Новости за 10.02.2018

MIAMI — After all the deals and departures, Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly says he’s enthused about the upcoming season. Really, he is. “You probably think I’m crazy but I’m really excited about what’s going on,” Mattingly said Saturday during the team’s Fan Fest event at Marlins Park. “I can say it — look you

INDIANAPOLIS — Cameron Morse scored a season-high 28 points and Youngstown State held on to defeat IUPUI 84-80 on Saturday. Garrett Covington added 14 points, Jaylen Benton 12 and Tyree Robinson 11 for the Penguins (7-20, 5-9 Horizon League), who won the first meeting 85-62. T.J. Henderson led the Jaguars (8-17, 5-9) with a career-high

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Venus Williams used her 1,000th career singles match to get the United States off to a strong start in its Fed Cup title defense. CoCo Vandeweghe needed to stage a comeback to make sure that momentum continued. Williams and Vandeweghe won their singles matches Saturday to give the U.S. a 2-0 lead

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Venus Williams used her 1,000th career singles match to get the United States off to a strong start in its Fed Cup title defense. Williams defeated Arantxa Rus 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday to give the U.S. a 1-0 lead over the Netherlands on the U.S. Cellular Center’s indoor hard court. The 37-year-old

NEW YORK — Shamorie Ponds continued his incredible play by scoring 44 points and resurgent St. John’s, coming off consecutive victories over top-five teams, defeated Marquette 86-78 on Saturday. Ponds was 16-of-23 shooting, making 4 of 7 from the arc and 8 of 9 free throws in becoming the first St. John’s player to reach

MIAMI — School district officials in Florida have adopted a new policy after a 7-year-old boy was placed in handcuffs and removed from his school for behavior problems. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that Miami-Dade County school system administrators must now exhaust all other options in handling a child with behavior issues before requesting police

MANCHESTER, England — Sergio Aguero scored four goals as English Premier League leader Manchester City showed Riyad Mahrez what he was missing in a 5-1 thrashing of Leicester on Saturday. Mahrez returned as a substitute for Leicester after more than a week in self-imposed exile following the collapse of a move to City, but he

PHILADELPHIA — Donte DiVincenzo scored a career-high 30 points, Jalen Brunson had 27 and No. 1 Villanova bounced back from its second loss of the season, rallying past Butler 86-75 Saturday. Omari Spellman added 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Wildcats (23-2, 10-2 Big East), who avoided losing consecutive games for the first time

BOSTON — Miami coach Jim Larranaga missed Saturday’s game against Boston College with an illness. Spokesman Andy Fledderjohann said Larranaga said just before the tipoff that he was sick. He remained in the locker room when the game started. The 25th-ranked Hurricanes were instead coached by associate head coach Chris Caputo. Miami brought a three-game

PITTSBURGH — Freshman Ivan Raut scored a season-high 25 points on 8-of-11 shooting, Will Tavares and Prokop Slanina each had a double-double and Fordham beat Duquesne 80-57 on Saturday for its first road victory of the season. Tavares finished with 15 points, 10 rebounds and four assists and Slanina added 13 points with 11 boards.

NEW YORK — Diana Taurasi wants to make the most of her final go-round with USA Basketball. The four-time Olympic gold medalist is back for one more run at a world championship and potentially the 2020 Tokyo Olympics if she can stay healthy. “It’s made me more driven than ever to be healthy for it.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Florida continued to solidify its postseason prospects with a 65-41 win over South Carolina on Saturday. The Gators (17-8, 8-4 SEC) never fell off the NCAA Tournament bubble but losing three of four games before beating LSU earlier in the week dropped them from the Top 25 and lessened their chances of

MINSK, Belarus — Belarus and Germany finished 1-1 after the opening singles of their Fed Cup World Group tie on Saturday. After Aryna Sabalenka beat Tatjana Maria, playing her first tie for Germany in seven years, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, Belarus would have expected to go 2-0 up. But Antonia Lottner, making her Fed Cup debut

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Roland Griffin scored 22 points and Iona heated up in the second half to defeat Saint Peter’s 86-77 on Saturday. E.J. Crawford added 18 points and Zach Lewis and Schadrac Casimir had 15 points apiece for the Gaels (16-10, 10-4 Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference). Rickey McGill had eight points, nine assists and

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Kevin Huerter scored 22 points, Anthony Cowan Jr. added 16 and Maryland never trailed in its 73-57 victory over Northwestern on Saturday. The Terrapins (17-10, 6-8 Big Ten) made their first six shots and got 12 points from Huerter in bolting to 19-8 lead. After the Wildcats closed to 54-46 with

NEW YORK — Emmy-winning actor Reg E. Cathey, best known for “House of Cards” and “The Wire,” has died. Cathey died at age 59, according to a statement from Netflix published in numerous reports. No other details were given. “The Wire” creator David Simon, announcing his death in a tweet on Friday, called him a

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A Fort Wayne man has pleaded guilty to charges that he attacked his parents with a hammer that left his father dead and mother seriously injured. The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette reports that 51-year-old Scott L. Ruse pleaded guilty Friday in Allen Superior Court to murder and attempted murder after prosecutors

MILWAUKEE — A judge has awarded a Texas man exclusive custody of his abused daughter’s body, which has languished in the Milwaukee County morgue for two months amid a dispute with the girl’s mother, who is implicated in her death. Circuit Court Judge David Borowski granted Michael Krouser’s request at a hearing Friday, but he

LONDON — Javier Hernandez and Marko Arnautovic were on target as West Ham secured a crucial 2-0 win over Watford on Saturday to ease the London club’s relegation fears. West Ham moved level with Watford five points clear of the English Premier League drop zone. The victory, and performance, proved just how far West Ham

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Rapper Jay-Z brought his star power to a Florida peace rally in memory of slain teenager Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 23 this month. Local news outlets report that Jay-Z joined Martin’s parents onstage Saturday in Miami Gardens at the sixth annual Peace Walk & Peace Talk. The rally honors

MONTPELLIER, France — Richard Gasquet overcame a second-set meltdown to beat top-seeded David Goffin 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 and set up an all-French final against Lucas Pouille at the Open Sud de France on Saturday. Gasquet and Goffin dropped serve three times, but the fifth-seeded Gasquet had the edge by winning 79 percent of his first-serve

BARCELONA, Spain — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick as Real Madrid warmed up for its highly anticipated Champions league clash against Paris Saint-Germain by routing Real Sociedad 5-2 in the Spanish league on Saturday. Madrid has had a disappointing season and needed a strong performance before PSG visits the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday in

BARCELONA, Spain — Antoine Griezmann’s goal only 40 seconds into the game was all Atletico Madrid needed to beat Malaga 1-0 Saturday and close the gap with Spanish league leader Barcelona to six points. Griezmann scored moments after kickoff when he was the quickest to the ball after a long strike by Saul Niguez hit

ORLANDO, Fla. — Carlos Cordeiro was elected president of the U.S. Soccer Federation on Saturday, assuming control of an organization that must chart a new course after its men’s team failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup. Cordeiro has been the right-hand man of outgoing president Sunil Gulati. He now is charged with running

ORLANDO, Fla. — Carlos Cordeiro was elected president of the U.S. Soccer Federation on Saturday, assuming control of an organization that must chart a new course after its men’s team failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup. Cordeiro has been the right-hand man of outgoing president Sunil Gulati. He now is charged with running