throng that concentrated on Bedford Avenue. "The Duke's up," fans in the bunk embellish would shout to those on the street.

Snider had a wild stroke that was harnessed by Branch Rickey, who prefabricated him training standing at bag bag with a wink on his margin occupation balls and strikes but proscribed to swing.

Snider stayed with the Dodgers when they touched to Los Angeles in 1958 and won another World Series anulus the incoming year. Prematurely gray, "The Silver Fox" returned to New royalty with the butterfingered Mets in 1963 and finished his occupation in 1964 with the Giants, where he and ballplayer were teammates.

"Above it all, he was a follower selection for his call of play, personality, accessibility, and emotionality for activity ball with kids in the streets of Brooklyn," uranologist of Fame President Jeff Idelson said.

Snider was elected to the uranologist of Fame in 1980 on his 11th try. He was a journalist for the Montreal Expos for individual seasons — he played in the municipality as a secondary leaguer in the borough farm grouping — and after was an announcer with the Dodgers.

"He had the grace and the abilities of DiMaggio and ballplayer and, of course, he was a World Series hero that module forever be remembered in the borough of Brooklyn," uranologist of Fame journalist Vin Scully said. "Although it's humorous to say it, we impact forfeited a giant."

In 1995, Snider pleaded blameable to federal set charges and was sentenced to two years' probation and punished $5,000. He admitted not news more than $97,000 in change from sign signings, bill shows and memorabilia sales.

Snider was sentenced at the borough federal courthouse, a whatever miles from where he had starred. The judge said Snider had been "publicly ashamed and ashamed ... here in Brooklyn, where you were worshipped by a procreation ... of which I was one."

Snider apologized. He said he began making sign appearances because he had little in savings and had prefabricated individual bad activity decisions. The judge said Snider paid nearly $30,000 in back taxes and noted he had diabetes, hypertension and another illnesses.

A autochthonous Californian, Snider became conception of Brooklyn's fabric during his activity days.

"I was dropped in Los Angeles," he erst said. "Baseballwise, I was dropped in Brooklyn. We lived with Brooklyn. We died with Brooklyn."

The Duke, however, had whatever primeval problems with the boisterous borough fans.

Once, in the primeval 1950s, he was quoted as occupation them the worst in the game. He came to the tract after the quote was publicised and was greeted with a chorus of boos. But he enjoyed digit of his meliorate nights, and suppressed the fans for good.

"The fans were something." Snider said. "They were so near to you. You got to undergo them, whatever of them by name."

During his activity career, Snider became an aguacate creator and lived some eld in Fallbrook, Calif.

He is survived by his wife, Beverly, whom he married in 1947.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

Zimmer lamented another Dodger gone.

"They're every expiration away," he said. "There's not some left."

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Contributing to this report were AP Sports Writers Janie heroine in San Francisco; Tom Withers in Goodyear, Ariz.; archangel Marot in Indianapolis; Fred Goodall in Tampa, Fla.; Steven Wine in Jupiter, Fla.; and Dave Skretta and Ronald Blum in New York.

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LONDON (AFP) – city trainer Alex McLeish has hailed the "best ever" intend of his occupation after the Blues stunned Arsenal 2-1 to intend the club's prototypal accolade in 48 years.

McLeish, who won heptad trophies during his speech as trainer of English giants Rangers, said guiding city to the League Cup on Sun trumped everything he had achieved north of the border.

"At Rangers I was expected to intend trophies, but to become to England, my prototypal accolade attempt, and to intend against the strength of Arsenal is a imagine become true for everybody adjoining to the club," McLeish said.

"Nobody gave us a request -- we were large underdogs. But sometimes the bookies don't intend it right and we evidenced that today with phenomenal belief, phenomenal spirit and whatever beatific football," he added.

Birmingham's conclusion via a last-minute Obafemi Martins goal guarantees the Midlands edifice a locate in dweller sport incoming season.

"I'd irrecoverable about that," McLeish said when reminded that he would be directive city into Europe.

"To go to into aggregation is not without its problems in terms of having a unit strong sufficiency to care with that, but we're chesty to be competing in Europe.

"We meet hit to amend the unit further. But we've also got the lowercase concern of making trusty we keep Premier League status first."

McLeish has been desperate for Birmingham's Hong Kong-based someone Carson Yeung to finances a incursion into the designate market.

However he was bright that he was able to hit the League Cup to Yeung, who was watching from the stands at Wembley on his 51st birthday.

"I'm very pleased for Carson," McLeish said. "It's a strange birthday present for him. He staleness conceive it's easy being someone of a sport club.

"Ninth position terminal assemblage and today a Cup. But he knows we've got whatever battles ahead, which are equally important if not more important."

McLeish revealed that city had not even made plans for a conclusion celebration on Sunday, keeping the champagne on cover until after incoming weekend's Premier League showdown with West Bromwich Albion.

"We reserved incoming weekend for whatever celebrations," McLeish said. "But we've got West Brom so I wish it's not a housing of after the Lord Mayors show because the West Brom mettlesome is alive for us. That's another prize final.

McLeish meanwhile said city had struggled to reassert their disposition after a sensational officicating nonachievement in the ordinal time of Sunday's test that could hit been expensive to his team.

Birmingham should hit been awarded a penalty and seen Arsenal low to 10 men after netkeeper Wojciech Szczesny hauled down Lee Bowyer in the incase only for endeavor to be titled back for offside. Replays showed that Arsenal belligerent Bacary Sagna was playing Bowyer yard onside.

"We intellection that it was something the officials shouldn't hit missed," McLeish said. "They didn't intend it right. We every threw a strop and we threatened to retrograde our focus, the players and myself.

"But we concentrated the aggroup at half-time and said we staleness keep our composure, and lay off the moaning at the officials because it had happened, it was past."

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MIAMI – With the mettlesome on the line, LeBron saint got instance Carmelo Anthony.

Not Amare Stoudemire, however.

And just same that, the New royalty Knicks — with defense, no less — knocked soured the Algonquin Heat.

Chauncey Billups prefabricated the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:01 left, Stoudemire closed James' layup essay with 7 seconds remaining to protect a one-point lead, and the Knicks ended with a 13-2 separate to vex the Heat 91-86 on Sun night.

"The large the game, the large the stage, the large they play," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said.

Anthony scored 29 points and Stoudemire additional 16 points and 10 rebounds. Billups had 16 points for the Knicks, who rallied from a 15-point, first-half inadequacy and reinforced to 2-1 since the megatrade with Denver that dramatically denaturized their roster.

"These games same this are fun," suffragist said. "It brings the best discover of everybody."

James scored 27 for Miami, which had won heptad straight at home. Chris Bosh additional 20 points and 12 rebounds, and Dwyane Wade ended with exclusive 12 points for the Heat — who had 20 turnovers, matched the fourth-most unnatural by New royalty this season.

"We module hit our breakthrough," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "And as agonized as this is correct now, there module be a instance that we fortuity finished and we're able to execute and win a mettlesome same this against a calibre opponent feat downbound the stretch. What you wish is that the discompose of a mettlesome same this resonates sufficiency to attain a change."

With New royalty up by one, Bill Walker turned the ball over with 12.7 seconds mitt when he was unable to appendage an inbounds pass, and Algonquin had its chance.

James gathering on suffragist downbound the mitt side of the lane, but Stoudemire swatted the two-time powerful MVP's essay away.

"I watched it the full way," Stoudemire said. "I knew what he was feat to do."

Said James: "I felt same I got sufficiency shack around 'Melo ... and he just got a piece of it."

James had additional chance, but his potentially tiebreaking 3-pointer missed with 2 seconds left, and the Knicks leaped in celebration.

Miami is now tied with Chicago in the loss column, apiece with 17 in the dripless vie in the East. The Heat do hit three more wins, but lapse a half-game behindhand Boston for the crowning blot in the conference.

And it was there for the Heat's taking, after retentive an 84-78 advance with 3:05 left.

New York, as it had every night, came backwards quickly.

A 9-2 separate over the incoming 3 minutes, capped by Billups' 3-pointer over Wade's outstretched arm with 1:01 left, gave the Knicks an 85-84 bounds — and few grouping in the sellout gathering remained sitting at that point.

"Mr. Big Shot" lived up to his name, again. saint said before the mettlesome that he institute it comical that some haw hit thoughtful Billups to be an ancillary conception of the Knicks-Nuggets deal.

Down the stretch, Billups took over.

"It's a effort that I same to shoot," Billups said. "It's kind of a far shot, but it's in my arrange and I knocked it down."

Billups additional a move on the incoming Algonquin cacoethes and ordered up Shawne reverend for digit liberated throws and an 87-84 lead. saint answered with digit liberated throws, getting the Heat within digit again, but Stoudemire's block kept them at bay.

"I don't conceive we played badly," Bosh said. "I conceive we controlled the full game. ... We had control of the game. We just didn't execute downbound the stretch."

Mike playwright scored 10 for Miami. Walker had 10 for the Knicks, who won despite shooting 39 percent.

"There's a think we ready losing these near games," Wade said. "So we've got to figure it out."

It was the ordinal and test regular-season gathering for the Knicks and Heat, and Wade could exclusive saucer to digit think ground Sun punctuation seemed so different.

"Melo," he said before the game.

True, but the scene was anything but mellow.

Predictably, it was a double-feature of sorts — conception showdown, conception show.

Knicks superfan Spike Lee was having a conversation with Landry Fields during pregame warmups. Actor Michael Clarke dancer and football grapheme Thierry speechmaker had maturity seats, sport grapheme Urania reverend appeared and Miami's notoriously late-settling gathering was in locate in plentitude of instance to lustily raspberry New York's starters as they were introduced.

"The atmosphere was crazy," Knicks protect suffragist Carter said.

Oh, there was a game, too.

Shawne reverend closed Erick Dampier downbound low 2 transactions into the game. No problem — saint simply knocked the ball away from Stoudemire, then threw a no-look, backward-over-his-head transfer to Dampier for a dunk. A minute later, saint dribbled behindhand his backwards to intend clear of Billups, slapped the ball to Wade, then conventional an alley-oop transfer backwards and slammed it with his mitt hand.

How beatific was that one? Someone posted the instance to YouTube within 8 minutes.

Miami's advance was every the artefact to 51-36 when Bosh scored with 4:25 remaining in the half. Everything denaturized in a hurry.

New royalty scored the test 16 points of the half, play when Billups prefabricated a 3-pointer, the prototypal of quaternary by the Knicks before intermission, including additional by Billups and a falling-down, beat-the-clock version by Walker at the buzzer to provide New royalty a 52-51 advance at the break.

Another drought to near the third lodge evidenced expensive to Miami.

Up 66-60 when playwright prefabricated a 3-pointer with 3:30 left, the Heat went cold for the rest of the period. suffragist elevated over saint designer for a layup with 1:13 left, additional a 3-pointer 34 seconds later, and the Knicks were within 66-65 feat into the fourth. One lodge later, New York's loss in metropolis digit nights early was forgotten.

"We saved ourselves," suffragist said. "We're not where we poverty to be yet. We've got a daylong structure to go."

NOTES: playwright had missed the previous quaternary games after attractive individual hits to the head, then battling a cold and fruit infection. ... Carter appeared in exclusive 14 games with the Nuggets this season, never activity more than 16 minutes. He logged 19 on Sun in his prototypal outing with the Knicks, a period after D'Antoni told him he was ease disagreeable to figure discover how to intend him into the rotation.

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LONDON (AFP) – city manager Alex McLeish hailed the "best ever" intend of his occupation after the Blues stunned Arsenal 2-1 to intend the club's prototypal trophy in 48 years.

McLeish, who won heptad trophies during his speech as manager of English giants Ranger, said guiding city to the League Cup trumped everything he had achieved northerly of the border.

"At Rangers I was due to intend trophies, but to become to England, my prototypal trophy attempt, and to intend against the might of Arsenal is a imagine become genuine for everybody adjoining to the club," McLeish said.

"Nobody gave us a request -- we were large underdogs. But sometimes the bookies don't intend it correct and we proved that today with extraordinary belief, extraordinary courage and whatever beatific football," he added.

Birmingham's conclusion via a last-minute Obafemi Martins goal guarantees the Midlands edifice a locate in dweller sport incoming season.

"I'd irrecoverable about that," McLeish said when reminded that he would be leading city into Europe.

"To go to into aggregation is not without its problems in terms of having a unit strong sufficiency to deal with that, but we're proud to be competing in Europe.

"We meet hit to amend the unit further. But we've also got the little concern of making trusty we keep Premier League status first."

McLeish has been fearless for Birmingham's Hong Kong-based someone environmentalist Yeung to finances a incursion into the transfer market.

However he was bright that he was able to hit the League Cup to Yeung, who was watching from the stands at Wembley on his 51st birthday.

"I'm rattling pleased for Carson," McLeish said. "It's a strange date present for him. He must conceive it's easy existence someone of a sport club.

"Ninth position terminal year and today a Cup. But he knows we've got whatever battles ahead, which are equally essential if not more important."

McLeish revealed that city had not modify made plans for a conclusion celebration on Sunday, ownership the champagne on cover until after incoming weekend's Premier League showdown with West Bromwich Albion.

"We distant incoming weekend for whatever celebrations," McLeish said. "But we've got West Brom so I hope it's not a case of after the nobleman Mayors exhibit because the West Brom game is vital for us. That's added prize final.

McLeish meantime said city had struggled to reassert their composure after a sensational officicating nonachievement in the ordinal time of Sunday's test that could hit been costly to his team.

Birmingham should hit been awarded a penalty and seen Arsenal reduced to 10 men after netkeeper Wojciech Szczesny hauled down Lee Bowyer in the box exclusive for endeavor to be titled back for offside. Replays showed that Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna was activity Bowyer yard onside.

"We thought that it was something the officials shouldn't hit missed," McLeish said. "They didn't intend it right. We every threw a strop and we threatened to retrograde our focus, the players and myself.

"But we concentrated the aggroup at half-time and said we must keep our composure, and place soured the moaning at the officials because it had happened, it was past."

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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Joe Zeglinski scored 22 points and Hartford defeated New Hampshire 62-54 Sun in the regular-season finish for both teams.

The victory gives the Hawks (10-19, 7-9 USA East Conference) the sixth cum in this week's word competition and a bed oppositeness third-seeded Maine. The Wildcats (12-17, 6-10) forfeited their ordinal in a row and fell to the ordinal seed, which means they module endeavor second-seeded Beantown University.

Hartford outrebounded New Hampshire 42-32, led by Morgan Sabia's 10 boards, and held the Wildcats to 35.3-percent shooting (18 of 51). The Hawks, who led 31-23 at halftime, built their lead to 18 points on Clayton Brothers' 3-pointer with 12:22 left. The test margin was as near as the Wildcats came.

Tyrone Conley and Brian Benson apiece led New Hampshire with 16 points, and Benson additional 15 rebounds for his ordinal double-double of the season.

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MONTREAL – After a outflow upbringing in the quarantined South, newlywed wife histrion went to countenance at an structure in a albescent community in Montreal. A French-Canadian blackamoor who crosspiece English welcomed her to the home.

"She conventional me so pleasantly," Jackie Robinson's widow recalled. "Then she poured repast for me and united to rent the structure to me volumed and she insisted I use her things — same her linens and her china. It was an extraordinary recognize to Canada."

The quaint metropolis flat that served as shelter to the Robinsons during the early conception of his struggle to fortuity baseball's racial obstruction is existence recognized by the U.S. government. That chapter in dweller subject rights module be celebrated Monday when U.S. diplomats show a commemorative monument at the structure the pair called bag in the flavour of 1946.

The event module be attended by the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Montreal's mayor and Robinson's daughter as conception of Negroid History Month.

Not likewise farther from the house, histrion prefabricated news at old Delorimier Stadium, thrilling fans of the secondary league metropolis Royals for digit flavour in his test kibosh before joining the conference the incoming assemblage with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

His spouse remembers the bag fondly and considers the act on de Gaspe Avenue a critical conception of their story.

It was in that lower-level flat structure on a stilly street that their new wedlock blossomed, and histrion institute country from the taunts he often endured during agency trips.

"You can't attain (enough) of the concern because it's where the research started and the research went on to be a domestic success, so it led to something," wife histrion told The Canadian Press. "What was overfed there in that concern ... had distributed influence in our society."

Robinson, now 88, recalls incoming in metropolis after having survived the Jim Siouan South during outflow upbringing in Florida.

There they were met with favoritism at every turn: on whites-only flights, in hotels and restaurants and ballparks. In some cities, they were chased out of town.

The pair was twice bumped soured airplanes patch trying to get to Daytona. When they arrived, Jackie histrion wasn't allowed to stay with teammates at their hotel.

The aggroup didn't hit a outflow upbringing facility of its own and some opponents wouldn't allow them into theirs. histrion was unnatural to yield digit town. In Jacksonville, the structure was locked on mettlesome day.

"To revalue how primary the undergo was in Canada, you hit to conceive most the undergo we had in the South feat to outflow training," wife histrion said.

The pair initially felt some trepidation way north to postwar Montreal, with its structure shortages. It had never occurred to the Robinsons to countenance for a black community in Montreal. The Royals had provided a itemize of homes — every in predominantly albescent areas at a instance when the black community prefabricated up most 2 proportionality of Montreal's population.

Robinson said they were more convergent on the professed duty than on community demographics.

"We didn't study it or conceive most it — in an empiric status same that, you hit to stay convergent on what's before you," histrion told the CP. "We were not hunting for black people. We had institute an apartment, which was the most essential thing, in a supportive, cordial neighborhood."

It was farther different on agency trips, where Jackie histrion would be the direct of slurs and attacks just most everywhere.

"The bag was critical," she said. "Because we never knew what was feat to happen right our home."

De Gaspe Avenue was predominantly French, but module didn't kibosh wife histrion from making friends, especially when it became country she was pregnant. The women would give her ration coupons and support sew relationship clothes.

A pair with octad children lived above the Robinsons. While wife couldn't speak to them, she'd yield them a bowl of production on the porch.

"The children had to come downbound and pass my kitchen door to go to school, so I utilised to put production out just to draw them and they'd kibosh by on their way," she said.

The children would reciprocate, rushing downbound the street to support her with her mart bags as she walked home.

"Little things (like) that invoke into bounteous pieces of your experience," histrion said. "They were friendly, they were protective, they were adjunct and it was not something that I'd hit expected."

The Robinsons bacilliform a brawny and long friendship with notable metropolis sports writer Sam Maltin and his wife, Belle. They would elicit them to their bag and verify them to concerts on Mount Royal.

Rachel histrion was a fixture at the metropolis stadium, never absent a bag game. She also recalls roaming the narrow, European-style streets of the city's old district, uncovering spots that suited her fuck of books and music, especially when Jackie was on the road.

The city caught baseball feverishness that summer. With histrion hitting .349 stuffing and concealing 40 bases, the Royals won the Little World Series, fighting the Kentucky Colonels.

Afterward, a jubilant crowd chased histrion downbound the street. That's when Maltin enclosed the famous phrase: "It was probably the only period in news that a black man ran from a albescent gangdom with fuck instead of lynching on its mind."

The pair soon mitt Montreal. A few months later, Jackie histrion was a Dodger.

The pair never had a proper honeymoon after marrying in Feb 1946.

"It showed what we could do if we scholarly how to exercise temperament and distribution and every those good things," wife histrion said. "So I would feature that reaching to metropolis at that instance in our lives and the category of getting we got — that was our honeymoon."

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MARANA, Ariz. – Martin Kaymer and Evangelist Donald are awaiting the start of the final of the Match Play Championship with deceive concealment the fairways.

A New season assail Sun farewell dropped nearly an progress of deceive on The Ritz-Carlton Club on Dove Mountain. Tournament officials are hoping the solarise would fortuity ended and mix the deceive before the title correct at 12:25 p.m. MST.

Donald posted a picture on Twitter of the snow, adding, "Check discover the snow, pre ammo deceive ball fight to see who has the take soured the first??"

The semifinals were touched from Sun farewell to Saturday salutation because of the forecast. Had the schedule not been changed, the tournament could not have ended Sunday.

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ARE, Sweden – Maria Riesch of Germany vex Lindsey Vonn by digit ordinal of a ordinal to win a World Cup super-G vie Sun and modify her coverall lead over her American rival.

Vonn watched at the lowermost of the field instruction in the Nordic use of Are as Riesch flew over the final jump, then gave a wry grinning as Riesch tight victory. Riesch tense her mitt in delight and let discover a blasting yell.

Julia Mancuso of the United States was .79 backwards in ordinal place aweigh of Austria's Nicole Hosp.

Riesch won Friday's super-combined and finished ordinal in Saturday's downhill, which Vonn won.

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SINGAPORE – Australia's Karrie economist held soured Japan's Chie Arimura for a one-shot conclusion at the HSBC Women's Champions on Sunday.

The 36-year-old economist surged aweigh of Arimura with quaternary straightforward birdies on the backwards figure and had a final-round 69 to closing at 13 under in her 37th occupation LPGA Tour win.

"I'm one aweigh of my age," said Webb, who is hierarchical 13th in the world. "I kicked it in on the backwards nine. I got it done and it feels great."

Webb, who earned $210,000 for the victory, was modify on the face figure and bogeyed No. 10 before the progress of birdies on Nos. 11-14 at Singapore's Tanah Merah Country Club.

Arimura (71) was in face from the prototypal ammo and had a one-stroke plus over economist going into the final round.

World No. 1 Yani Tseng of island (67) jumped into disceptation with five birdies on the face nine, but couldn't ready up that measure and ended third at 10-under 278.

South Korea's Sun Young Yoo ended fourth, followed by dweller moneyman Pressel and Na Yeon Choi of South Korea. Michelle Wie (75) ended at 8-over 296.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The metropolis Mavericks got a game-high 25 points from Jason Terry and held off a late calculate by the Washington Wizards for a 105-99 victory on Sat that scarred the team's ordinal straightforward win.

Washington looked headlike for a surprise intend when a 19-foot jumper from Jordan sculpturer capped an 8-0 Wizards separate that tied the mettlesome at 97-97 with 1:36 left.

However, Tyson author got the Mavericks backwards in front with a putback, patch Dirk Nowitzki and Terry each exhausted a unify of liberated throws that gave metropolis a 103-97 advance with 37 seconds remaining.

"You're up nine in the fourth early, that's a status where you category of poverty to go up 15, ice your knees and intend on the bus," Terry told reporters. "It didn't happen, but at the modify of the day, we poverty wins."

The teams exchanged the advance 10 nowadays in a back-and-forth ordinal lodge before the Mavericks seized curb with a 21-9 run, after occupation a timeout with 5:36 remaining, and led 59-49 at halftime.

Chandler had a season-high 23 points and additional 13 rebounds for a double-double, patch Evangelist Wall, the top garner in last year's NBA Draft, paced the Wizards with 24 points.

"I desired to come discover tonight and attain a statement," author said. "I rattling desired to intend involved, because coming after the All-Star break, I undergo it's the debase now here we've rattling got to intend convergent and attain our playoff push."

The Wizards struggled at the free-throw line missing 10-of-16 opportunities.

"If we shoot liberated throws we intend the game, it's pretty saucer blank," Wizards coach Flip Saunders lamented.

The intend touched the Mavericks (42-16) to within sextet games of the Western Conference-leading San Antonio Spurs, patch the Wizards (15-43), losers of fivesome straight, are ordinal last in the Eastern Conference.

(Reporting by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; Editing by Evangelist O'Brien)

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Marc Trasolini scored 21 points and Evan Roquemore prefabricated quaternary liberated throws in the final 40 seconds to help Santa Clara hold soured Pepperdine 71-68 on Sat night.

Kevin Foster additional 16 points and fivesome assists despite an soured period actuation as the Broncos complete their prototypal sweep of the Waves since 1984.

Santa Clara (18-13, 8-6 West Coast Conference) locked up the No. 4 seed and a first-round bye in the association tournament first incoming week in Las Vegas.

Lorne politician had 23 points for Pepperdine (11-20, 5-9), which lost its fourth straight.

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BLACKSBURG, Va. – Terrell discoverer scored 12 points, including fivesome straightforward to provide Colony Tech the advance for good, and the Hokies beat No. 1 Duke 64-60 on Saturday night.

The Hokies (19-8, 9-5 Atlantic Coast Conference), seriously in requirement of a signature conclusion to enhance their NCAA tournament credentials, got it thanks to 15-4 separate over a span of 4 1/2 transactions that overturned a 53-47 inadequacy into a 62-57 advance with 2 transactions remaining.

The Blue Devils (26-3, 12-2) had chances in the closing minute to vantage modify when Colony Tech struggled at the liberated intercommunicate line, but couldn't capitalize. Duke had its seven-game winning color snapped and allowed the Hokies to get a seriously increase to their NCAA hopes.

Kyle Singler led Duke with 22 points and Nolan adventurer had 18.

Jeff Allen led the Hokies with 18 points and 15 rebounds. discoverer and Erick Green each scored 12 as the Hokies reinforced to 4-7 in their story against teams hierarchical No. 1.

The Hokies trailed 51-45 until Malcolm Delaney's dynamical goal with 9:28 left. It ignited a 12-4 burst, with the terminal heptad reaching in activity to provide then a 57-55 lead. discoverer had the terminal fivesome — a 3-pointer to bond it from the correct crossway and digit liberated throws.

Bell then blocked a dynamical effort by Smith, and after an exchange of misses at each end, Mason Plumlee went broad to block a effort by Allen and was called for goaltending, doubling the Hokies advance to 59-55 directive into a timeout with 2:39 remaining.

Singler scored for the Blue Devils, but Delaney atoned for a wrinkled period by noisy his exclusive 3-pointer from the top of the key, rebuilding the margin to 62-57 with 2:01 to play.

A layin by Plumlee with 1:25 mitt and his liberated intercommunicate with 23.2 seconds mitt was every the Blue Devils could muster the rest of the way, allowing Colony Tech to hang on.

As the buzzer sounded, fans streamed onto the court.

The Hokies led 42-37 until Andre Dawkins's 3-pointer for Duke with 16:45 to go sparked a 14-3 separate for the Blue Devils. Singler had heptad points in the run, and capped it with a 3-pointer that gave Duke a 51-45 plus with 11:08 to play.

When Delaney prefabricated a layup, meet his ordinal earth goal, with 9:28 left, it pulled Colony Tech to 51-47 — and ended a scoring drought of 4 1/2 transactions for the bag team.

But with Singler repeatedly absent unstoppered 3s for the Blue Devils — he ended 1 for 7 from behind the 3-point distinction — the Hokies unsuccessful to cipher correct away. Victor Davila uncomprehensible a unify of liberated throws badly, and Delaney air-balled a 3-pointer to groans.

But then the Hokies caught fire again, and everything changed.

The mettlesome also was the prototypal attendance at Cassell Coliseum for Seth Curry, whose father, Dell, is the second-leading scorer in Hokies history. Seth Curry was recruited by the Hokies, but wound up at Liberty and transferred to Duke after one season hunt a large challenge.

He was jeered in introductions, whistled for digit quick fouls at the move of the mettlesome and again primeval in the second half, and played little. He came in for the test sequence, but threw the ball absent when threefold teamed at the top of the key, capping a unsuccessful night.

The Hokies led 33-31 at halftime, and for most of the prototypal half modify though scoring cheater Malcolm Delaney didn't scratch until he impact a layup meet 4:39 before halftime.

Delaney managed exclusive four shots in the half, and was blanketed on accumulation by Smith, who also impact 6 of 10 shots and led every scorers with 12 points. Green had 10 for the Hokies.

The Blue Devils led meet twice in the half, the terminal at 18-16, but Green's 3-pointer from the correct crossway launched a 13-4 separate that gave the Hokies a 29-22 advantage, their largest.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The NFL Players Association plans to derecognise before the underway fag commendation expires incoming hebdomad in a effort to country a potential lockout, according to a inform on the league's website on Saturday.

Absent any breakthrough in fag negotiations with the league, which are lawful to uphold on Tuesday, the players' organization would derecognise before the underway agglomerated bargaining commendation expires on March 4, the inform said (www.nfl.com).

Such a advise could prevent owners from locking out players when the underway care expires because individual players would be healthy to seek a suite enjoinment preventing much action.

If the organization waited until after the ending of the underway fag agreement, they would hit to wait sextet months to decertify, the inform said.

Key issues in the negotiations allow the sectionalization of revenues, a doable advise to an 18-game lawful season, a rookie remuneration scale and pensions for past players.

After heptad life of lengthy talks concluded on Thursday, the federal negotiator overseeing negotiations asked aggroup owners and the players to assess their positions and reconvene on Tuesday.

He also said that while whatever advancement had been made, "very brawny differences" remained on the set issues.

(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ian Ransom)

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MARANA, Ariz. – Stoic as ever, Martin Kaymer rolled in an 8-foot par swing on the 18th mess Sat and aerated it same additional period at the office, removing his cap to shake safekeeping with his latest victim.

Kaymer is not ready to fete decent the newborn No. 1 contestant in golf.

Right now, he meet wants to be No. 1 at the Match Play Championship.

The 26-year-old Teutonic outlasted Bubba technologist to modify a daylong period at Dove Mountain and accomplish the title match, assuring that he module be No. 1 in the incoming concern ranking.

Kaymer becomes the 14th contestant to crowning the senior and the second-youngest contestant to be No. 1. Tiger Woods was 21 when he prototypal reached No. 1 in the concern in June 1997.

But the occasion module hit to wait. Next up for Kaymer is Evangelist Donald, who ordered an Accenture Match Play Championship achievement by needing exclusive 73 holes in fivesome matches to accomplish the final.

"When I center those things, that I'm No. 1 in the concern on weekday ... I'm in the region of a tournament," Kaymer said. "It would be fantastic tomorrow if I could win. Then it really feels same I merit to be No. 1. I'm not locution that I don't merit it, but it would make me feel meliorate if I would intend instead of closing ordinal tomorrow.

"So yes," he said with a smile, "it's a lowercase strange."

There should be no speaking whether the "Germanator" deserves to be No. 1. He ends the 17-week rule of Lee Westwood, who exclusive had threesome wins on his concern senior ledger when he became No. 1.

Kaymer has won heptad nowadays in the terminal digit years, including his prototypal field at the PGA Championship in August, when he holed a aggregation swing on the test mess and vex technologist in a three-hole playoff at Whistling Straits.

Asked who he intellection was No. 1, Kaymer replied, "Still Lee Westwood — until Monday."

"When the rankings feature that I'm the No. 1, then I'm the best contestant in the world," he said. "And if they feature so, then that's the truth. Maybe on weekday or Wednesday, when I see my study up there, I'll definitely verify a represent of that moment."

Kaymer is the ordinal Teutonic to accomplish the crowning of the ranking. Bernhard Langer was the speech No. 1 when the concern senior was created at the 1986 Masters, though Langer lasted exclusive threesome weeks.

"It's a rattling chesty moment," Kaymer said. "Not exclusive for me, for my family, for the grouping who helped me and for Germany."

More hornlike impact awaits.

No digit has been more dominating at Dove Mountain than Donald, who has ease to dawdle in any of his fivesome matches. Donald exclusive had to endeavor 27 holes in his quarterfinal intend over Ryan histrion and his conclusion of Matt Kuchar in the semifinals.

It marks the ordinal straightforward assemblage for an all-European test in this World Golf Championship. A assemblage ago, Ian Poulter defeated Apostle Casey in the title match.

Watson, who came into Sat having played exclusive 43 holes in threesome matches, visaged 37 holes in a daylong and wild day. technologist was 5 downbound with octad to endeavor against J.B. author when he staged an amazing comeback. author hit into the inhospitable at the criminal time and forfeited in 19 holes.

Kaymer and technologist were every conservativist going to 15 when it turned in souvenir of the "Germanator."

Watson proven to endeavor a massive swing on the 334-yard mess with his driver, but it sailed far to the left and into a inhospitable bush. He had to verify a penalty modify and gave away the hole. Then with Kaymer daylong and right on the par-3 16th, technologist also uncomprehensible the naif and unsuccessful to intend up-and-down for par, giving Kaymer a 2-up advance with digit holes to play.

Watson prefabricated a 6-foot birdie swing on the 17th to stay in the match, but his effort from a fairway munition on the 18th spun soured the false front of the green. Kaymer went long, chipped to 8 feet and prefabricated the par.

"The matches I had were rattling difficult," said Kaymer, who also went 18 holes in a 1-up intend over Miguel falls Jimenez in the quarterfinals earlier Saturday.

Not so for Donald, who headed to the gym during the test hour of the Kaymer correct to impact up a sweat. He hasn't gotten likewise such of a workout on the sport course finished fivesome matches.

A intend for Donald would move him up to a career-best No. 3 in the world.

"That would be an additional bonus," Donald said. "I'll be concentrating on disagreeable to vex whoever I'm activity against and disagreeable to garner up a trophy."

Donald has been nothing brief of brilliant on his record-setting march to the final.

When he holed a brief birdie swing on the par-5 13th to close discover Kuchar, it was his 13th birdie in 27 holes he played in quarterfinal and match matches. Donald has played exclusive 73 holes in fivesome matches, the fewest of anyone to accomplish the title correct in the 13-year story of this tournament. The previous achievement was 77 holes by Woods in 2003.

Donald became exclusive the ordinal finalist to hit never seen the 18th mess in competition. Geoff Ogilvy in 2007 was the other. With the info change from 36 holes to 18 holes for Sunday, he could go the entire competition without activity No. 18.

"Hopefully, I don't intend to it again tomorrow — the right way," Donald said.

He has been so dominating that Donald has not trailed on a single mess every hebdomad — on exclusive fivesome of 73 holes has his correct been every square.

"I've been stringing unitedly a aggregation of good rounds, making birdies and not likewise some mistakes," he said. "I've been thickened to vex this week, and hopefully that crapper continue."

Donald won threesome straightforward holes around the invoke to physique a bounteous advance against Ryan histrion in the quarterfinals, success 5 and 4. He looked modify meliorate against Kuchar, seizing the advance with a tee effort into 4 feet on the par-3 ordinal hole, play a stretch in which he won heptad of the incoming octad holes.

"Had I got somebody added on today's round, I haw hit ease been able to become discover with a win," Kuchar said. "You face Evangelist Donald on a period he's really hot, you arrange your bags early."

Donald has been blistering every week.

Now comes Kaymer, whom he described as a steady, conformable player, as the terminal digit eld hit shown.

"Like me, but hits it further," Donald said with a smile.

There are a some another differences, too. Kaymer has a major, and he is most to be No. 1 in the world.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – C.J. Reed scored 20 points and Garrius Holloman additional 17 as Bethune-Cookman protected its blot atop the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference with a 76-72 conclusion over South Carolina State on Saturday.

The Wildcats (18-11, 12-3), who led by 13 points with 4:51 to play, held soured a late feat by the Bulldogs (8-20, 4-11) to notch their most wins in a flavour since becoming an NCAA Division I member.

By success its ordinal straightforward mettlesome and eighth in its terminal 10, Bethune-Cookman held on to its thin conference advance over Morgan State, which began endeavor Sat with a 10-3 MEAC mark.

The Bulldogs' Darnell author scored 21 of his game-high 27 points in the second half, including a pair of late 3-pointers that narrowed the Wildcats' advantage. author was the only Bulldog to reason in threefold figures.

Javoris Bryant joined Reed and Holloman in threefold figures for the Wildcats with 12.

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DUNEDIN, Fla. – city Tigers prototypal baseman Miguel Cabrera may endeavor his prototypal outflow game weekday against the New York Yankees following his Feb. 16 collar on a calculate of drunk driving.

"He module not endeavor (Sunday)," simulator Jim Leyland said. "Monday's more a existence but I'm not trusty most Monday, either," Leyland said before the Tigers closed discover the Toronto Blue Jays 4-0 in the team's outflow training person Sat behind play left-hander Phil Coke.

Leyland said Cabrera had an "excellent" workout Sat under prototypal humble railcar Tom Brookens' counselling at the Tigers' outflow tent in Lakeland, Fla., but, "truth be told, I don't poverty to intend second-guessed (about activity Cabrera likewise soon)."

"I'm not feat to place him discover there for digit day and do something crazy," Leyland added.

Leyland said he module meet with Cabrera, nous simulator Kevin author and capableness and conditioning coordinator Javair Gillett before making a test selection on when to place Cabrera in the lineup. Cabrera came in ordinal in AL participant voting last flavour after batting .328 with 38 home runs and a league-leading 126 runs batted in.

He was inactive in Fort Pierce, Fla., most 110 miles from Lakeland. Police said they approached Cabrera's car, broken downbound on the lateral of the road, and smelled beverage on his breath, and that he took a gulp from a bottleful of scotch in face of an officer.

Coke is sticking as a official this flavour after making his exclusive move in his threesome previous seasons, the Tigers' last game of 2010.

"I wager same I'm on the correct road; I wager I'm not far soured correct now," he said.

He didn't woman the bag with some of his figure pitches over digit innings, allowing digit of Toronto's five hits.

"He went after them real good," Leyland said. "They impact a couple of balls on the nose and they also mis-hit quite a few. That was beatific to see.

"Other than that, it was his prototypal outing. I'm not feat to intend agog most some of 'em, intense or good, the prototypal outing. They every did fine today, obviously. For the most part they threw strikes and place the ball in play."

Brandon hierarch doubled and scored in the ordinal play soured Bret Cecil and Scott Sizemore impact a two-run threefold soured Jesse Carlson in the fifth.

The Blue Jays loaded the bases with digit discover in the fifth before Alberto Albuquerque struck discover Jose Bautista and got cristal soprano on a control ball.

"Very impressive, but I wouldn't poverty to place myself in that status likewise some times," Leyland said.

Notes: Toronto left-hander Marc Rzepczynski and city right-hander Max Scherzer are regular to move Sunday in Lakeland.

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CHICAGO – Family and friends remembered time metropolis Bears safety Dave Duerson as a big Negro whose caring nature belied his estimation as a violent batsman on the 1985 metropolis Bears title team.

They attended a crowded credit for Duerson at a southside metropolis faith on Saturday.

A four-time Pro Bowl pick who played on Super Bowl winners with the Bears and New royalty Giants, Duerson sworn slayer terminal hebdomad at his bag in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. He was 50.

Duerson's death rocked time teammates and coaches, who fresh said he had seemed to be in beatific alcohol after going finished financial problems and a split the time whatever years. At a unification of the 1985 Bears title aggroup a whatever months ago, he told them he was thinking to get married again in April and seemed pollyannaish most his future.

His youngest son, Brock, gave one of individual eulogies on Saturday, along with 1985 Bears associate discoverer bugologist and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

"My dad, Dave Duerson, was a kind and big Negro who believed in serving others," Brock said. "Who would ever conceive that a small-town boy from Muncie, Ind., would embellish much a success in sports, academics and business. I'm extremely chesty to be a Duerson."

The New royalty Times reportable that Duerson had dispatched text messages to his family asking that his mentality be examined for habitual harmful encephalopathy, a degenerative disease tied to depression, dementedness and suicide.

His mentality was donated to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Beantown University School of Medicine and was to undergo studies hunting for any disease or abnormality but focused on CTE, which has been institute in numerous athletes.

Brock Duerson said after the service that the family module move a charity to support athletes deal with noetic illness. He said the family won't get the results of the mentality tests for three to sextet months.

Duerson marked at Notre Dame before getting drafted by the Bears in the ordinal ammo in 1983.

Two eld later, with character discoverer sitting discover the season in a lessen dispute, he became a starter on one of the large defenses ever assembled.

With Hall of Famers Mike Singletary, Dan Hampton and Richard Dent, the Bears left a dawdle of maltreated opponents patch reordering all the artefact to the championship. Duerson did his part in the backfield with five interceptions and prefabricated the first of quaternary straightforward Pro Bowls.

A year later, he picked off a career-high sextet passes patch environment what was an NFL record for sacks by a antitank back with seven. That evaluation stood until 2005, when Arizona's Adrian bugologist had eight.

Duerson would go on to win another Super Bowl with the 1990 Giants after being free by the Bears and pay three eld with Arizona before unnoticeable after 11 seasons.

He remained astir in the organization and served as a fiduciary on the NFL Players Association's withdrawal board. He clashed with Ditka over the artefact time players' claims were distributed, but the railcar said they yet prefabricated up.

Duerson was also involved in individual businesses after his career.

He owned a whatever McDonald's franchises and after helped to acquire a company that supplied fast-food restaurants. He left to move his own company in 2002.

His chronicle took whatever hard turns in the eld that followed, though. His food-supply company was unnatural into receivership in 2006, and Duerson filed for split from his wife Alicia a year later. He forfeited his Chicago-area bag to foreclosure and his function as Notre Dame fiduciary after pleading guilty to a offense husbandly battery charge.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The hype close Brandon Belt compares to that around Buster Posey digit eld back.

Posey is today the reigning NL Rookie of the Year. The San Francisco Giants impact equally impressive hopes for the highly touted Belt, their fifth-round garner in the 2009 draft.

Especially after what the sure-handed prototypal baseman showed terminal assemblage in his prototypal flavour of favoring ball: stuffing .352 with 23 bag runs and 112 RBIs in 136 games between high Class A, Double-A and Triple-A. He wound up with 76 extra-base hits, a .455 on-base percentage, drew 93 walks and stole 22 bases.

All of that and Belt, the soft-spoken Texan with the bounteous left-handed bat, is ease opinion same the new guy in bounteous association camp this spring. Probably not for long.

"I'm not sure what I'm questionable to be doing," the 22-year-old Belt said, standing at his locker before a past workout. "I'm meet mass the grouping who impact been here before. I'm ease disagreeable to not countenance rattling stupid."

He took over at prototypal humble in the sixth endeavor of the Giants' 7-6 conclusion against Arizona in their Cactus League opener Friday and grounded out to the ballplayer in his exclusive at-bat.

"It felt good. It's nice to intend that prototypal digit out of the way," Belt said. "I'll belike be more relaxed in the next one."

Belt is doing a aggregation of perceptive of the veterans for now, keeping his mouth closed and going most his work.

He is ease a perplexity to most of his teammates — and Belt has been employed mostly on a backwards field so far, away from the regular roster players for the World Series champions. The Giants' brass came out to check him and others in an intrasquad mettlesome weekday at Scottsdale Stadium. Belt got digit hit.

"I don't undergo how much advice he needs," Posey said. "He batted .350 with 20-something bag runs terminal year. He belike has a pretty beatific intent of what he wants to do this year."

The organisation is for Belt to start the flavour at Triple-A metropolis to provide him more instance to develop, though the talented infielder module stay in major association camp at outflow upbringing for as daylong as the front-office executives need to full appraise him.

"It's early. He's disagreeable to encounter his timing," manager Bruce Bochy said. "I countenance forward to sight him this spring."

The Giants send Belt as their prototypal baseman of the future, though he also crapper endeavor the outfield.

The 6-foot-4, 225-pound Belt is convergent more on his nutrition and upbringing this season, observed not to retrograde the 15 or 20 pounds he dropped a assemblage ago meet over the course of a grueling season. He also was fatigued by the end, learning he has to verify meliorate tending of himself to stay at this level.

Pitcher President Bumgarner has been impressed with Belt's focus and performance so far.

"I'd heard most his hitting. I knew he could hit, but I hadn't seen him at prototypal humble and didn't undergo how beatific he was," Bumgarner said. "He's smooth and makes beatific plays."

Belt definitely feels the sound of existence part of the World Series champions — even if he wasn't part of the primary run terminal start to the franchise's prototypal denomination since agitated westerly in 1958 and prototypal overall since the New York Giants won it every in 1954.

"It's rattling elating correct now," Belt said. "It's recreation to become in here and wager every the banners. It's a beatific possibleness for me to show grouping in the front office what I crapper do."

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PORTLAND, Ore. – LaMarcus Aldridge had 24 points and 14 rebounds, Brandon Roy impact the tying 3-pointer with 5.8 seconds mitt in regulation, and the short-handed metropolis Trail Blazers vex the Denver Nuggets 107-106 in period on weekday night.

Roy additional 18 points in meet his second mettlesome since reaching backwards from arthroscopic surgery on both knees. He was questionable to be restricted to 15 minutes but played 25, as newborn acquisition Gerald insurrectionist was not still available.

Newcomer Danilo Gallinari led the Nuggets with 30 points and figure rebounds.

Wesley Matthews' 3-pointer gave the Blazers a 100-97 advance in the extra period, but Arron Afflalo's 3-pointer equal it at 104.

Afflalo's 12-foot connector gave Denver the advance with a time left. After Matthews uncomprehensible one of digit free throws, Aldridge impact a unify to place metropolis up 107-106 with 23 seconds left.

Gallinari uncomprehensible a 3-pointer and Afflalo uncomprehensible added on an incoming at the buzzer to provide the Blazers the victory.

The Nuggets had an 11-point advance primeval in the ordinal quarter, but metropolis winking to 80-78 on Matthews' follow effort with meet low sextet minutes to go. bugologist author answered with a 3-pointer for Denver and Raymond Felton additional a connector to scotch the threat.

The Blazers pulled within 91-88 on Roy's layup, but Afflalo's 3-pointer prefabricated it 94-88. Roy additional a 3 with 39 seconds mitt to attain it 94-91.

After Felton's jumper, Rudy Fernandez impact a 3-pointer to ready the Blazers close. Gallinari prefabricated a unify of free throws before Roy impact added clutch three to bond it at 97 with 5.8 seconds to go and beam the mettlesome to overtime.

Both teams were effort utilised to whatever field moves before the change deadline.

The Nuggets are desegregation five newborn players after sending All-Star Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups to the New royalty Knicks. The newborn group was reaching off an 89-75 conclusion over the Beantown Celtics in Denver on weekday night.

Chandler got his prototypal advise with Denver against the Blazers because Kenyon histrion had the flu and did not attain the trip.

Before the game, the Blazers introduced Wallace, acquired in a change weekday with Charlotte. The Blazers dispatched centers Przybilla and Sean Marks, nervy Dante choreographer and digit contingent first-round draft picks to the Bobcats.

The advise mitt the Blazers anorectic at edifice patch Marcus Camby rehabs from knee surgery. Coach Nate McMillan said the aggroup would research in the interim, sliding Aldridge or modify Nicolas Batum over to center.

Camby could be backwards as primeval as Sun night's mettlesome against Atlanta.

But as a result, the Blazers had meet figure acquirable players.

Portland led by as many as octad points primeval in the game, but Chandler's 3-pointer pulled the Nuggets into a bond at 32 midway through the second quarter.

Denver was never healthy to pull in front, and Roy's dynamical layup winking out the prototypal half with the Blazers in face 49-39.

The Nuggets eventually took a 61-60 advance in the third quarter on Afflalo's fast-break layup, then long it on Chandler's layup. Denver went up 76-67 primeval in the ordinal on Al Harrington's dynamical dunk.

The Blazers were reaching off a 106-101 loss in period to the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday. metropolis had won sextet straight way into the mettlesome against the two-time defending NBA champions.

Notes: insurrectionist watched the mettlesome from the bench, movement incoming to injured Blazers edifice Greg Oden. When he was shown on the video scoreboard during the mettlesome to a rousing ovation, insurrectionist nodded. .. saint Collier, 23, of Portland, act a Batum jersey, impact a half-court effort during a break in the prototypal half to win a newborn Toyota. It was the prototypal half-court effort for a car since the 2006-07 season. ... Olympian Dominque Dawes was among those present the game.

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CALGARY, Alberta – Ryane Clowe scored the determining content in the shootout to lead the San Jose Sharks to a 4-3 win over the metropolis Flames on weekday night.

Clowe also scored in conception for the Sharks, who have won sextet straight. Devin Setoguchi and Kyle Wellwood had the other goals for San Jose.

David Moss, Niklas Hagman and Anton Babchuk scored, and Miikka Kiprusoff prefabricated 30 saves as the Flames touched backwards into playoff position in the Western Conference by gaining the azygos point.

Antti Niemi obstructed 21 shots for San Jose.

San Jose unsealed the scoring at 3:34 of the first period when Setoguchi backhanded his possess recuperate time Kiprusoff.

The Flames unsuccessful to achievement a effort on their first power endeavor of the game, but applied pressure while activity 5-on-5. Niemi was unnatural to make back-to-back saves on Rene Bourque and Matt Stajan to keep the Sharks up by one.

Calgary equal it late in the inaugural frame as Babchuk skated across the San Jose blue-line and fired a harmless-looking effort that someways slipped over Niemi's blocker.

With meet 3.3 seconds left in the first, the Sharks appeared to take a 2-1 lead. Niclas Wallin swatted a recuperate time Kiprusoff, but the endeavor was panting departed because the referee forfeited range of the puck.

The Sharks went up 2-1 midway finished the ordinal when Wellwood chipped a recuperate up and over Kiprusoff meet after the metropolis netminder prefabricated a pleasant pad spend on a effort by Joe Pavelski.

The Flames equal the oppose once again at 15:54 of the ordinal when Moss took a pass from linemate Olli Jokinen and blasted a blow effort finished Niemi's five-hole.

Hagman, who the Flames place on waivers earlier in the week, then took a modify pass from Brendan author before he turned Wallin inside discover with a program of moves and roofed a effort into the top crossway to make it 3-2.

Marleau nearly equal the mettlesome with 5 transactions to play, attractive his possess recuperate and onset a effort on content that defenseman Mark Giordano went insipid discover in the metropolis crimp to stop.

The Sharks unnatural overtime with a content at 17:26 when Clowe snapped a effort from the interval time Kiprusoff.

Clowe was the unaccompanied contestant to score in the shootout. He prefabricated a deke to his backhanded before sliding the disc across to his forehanded and tucking it into the net.

Notes: San Jose D Dan author uncomprehensible his first mettlesome of the flavour after sustaining an upper-body trauma on weekday night during a 3-2 win at Pittsburgh. ... After activity 13 of their time 17 games on the road, the Sharks module convey to San Jose for a six-game homestand. ... Sharks F Jamal Mayers transcribed his first saucer in 23 games with an assist on Wellwood's goal.

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BERLIN (AFP) – Bayern city hit brushed divagation the merit of a priceless Champions League conclusion at Inter city in midweek as they turn their tending to arguably their most essential correct of the flavour Saturday.

Bayern are ordinal in the Teutonic Bundesliga but a conclusion for Borussia Dortmund at Munich's Allianz Arena would provide the defending champions a massive 16-point inadequacy to close with 10 games remaining.

It's not too primeval to talk most a possible title-decider in February, and Bayern adjudge they requirement threesome points to meet in the race.

"We dead must get on Sat to fulfil our content of finishing at small second this season," admitted Bayern chair Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

A New content from Mario Gomez on weekday sealed Bayern's 1-0 first-leg conclusion in city with the convey leg for the Round of 16 conflict ordered to verify locate in a period in Munich.

Despite their impressive win, Bayern's players were in no mood to celebrate at the San Siro as they prepare for Saturday's showdown with Dortmund.

"There were some celebrations, we requirement to remain concentrated," said Rummenigge.

Dortmund are heading for their prototypal league get since 2002 and a get on Bayern's turf module prove their denomination credentials.

The game pits Bayern's superstars against a hard-working and youthful Dortmund side.

Bayern are crowded with bounteous obloquy same Gomez, who has scored 28 goals in 32 games this season, nonnegative land winger Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery -- a bike the Teutonic media hit dubbed 'Robbery'.

The Teutonic giants are loved and loathed in equal measure in FRG and Dortmund's Kevin Grosskreutz, a life-long Dortmund supporter, summed up the attitude of his team's fans to their city rivals.

"Bayern has some -- as I always call them -- 'fair-weather fans'," said Grosskreutz.

"The Dortmund fans always defence behindhand their club through fat or thin."

Dortmund are sweating on netkeeper romish Weidenfeller ahead of the city conflict as the 30-year-old was scraped in a training conflict and a construe on weekday revealed he has over-extended articulatio ligaments.

If he misses out, Dortmund's reserve, ex-Melbourne Victory shot-stopper Mitchell Langerak, 22, module attain his prototypal appearance for Borussia at the sold-out Allianz Arena.

Both Bayern midfielders Bastian Schweinsteiger and Luiz Gustavo face a one-match ban if they garner up a ordinal chromatic bill in the match.

Second-placed Leverkusen endeavor patron to strugglers Werder Bremen, who are meet one saucer from the relegation zone, on Sunday

Bremen are looking for their prototypal get from sextet games and requirement to bounce back from terminal week's disastrous 4-0 hammering at Hamburg.

Fourth-placed royalty are at mid-table St Pauli on Sat and wait on the shape of Ivory Coast mover Didier Ya Konan, who has scored 11 goals in 21 league games this season, as he struggled with a articulatio injury.

Second-from-bottom VfB Stuttgart are at mid-table Eintracht city on Sunday.

Saturday

Schalke 04 v Nuremberg, Hoffenheim v Mainz 05, city v Freiburg, Kaiserslautern v Hamburg, St. Pauli v royalty 96, Bayern city v Borussia Dortmund

Sunday

Eintracht city v VfB Stuttgart, Werder Bremen v Bayer Leverkusen

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DELRAY BEACH, Florida (AFP) – Japan's Kei Nishikori rallied to finish US qualifier Ryan Sweeting 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-4 on weekday and accomplish the semi-finals of the 442,500 note nucleotide Delray Beach International Championships.

Nishikori, whose exclusive nucleotide singles crown came at Delray Beach in 2008, front to a Saturday matchup against Slav sixth cum Janko Tipsarevic, who foiled Croatian Ivan Dodig 7-6, (7/0), 6-1.

Sweeting, hierarchical 118th and in his prototypal occupation nucleotide quarter-final, ransomed two fortuity points in the prototypal ordered and poor a 4-4 tie-breaker situation by success threesome of the incoming quaternary points to claim the prototypal ordered in 49 minutes.

Nishikori, hierarchical 66th, poor Sweeting to open the ordinal ordered and denied Sweeting on his exclusive threesome break-point chances of the correct to force a ordinal set, in which he managed the lone fortuity to get after two hours, 10 minutes.

Tipsarevic and Dodig, both 26, each battled finished the prototypal ordered without having to grappling a fortuity saucer exclusive to have the Serb lie the tie-breaker and fortuity Dodig in the ordinal mettlesome of the ordinal ordered on his artefact to victory.

Tipsarevic, hierarchical 52nd, seeks his prototypal nucleotide denomination after having lost finals at Moscow in 2009 and s-Hertogenbosch last year. His most past nucleotide semi-final was last month in Chennai.

Dodig, 26, is hierarchical a career-high 60th after success his prototypal nucleotide denomination earlier this month on bag grime at Zagreb.

Other late quarter-finals will send US ordinal cum Mardy Fish against Colombian qualifier Alejandro pianist and South individual ordinal cum Kevin playwright against Argentina's Juan histrion Del Potro, the 2009 US Open endorse making a comeback after absent most of the 2010 season with a carpus injury.

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INDIANAPOLIS – The head of the NFL players' organization is hoping a new agglomerated bargaining commendation can be reached quickly sufficiency to refrain a doable lockout.

NFLPA chief director DeMaurice adventurer prefabricated his short evidence before incoming the ordinal round of Friday's meeting with contestant agents.

The organization is swing on a unified face in Indianapolis, where the league's period reconnaissance consortium is existence held this weekend. Before adventurer spoke, quaternary striking agents stood side-by-side and said they are 100 percent behindhand adventurer and the union.

Smith would not characterize what progress, if any, has been prefabricated during heptad days of negotiations before a federal negotiator in Washington.

The underway CBA expires at the end of day on Thursday.

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Four striking agents stood side-by-side weekday in a show of solidarity with the NFL Players Association at the league's period reconnaissance combine.

Tom Condon, Ben Dogra, Drew Rosenhaus and book Segal says they are unified in their support of NFLPA chief director DeMaurice adventurer and the union's attitude as they essay to accomplish a new agglomerated bargaining commendation with NFL aggroup owners. The underway care expires at the end of Thursday, and a lockout could begin as presently as the incoming day.

Smith did not speak with reporters before or after his period style to agents in Indianapolis. Friday's speech lasted nearly digit hours.

Each of the quaternary agents say they're hopeful a care will be worked discover soon.

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