Новости за 11.03.2016

WASHINGTON - After little-used Virginia senior Evan Nolte let fly a corner 3-pointer while getting fouled, he wound up on the ground. So he couldn't tell whether the shot went in - until all those roars from a partisan ACC Tournament crowd that soon was chanting his name.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota - The only times Connor McDavid's super skills have been absent from the ice this season were those 37 games he missed because of that broken collarbone.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Reggie Upshaw had 17 of his 27 points in the second half Thursday night and Middle Tennessee beat Charlotte 79-61 in the Conference USA tournament quarterfinals.

DENVER - Emmanuel Mudiay scored a career-high 30 points in a matchup of rookie guards, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Phoenix Suns 116-98 on Thursday night.

ANAHEIM, California - Luke Nelson scored a career-high 36 points and UC Irvine routed Cal Poly 84-64 Thursday night in a Big West Conference tournament quarterfinal.

SUNRISE, Florida - Jaromir Jagr continues to play well, especially on home ice.

DETROIT - Justin Abdelkader made sure the Detroit Red Wings didn't have to deal with another loss.

LANSING, Michigan - Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday released another 4,400 pages of his executive office's emails and documents related to the lead-contaminated water in Flint. The disclosure is the third voluntary release of such records, which have revealed his administration's inner dialogue before the crisis and as it grew after the financially struggling city left Detroit's water system and started using the Flint River to save money.

BOSTON - The Carolina Hurricanes didn't give the Boston Bruins much of a chance in overtime.

LAS VEGAS - Julien Lewis had 27 points and No. 2 seed Fresno State beat seventh-seeded UNLV 95-82 in the Mountain West Conference tournament quarterfinals on Thursday night.

CLEVELAND - Willie Conner scored 25 points, Blake Hamilton grabbed 16 rebounds and defending champion Buffalo advanced to the Mid-American Conference tournament semifinals on Thursday night with a 94-81 win over Miami (Ohio).

NEW YORK - Peyton Aldridge scored 27 points and Davidson moved into the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 tournament with a 78-63 victory over LaSalle on Thursday night.

SAN ANTONIO - Kawhi Leonard had 29 points and LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 10 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs won their 31st straight at home to open the season by upending the short-handed Chicago Bulls 109-101 on Thursday night.

NORFOLK, Virginia - Javaris Jenkins scored five of his 12 points in the final 51 seconds to help Savannah State hold back Bethune-Cookman's late rally for a 57-50 victory on Thursday night in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinal.

KATY, Texas - Dakarai Henderson scored the winning layup with less than a second left and Sam Houston State beat Nicholls State 60-59 in the second round of the Southland Conference tournament Thursday night.

NEW ORLEANS - Kavin Gilder-Tilbury hit four 3-pointers and finished with 18 points, and Bobby Conley buried a 3 with 2.5 seconds left to lift seventh-seeded Texas State over No. 6 seed Georgia State 63-61 Thursday night in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference tournament.

To Rakeem Jones, flanked on all sides by uniformed sheriff's deputies, it was more than just the shock of being ejected from a political rally for Donald Trump. The black man felt as if he was being transported back in time.

SAN ANTONIO - Kawhi Leonard had 29 points and LaMarcus Aldridge had 26 points and 10 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs won their 31st straight at home to open the season by upending the short-handed Chicago Bulls 109-101 on Thursday night.

INDIANAPOLIS - Military veterans receiving treatment in VA hospitals in Indiana soon will be enrolled in a new program aimed at curbing opioid abuse among them.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - A South Bend Common Council member has introduced a proposal to ban smoking in all public places in the northern Indiana city.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Some of the back and forth between Mississippi and Alabama had to be seen to be believed as Rebels senior guard Stefan Moody coolly sank 3-pointers to answer Alabama's proficiency from long range.

TORONTO - DeMar DeRozan had 30 points and five rebounds and the Toronto Raptors overcame some early sloppiness to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 104-96 Thursday night.

RENO, Nevada - Martin Breunig scored 24 points and grabbed 16 rebounds and second-seeded Montana defeated No. 10 seed Sacramento State 70-53 in a Big Sky tournament quarterfinal Thursday night.

DETROIT - Bill Gadsby, a Hall of Fame defenseman who played 20 seasons in the NHL for Chicago, Detroit and the New York Rangers, has died. He was 88.

TOKYO - Friday marks the fifth anniversary of the powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan, swallowing coastal villages, leaving more than 18,000 people dead or missing and devastating large swaths of the country's northeastern coastal area. Some places are still unlivable and require massive reconstruction to restore infrastructure, houses and people's lives. Here's a look, by the numbers, at the March 11, 2011, disaster: