Jan 13
Jan 13
Jan 13
Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips has decided to have the NFC’s Super Bowl favorite open the playoffs with a different look on offense. According to Cowboys sources, Pro Bowl running back Marion Barber will replace season-long starter Julius Jones in Sunday’s game against the New York Giants.
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Jan 13
No. 6 OU falls at No. 24/25 Oklahoma State in 80th Bedlam battle
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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — With the way Andrea Riley kept scoring, No. 6 Oklahoma tried just about everything to slow her down. Even the kind of double-teams the Sooners normally see deployed against Courtney Paris. None of them worked. Riley scored a career-high 45 points and Oklahoma State (No. 24 ESPN/USA Today, No. 25 AP) ended its longest losing streak ever in the Bedlam rivalry by knocking off Oklahoma 82-63 on Saturday night. “Half of the players were on her, and she still scored. She just took over this game,” Oklahoma State’s Maria Cordero said. “She was scoring, and you might as well let her keep the ball because she was scoring and no one could guard her.” With the teams both in the Top 25 for the first time ever in the 80-game series, Riley and the Cowgirls (14-1, 2-0 Big 12) were in control from the beginning. Riley scored all 14 of Oklahoma State’s points during one second-half stretch, extending the lead to 57-38 with a 3-pointer from the left wing. The lead reached as many as 23 at one point. “It was all because of my teammates. My teammates pumped me up so much,” Riley said. “Without them, I would be so arrogant, so cocky, so all of that.” Riley got both of Oklahoma’s point guards in deep foul trouble with drives to the basket and was equally deadly from long range, going 4-for-7 from 3-point range. Late in the game, Oklahoma (10-3, 1-1) tried to double-team the speedy guard as she brought the ball upcourt but it only resulted in more fouls 30 feet away from the basket. “They were having trouble guarding her, they had a little bit of foul trouble and we were going to keep going to her until they stopped her,” Cowgirls coach Kurt Budke said. By the time the first 2 1/2 minutes of the second half had passed, Riley had sent Oklahoma’s Danielle Robinson and Jenna Plumley to the bench with four fouls apiece. Sooners coach Sherri Coale said she didn’t come in with a Plan C. “It was just hard. Any time we tried to do anything, she got a free throw,” Coale said. “It’s hard when a player is that far away from the basket to do anything.” Riley’s 45 points were the most ever scored by a Cowgirls player at Gallagher-Iba Arena and the second-most in school history, behind Donna Ridling’s 51 against Tulsa in 1978. Fans stormed the court after the game, and Budke — who wore a bright orange sportcoat — shouted into a microphone to thank the crowd of 13,611. “We could not have done this tonight without the greatest crowd in America,” Budke said. “I think tonight we might have seen the best player in the conference in Andrea Riley.” Courtney Paris, who scored 41 points in Oklahoma’s win last season in Stillwater, had 15 points and 19 rebounds for her 74th consecutive double-double. Amanda Thompson added 18 points and Nyeshia Stevenson scored 10. “We just need to play harder. That’s what it comes down to,” said Paris, the reigning AP player of the year. “OSU played great, Andrea Riley played awesome honestly, but we’ve got to play harder.” Danielle Green posted 17 points and a career-best 12 rebounds for Oklahoma State, which drew its first-ever sellout for a women’s game.
Most of Oklahoma’s 17-game winning streak against Oklahoma State, which included wins by double figures in their last 11 meetings. Not this time.
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Rochester Americans
HAMILTON – Mark Mancari had two goals and an assist to lead the Rochester Americans to a 7-3 win over the Hamilton Bulldogs in American Hockey League action Saturday.
Dylan Hunter, Marek Zagrapan, Mike Weber, Marc-Andre Gragnani and Drew Larman added goals for Rochester (12-26-1-2).
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Jan 13
QMJHL
Francis Pare continued setting the pace for top spot in the QMJHL points race, but it wasn’t enough to propel his Sangueneens past the Lewiston Maineiacs Saturday.
Pare scored a goal in Chicoutimi’s (24-18-1-3) 5-2 loss to take sole position of the overall lead, a point ahead of Saint John’s Christopher DiDomenico. Pare has 33 goals and 35 assists in 45 games.
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Jan 13
U.S.A. wins championship
CALGARY – The Americans came out on top in the latest chapter of the women’s hockey rivalry between Canada and the U.S.
The Canadians fell short in their bid to win the first women’s world under-18 women’s hockey championship with a stinging 5-2 loss to the U.S. on Saturday.
Canada won the gold medal in the inaugural women’s world hockey championship in 1990 in Ottawa and captured eight of nine titles after that.
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Jan 13
The head of women’s tennis yesterday reiterated his suspicions about the possible involvement of the Russian mafia in fixing matches as he warned that corruption would be the first item on his agenda when he addresses players before the start of the Australian Open next week.
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Jan 13
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Now what will he do to stay calm?
Anyone who watched his final round duel against Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in last summer’s U.S. Open saw a twitchy Angel Cabrera chain-smoking over the final holes. Smoking was his habit, and it helped Angel deal with the nerve-shattering moments between the biggest shots of his life.
No more.
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Jan 13
Lauren Schober paced four Bison in double figures with 17 points and Kesha Champion added 15 points and a career-high 11 assists as the Bucknell women’s basketball team opened Patriot League play with a 71-45 victory over Navy Saturday night at Alumni Hall. It was the third consecutive year the Bison began their conference schedule with a win of at least 20 points against the Mids.
Bucknell, which is now 12-6 all-time in Patriot League openers, including 7-2 against Navy, shot an impressive 55.6 percent in the first half and 44.8 percent overall.
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