Новости за 08.12.2018

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Claude Giroux had a goal and three assists to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 6-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday. James van Riemsdyk added a goal and an assist as the Flyers opened a five-game road trip with their third win in 10 games. Ivan Provorov, Wayne Simmonds, Dale

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Raul Frias scored a career-high 21 points, shooting 7 for 9 from behind the 3-point arc, Raiquan Clark added 16 points with a career-high 15 rebounds plus two steals and two blocks and LIU Brooklyn broke away after halftime to defeat Saint Peter’s 74-58 on Saturday. The Blackbirds (5-4), who had

LONDON — For 45 minutes Chelsea was under siege, pinned back in its own half by Manchester City. With halftime approaching, Chelsea finally managed a shot from an unlikely source and broke through the impervious champions. Just when he seemed to be struggling to adapt to a more advanced attacking midfield role, N’Golo Kante got

INDIANAPOLIS — FedEx says an employee was killed in an accident at Indianapolis International Airport, where it has a large distribution hub. Information about how the Thursday night accident happened or the person killed weren’t immediately released. Indiana Department of Labor spokeswoman Stephanie McFarland says state workplace safety investigators were notified Friday and were reviewing

NEW YORK — Myles Cale hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 9.5 seconds left in overtime and Seton Hall overcame Keldon Johnson’s half-court heave that tied the score at the regulation buzzer, stunning No. 9 Kentucky 84-83 on Saturday in a thriller at Madison Square Garden. In one of the most exciting finishes of the season,

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Tyler Kohl scored 21 points with five rebounds and five assists to lead four teammates in double-figure scoring and Central Connecticut beat Division II Penn State Wilkes-Barre 79-58 on Saturday. Ian Krishnan hit three 3-pointers and scored 15 points, Joe Hugley added 14 off the bench and Deion Bute had 12

WASHINGTON — Elissa Cunane equaled her career high with 23 points, DD Rogers had a career-high 20 rebounds and No. 10 North Carolina State beat Georgetown 76-65 on Saturday. Kiara Leslie added 18 points as the Wolfpack improved to 10-0 for the first time since the 1997-98 season. Cunane scored 14 points in the second

TOLEDO, Ohio — Arike Ogunbowale scored 22 points as No. 2 Notre Dame topped Toledo 72-56 on Saturday, bouncing back after its loss to Connecticut last weekend. Jessica Shepard scored 16 points and had eight rebounds. Jackie Young had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Irish (8-1), who pulled away after leading by six

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Beetle Bolden scored 18 points to lead West Virginia to a 69-59 win over archrival Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl on Saturday. The Mountaineers (6-3) won the defensive slugfest by doing what it does best, force turnovers. Pitt’s 24 turnovers led to 22 points for their former Big East rivals. WVU also

MOSCOW — A Russian rights official says Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who was forced into exile by Soviet authorities after founding Russia’s oldest human rights organization in 1976, has died in a Moscow hospital at 91. Mikhail Fedotov, head of Russia’s Human Rights Council says Alexeyeva “remained a human rights activist to the very end” and called

BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela — Dozens of Venezuelans waited in lines outside a chapel in the state of Lara on Saturday, hoping to bid farewell to former major league baseball player Luis Valbuena, who was killed in a car accident along with teammate Jose Castillo. The corpse of Castillo was moved earlier in the morning to a

CALGARY, Alberta — Julia Taubitz of Germany got her first World Cup women’s luge win of the season Saturday, holding off Olympic champion and fellow German star Natalie Geisenberger by about one-tenth of a second. Taubitz finished two runs in 1 minute, 33.408 seconds. Geisenberger’s time was 1:33.512, and Canada’s Kimberley McRae took third in

LONDON — Chelsea inflicted Manchester City’s first loss of the Premier League season on Saturday, winning 2-0 as the champions were replaced by Liverpool in top spot. After losing two of its last three league games, Chelsea was forced to repel waves of City attacks before N’Golo Kante scored from the team’s first shot on

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jordan Poole scored 19 of his 26 points in the second half, and No. 5 Michigan remained unbeaten with an 89-78 victory over South Carolina on Saturday. The Gamecocks (4-5) scored more points than any team all season against Michigan. But the Wolverines (10-0) were ahead by six at halftime, and

EVANSTON, Ill. — Vic Law had 25 points, A.J. Turner added a career-high 24 and Northwestern rallied from a 15-point deficit with less than 10 minutes remaining for a 75-68 victory over DePaul on Saturday. Dererk Pardon had 10 points and eight rebounds as the Wildcats (7-3) snapped a two-game losing streak. Northwestern has won

PARIS — Late Friday night, the air on the Champs-Elysees was thick with perfume: heady blends of lavender, rose and other enticing scents wafting out of chic boutiques and perfumeries aglitter with Christmas tinsel. A day later, on what turned out to be yet another angry Saturday, Paris’ most famous boulevard simply reeked of tear

WASHINGTON — The more that special counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors reveal, the darker grow the legal clouds over President Donald Trump. Trump’s own Justice Department has now implicated him in a crime, accusing him of directing illegal hush-money payments to women during his 2016 presidential campaign. Mueller keeps finding new instances of Trump

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Ducks have extended general manager Bob Murray’s contract for two seasons. The extension announced Saturday means that Murray is now under contract through the 2021-22 season. Murray is in his 11th season as executive vice president and GM. He joined Anaheim in 2005 as senior vice president of hockey operations.

TUNIS, Tunisia — Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have staged a protest in Tunisia’s capital against Israel and its policies toward the Palestinians. The protest on Saturday was held outside the Tourism Ministry. The country’s named tourism minister is Jewish, which is unusual in this majority Muslim country. The protesters are angry about Israeli settlements and

ABILENE, Texas — Jalone Friday scored 21 points, Hayden Farquhar added 15 and grabbed five rebounds, and Abilene Christian beat Division III Schreiner University 93-53 on Saturday in a game that was briefly delayed when a bat landed on the floor and was scooped up in a big fishing net. The Wildcats were up 24-18

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. has been ruled out for Sunday’s game against the Redskins with a quadriceps injury. He did not travel to Washington with the team. Beckham appeared on the team’s injury report Friday with a bruised quadricep and practiced on a limited basis. He was

PARIS — The defending champion United States is again placed in a group with Sweden for the Women’s World Cup next summer in France. The draw for soccer’s premier tournament was held Saturday at a gala event in Paris amid a backdrop of unrest in the country. There were widespread clashes between police and demonstrators

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces said Saturday they uncovered another Hezbollah tunnel dug from Lebanon, an announcement that came shortly after troops fired at suspected members of the Lebanese militant group who approached the site of Israeli army engineering working to thwart tunnels. The find makes this at least the second cross-border tunnel discovered since Israel

PARIS — The Latest on the draw for the Women’s World Cup (all times local): 6:20 p.m. U.S. women’s national team midfielder Carli Lloyd says she’s confident the Americans will successfully defend their title next summer at the Women’s World Cup. Lloyd scored three goals in the final in the 2015 World Cup in Canada,

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United ended a four-match Premier League winless run as Jose Mourinho’s sixth-place team eased to a 4-1 victory over rock-bottom Fulham in the Premier League on Saturday. Ashley Young struck into the top corner to put United ahead in the 13th minute, Juan Mata coolly slotted in the second from Marcus