Новости за 31.03.2019

ALBANY, N.Y. — When Louisville star Asia Durr retreated to the refuge of the locker room after the final game of her college career, she held court one more time as tears rolled down her cheeks in the emotional aftermath of a lost chance to reach the Final Four a second straight time. Her message

CINCINNATI — Trevor Williams pitched six effective innings and drove in two runs, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the sloppy Cincinnati Reds 5-0 on Sunday. Williams picked up where he left off last season, when he was the only major leaguer to make 10 starts of at least six innings without allowing a run. The

ALBANY, N.Y. — Cheering UConn on to its victory over Louisville was 101-year-old Harold Oehler. He made the nearly 2-hour drive Sunday from Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and attended the game with a family friend. He was taking in his first postseason Huskies game after rooting them on for almost half a century. He couldn’t remember

PORTLAND, Ore. — Thanks to another stellar performance from Sabrina Ionescu and a lift from a home-state crowd, Oregon is heading to its first women’s Final Four. Ionescu had 31 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, and the second-seeded Ducks beat No. 1 seed Mississippi State 88-84 on Saturday. Satou Sabally had 22 points and

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Gordon has ended a no-hit bid by Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito with one out in the seventh inning. Giolito had retired 19 straight Kansas City Royals on Sunday following a four-pitch leadoff walk to Whit Merrifield. Gordon fouled off four consecutive pitches before lining a curveball into center

MIAMI — Sandy Alcantara pitched eight crisp innings, Jorge Alfaro drove in two runs and the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 3-0 on Sunday. Alcantara allowed four hits, struck out six and walked none in his longest outing in 15 major league appearances. The 23-year-old right-hander retired 14 straight hitters before Ryan McMahon reached

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — Police say one migrant from Bangladesh has been killed and six Pakistani migrants seriously injured when their driver told them to jump from the speeding vehicle, apparently because he had spotted a police patrol. North Macedonian police say the vehicle, which was carrying the Bangladeshi and 14 Pakistanis — was traveling

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Latest on the NASCAR Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway (all times local): 2 p.m. Ryan Newman and Alex Bowman will be going to the back of the 39-car field to start the NASCAR Cup race at Texas. Newman failed pre-race tech inspection twice, leading to the ejection of his

FRANKFURT, Germany — One of Russia’s richest women, S7 Group co-owner Natalia Fileva, has died in a small plane crash in Germany, the Russian airline operator said Sunday. Fileva, 55, was aboard a single-engine, six-seat Epic LT aircraft that crashed and burned in a field as it approached the small airport at Egelsbach, a town

LIVERPOOL, England — Liverpool returned to the top of the Premier League as a 90th-minute own-goal from Toby Alderweireld gave Juergen Klopp’s team all three points at Anfield on Sunday in a 2-1 win over third-placed Tottenham. Hugo Lloris couldn’t hold a header from Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah, instead sending the ball onto Alderweireld, who

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Construction workers have uncovered a time capsule that had long been rumored to be buried near the entrance of a northwestern Indiana zoo. Workers preparing for landscaping work at the Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette found a copper box on March 22 as they used equipment to move a boulder which once

April 1 1938 — Joe Louis knocks out Harry Thomas in the fifth round in Chicago to retain his world heavyweight title. 1940 — Governor Herbert Lehman of New York signs the Dunnigal bill, which legalizes pari-mutuel wagering and outlaws bookmakers at the state’s racetracks. 1972 — The first collective player’s strike in major league

April 1 1931 — Pitcher Virne Mitchell, 17, signed with the Chattanooga club of Tennessee, becoming the first woman to play for an otherwise all-male baseball team. 1972 — The first collective player’s strike in major league history began at 12:01 a.m. The strike lasted 12 days and canceled 86 games. 1989 — Jim McAllister

NEW YORK — Fox News host Jeanine Pirro is back on the air after a two-week absence following her comments questioning a Muslim congresswoman’s loyalties. “Justice with Judge Jeanine” returned Saturday. The former judge and prosecutor thanked her viewers but didn’t directly discuss her apparent suspension. Pirro asked on-air March 9 whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jimmie Johnson is starting on the NASCAR Cup pole at Texas, where Kyle Busch is going for a tripleheader weekend sweep. Busch has two career NASCAR tripleheader sweeps, at Bristol in 2010 and 2017. He missed out on the chance for another in Las Vegas four weeks ago when he finished

NEW YORK — Cathy Zoi has been promoting clean energy in the power sector for decades, holding leadership posts in both business and government. Then in 2016, greenhouse gas emissions from transportation exceeded the power sector for the first time, and Zoi pivoted to accelerate the transportation sector’s transition to clean energy. Zoi, 57, serves

SAKHIR, Bahrain — Lewis Hamilton’s surprise win for Mercedes at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday was the latest present from rival Ferrari, served on a silver plate and wrapped with a red ribbon. Hamilton won at a canter despite the Silver Arrows lagging behind the red-and-black Ferraris for most of the race. First, Sebastian

The Latest on the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern): 12:30 p.m. Two of college basketball’s most famed coaches go head to head Sunday for a spot in the Final Four. Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Michigan State’s Tom Izzo face off in the East regional final of the NCAA Tournament. Krzyzewski has

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s fair to say there would be no Final Four for Texas Tech if there weren’t plenty of places like Fort Scott. Fort Scott Community College in Kansas is one of the 11 stops Red Raiders coach Chris Beard made before he landed the top job in Lubbock, Texas, where he’s built

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Latest on the killing of a South Carolina college student (all times local): 4:35 p.m. The man charged with kidnapping and killing a college student who police say mistakenly got into his car did not appear at a jail hearing. Nathaniel David Rowland will remain in jail at least until his

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say a 47-year-old man was hospitalized after an argument turned violent outside Dodger Stadium. Police say the man was punched once by another man and fell to the ground in a parking lot following the six-hour game Friday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Christel Reyna says her husband, Rafael

ATLANTA — Atlanta Hawks center Dewayne Dedmon will miss the rest of the season with a left ankle injury. The Hawks say Dedmon has been scheduled for a non-surgical procedure to address ongoing left ankle soreness. He is expected to be cleared for regular workouts following what the team says will be a short rehabilitation

TORONTO — The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will discontinue operations on May 1, the league announced Sunday. The league announced the news a week after the 12th edition of its championship game, the Clarkson Cup. “Unfortunately, while the on-ice hockey is exceptional, the business model has proven to be economically unsustainable,” the league said in

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis-based shopping mall company Simon Property Group Inc. is testing an online shopping platform aiming to drive consumer traffic to its outlet stores across the nation at a time of rampant retail store closures. Shop Premium Outlets is scheduled to launch to the general public this spring. The platform features a curated selection

WASHINGTON — A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG. Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they just don’t get them. Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools’ Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines what’s