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Blues rally from 3-goal deficit, lose to Bruins in shootout

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored the game-winning shootout goal as the Boston Bruins recovered from blowing a 3-0 lead to beat the St. Louis Blues 4-3 for its 60th win of the season.Linus Ullmark made 35 saves and stopped all three St. Louis shootout attempts to lead Boston to its third straight win.Jake DeBrusk, Tyler Bertuzzi and Oskar Steen all scored in regulation for Boston.Jordan Kyrou scored a pair of goals, and Torey Krug also scored for St. Louis.Jordan Binnington made 28 saves for St. Louis which lost its second straight game.Dmitry Orlov appeared to have scored the game-winner 2:24 into overtime, but after a quick review the goal was overturned as David Pastrnak was off-side entering the St. Louis zone.Kyrou scored his second goal of the game and team-leading 36th of the season with 25 seconds remaining in regulation after Binnington was pulled for an extra attacker to tie the game 3-all.Krug buried a rebound from Brandon Saad past Ullmark for his seventh goal of the...

Former Mizzou forward LaDhazia Williams helps LSU win national championship

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

DALLAS, Texas — A former Missouri women's basketball player is a champion with another SEC team.Former South Carolina and Mizzou forward LaDazhia Williams scored 20 points and five rebounds to help LSU win the women's basketball national championship over Iowa 102-85. LSU wins first NCAA championship, beating Caitlin Clark and Iowa Williams averaged 10 points and six rebounds in her graduate year with the LSU Tigers.She spent her first two seasons of college in Columbia, S.C. before heading to Columbia, Missouri to spend two years under coach Robin Pingeton. Mizzou extends contract for men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates She averaged 10.7 points, 4.1 rebounds and shot 56% from the floor.The Bradenton, Florida native was a key piece in the Tigers' title run averaging 13.8 points and 5.5 rebounds while shooting 59.7% from the floor.

Oakland: Three people shot in East Oakland neighborhoods

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

OAKLAND — Three people were injured in shootings in East Oakland neighborhoods, including two a short distance outside BART’s Fruitvale station Sunday, authorities said.Just before 5:15 p.m., police responded to reports of ShotSpotter activity near the 3300 block of East 12th Street.When officers arrived, they found a man near a convenience store suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his arm. A short distance away, officers found a second man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his legs.Officers soon found evidence of an initial shooting, including shell casings and broken glass, outside the store, as well as casings outside a nearby apartment building.In response, BART briefly ran trains through Fruitvale station without stopping, but resumed within ten minutes, according to system updates.After providing care to both victims, the men were taken to a hospital for treatment. Both victims’ conditions were not immediately available Sunday evening.Shortly...

2 people shot near Fruitvale BART station

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

OAKLAND, Calif. (BCN) -- Two people were shot near the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Sunday evening, briefly halting trains from stopping in the area. Police say they received calls of a person shot just before 5:15 p.m. in the 3300 block of E 12th Street. When officers arrived, they found two victims suffering from gunshot wounds. The Oakland Fire Department and Falck Ambulance personnel arrived and transported the victims were transported to a local hospital. Their conditions were unknown as of 7:20 p.m. Police say anyone with information about the shootings can call OPD's felony assault unit at (510) 238-3426. Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc. All rights reserved.

Kings wrap up playoff spot with 4-1 win over Canucks

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Alex Iafallo scored twice, Joonas Korpisalo made 21 saves and the Los Angeles Kings wrapped up a playoff spot with a 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.Arthur Kaliyev and Blake Lizzote — into an empty net — each had a goal and an assist for the Kings. Anze Kopitar added a pair of assists.Los Angeles improved to 45-22-10, winning for the second straight night after topping Seattle on Saturday.Brock Boeser scored for the Canucks and Thatcher Demko stopped 21 shots. The Canucks were eliminated from postseason contention earlier in the night when Winnipeg beat New Jersey. Vancouver has missed the playoffs three straight years and seven of eight.Iafallo put away his second goal of the night — and 14th of the season — on a power play 3:25 into the second after Jack Studnicka was called for tripping.Arvidsson fired a shot off the post and the rebound fell into traffic in front of the Vancouver net, where Iafallo muscled it in to the Ki...

Semien, Perez help Rangers win 2-1 to sweep NL-champ Phils

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Marcus Semien drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single in the fifth inning. Josh Jung homered and the Texas Rangers completed a season-opening series sweep of the defending NL champion Philadelphia Phillies with a 2-1 victory Sunday night.Martin Perez (1-0) allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings to win his season debut after setting career marks for ERA and strikeouts last season. Perez left with runners on first and second before Brock Burke, the first of three Texas relievers, retired Cristian Pache on a first-pitch foul out down the first-base line.Jonathan Hernandez got five outs and Will Smith pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn his first save of the season. Perez gave up eight hits, walked three and struck out seven to help the Rangers to their first 3-0 start since 2011 — when they won their second straight AL pennant.The Rangers, under first-year manager Bruce Bochy, are also three games over .500 for the first time since August 2019.“The whole weeke...

Kevin Durant scores 35 points, Suns roll past Thunder

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant scored 35 points and the Phoenix Suns held off the Oklahoma City Thunder 128-118 on Sunday night for their fifth straight victory.Durant — once a hero in Oklahoma City after leading the Thunder to the 2012 NBA Finals, but roundly booed nearly every time he touched the ball Sunday — scored 13 points in the fourth quarter and blocked a shot at the rim by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. That helped Phoenix hold the lead after Oklahoma City cut a 15-point deficit to three as the Suns improved to 6-0 with Durant in the lineup.Devin Booker added 22 points and 10 assists for Phoenix, which shot 56.8% from the field to match its season high. Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 11 rebounds and Chris Paul had 16 points and eight assists. Phoenix remained fourth in the Western Conference standings.“There’s not a way that he can’t score,” Phoenix coach Monty Williams said about Durant. “Those kind of players – they want those (clutch) shots. They’re so used to having the ...

Kelsea Ballerini joins drag artists at CMT Music Awards

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Kelsea Ballerini opened the CMT Music Awards with a tribute to victims of a school shooting while sharing in that community’s grief, then danced alongside drag artists as states across the country consider legally limiting drag show performances,Ballerini, a co-host of the annual awards show with singer Kane Brown, opened the Austin, Texas, show by listing the names of six victims three adults and three 9-year-olds who were killed Monday at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. She noted how she shared their pain, explaining that in 2008 she witnessed a school shooting in her hometown high school cafeteria in Knoxville and prayed for “real action” that would protect children and families. About two hours into the fan-voted awards show, the Tennessee native sang “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down Too)” and danced with Kennedy Davenport, Jan Sport, Manila Luzon and Olivia Lux, all stars of the show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”Her home st...

Antetokounmpo helps hot-shooting Bucks beat 76ers 117-104

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 33 points, 14 rebounds and six assists and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 117-104 on Sunday night to move a step closer to the top playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.The Bucks (56-22) have a two-game lead over Boston (54-24) with four games left. Boston won the season series with Milwaukee and has the tiebreaker. Philadelphia (51-27) is third in the East.Brook Lopez scored 21 points, Khris Middleton had 19 and Jrue Holiday and Bobby Portis each added 18 as the Bucks shot 57.5%. Middleton also had nine assists.Tyrese Maxey had 29 points and Joel Embiid 28 for the 76ers.The Bucks bounced back three nights after a 140-99 home loss to Boston that matched their most-lopsided defeat of the season. The Bucks never trailed thanks to a blistering start that enabled them to build a 31-15 lead.Milwaukee made its first first eight shots from the floor and 12 of its first 13. The Bucks were 5 of 5 from 3-point range during that stre...

NCAA Championship Most Points

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:55:02 GMT

102 — 2023 LSU97 — 1986 Texas93 — 2013 UConn93 — 1998 Tennessee88 — 1990 Stanford85 — x-2023 Iowa84 — 2005 Baylor84 — 1993 Texas Tech83 — 1996 Tennessee82 — 2019 Baylor82 — 2016 UConn82 — 2002 UConn82 — x-1993 Ohio State81 — x-2019 Notre Dame81 — x-1990 Auburn81 — x-1986 Southern Cal80 — 2012 Baylorx-lost championship gameSource