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Caleb Love, Oumar Balllo power No. 4 Arizona to a 100-81 win over California in Pac-12 opener

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Caleb Love scored 22 points, Motiejus Krivas had 18 and No. 4 Arizona beat California 100-81 on Friday night in the Pac-12 opener for both teams.Oumar Ballo added 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Wildcats (10-2). Pelle Larsson had 12 points and seven assists.It was the perfect bounce-back game for Arizona after taking a three-day break following a 96-95 loss in double-overtime to then-No. 14 Florida Atlantic last Saturday.“We have high standards and our guys wanted to respond from our last game, and we want to establish a standard of how we play,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. “I thought we did that in the first half. I just think our guys came out and played with spirit and energy and kind of really took it to them right away.”Love scored 20 or more points for the fifth time this season and the 31st time in his career. He shot 7 for 10 from the field.Love also got a technical foul for taunting. He drew the call after making a powerful dunk over Gus Larson...

Connor Ingram posts another shutout, Crouse and Keller score in Coyotes’ 2-0 victory over Ducks

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Connor Ingram made 28 saves in his fifth career shutout and Lawson Crouse scored his team-leading 16th goal in the Arizona Coyotes’ 2-0 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.Clayton Keller scored a power-play goal for Arizona, which matched its road victory total from last season. The Coyotes had an NHL-worst seven road wins last season while finishing seventh in the Central Division, but this seventh road victory of the new season moved Arizona up to fourth in the division in its final game of 2023.Two days after rallying from a four-goal deficit to beat Colorado in overtime, Arizona took an early lead and kept it comfortably. The Coyotes completed their three-game season series against Anaheim with two victories.“The last two games, I don’t think we wavered,” Arizona coach André Tourigny said. “I think we played solid every game. We’re consistent. I’m happy about the mindset, what we’re trying to do, the focus, the communication on the bench. ...

Trail Blazers beat Spurs 134-128 to split 2-game set in Portland

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jerami Grant and Malcolm Brogdon each scored 27 points and the Portland Trail Blazers took advantage of San Antonio rookie star Victor Wembanyama’s absence to beat the Spurs 134-128 on Friday night for a split in the two-game set.Wembanyama rested on the second night of a back-to-back after the rookie rolled an ankle earlier this month. He had 30 points Thursday night in San Antonio’s 118-105 victory.Brogdon also had seven assists. Jabari Walker scored a career-high 25 points, and rookie Scoot Henderson added 21 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds.“That was probably his best game so far,” Portland coach Chauncey Billups said about Henderson.Henderson wowed the crowd with a wrap-around assist in the second quarter to Matisse Thybulle.“Oh man, I didn’t know what that was,” Walker said about Henderson’s eye-popping pass. “He’s got some stuff.”Keldon Johnson scored 27 points for San Antonio.“I thought we played horrendously, getting down by 26,” Spurs coach Gregg...

Justin Schultz scores in OT to give Kraken 2-1 win over Flyers

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Justin Schultz scored with 2:25 left in overtime on Friday night, giving the Seattle Kraken a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.It was a season-high fourth straight win for Seattle, and its sixth straight one-goal game (4-0-2). The Kraken also tied a franchise record with points in their eighth straight game (6-0-2).Oliver Bjorkstrand, playing in his 500th NHL contest, played the puck along the right boards and found Schultz at the near post. Schultz slid it past Flyers goalie Carter Hart for his third of the season. Hart finished with 27 saves.“I just kind of waited for the opportunity,” Schultz said. “Bjorky and (Yanni Gourde) did a great job just holding onto the puck, and we found an opportunity. (I was) lucky enough to (have it) go in.”“I think we’re just sticking with it. And guys are working hard and we know it’s there just wasn’t coming for us,” Schultz added. “We believe in this group. We have almost the same group as last year so we know w...

George, Harden help Clippers close successful December with 117-106 win over Grizzlies

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul George scored 23 points, James Harden added 16 points and 13 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers closed a successful December with a 117-106 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night.The Clippers were 11-2 in December, which is the best mark in the Western Conference for this month.Ivica Zubac added a season-high 20 rebounds along with 15 points as the Clippers had seven players score in double figures. It was Zubac’s fifth double-double in his last seven games.Jaren Jackson Jr. and Marcus Smart scored 22 apiece for the Grizzlies. Ja Morant had 19 points and 10 assists. Morant is averaging 26.8 points in five games since coming back from a 25-game suspension to begin the season.The Clippers led most of the game. A dunk by Daniel Theis 30 seconds into the fourth quarter gave them a 96-75 advantage before Memphis began to rally.Memphis scored 12 straight points to open a 22-9 run over a four-minute span. Smart’s 3-pointer with 6:03 remain...

ANÁLISIS | Las esperanzas de victoria de Ucrania se desvanecen ante el menguante apoyo occidental y la implacable maquinaria bélica de Putin

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

(CNN) — Hace un año, un resuelto presidente Volodymyr Zelensky viajó directamente desde el campo de batalla de Bakhmut a Estados Unidos para dirigirse al Congreso y reunirse con el presidente Joe Biden. Fue aclamado como un héroe: la determinación de Ucrania de resistir la agresión rusa recibió un fuerte respaldo bipartidista en Washington.Un año después, las perspectivas son mucho más sombrías. La tan esperada ofensiva ucraniana en el sur apenas ha progresado. Rusia parece haber resistido a las sanciones internacionales, por ahora, y ha convertido su economía en una máquina de guerra.La forma rusa de hacer la guerra, absorbiendo terribles pérdidas de hombres y material pero lanzando aún más a la lucha, ha debilitado la ventaja táctica y tecnológica del ejército ucraniano, como admitió su general de más alto rango en un sincero ensayo el mes pasado.El estado de ánimo en Moscú parece sombríamente determinado: los objetivos de la “operación militar especial” se alcan...

Alonzo Gaffney, Jamiya Neal make plays late as Arizona St. rallies to beat Stanford 76-73

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Kamari Lands and Adam Miller scored 13 points apiece and Alonzo Gaffney scored seven of his 12 points in the final five minutes to help Arizona State erase a double-digit deficit and beat Stanford 76-73 Friday night in the Pac-12 opener for both teams. Frankie Collins also scored 12 points for Arizona State (7-5). The Cardinal led by as many as 12 points and took a 69-59 lead when Jared Bynum made a layup with 5:04 to play. Miller answered with a jumper and, after Bynum missed the front end of a 1-and-1, Jose Perez made a layup to cut the deficit to six points about a minute later. Andrej Stojakovic missed another front end, Miller hit a 3-pointer before Gaffney made a layup, hit a 3 and then threw down a dunk to cap a 14-4 run that made it 73-73 with 1:34 left. Spencer Jones missed a layup attempt on the other end and Frankie Collins hit a contested step-back jumper with 31 seconds remaining, Jamiya Neal stole the ball from Jones and hit 1-of-2 free throws t...

Pope scores 13 as Fresno State knocks off San Diego 71-67

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Isaiah Pope had 13 points in Fresno State’s 71-67 win against San Diego on Friday night.Pope added five rebounds for the Bulldogs (7-6). Eduardo Andre scored 11 points and added five rebounds and four blocks. Xavier Dusell was 4-of-11 shooting (1 for 8 from 3-point range) to finish with 11 points.Deuce Turner led the Toreros (9-5) in scoring, finishing with 25 points. San Diego also got 22 points from Wayne McKinney III. PJ Hayes also had six points.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Russia says it thwarted Kyiv drone attack following aerial assault against Ukraine

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

Thirty-two Ukrainian drones were detected over Russia, Moscow officials reported on Saturday, a day after an 18-hour aerial barrage across Ukraine killed at least 30 civilians.Drones were seen in the skies over Russia’s Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol, and Kursk regions, the country’s defense ministry said in a statement. It did not report any casualties and said that all of the drones had been destroyed by air defenses.Cities across western Russia have come under regular attack from drones since May, with Russian officials blaming Kyiv.Ukrainian officials never acknowledge responsibility for attacks on Russian territory or the Crimean peninsula. However, larger aerial strikes against Russia have previously followed heavy assaults on Ukrainian cities.Moscow’s forces launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones across Ukraine Friday, an onslaught described by one air force official as the biggest aerial barrage of the war.At least 144 people were wounded and an unknown number were buried under ...

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite US warnings

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:27:29 GMT

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader vowed to carry on weakening his war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome.“I am not irrational, I know that America’s response will be to use force … but I have no reason to be frightened by that into sacrificing (Serb) national interests,” Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia’s Serb-run part, told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.He said any any attempt to use international intervention to further strengthen Bosnia’s shared, multiethnic institutions will be met by Bosnian Serb decision to abandon them completely and take the country back to the state of disunity and dysfunction it was in at the end of its brutal interethnic war in the 1990s.Because Western democracies will not be agreeable to that, he added, “in the next stage, we will be forced by their reaction to declare full independence” of the Ser...