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JuJu Watkins scores 30 points for record 4th 30-point game as No. 6 USC routs Cal Poly 85-44

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — JuJu Watkins scored 30 points for her record-setting fourth 30-point game of the season after getting hit in the nose and No. 6 Southern California routed Cal Poly 85-44on Tuesday night.Watkins snapped a tie with Trojan greats Lisa Leslie and Paula McGee, who had three 30-point efforts in their freshman years. Watkins was 10 of 19 from the floor and made all seven of her free throw attempts to go with four rebounds, four assists and four turnovers.Watkins had 32 points in her collegiate debut against Ohio State, then scored 35 against Le Moyne and 31 against Penn State.It took a collision under the basket with Cal Poly’s Natalia Ackerman to get USC’s star freshman out of the game in the third quarter with the Trojans leading by 26 points.The Mustangs scored nine points in a row while Watkins was in the locker room getting her right nostril plugged. She returned to the court with 36 seconds left in the third and made a pair of free throws.The quarter en...

Forsberg scores in OT, Predators beat Penguins 3-2 for 6th straight win

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Filip Forsberg scored 14 seconds into overtime to give the Nashville Predators their sixth straight victory, 3-2 over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.Michael McCarron scored twice and Juuse Saros made 29 saves for Nashville.“It definitely brings confidence and a good feeling when you’re winning,” Nashville coach Andrew Brunette said. “It’s amazing in this game and in any sport how that kind of happens.”Evgeni Malkin and Bryan Rust scored and Tristan Jarry made 23 saves for the Penguins, who have lost three of four.Forsberg skated the length of the ice and beat Jarry on the glove side for the game-winner. As Forsberg crossed the blue line, Nashville’s Ryan O’Reilly collided with Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby, creating space for Forsberg to skate into the slot.“I think (O’Reilly) was just kind of standing there and everybody wanted his ice and everyone ran into each other,” Forsberg said. “(It created) a lot of room. It was good.”Pittsburgh coach Mi...

Michael Bunting scores as Carolina Hurricanes beat Philadelphia Flyers 4-1

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Michael Bunting had a goal and an assist, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Tuesday night.Seth Jarvis and Brendan Lemieux also scored as the Hurricanes won for the fourth time in five games. Sebastian Aho had two assists and Pyotr Kochetkov made 27 saves.“I thought we didn’t really have too many lulls in there,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We had a couple shifts that weren’t really good but for the most part we stuck to the game plan, what we needed to do and we pulled it out.”Travis Konecny scored for Philadelphia.“Definitely wasn’t our best game tonight,” Konecny said.Lemieux snapped a 1-1 tie with 6:35 left in the second period. He capitalized on Scott Laughton’s turnover in front of Philadelphia’s net and shot past Flyers goalie Carter Hart. Lemieux was a late addition to the lineup due to Andrei Svechnikov’s illness.“I thought he was really good,” Brind’Amour said. “That line was really good. He got...

Evans scores 32, Jackson State knocks off Arkansas State 75-71

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Ken Evans Jr. scored 32 points to lead Jackson State over Arkansas State 75-71 on Tuesday night.Evans added five rebounds for the Tigers (2-6). Chase Adams scored 10 points, shooting 3 of 8 from the field and 4 for 4 from the line. Derrian Ford led the Red Wolves (2-5) in scoring, finishing with 14 points. Taryn Todd added 12 points and three steals for Arkansas State. In addition, Terrance Ford Jr. had nine points and five assists.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Braden Smith flirts with triple-double again as No. 1 Purdue routs Texas Southern 99-67

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue coach Matt Painter understood Braden Smith was chasing history Tuesday night.He just wasn’t going to let it happen by running up the stats.For the second time this season, Smith flirted with posting the second triple-double in the Boilermakers’ storied history, settling instead for leading newly minted No. 1 Purdue to a 99-67 rout over Texas Southern.Smith finished with 19 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds after having one board added with a postgame scoring change. Joe Barry Carroll, a No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, is the only Purdue player to achieve the feat, which came in December 1977.“There’s nothing wrong with it if he’s still in the game,” Painter said. “But once you take somebody out, you don’t cheat the game. You don’t put him back in to get a record, which is really cool, right? I want him to get it, but not at the expense of the other coach.”Just 2 1/2 weeks ago, Smith joked he was upset he didn’t get his shot at a triple-double when ...

Artūras Karnišovas faces reality of Chicago Bulls’ dismal 5-14 start: ‘I’m not running from it. It’s my responsibility.’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

The Chicago Bulls are stuck in a hole. It’s unavoidable. And executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas knows it.A 5-14 record. A five-game losing streak. A star player pushing for a trade. The first five weeks of the season have quickly tanked any hopes the rebuild centered on Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan and Nikola Vučević would finally begin to click.Karnišovas acknowledged the gravity of the situation in a brief conversation with three reporters at the team’s shootaround in Boston before Tuesday night’s 124-97 loss to the Celtics.“We see what everyone is seeing and are just as frustrated,” Karnišovas said. “We’re disappointed, but I’m not running from it. It’s my responsibility.”This is not the season the Bulls were expecting. That has been clear from top to bottom. The front office returned the majority of the roster with the expectation the Bulls could build off th...

Skateboarder seriously hurt after being struck by vehicle: SDPD

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- A skateboarder was hit by a vehicle Tuesday in the Linda Vista neighborhood, authorities said.The crash occurred around 7:17 p.m. on Osler St. and Genesee Ave., the San Diego Police Department confirmed with FOX 5. Suspect arrested after Ramona SWAT standoff Police say the skateboarder was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, while the driver of the vehicle remained at the scene.It is uncertain how the crash happened at this time.Check back for updates on this developing story.

New Zealand leader plans to ban cellphone use in schools and end tobacco controls in first 100 days

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s new prime minister plans to ban cellphone use in schools and repeal tobacco controls in the ambitious agenda he released Wednesday for his first 100 days in office.Christopher Luxon outlined 49 actions he said his conservative government intended to take over the next three months. The first new law he planned to pass would narrow the central bank’s mandate to focus purely on keeping inflation in check, he said. That would change the Reserve Bank’s current dual focus on low inflation and high employment.Many of the actions in the 100-day plan involve repealing initiatives from the previous liberal government, which had been in office for six years. The new efforts include a plan to double renewable energy production.Luxon said many of the measures were aimed at improving the economy. Many of the plans are proving contentious, including the one to repeal tobacco restrictions approved last year by the previous government. Those ...

A Hong Kong Court hears final arguments in subversion trial of pro-democracy activists

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court started hearing the final arguments Wednesday of some of the city’s best-known pro-democracy activists tried under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent.The activists’ subversion trial is the biggest prosecution yet under such law. They may face up to life in prison if convicted.The defendants were among 47 activists arrested in 2021 under the sweeping national security law imposed following massive anti-government protests four years ago. They were charged in connection to an informal 2020 primary election to pick candidates who could win the territory’s Legislative Council.Prosecutors accuse the activists of trying to paralyze Hong Kong’s government and topple the city’s leader by securing a majority to veto budgets.In court, Wednesday, Prosecutor Jonathan Man argued that unlawful means to subvert state power didn’t necessarily imply the use of force or physical violence. “(In) the 21st century, social...

When the European Parliament made a difference in the Middle East

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:51:42 GMT

Picture shows Edward McMillan-Scott (left), Palestine Presidential candidate Dr Mustafa Barghouti (centre) and John Kerry (right) who led the US Election Observer Mission to the January 2005 polls.As I write the diplomatic world’s voices rise to unprecedented levels of anguish, struggling to prolong the temporary pause in the Israel/Gaza conflict, following the ghastly terrorist attack on the kibbutz on 7 October. This is because the conflict is now widely seen as a war on children, not on Hamas. It is also seen as a failure of the democratic process, which still has shallow roots across the Middle East, writes Edward McMillan-Scott.I was one of the longest-serving Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament (2004-2014) and my portfolio was Democracy and Human Rights. This gave me a leading role in the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, founded in 2004 and the only body in which Israelis participated alongside EU and Arab parliamentarians. Parliamentary Assembly of the Union ...