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By Barry WilnerThe Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — TomBrady got all the help he needed toget the New England Patriots into theSuper Bowl.

Thank you, Billy Cundiff.The Baltimore Ravens kicker

hooked a 32-yard field goal with11 seconds left and the Patriotsescaped with a 23-20 victory in theAFC championship game Sunday.

Vintage Brady usually doesn’t needmuch assistance in championship set-tings, but the Patriots’much-maligned defense came

through, and Brady’s 1-yard touch-down run with 11:29 left proved to bethe winning points.

“Well, I sucked pretty bad todaybut our defense saved us,” Brady saidafter throwing for 239 yards, with twointerceptions and, for the first time in36 games, no touchdown passes. “I’mgoing to try to go out and do a betterjob in a couple of weeks, but I’mproud of this team, my teammates.”

Brady waited out the final tenseminutes on the sideline, and thencelebrated with the rest of his teamwhen Cundiff’s attempt went wide

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By Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer

Well, that’s one way to avoid losingto an inferior team on a last-secondshot.

Less than 48 hours after gift-wrap-ping a win to the Minnesota Timber-wolves, the Clippers were back on thefloor Sunday afternoon at Staples Cen-ter.

Making quick work of the TorontoRaptors in a 103-91 win doesn’t somuch make up for Friday’s loss as itdoes replace it in the Clippers’short-term memory bank.

Instead of dwelling on an inabilityto put away a beatable team, the Clip-pers took satisfaction in methodicallybuilding a big lead against the Rap-tors and holding on to it.

Rather than thinking about themissed opportunities and blowndefensive coverages down the stretch

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By Janie McCauleyThe Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — The NewYork Giants have their own SuperBowl formula: in overtime and onthe road.

And with Lawrence Tynes’ foot.Eli Manning directed one short,

final drive and Tynes kicked agame-winning 31-yard field goal inovertime to send the Giants to theSuper Bowl with a 20-17 victory overthe San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’sNFC Championship game.

In another tight one in thisdecades-old postseason rivalry, both

defenses made key stops before NewYork capitalized on another costlymistake by San Francisco.

Manning and the Giants (12-7)will face the New England Patriotsin the Super Bowl on Feb. 5 in India-napolis as 3 1/2-point underdogs.The last time the teams met for theNFL title, 2008, the Giants ended

the Patriots’ bid for a perfect season.Tynes had a hand, er, foot in get-

ting the Giants to that one, too, witha game-winning field goal in over-time at Green Bay.

Devin Thomas put the Giants inposition Sunday by recovering hissecond fumble of the game afterJacquian Williams stripped the ballfrom fill-in return man Kyle Will-iams, who also fumbled earlier toset up a New York touchdown.

“It’s my second NFC champion-ship game, my second game-win-ner,” Tynes said. “It’s amazing. I haddreams about this last night. It was

from 42, not 31, but I was so nervoustoday before the game just anticipat-ing this kind of game. I’m usuallypretty cool, but there was some-thing about tonight where I knew Iwas going to have to make a kick.Hats off to Eli, offense, defense.Great win.”

Manning went 32 of 58 for 316yards and two touchdowns in hisrecord fifth road playoff win, NewYork’s fifth in a row overall and fifthout of six.

The Giants, a 12-point underdogin the 2008 title game, battered

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By Genaro C. ArmasThe Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Other thanfamily, football was everything to JoePaterno. It was his lifeblood. It kept himpumped.

Life could not be the same without it.“Right now, I’m not the coach. And

I’ve got to get used to that,” Paterno saidafter the Penn State Board of Trusteesfired him at the height of a child sexabuse scandal.

Before he could, he ran out of time.Paterno, a sainted figure at Penn State

for almost half a century but scarred

forever by the scandal involving hisone-time heir apparent, died Sunday atage 85.

His death came just 65 days after hisson Scott said his father had been diag-nosed with lung cancer. Mount NittanyMedical Center said he died at 9:25 a.m.of “metastatic small cell carcinoma ofthe lung,” an aggressive cancer that hasspread from one part of the body to anunrelated area.

Friends and former colleagues believethere were other factors, the kind thatwouldn’t appear on a death certificate.

“You can die of heartbreak. I’m sureJoe had some heartbreak, too,” said

82-year-old Bobby Bowden, the formerFlorida State coach who retired twoyears ago after 34 seasons in Tallahassee.

Longtime Nebraska coach TomOsborne said he suspected “the emo-tional turmoil of the last few weeksmight have played into it.”

Mickey Shuler, who played tight endfor Paterno from 1975 to 1977, held hisalma mater accountable.

“I don’t think that the Penn State thathe helped us to become and all the princi-ples and values and things that he taughtwere carried out in the handling of hissituation,” he said.

Paterno’s death just under three

months following his last victory calledto mind another coaching great, Ala-bama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant, who died lessthan a month after retiring.

“Quit coaching?” Bryant said late inhis career. “I’d croak in a week.”

Paterno alluded to the remark madeby his friend and rival by saying in 2003:“There isn’t anything in my life anymoreexcept my family and my football. I thinkabout it all the time.”

Paterno roamed the Penn State side-line for 46 seasons, his thick-rimmedglasses, windbreaker and jet-black sneak-

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New England’s Tom Brady celebrates after scoring agame-winning touchdown on a 1-yard run Sunday.

Clippers 103, Raptors 91

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By Elliott Teaford Staff Writer

Mike Brown stood in front of theLakers’ bench with his hands on hiships and tried to make sense of whathe was watching Sunday night at Sta-ples Center.

He looked as confused as at anytime during his first season as Lakerscoach.

The Lakers scoring almost at will?Their second unit making big

plays?Who were these guys and what

were they doing wearing the Lakers’uniforms?

Yet for all the good they did, theycouldn’t solve the riddle that was theIndiana Pacers and lost 98-96 afterleading by modest margins for mostof the game. The Pacers held the Lak-ers to two points in the final 1:56.

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The New York Giants’ Lawrence Tynes (9) and Steve Weatherford (5) celebrate after Tynes’ game-winning field in overtime of Sunday’sNFC Championship game. The Giants beat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 and will play New England in the Super Bowl XLVI.

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SoccerAbby Wambach scored twice in the first half

to move into third on the career goals list forwomen’s international soccer, and the UnitedStates beat Guatemala 13-0 on Sunday in Van-couver, British Columbia, to clinch a berth inthe semifinals of the CONCACAF qualifyingtournament for the London Olympics. Aleft-footed tap in the 12th minute and a headerin the 14th gave Wambach 129 goals for the U.S.team, moving her past Germany’s Birgit Prinz(128). She trails Mia Hamm (158) and KristineLilly (130). The 31-year-old striker’s exploitsadded some meaning to another suspense-freerout for the Americans, who have outscoredtheir opponents 27-0 so far in Olympic qualify-ing. Sydney Leroux (UCLA), earning just hersecond cap, tied a U.S. record with five goals asWambach’s substitute in the second half. …Chivas coach Fernando Quirarte resigned aftera 2-0 loss to Tijuana late Saturday, the club’sthird consecutive defeat and its worst record toopen a Mexican first-division season. The Guad-alajara club is among the most popular in Mex-ico and was a favorite to challenge for theClausura title.

FootballOregon football coach Chip Kelly is finalizing

a deal to become the new coach of the Bucca-neers, the Tampa Bay Times reported Sunday.Kelly, 48, met with the Bucs last week, and bothsides hope an agreement can be reached within24-48 hours. Kelly has been Oregon’s coach forthree years. He won the conference title in allthree and reached three BCS games. On Jan. 1,the Ducks won their first Rose Bowl in 95 years.Kelly would make the jump to the NFL if afinancial agreement can be reached, Portland’sKGW-TV reported Sunday night. … Jaguars full-back Montell Owens was added to the AFC’s ProBowl roster. Owens replaces New England’sMatthew Slater as the conference’s specialteams player. Owens joins running back Mau-rice Jones-Drew as the team’s only representa-tive in Hawaii for next Sunday’s game. … SanDiego quarterback Philip Rivers, Baltimore cen-ter Matt Birk and Chicago cornerback CharlesTillman are finalists for the Walter Payton NFLMan of the Year award. The award will bepresented Feb. 4 in Indianapolis. The onlyleague award that recognizes a player’s commu-nity service as well as his playing excellence, theWalter Payton winner will have a $20,000 dona-tion made in his name to his favorite charity.

Winter sportsShani Davis won his second gold in as many

days, claiming the 1,000-meter men’s WorldCup long track event at the Utah Olympic Ovalin Kearns. The American finished in 1 minute,7.69 seconds to edge Stefan Groothuis of TheNetherlands (1:07.94). American Tucker Fre-dricks took the overall lead in the World Cup500-meter standings after claiming bronze forthe second day in a row. Russia’s Dmitrij Lobkovwon gold in 34.54 seconds; Fredricks was thirdin 34.62. … Michaela Kirchgasser of Austriawon a World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora,Slovenia, after favorites Marlies Schild andMaria Hoefl-Riesch skied out on the first run.World Cup leader Lindsey Vonn finished sev-enth. … Defending champion Ivica Kostelicreturned to the top of the overall World Cupstandings in Kitzbuehel, Austria, after finishingthird in a men’s slalom won by Italy’s CristianDeville. Nolan Kasper was the top Americanfinisher in the slalom, ending up 14th. BodeMiller did not start and Ted Ligety did notqualify for a second run.

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ers as familiar as the Nittany Lions’blue and white uniforms.

His devotion to what he called“Success with Honor” made his fallall the more startling.

Happy Valley seemed perfect forhim, a place where “JoePa” knewbest, where he not only won morefootball games than any othermajor college coach but won themthe right way. With Paterno, charac-ter came first, championships sec-ond and academics before athlet-ics. He insisted on-field success notcome at the expense of graduationrates.

But in the middle of his finalseason, the legend was shattered.Paterno was engulfed in a child sexabuse scandal when a formertrusted assistant, Jerry Sandusky,was accused of molesting 10 boysover a 15-year span, sometimes inthe football building.

Outrage built quickly after thestate’s top law enforcement officialsaid the coach hadn’t fulfilled amoral obligation to go to authori-ties when a graduate assistant,Mike McQueary, reported seeingSandusky with a young boy in theshowers of the football complex in2002.

McQueary said he had seenSandusky attacking the child withhis hands around the boy’s waistbut said he wasn’t 100 percent sureit was intercourse. McQuearydescribed Paterno as shocked andsaddened and said the coach toldhim he had “done the right thing”by reporting the encounter.

Paterno waited a day before alert-ing school officials and never wentto the police.

“I didn’t know which way to go ...and rather than get in there andmake a mistake,” Paterno told TheWashington Post in an interviewnine days before his death.

“You know, (McQueary) didn’twant to get specific,” Paterno said.“And to be frank with you I don’tknow that it would have done anygood because I never heard of, of,rape and a man.

“So I just did what I thought wasbest. I talked to people that Ithought would be, if there was aproblem, that would be followingup on it.”

When the scandal broke inNovember, Paterno said he wouldretire following the 2011 season. Healso said he was “absolutely devas-tated” by the abuse case.

“This is a tragedy,” he said. “It isone of the great sorrows of my life.With the benefit of hindsight, Iwish I had done more.”

But the university trustees fired

Paterno, effective immediately. Gra-ham Spanier, one of the long-est-serving university presidents inthe nation, also was fired.

Paterno was notified by phone,not in person, a decision board vicechairman John Surma regretted,trustees said.

After weeks of escalating criti-cism by some former players andalumni about a lack of transpar-ency, trustees last week said theyfired Paterno in part because hefailed a moral obligation to domore in reporting the 2002 allega-tion.

An attorney for Paterno onThursday called the board’s com-ments self-serving and unsup-ported by the facts. Paterno fullyreported what he knew to the peo-ple responsible for campus investi-gations, lawyer Wick Sollers said.

“He did what he thought wasright with the information he hadat the time,” Sollers said.

The lung cancer was found dur-ing a follow-up visit for a bronchialillness. A few weeks later, Paternobroke his pelvis after a fall but didnot need surgery.

The hospital said Paterno wassurrounded by family members,who have requested privacy.

Paterno had been in the hospitalsince Jan. 13 for observation afterwhat his family called minor com-plications from his cancer treat-ments.

On Sunday, two police officerswere stationed to block traffic onthe street where Paterno’s modestranch home stands next to a localpark. The officers said the familyhad asked there be no public gath-ering outside the house, still deco-rated with a Christmas wreath, soPaterno’s relatives could grieve pri-vately.

“His loss leaves a void in ourlives that will never be filled,” thefamily said in a statement. “Hedied as he lived. He fought harduntil the end, stayed positive,thought only of others and con-stantly reminded everyone of howblessed his life had been. He was aman devoted to his family, his uni-versity, his players and his commu-nity.”

Paterno built a program basedon the credo of “Success withHonor” and found both. He won409 games and took the NittanyLions to 37 bowl games and twonational championships.

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By The Associated PressBLOOMINGTON, Ind. —

Cody Zeller scored 18 pointsand No. 11 Indiana rallied for a73-54 victory over Penn Stateon Sunday, hours after the Nitt-any Lions learned of the deathof former football coach JoePaterno.

The team was told of Pater-no’s death on the short busride from the hotel to Assem-bly Hall. Team officials scram-bled to get black stripsattached to the players’ blueroad jerseys.

Indiana officials held amoment of silence in honor ofPaterno, the coach who won anNCAA-record 409 games andwas fired in November afterchild sex-abuse charges werefiled against former defensivecoordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Indiana (16-4, 4-4) scoredthe first four points of the sec-ond half to take a 31-29 leadand never trailed again in end-ing a three-game losing streak.Tim Frazier had 21 points andNick Colella added 11 for PennState.

Virginia Tech 47, No. 15 Vir-ginia 45: Erick Green scored 15 points,including the free throws with 1:52 to goand Dorenzo Hudson had six points overthe final 2:12 as the Hokies (12-7, 1-4Atlantic Coast Conference) ended theCavaliers’ nine-game home winningstreak.

Virginia (15-3, 2-2) came in second inthe nation in scoring defense, allowingjust 50.4 points. The Hokies held theCavaliers to a season-low in points.

Wisconsin 67, No. 22 Illinois63: Jordan Taylor scored 19 points andJared Berggren added 18 to lead theBadgers.

Taylor drove into the lane and hit amidrange jumper with 32 seconds left togive the Badgers (16-5, 5-3 Big Ten) a62-57 lead in what had been aback-and-forth battle.

Wisconsin has won four consecutivegames after dropping three consecutiveconference games.

The Illini (15-5, 4-3) were led byMeyers Leonard’s 16 points and 11rebounds, while Joseph Bertrand added15 points.

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By The Associated PressMELBOURNE, Australia — Ser-

ena Williams lost at the AustralianOpen today for the first time since2008 after struggling with herserve and hitting too manyunforced errors during a 6-2, 6-3setback against EkaterinaMakarova.

Williams was surprised by thepower of the groundstrokes fromthe Russian left-hander, who atNo. 56 was the lowest-rankedwoman to make the fourth roundof the season’s first major.

Williams, arguably the domi-nant force at Melbourne Park thiscentury, had lost only two matchesat the Australian Open since win-ning the first of her five titles herein 2003. She was on a 17-matchwinning streak after capturingback-to-back titles in 2009 and2010 and missing last year due toinjury.

But she had seven double faults,including four in the fifth game ofthe second set, and 37 unforcederrors to give Makarova a spot inthe quarterfinals at a major for the

first time. She’ll play either 2008champion Maria Sharapova or Sab-ine Lisicki.

“I don’t know what to say. Amaz-ing feeling and first time in quar-terfinals,” the 23-year-oldMakarova said. Williams is “anunbelievable player. It’s reallytough to play against her so I’mreally happy I finished it in myway.”

Williams sprained her left anklein a warmup tournament at Bris-bane two weeks ago, but didn’tshow any signs of being restrictedon Monday.

She was bothered by a bug thatlanded on her left shoulder whenshe dropped serve for the first timein the match and became increas-ingly exasperated as her missespiled up, including one overheadthat she sent long and anotherthat she hit back meekly forMakarova to pass her.

Williams won the first twogames in the second set but thenMakarova went on a roll by win-ning the next four games, includ-ing the double-fault strewn game

at 2-2 when Williams asked herselfout loud, “How many dou-ble-faults do you want to make?”

The Russian got tighter towardthe end but kept her nerve to holdin a key game. Then, with Williamsserving to stay in the match, sheneeded four match points beforeWilliams sent a backhand wide.

Wimbledon champion Petra Kvi-tova earlier recovered from anembarrassing miss and atwo-game lapse to beat AnaIvanovic 6-2, 7-6 (2) today for aspot in the quarterfinals.

Two-time Australian Open run-ner-up Andy Murray only spent 49minutes on court in the nextmatch at Rod Laver Arena and wasleading 6-1, 6-1, 1-0 when MikhailKukushkin retired from theirfourth-round match with a left hipinjury and gave him an easy pathinto the quarterfinals.

Kvitova will play either SaraErrani of Italy or China’s ZhengJie, a semifinalist here in 2010.

Reigning women’s championKim Clijsters saved four matchpoints in the second-set tiebreaker

and overcame a left ankle injury tobeat Li Na 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4 onSunday in a rematch of last year’sfinal.

That put the Belgian veteran oncourse for a quarterfinal againsttop-ranked Caroline Wozniacki,who earned a 6-0, 7-5 win overformer No. 1 Jelena Jankovic.

Third-seeded Victoria Azarenkatook a 6-2, 6-2 win over IvetaBenesova and faces eighth-seededAgnieszka Radwanska.

Roger Federer more or less helda clinic at Rod Laver Arena, wherehe has won four of his 16 GrandSlam titles, in a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 victoryover Bernard Tomic that movedhim into the quarterfinals for a31st consecutive major.

Federer’s quarterfinal will be his1,000th tour-level match. He plays2009 U.S. Open champion JuanMartin del Potro, whom he onceexpected to rise to No. 1.

Rafael Nadal advanced with aconvincing win over fellow Span-iard Feliciano Lopez next playsTomas Berdych, hoping to avoid athird consecutive quarterfinal lossin Melbourne.

Williams at fault in fourth-round loss


Serena Williams yells in frustration during her fourth-round match against Ekaterina Makarova at the Australian Open today inMelbourne. The 12th-seeded Williams lost in straight sets 6-2, 6-3.

The Associated PressPenn State fan Maria Meyer attaches rosary beads to a statue of JoePaterno outside Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa. Paterno diedSunday from lung cancer. He was 85.

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The Associated PressANAHEIM — The Ducks

made it a little closer than theywanted in their fifth consecu-tive victory.

Bobby Ryan scored twice,Jonas Hiller made 43 saves andthe Ducks survived a late Colo-rado rally to beat the Ava-lanche 3-2 on Sunday at theHonda Center.

Ryan Getzlaf scored on apower play early in the thirdperiod and assisted on Ryan’ssecond goal to help the Ducksbeat the team they’re trying tocatch in the standings.

Hiller made 28 savesthrough the first two periodsand was working on his thirdshutout of the season beforeRyan O’Reilly and MilanHejduk scored late in the thirdperiod.

“You worry for a second, butyou realize there is a biggertask at hand,” Ryan said. “Westill had the lead. The urgencywas there.

“We realized that there weretwo points we needed to getand didn’t want them to slipaway.”

Jean-Sebastien Giguereallowed the three goals on 18shots against his former team.Giguere spent 8 1/2 seasonswith the Ducks and helpedthem win the Stanley Cup in2007.

Colorado was coming off a3-1 victory over the Kings onSaturday.

“I thought we deserved a bet-ter fate. We obviously played agood game,” Giguere said. “Wehad a couple of breakdownsthat they capitalized on.”

The Ducks are 8-0-1 in theirpast nine games to movewithin 11 points of the Ava-lanche for the No. 8 spot in theWest. The Ducks next face Dal-las, which holds a seven-pointlead in the standings, on Tues-day in the final game beforethe All-Star break.

“Our goal going into this wasto win out going into the

All-Star break,” Ryan said.“Every two points going for-ward is monumental.”

Hiller has been the key tothe Ducks’ recent run. He is6-0-1 with a .947 save percent-age and 1.50 goals-against aver-age in his past eight appear-ances.

“The whole team is playingits best lately, so that makes iteasier on me,” Hiller said.

The Avalanche outshot theDucks 15-2 in the first periodbut trailed 1-0.

The Ducks scored on theirfirst shot after taking advan-tage of O’Reilly’s turnover atthe Avalanche blue line. Ryanpicked up the puck and beatGiguere with a wrist shot on ashort-handed breakaway at2:49.

Getzlaf scored at 20 secondsof the third period with Colo-rado’s Shane O’Brien off fordelay of game for sending thepuck out of play late in thesecond period. The Ducks wonthe opening faceoff and TeemuSelanne raced down the side,headed behind the net andsent a pass to Getzlaf. A videoreview confirmed the puckcrossed under the sprawledGiguere.

Bucks 91, Heat 82MIAMI — Brandon Jennings

scored 23 points, Ersan Ilyas-ova added 16 off the bench andMilwaukee held Miami to 37percent shooting.

It was the second consecu-tive road win for Milwaukee,which started the year 0-8away from home. AndrewBogut scored 13 points for theBucks, who got 10 apiece fromShaun Livingston and StephenJackson.

LeBron James finished with28 points and 13 rebounds forMiami, which had won threethree in a row.

Celtics 100, Wizards 94WASHINGTON — Paul

Pierce had season highs with34 points and 10 assists andtied his season-best mark witheight rebounds to lead Bostonover Washington.

The Celtics won for the sec-ond time in three gamesdespite playing most of thegame without a pair of startingguards.

Point guard Rajon Rondowas out for the second game ina row with a sprained rightwrist, and Boston lost startingguard Ray Allen as well whenhe jammed his left ankle in thefirst half.

Pierce went 10 for 15 fromthe floor and 12 of 15 from thefree-throw line.

Nets 97, Bobcats 87NEWARK N.J. — Deron Will-

iams had 19 points, ninerebounds and 10 assists as NewJersey beat Charlotte.

Williams’ near triple doublewould have been the first of theseason for the Nets, whoimproved to 5-12 on the season.

MarShon Brooks added 20points for the Nets whileAnthony Morrow added 19points. Rookie Kemba Walkerled the Bobcats with 16 points,six rebounds and four assists.


against the Timberwolvesthey focused on consistentlybeing on the same pagedefensively, communicatingwith one another and takingbetter care of the ballagainst the Raptors.

Instead of sloppiness result-ing in the over-extension ofweary starters, a clean, profi-cient performance meant wel-comed rests for Blake Griffin,DeAndre Jordan and CaronButler, none of whom left thebench in the fourth quarter.

In other words, by doingall the little things correctly,an easy win didn’t wind upbeing another a maddeningloss.

The Clippers’ journeyalmost necessitates the kindof tough-love lesson learnedFriday, but it’s how the teamresponds that confirmswhether the message sticks.

Based on the way they eas-ily took care of the Raptors,it’s pretty obvious the Clip-pers got the memo.

“The last one we let getaway,” Jordan said. “Thatone hurt, to be honest. So wetried to come out tonightand really put them away.”

They did that Sunday, andin the process exorcised anyremaining demons from Fri-day.

“We had some slippage inthe last few games and itcaught up to us in the lastgame,” Clippers guardChauncey Billups said. “Butwe got to work yesterday in

the film session, hashed out alot of things and wanted tocome out and work on todayand we did that.”

Playing without ChrisPaul for the fifth consecutivegame, the Clippers got anefficient performance fromhis replacement Billups,who scored just five pointsbut totaled a season-high 14assists, the most he’s had inmore than three years.

It was a complete reversalof Billups’ game Friday,when he scored 20 pointsbut managed just one assistin 28 minutes and finishedthe night a negative-13 in theplus/minus department.

On Sunday, Billups was aplus-23 while playing a mea-sured game with a focus onfacilitating.

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this season, but it wasn’tgood enough Sunday.

Their defense has beenmuch improved, but it failedthem this time.

The Lakers played with arenewed sense of confidenceand also regained the rhythmthat was so glaringly absentduring losses Thursday to theHeat in Miami and Friday tothe Magic in Orlando, givingthem a 1-6 record on theroad.

When Sunday’s game gottight, however, the Lakerscouldn’t deliver the goods inthe final minutes and suf-fered their third consecutiveloss.

They fell to 10-8 overall,with the Pacific Division-lead-ing Clippers up next Wednes-day.

The Lakers couldn’t keepthe Pacers from scoring downthe stretch after Derek Fish-er’s jump shot gave them a94-91 lead with 1:57 left.

The Lakers also couldn’tscore another point until PauGasol’s concession basket atthe buzzer.

Darren Collison (UCLA)gave the Pacers the lead forgood at 95-94 with 1:15 toplay.

The game was lost a gooddeal earlier, according to

Brown.“The last three quarters,

we didn’t play with a sense ofurgency,” he said. “We gaveup 35 points in the secondquarter and 28 in the third.That’s not who we are. Wewere OK with trading basketsand we haven’t done that fora while.

“That’s what makes thisone so hard to swallow.”

Kobe Bryant scored 33points, but only two in thefourth quarter.

Andrew Bynum added 16points and eight reboundsbut continued to strugglewhen double-teamed. MattBarnes had 14 points andMetta World Peace scored 11points in a reserve role.

Gasol had eight points,eight rebounds and 10 assists.

“This game was tough toswallow because there wasno sense of urgency,” Brownsaid. “Offensively, we didsome nice things. We’re goingto get better. We showedsome improvement over thelast few games.”

LAKERSFrom B1


The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant has his shot blocked by Indiana’s Paul George during Sunday’sgame at Staples Center. Bryant had 33 points in a 98-96 loss.

By Elliott TeafordStaff Writer

Brian Shaw rode the bus toStaples Center and walkeddown to the corridor to thevisiting locker room for thefirst time in his career as anNBA player or coach.

Then he stood at centercourt, with the Lakers’ cham-pionship banners hangingbehind him.

It was a strange feeling.Shaw, after all, spent 12 sea-

sons as a player and a coachwith the Lakers and wonthree titles as a versatileguard and two as an assis-tant. He returned Sunday asan assistant coach with theIndiana Pacers.

“Obviously, those memo-ries are never going to go any-where,” he said before hisnew team faced his old onefor the only time this season.“I’m just trying to focus on

what I’m trying to do withthis team.

“My mentality is the Lak-ers are just like any otherteam. We’re going to play’em; we want to beat ’em.When the game is over wecan hug and shake hands andtalk. Now, they’re an oppo-nent that is standing in ourway.”

Conventional wisdom sug-gested Shaw was the rightman in the right spot toreplace Phil Jackson when heretired as the Lakers’ coachlast May. He didn’t get thejob that went to Mike Brownand landed an assistant’s posi-tion with Indiana in July.

“I’ve never had a problemwith the hiring of MikeBrown or anything like that,”Shaw said. “My only issuewas the way I found out and Iunderstand the nature of thebusiness. I’ve been in the busi-ness for a long time.”

Shaw learned of Brown’shiring last May from newsreports rather than directlyfrom the Lakers.

“In terms of moving on, thetoughest part is packing upthe family and the house andfinding a school for the kids,”he continued. “Other thanthat everything is fine. WhenI look back on it, the entiretime I was here, I was on aone-year contract.

Character updatePower forward Derrick Car-

acter has been cleared toresume practicing “prettysoon,” Brown said, “but thatdoesn’t mean he’s going toplay soon.”

Caracter has been side-lined since tearing a menis-cus during training camp lastmonth.

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LAKERS NOTEBOOK

Shaw: Lakers in past

NBA ROUNDUP

NBA STANDINGSWESTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific DivisionW L Pct GB

Clippers 9 5 .643 —Lakers 10 8 .556 1Phoenix 6 9 .400 3½Sacramento 6 11 .353 4½Golden State 5 10 .333 4½

Southwest DivisionW L Pct GB

Memphis 9 6 .600 —San Antonio 10 7 .588 —Dallas 10 7 .588 —Houston 9 7 .563 ½New Orleans 3 13 .188 6½

Northwest DivisionW L Pct GB

Oklahoma City 13 3 .813 —Denver 12 5 .706 1½Utah 10 5 .667 2½Portland 9 7 .563 4Minnesota 7 9 .438 6

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 11 5 .688 —Boston 6 9 .400 4½New York 6 10 .375 5New Jersey 5 12 .294 6½Toronto 4 13 .235 7½

Southeast DivisionW L Pct GB

Orlando 11 4 .733 —Atlanta 12 5 .706 —Miami 11 5 .688 ½Charlotte 3 14 .176 9Washington 2 14 .125 9½

Central DivisionW L Pct GB

Chicago 15 3 .833 —Indiana 11 4 .733 2½Milwaukee 6 9 .400 7½Cleveland 6 9 .400 7½Detroit 4 13 .235 10½

Sunday’s GamesClippers 103, Toronto 91Indiana 98, Lakers 96Boston 100, Washington 94New Jersey 97, Charlotte 87Milwaukee 91, Miami 82

Today’s GamesWashington at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.Orlando at Boston, 4:30 p.m.New Jersey at Chicago, 5 p.m.Detroit at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 5 p.m.Houston at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Atlanta at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.Phoenix at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.Sacramento at Portland, 7 p.m.Memphis at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Penguins 4, Capitals 3PITTSBURGH — Evgeni

Malkin scored on a rebound1:31 into overtime to give Pitts-burgh a victory over Washing-ton.

Malkin, the NHL pointsleader, banged a long carom offthe end boards past MichalNeuvirth for his 26th goal ofthe season. Malkin added twoassists to give him 58 points.

James Neal scored twice andassisted on the winner in Pitts-burgh’s sixth consecutive vic-tory. Kris Letang scored for thesecond game in a row andMarc-Andre Fleury stopped 17shots.

Bruins 6, Flyers 5 (SO)PHILADELPHIA — Tyler

Seguin scored the decisive goalin a shootout to lift Boston pastPhiladelphia.

The Northeast Division-lead-ing Bruins haven’t lost in regu-lation in Philadelphia sinceMarch 10, 2007 and are 9-0-1.The defending Stanley Cupchampions are tied with theNew York Rangers for firstplace in the Eastern Confer-ence, a point behind Detroit forthe NHL lead.


NHL STANDINGSWESTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

San Jose 45 26 14 5 57 129 108Kings 49 23 16 10 56 107 110Dallas 47 24 21 2 50 125 136Phoenix 49 21 20 8 50 127 132Ducks 47 18 22 7 43 124 143

Central DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Detroit 48 32 15 1 65 155 109St. Louis 47 29 12 6 64 121 96Chicago 49 29 14 6 64 161 141Nashville 48 28 16 4 60 133 125Columbus 47 13 28 6 32 112 155

Northwest DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Vancouver 48 29 15 4 62 155 120Colorado 50 26 22 2 54 129 141Minnesota 48 23 18 7 53 112 124Calgary 49 23 20 6 52 120 136Edmonton 47 17 26 4 38 118 138

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

N.Y. Rangers 46 30 12 4 64 129 96Philadelphia 47 28 14 5 61 159 140Pittsburgh 48 27 17 4 58 149 125New Jersey 47 26 19 2 54 128 134N.Y. Islanders 46 19 21 6 44 112 136

Northeast DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Boston 46 31 13 2 64 168 97Ottawa 50 27 17 6 60 154 153Toronto 47 23 19 5 51 144 144Montreal 48 18 21 9 45 123 132Buffalo 48 19 24 5 43 117 148

Southeast DivisionGP W L OT Pts GF GA

Florida 47 22 15 10 54 120 133Washington 47 25 19 3 53 131 134Winnipeg 48 22 20 6 50 123 138Tampa Bay 47 20 23 4 44 132 163Carolina 50 17 24 9 43 128 158NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtimeloss.

Sunday’s GamesDucks 3, Colorado 2Boston 6, Philadelphia 5, SOPittsburgh 4, Washington 3, OT

Today’s GamesOttawa at Kings, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 4 p.m.Winnipeg at Carolina, 4 p.m.St. Louis at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.Columbus at Nashville, 5 p.m.San Jose at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m.

CLIPPERS 103,RAPTORS 91

TORONTO (91)J.Johnson 3-8 0-0 7, Davis 1-5 5-6 7,

A.Johnson 0-0 1-2 1, Calderon 1-8 0-0 3,DeRozan 4-19 7-8 15, Gray 3-3 0-1 6, R.Butler1-2 0-0 3, Magloire 0-1 0-0 0, Barbosa 7-122-2 19, Bayless 2-9 3-4 7, Kleiza 5-10 4-4 16,Forbes 2-4 3-4 7. Totals 29-81 25-31 91.CLIPPERS (103)

C.Butler 6-10 2-5 15, Griffin 6-11 6-14 18,Jordan 7-9 2-4 16, Billups 1-9 2-2 5, Foye 5-82-2 15, Williams 8-15 7-7 26, Gomes 1-5 0-02, Jones 0-1 2-2 2, Evans 0-1 1-2 1, Fortson0-1 0-0 0, Thompkins 1-2 1-2 3, Leslie 0-0 0-00. Totals 35-72 25-40 103.

Toronto 11 26 21 33 — 91Clippers 27 22 27 27 — 103

3-Point Goals—Toronto 8-19 (Barbosa 3-4,Kleiza 2-5, R.Butler 1-1, Calderon 1-2, J.Johnson1-2, Bayless 0-1, Forbes 0-2, DeRozan 0-2),Clippers 8-21 (Foye 3-4, Williams 3-6, C.Butler1-2, Billups 1-7, Fortson 0-1, Gomes 0-1).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 48(DeRozan, Gray 8), Clippers 62 (Jordan 16).Assists—Toronto 21 (Bayless 5), Clippers 26(Billups 14). Total Fouls—Toronto 31, Clippers 24.Flagrant Fouls—Billups. A—19,060 (19,060).

By Vincent BonsignoreStaff Writer

Eric Bledsoe is past the pointof cursing his dumb luck overtearing the meniscus in hisright knee last October duringan offseason workout at homein Alabama.

The Clippers’ second-yearpoint guard doesn’t need to bereminded how the injury andsubsequent surgery cost himall of training camp and ruineda golden opportunity for signifi-cant playing time early in theseason.

Or how it could have beenhim, not someone else, pickingup the minutes in place of theinjured Chris Paul or ChaunceyBillups or Mo Williams.

He knows. Boy, does heknow.

“It’s frustrating, trust me,”Bledsoe said.

But he’s done fretting over it.His focus now is on showing

the Clippers’ medical staff he isready to return. Bledsoeinsisted he could play now ifneeded after his knee held upwell after two weeks offull-throttle practicing.

“I’m feeling good, real good,”he said Sunday.

Finding the 22-year-old Bled-soe sufficient minutes in acrowded backcourt will be

tricky. But that’s a problem foranother day.

“It’s difficult because you seethe team out there playing andall you can do is watch,” hesaid. “You definitely want to beout there.”

Butler returnsCaron Butler was back in the

starting lineup Sunday aftermissing Friday’s game againstMinnesota. The veteran for-ward suffered a hyperextendedright knee Tuesday againstUtah, played the followingnight against Dallas but was ano-go two nights later againstthe Timberwolves.

It should be noted Butlerhurt the same knee a year ago,an injury that required sea-son-ending surgery and costButler a chance to be on thefloor when Dallas won the NBAchampionship.

The recent setback is notrelated, but it’s understandableif Butler was being overly cau-tious just in case by sitting outFriday’s game.

“I think it was more him justclearing his mind a little bit,”Del Negro said. “But no ques-tion he hyperextended it inUtah, but he says he feels a lotbetter.

“He got some good shots upyesterday and this morning.”

CLIPPERS NOTEBOOK

Frustrated Bledsoewants to contribute


The Ducks’ Corey Perry is stopped by Colorado goalieJean-Sebastien Giguere as the Avalanche’s Jan Hejda lookson Sunday. The Ducks won, 3-2.

Ducks 3, Avalanche 2Next: Ducks at Dallas,5:30 p.m. Tuesday. TV: Prime

Game summaryColorado 0 0 2 — 2Ducks 1 0 2 — 3

First Period—1, Ducks, Ryan 18, 2:49 (sh).Penalties—Getzlaf, Ana (hooking), 1:35; Ducks bench,served by Selanne (too many men), 6:54.

Second Period—None. Penalties—Hejda, Col(hooking), 10:48; O’Brien, Col (delay of game), 19:30.

Third Period—2, Ducks, Getzlaf 8 (Selanne,Visnovsky), :20 (pp). 3, Ducks, Ryan 19 (Getzlaf),3:56. 4, Colorado, O’Reilly 14, 14:51. 5, Colorado,Hejduk 12 (Landeskog, Stastny), 16:28 (pp).Penalties—McLeod, Col, major (fighting), 11:00; Bell,Ana, major (fighting), 11:00; Parros, Ana (roughing),11:00; Jones, Col (hooking), 14:06; Getzlaf, Ana(hooking), 14:46.

Shots on Goal—Colorado 15-13-17—45. Ducks2-8-8—18.

Power-play opportunities—Colorado 1 of 4; Ducks1 of 3.

Goalies—Colorado, Giguere 12-7-1 (18 shots-15saves). Ducks, Hiller 15-17-7 (45-43).

A—14,004 (17,174). T—2:24.Referees—Dan O’Rourke, Justin St. Pierre.

Linesmen—Don Henderson, Mark Wheler.

OTTAWA at KINGSFaceoff: 7:30 p.m. today, Staples CenterTV/Radio: FSN/1150-AMMatchup: With their 3-1 loss to Colorado on Saturday, itmarked just the second time in 17 games the Kings(23-16-10) failed to pick up at least a point. They have beenlimited to one goal or none in five of its past seven atStaples Center. The Senators (27-17-6) had earned at leastone point in a club-record, 11 straight road games beforelosing 2-1 to the Ducks on Saturday. Ottawa is 1-10-0 withone tie all-time in L.A. — Staff report

PACERS 98,LAKERS 96

INDIANA (98)Granger 4-14 6-8 16, West 7-15 0-0 15,

Hibbert 9-13 0-0 18, Collison 4-8 3-3 12, George5-8 1-2 13, Hansbrough 0-5 0-0 0, Hill 4-6 0-011, Stephenson 1-1 2-2 4, Amundson 0-3 0-0 0,Jones 2-4 4-4 9. Totals 36-77 16-19 98.LAKERS (96)

Barnes 3-8 8-10 14, Gasol 4-12 0-0 8,Bynum 6-12 4-6 16, Fisher 2-4 0-0 4, Bryant14-30 5-6 33, McRoberts 0-2 0-0 0, Morris 1-33-5 5, World Peace 5-9 0-2 11, Ebanks 0-1 2-42, Murphy 1-4 0-0 3, Kapono 0-1 0-0 0. Totals36-86 22-33 96.

Indiana 14 35 28 21 — 98Lakers 27 25 26 18 — 96

3-Point Goals—Indiana 10-18 (Hill 3-4, George2-4, Granger 2-6, Jones 1-1, West 1-1, Collison1-2), Lakers 2-9 (World Peace 1-1, Murphy 1-2,Kapono 0-1, Barnes 0-2, Bryant 0-3). FouledOut—None. Rebounds—Indiana 57 (West 9),Lakers 48 (Gasol, Bryant, Bynum 8).Assists—Indiana 22 (Collison 7), Lakers 22 (Gasol10). Total Fouls—Indiana 22, Lakers 16.Technicals—Bynum. A—18,997 (18,997).

NHL ROUNDUP



Brady and got a late-minutescoring pass from Manning toPlaxico Burress to win theirthird Super Bowl.

Manning, five months afterdeclaring he is in the sameclass as Tom Brady, will getanother chance to show hisskills on the NFL’s biggeststage. He outplayed AaronRodgers and the defendingchampion Packers last week,then fellow former No. 1 pickAlex Smith and upstart SanFrancisco the next.

Victor Cruz set the tone witheight of his 10 receptions in thefirst half and finished with 142yards

“It’s just been a tremendouseffort by all of us, man,” Cruzsaid. “We understand that anyone of us can get hot at anymoment. As long as we’re allon the same page and just play-ing together, man, we’ve got agreat group of guys.”

Vernon Davis caught touch-down passes of 73 and 28 yardsand wound up with threecatches for 112 yards for theNFC West champions (14-4),who went from 6-10 a year agoto a contender and ended aneight-year playoff drought.

He scored the game-winnerfrom 14 yards out last week asthe 49ers stunned Drew Breesand the favored Saints 36-32.

Thirty years after theirdynasty began under the lateBill Walsh, another former

Stanford coach — Jim Har-baugh — got the 49ers this farwith his “Who’s got it betterthan us? No-body!” chant thatcaught on so well with the play-ers and city.

“It will be a tough one. It willtake a while to get over,” Har-baugh said.

The only other time thesetwo franchises faced off in theconference championship thegame finished in memorablefashion. On Jan. 20, 1991,Roger Craig fumbled with the49ers leading 13-12 late in thefourth quarter and the Giantswent on to win 15-13 to deny

San Francisco a chance at athird Super Bowl title in a row.New York then beat the Bills tocapture its second Super Bowl.

These teams met six times inthe playoffs between the 1981and ’94 seasons with the win-ner going on to win the SuperBowl four times.

GIANTSFrom B1

By Dennis Waszak Jr.The Associated Press

A Super Sequel.Four years after New York

stunned previously undefeatedNew England in the Arizonadesert, the Patriots and Giantsare going at it again at theSuper Bowl, but this time inIndianapolis.

Brady and Belichick. Man-ning and Coughlin. Both teamsrolling through the playoffs.

Here we go again.New England, which lost to

New York 24-20 in earlyNovember, opened as a 3-pointfavorite for the Feb. 5 game.The Patriots have won 10 in arow with their last loss to —you guessed it — the Giants.

“We know they’re a greatteam,” Giants quarterback EliManning said. “We playedthem already this year. They’vebeen playing great football

recently. Celebrate tonight,have fun, then start getting pre-pared and go to Indy and playour best football.”

It’s familiar territory forTom Brady and the Patriots(15-3), who are playing in theSuper Bowl for the fifth time in11 years.

“Being in this situation is agreat moment,” Patriots nosetackle Vince Wilfork said. “Youhave to cherish this moment.”

It’s the Patriots’ first appear-ance since Manning and theGiants (12-7) upset NewEngland’s pursuit of perfectionin 2008. Back then, NewEngland was a 12-point favor-ite, but New York’s defense bat-tered Brady and Manning con-nected with Plaxico Burress ona late touchdown to win.

That touchdown came a fewmoments after one of the big-gest plays in playoff history.

Manning escaped the grasp ofPatriots defenders and foundDavid Tyree, who put NewYork in scoring position by pin-ning the football against hishelmet for a jaw-droppingcatch.

New England hopes to avoidthat sort of drama this time.Unless it goes in the Patriots’favor, as it did in the AFC titlegame.

Brady was unusually subparin the Patriots’ 23-20 victoryover Baltimore. He threw for239 yards with two intercep-tions and, for the first time in36 games, no scoring passes.But he got some help from thePatriots’ defense, which madecrucial stops down the stretch.

A few mistakes by theRavens helped greatly, too, asBilly Cundiff missed a 32-yardfield goal attempt with 11 sec-onds left, a few minutes after

Lee Evans had a potential win-ning touchdown catch rippedout of his hands in the endzone.

“Childlike joy. It’s all aboutchild-like joy,” linebackerJerod Mayo said. “Last nightfelt like the day before Christ-mas for me and I haven’t hadthat feeling in a long time. Atthis level, the day before Christ-mas is like a regular day. Butnow I just feel like I got mypresent.

“We have one more game togo.”

New England last won theSuper Bowl in 2005, a longdrought after the Patriots tookhome Lombardi trophies threetimes in four years. There areonly a handful of players leftfrom that team, with Corey Dil-lon, Tedy Bruschi and RodneyHarrison replaced by the likesof Mayo, Rob Gronkowski andAaron Hernandez.

left. The Ravens looked on instunned horror.

Next up as the Patriots (15-3)chase their fourth Super Bowltrophy in Brady’s and coachBill Belichick’s tenure in NewEngland are the New YorkGiants, who defeated San Fran-cisco 20-17 in overtime for theNFC Championship. The SuperBowl is Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.

In their last trip to the biggame, the Patriots had an 18-0record when they werestunned by the New YorkGiants four years ago.

They won the NFL champion-ship for the 2001, 2003 and2004 seasons. This time, theyhead to the Super Bowl with a10-game winning streak.

“We’re going to try to go outand kick some butt in a coupleof weeks,” said Brady, whosefifth trip to the Super Bowl willequal John Elway’s achieve-ment with Denver.

On his touchdown, Bradytook a hit from Ravens line-backer Ray Lewis, then emphat-ically spiked the ball as hewalked away. Brady earlier

showed his fire by yelling atLewis following a hard tackleon a 4-yard run.

“It’s a pretty mentally toughteam,” Brady said. “There’sreally some resiliency, we’veshown that all season. Even inthe games we’ve lost, the threegames we lost, we fought untilthe end. We’re always going tofight to the end. It’s great to bea part of a team like this.”

Before Cundiff missed, theRavens had a chance to goahead two plays earlier, butwide receiver Lee Evans wasstripped of the ball in the endzone by backup cornerbackSterling Moore, who earlierwas victimized for a touch-down that gave Baltimore(13-5) the lead 17-16.

When Cundiff misfired, andthe Patriots stormed off theirsideline in celebration as thechilled crowd roared, andRavens coach John Harbaughappeared to say “He missed it.”

“It’s a kick I’ve kicked proba-bly a thousand times in mycareer,” Cundiff said. “I wentout there and didn’t convert.That’s the way things go.There’s really no excuse for it.”

Baltimore had the touteddefense in this matchup, butNew England’s unit, ranked31st overall, was just as power-ful.

“We stepped up,” Pro Bowlnose tackle Vince Wilfork said.“We all stepped up big time.Being in this situation is agreat moment. You have tocherish this moment.”

The Patriots shut down RayRice, the league’s total yardageleader, who was limited to 78yards. Brandon Spikes made afourth-quarter interception ofJoe Flacco, who played wellbefore that and threw for twotouchdowns. And when theRavens were threatening toscore a late touchdown to wintheir first conference title in 11years, New England clampeddown.

“It’s two great footballteams, two gladiators, I guess,just kind of going at each otherat the end, and I’m proud ofour guys,” Harbaugh said. “Youknow, we’ve got 53 guys,mighty men, as we like to callthem — and they fought, andwe came up a little bit short, as53. You know, 53 win and 53lose.”

PATRIOTSFrom B1

GIANTS 20,49ERS 17 (OT)

N.Y. Giants 0 10 0 7 3 — 20San Francisco 7 0 7 3 0 — 17

First QuarterSF—V.Davis 73 pass from Ale.Smith (Akers kick),

7:11.Second Quarter

NYG—Pascoe 6 pass from Manning (Tynes kick),11:15.

NYG—FG Tynes 31, :02.Third Quarter

SF—V.Davis 28 pass from Ale.Smith (Akers kick),5:18.

Fourth QuarterNYG—Manningham 17 pass from Manning (Tynes

kick), 8:34.SF—FG Akers 25, 5:39.

OvertimeNYG—FG Tynes 31, 7:06.A—69,732.

NYG SFFirst downs 20 15Total Net Yards 352 328Rushes-yards 26-85 28-150Passing 267 178Punt Returns 6-55 8-70Kickoff Returns 1-17 4-100Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0Comp-Att-Int 32-58-0 12-26-0Sacked-Yards Lost 6-49 3-18Punts 12-46.4 10-45.5Fumbles-Lost 1-0 4-2Penalties-Yards 9-60 6-50Time of Possession 39:36 28:18

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—N.Y. Giants, Bradshaw 20-74, Jacobs

5-13, Manning 1-(minus 2). San Francisco, Gore16-74, Ale.Smith 6-42, Hunter 4-31, Dixon 2-3.

PASSING—N.Y. Giants, Manning 32-58-0-316.San Francisco, Ale.Smith 12-26-0-196.

RECEIVING—N.Y. Giants, Cruz 10-142, Bradshaw6-52, Nicks 5-55, Beckum 4-16, Hynoski 3-20,Jacobs 2-8, Manningham 1-17, Pascoe 1-6. SanFrancisco, Gore 6-45, V.Davis 3-112, Walker 2-36,Crabtree 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.


New England’s Brandon Deaderick stops the Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Rice during Sunday’s AFC Championship game. Ricewas held to 67 yards in 21 rushing attempts and the Patriots won, 23-20.


Mark Wilson won the Humana Challenge by two shots onSunday in La Quinta. His fifth career PGA Tour victorywas worth $1,008,000.

PATRIOTS 23,RAVENS 20

Baltimore 0 10 10 0 — 20New England 3 10 3 7 — 23

First QuarterNE—FG Gostkowski 29, 5:49.

Second QuarterBal—FG Cundiff 20, 14:21.NE—Green-Ellis 7 run (Gostkowski kick), 10:35.Bal—Pitta 6 pass from Flacco (Cundiff kick), 6:03.NE—FG Gostkowski 35, 3:00.

Third QuarterNE—FG Gostkowski 24, 9:06.Bal—T.Smith 29 pass from Flacco (Cundiff kick),

3:38.Bal—FG Cundiff 39, :50.

Fourth QuarterNE—Brady 1 run (Gostkowski kick), 11:29.A—68,756.

Bal NEFirst downs 19 25Total Net Yards 398 330Rushes-yards 31-116 31-96Passing 282 234Punt Returns 1-4 3-7Kickoff Returns 1-20 3-101Interceptions Ret. 2-39 1-19Comp-Att-Int 22-36-1 22-36-2Sacked-Yards Lost 3-24 1-5Punts 4-43.8 2-48.5Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1Penalties-Yards 6-33 1-5Time of Possession 33:33 26:27

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Baltimore, Rice 21-67, Flacco 4-27,

R.Williams 6-22. New England, Green-Ellis 15-68,Woodhead 6-18, Hernandez 3-9, Brady 6-2, Edelman1-(minus 1).

PASSING—Baltimore, Flacco 22-36-1-306. NewEngland, Brady 22-36-2-239.

RECEIVING—Baltimore, Boldin 6-101, Pitta 5-41,T.Smith 3-82, Evans 3-39, Dickson 2-23, Leach 2-9,Rice 1-11. New England, Hernandez 7-66, Welker6-53, Gronkowski 5-87, Branch 2-18, Edelman 1-8,Woodhead 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Baltimore, Cundiff 32(WL).

By The Associated PressLA QUINTA — Mark Wil-

son made a 10-foot birdieputt on the final hole to winthe Humana Challenge onSunday and beat Robert Gar-rigus, John Mallinger andJohnson Wagner by twostrokes in a dramatic duskfinish to the wind-delayedtournament.

Moments after Garrigusbarely missed a 35-foot eagleputt that would have givenhim the lead, Wilson coollymade his birdie try in thedisappearing light andcalmly celebrated his fifthcareer PGA Tour victory.

“Robert and I, going backand forth, we really enjoyedthat,” Wilson said. “It justcame down to 18, and Ididn’t want to give him achance to make that putt totie me.

“That’s what we play for.You want somebody to winit, not necessarily to lose it.”

Wilson led by threestrokes Sunday morningafter finishing his thirdround, which was delayed byferocious winds Saturday.Wilson quickly gave awaythe lead on the Palmer Pri-vate course but playedbogey-free over the final 15holes while every other com-petitor dropped back —including Garrigus, who fellout of the lead when hemissed a 5 1/2-foot par putton the 17th.

Wilson closed with a3-under 69 to finish at 24under and take the$1,008,000 winner’s share ofthe $5.6 million purse.While most everybody elsepulled on sweaters for thefinal holes, the Wisconsinnative stayed in his poloshirt out of superstition andfamiliarity.

“It’s a feel thing,” Wilsonsaid. “I’ve been playing withshort sleeves all day. I didn’tjust want to put it on and geta new feeling because every-thing was going well.”

The first three rounds weredominated by low scores, butJeff Maggert made the biggestmove in the final round bymoving up to fifth with abogey-free 64.

Eight players were withintwo strokes of the lead whenthe final group neared theturn, but Wilson weatheredevery challenge with solidshot-making.

Wagner, who won the SonyOpen last week in Hawaii, bird-ied two of his final three holes.He hit a 7-foot birdie putt onthe 18th to finish at 22 under.

Champions TourKAUPULEHU-KONA,

Hawaii — Dan Forsman wonthe season-opening MitsubishiElectric Championship for histhird Champions Tour title byclosing with a 3-under 69 for atwo-stroke victory over JayDon Blake.

The 53-year-old Forsman, afive-time winner on the PGATour, finished with a 15-under201 total at Hualalai Resort. Heopened with rounds of 67 and65 to take a two-stroke leadinto the final round.

Blake finished with a 67.John Cook, the 2011 winner,

shot a 68 to tie for third withMichael Allen at 12 under.

European TourGEORGE, South Africa —

South Africa’s Branden Gracewon the Volvo Golf Championsfor his second consecutiveEuropean Tour victory by beat-ing Ernie Els and RetiefGoosen with a birdie on thefirst hole of a playoff.

Grace closed with a 2-under71 to match Els (67) andGoosen (70) at 12-under 280 atThe Links at Fancourt.

GOLF ROUNDUP

Wilson’s final-holebirdie on the Mark


The New York Giants’ Bear Pascoe scores a second-quartertouchdown despite the efforts of San Francisco’s DashonGoldson during Sunday’s NFC Championship game.

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TENNISATP-WTA

AUSTRALIAN OPENToday’s results

At Melbourne ParkMelbourne, AustraliaPurse: $26.83 million

Surface: Hard-OutdoorSingles

MenFourth Round

Andy Murray (4), Britain, def. Mikhail Kukushkin,Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-1, 1-0, retired.

WomenFourth Round

Petra Kvitova (2), Czech Republic, def. AnaIvanovic (21), Serbia, 6-2, 7-6 (2). Sara Errani, Italy,def. Zheng Jie, China, 6-2, 6-1. Ekaterina Makarova,Russia, def. Serena Williams (12), United States, 6-2,6-3.

DoublesMen

Third RoundRobert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Horia Tecau (7),

Romania, def. Ricardo Mello and Joao Souza, Brazil,6-4, 6-3. Eric Butorac, United States, and BrunoSoares (10), Brazil, def. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi,Pakistan, and Jean-Julien Rojer (8), Curacao, 6-4,6-2. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Christopher Kas(12), Germany, def. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, and PhilippPetzschner (5), Germany, 7-6 (1), 7-5. MariuszFyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski (6), Poland, def.Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, and Filip Polasek(11), Slovakia, 6-4, 6-3.

WomenThird Round

Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka (7), CzechRepublic, def. Rika Fujiwara and Ayumi Morita, Japan,6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Irina-Camelia Begu and MonicaNiculescu, Romania, def. Maria Kirilenko and NadiaPetrova (5), Russia, 3-0, retired.

Legends DoublesRound Robin

MenGuy Forget and Henri Leconte, France, def. Todd

Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, Australia, 6-4, 7-5.Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis, Netherlands, def.Mansour Bahrami, Iran, and Cedric Pioline, France,6-4, 7-6 (5).

Sunday’s late resultsSingles

MenFourth Round

Tomas Berdych (7), Czech Republic, def. NicolasAlmagro (10), Spain, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2).Juan Martin del Potro (11), Argentina, def. PhilippKohlschreiber, Germany, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1. Roger Federer(3), Switzerland, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-4,6-2, 6-2.

WomenFourth Round

Kim Clijsters (11), Belgium, def. Li Na (5), China,4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4. Caroline Wozniacki (1), Denmark,def. Jelena Jankovic (13), Serbia, 6-0, 7-5.

DoublesMen

Third RoundLeander Paes, India, and Radek Stepanek, Czech

Republic, def. Michael Llodra, France, and NenadZimonjic (3), Serbia, 7-5, 7-6 (2).

WomenThird Round

Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova, Russia,def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, and Zheng Jie, China,7-5, 6-4. Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond (2), UnitedStates, def. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and AlicjaRosolska, Poland, 6-2, 6-1. Vania King, United States,and Yaroslava Shvedova (3), Kazakhstan, def. PetraMartic, Croatia, and Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-2,2-6, 6-2.

MixedFirst Round

Kimiko Date-Krumm and Kei Nishikori, Japan, def.Gisela Dulko and Eduardo Schwank, Argentina, 6-4,6-1. Iveta Benesova, Czech Republic, and JurgenMelzer, Austria, def. Nuria Llagostera Vives, Spain, andOliver Marach, Austria, 6-1, 7-6 (6). Roberta Vinci andDaniele Bracciali, Italy, def. Kveta Peschke, CzechRepublic, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, 3-6, 6-2,11-9 tiebreak. Casey Dellacqua and Matthew Ebden,Australia, def. Olivia Rogowska and Marinko Matosevic,Australia, 6-4, 6-2. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, andBruno Soares, Brazil, def. Klaudia Jans-Ignacik,Poland, and Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, 6-7 (4), 6-2,11-9 tiebreak.

Legends DoublesRound Robin

MenWayne Arthurs, Australia, and Thomas Muster,

Austria, def. Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis,Netherlands, 7-5, 6-1.

By The Associated PressARCADIA — Include Me

Out took the lead in herfirst-ever trip around twoturns and dashed away fromthe field in the homestretch towin the $150,000 La CanadaStakes on Sunday at SantaAnita.

Include Me Out, ridden byJoe Talamo for trainer RonEllis, was fifth in the field ofsix 4-year-old fillies in theearly going, went four wide onthe turn to get to the front andfinished 4 1/4 lengths in front

of Great Hot. She covered1 1/16 miles in 1:41.89.

“She was dying to go twoturns and it’s kind of been aprocess getting her up to it.She fired today, that’s forsure,” Ellis said. “She justlooked very comfortable all theway.”

Include Me Out paid $19,$6.40 and $3.40. Great Hotreturned $3.60 and $2.40. Thefavorite, Tiz Flirtatious, paid$2.60 to show.

Owned by Samantha Siegel,Include Me Out earned

$90,000 for the win, her thirdin seven starts, for a careertotal of $183,600.

Earlier in the $82,500 SanPedro Stakes for 3-year-olds,Midnight Transfer caughtearly leader Got Even in thefinal yards and won by a headafter running 6 1/2 furlongs in1:14.25.

Midnight Transfer, riddenby Joel Rosario for trainerCarla Gaines, became a stakeswinner less than a month afterhis maiden victory on SantaAnita’s opening day, Dec. 26.

Include Me Out finishes strong

Associated Press/Benoit photo

Include Me Out and jockey Joe Talamo win Sunday’s Grade II, $150,000 La Canada Stakesat Santa Anita. It was the filly’s third victory in seven starts.

DAY 19 OF A 79-DAY MEET

3155—5½ Furlongs. Claiming. Fillies. 3 year olds.Claiming Prices $32,000-$28,000. Purse $35,000.

RACE 1Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ 3/8 Str Fin Odds2134 Cha Cha Latte, R Bejarano 120 2 6 5-2 1-½ 1-1¼ 4.50(3013)Beautiful Strike, C Nakatani 120 6 3-1½ 3-1 2-1 2-2 0.602182 Tasty Treat, M Pedroza 120 5 4-1 4-1 3-HD 3-½ 13.302182 One Magical Girl, J Rosario 120 1 2-1 2-1 4-HD 4-6¼ 5.60.... Help Me Hannah, J Talamo 120 4 1-HD 1-HD 5-3½ 5-7¾ 7.903012 Silver Street, M Gutierrez 120 3 5-1½ 6 6 6 14.90

Time—:21.72 :44.45 :56.97 1:03.45 Cloudy. Fast.

2—Cha Cha Latte ....... 11.00 3.60 2.606—Beautiful Strike ............... 2.40 2.105—Tasty Treat .................................. 4.60

Winner—Cha Cha Latte Ch.f.3 byAfter Market out of Our FriendTerry, by Cox’s Ridge. Bred byStillmeadow Farm LLC & Dr. SteveConboy (KY). Trainer: Kathy Walsh.Owner: Kirkwood, Al and Saundra S.Claimed—Beautiful Strike byNorth American ThoroughbredRacing Company Inc. Trainer: TroyTaylor.

EXACTA (2-6) PAID $11.50; SUPERFECTA (2-6-5-1) PAID $177.50TRIFECTA (2-6-5) PAID $62.00

3156—6½ Furlongs. Claiming. Fillies and Mares. 4year olds and up. Claiming Prices $10,000-$9,000.Purse $19,000.

RACE 2Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ Str Fin Odds3048 She’s Very Rare, A Delgadillo 121 5 2-1 2-1 1-4½ 1-6½ 1.703048 Lutess, Mn Garcia 123 1 6-½ 6-3½ 2-2 2-5½ 0.802197 Good Acktress, K Krigger 121 3 3-1 4-HD 3-2½ 3-5¾ 14.105075 Musical Grace, A Bisono 121 4 4-HD 3-HD 4-HD 4-2¼ 13.103105 Pivotal Queen (IRE), D Vergara 119 2 7 7 7 5-3½ 45.702181 Kahlua Mist, C Santiago Reyes 119 6 5-3 5-1½ 6-2 6-¾ 20.906152 Terrify, A Quinonez 121 7 1-1 1-HD 5-1½ 7 10.60

Time—:21.76 :44.83 1:08.75 1:15.12 Cloudy. Fast.

5—She’s Very Rare ..... 5.40 2.60 2.201—Lutess ............................... 2.20 2.103—Good Acktress ............................ 3.60

Winner—She’s Very Rare Ch.m.7by Unusual Heat out ofGrilltoperfection, by PerfectMandate. Bred by Old EnglishRancho (CA). Trainer: Victor L.Garcia. Owner: Garcia, Juan J. andGutierrez, Rafael.Claimed—Lutess by Vegas RacingTeam, LLC. Trainer: FrancescoSantella.

DAILY DOUBLE (2-5) PAID $34.00; DAILY DOUBLE POOL $33,059EXACTA (5-1) PAID $4.80; SUPERFECTA (5-1-3-4) PAID $91.80

TRIFECTA (5-1-3) PAID $15.20

3157—1 Mile (Turf). Maiden Special Weight. 4 yearolds and up. Purse $56,000.

RACE 3Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ ¾ Str Fin Odds2176 A Little Hot Sauce, Mn Grcia 122 4 6-2½ 6-2½ 5-1½ 3-1 1-NS 7.003047 Ashley’s Bambino, Bejarano 122 5 2-1½ 3-1 3-HD 1-HD 2-¾ 1.203052 All de Victors, E Flores 115 8 4-1 5-HD 6-2 5-3½ 3-3¼ 56.003055 Silver Dragon, B Blanc 122 7 5-2½ 4-2½ 4-1 4-½ 4-½ 1.803047 Lethal Intent, Sutherland 122 6 3-1½ 2-½ 1-½ 2-½ 5-3 14.003052 St. Joel, A Castanon 122 2 7-1½ 7-2 7-1½ 6-HD 6-6½ 105.70.... Sweet Elation, D Flores 122 1 8 8 8 8 7-½ 5.303002 St. Valentino, A Delgadillo 122 3 1-1 1-½ 2-½ 7-1 8 75.20

Time—:22.67 :46.69 1:11.45 1:23.97 1:36.31 Cloudy. Firm.

5—A Little Hot Sauce 16.00 5.20 3.806—Ashley’s Bambino ........... 2.80 2.409—All de Victors .............................. 8.40

Winner—A Little Hot Sauce B.g.4by Suances (GB) out of Little HotsyTotsy, by Unusual Heat. Bred byRed Baron’s Barn LLC (CA).Trainer: Blake R. Heap. Owner:Lamonte Isom.Scratched—Elusive Journey


TRIFECTA (5-6-9) PAID $327.80PICK THREE (2-5-5) PAID $125.80; PICK THREE POOL $54,830

3158—6½ Furlongs. ‘San Pedro Stakes’. 3 year olds.Purse $75,000.

RACE 4Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ Str Fin Odds(3003)Midnight Transfer, J Rosario 117 1 3-HD 5-1½ 2-½ 1-HD 2.20(3007)Got Even, C Nakatani 119 6 1-½ 1-1 1-2 2-2½ 3.00.... Let’s Get Crackin, V Espinoza 116 4 2-½ 2-HD 4-1½ 3-HD 30.70(1018)Coach Sickie, A Quinonez 116 3 5-½ 4-½ 5-4½ 4-½ 5.202213 Drill, Mn Garcia 119 2 6 3-1½ 3-HD 5-4¾ 1.603007 Passing Game, K Krigger 117 5 4-½ 6 6 6 15.60

Time—:21.92 :44.00 1:07.70 1:14.25 Cloudy. Fast.

1—Midnight Transfer .. 6.40 3.80 3.006—Got Even ............................ 4.40 3.604—Let’s Get Crackin ....................... 5.80

Winner—Midnight Transfer Ch.c.3by Hard Spun out of French Satin,by French Deputy. Bred by AlphaDelta Stables, LLC (KY). Trainer:Carla Gaines. Owner: Warren B.Williamson.



3159—1 Mile. Maiden Claiming. Fillies. 3 year olds.Claiming Prices $50,000-$40,000. Purse $31,000.

RACE 5Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ ¾ Str Fin Odds2059 Bella’s Fantasy, Bejarano 121 3 2-1 2-2 2-1½ 1-1 1-1¼ 1.30.... Lady Ten, Mn Garcia 121 6 7-1½ 7-3 4-½ 3-1 2-2¾ 4.60.... Clearly Casual, J Talamo 121 1 1-1 1-HD 1-1 2-2 3-HD 11.402131 Night Teller, B Blanc 121 5 8 8 6-HD 5-2 4-5¾ 10.503104 Joca Queen, A Delgadillo 119 2 5-HD 6-HD 7-1 6-2 5-½ 43.802036 Freckles Galore, Castanon 119 7 4-HD 4-½ 3-1½ 4-1½ 6-3½ 43.103028 Lemon Hero, A Quinonez 121 4 3-HD 3-HD 5-2½ 7-8 7-16¼ 3.603013 Play Misty for Us, Krigger 117 8 6-2 5-1½ 8 8 8 5.80

Time—:23.20 :47.48 1:12.16 1:25.19 1:38.52 Cloudy. Fast.

3—Bella’s Fantasy ....... 4.60 3.00 2.407—Lady Ten .......................... 4.80 3.601—Clearly Casual ............................ 4.40

Winner—Bella’s Fantasy B.f.3 byHard Spun out of Fantasy Lake, bySalt Lake. Bred by StonestreetThoroughbred Holdings, LLC (KY).Trainer: Bob Baffert. Owner: BadBoy Racing LLC and Whizway Farms.Scratched—Fluxx



PICK FOUR (5-5-1-3/5) 4 CORRECT PAID $107.90;PICK FOUR POOL $143,614

PICK FIVE (2-5-5-1-3/5) 5 CORRECT PAID $747.60;PICK FIVE POOL $227,730

3160—6 Furlongs. Claiming. 4 year olds and up.Claiming Prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $26,000.

RACE 6Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ Str Fin Odds3031 Quintons Destiny, J Rosario 123 1 6-½ 5-6 3-½ 1-NK 0.801141 Taylor Said, M Gutierrez 123 2 2-1½ 2-1½ 1-2 2-3¼ 5.503014 Miles Long Gone, E Flores 116 3 5-1½ 4-½ 4-4 3-3½ 11.903067 Blake, V Espinoza 123 6 1-1½ 1-1 2-1½ 4-8¼ 13.403016 Baraja de Oro, Mn Garcia 123 7 3-1½ 3-2 5-12 5-16¼ 9.507032 Hostile Waters, V Carrero 121 5 7 6 6 6 60.50(2184) The Director, E Maldonado 123 4 4-1 DNF 3.20

Time—:21.28 :44.09 :56.08 1:08.52 Cloudy. Fast.

1—Quintons Destiny .... 3.60 2.20 2.102—Taylor Said ....................... 4.40 3.003—Miles Long Gone ........................ 3.80

Winner—Quintons Destiny Ch.g.4by Yes It’s True out of Gammon,by Crafty Prospector. Bred byMichael Albrega (KY). Trainer: MikeR. Mitchell. Owner: TommyHutton’s Dream Stable LLC andRiches, Kimberly D.Scratched—Rock This WayClaimed—Quintons Destiny byBudget Stable. Trainer: JanetArmstrong.



3161—11/8 Mile (Turf). Claiming. 4 year olds and up.Claiming Prices $25,000-$22,500. Purse $32,000.

RACE 7Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ ¾ Str Fin Odds2209 Porfido (CHI), R Bejarano 121 8 7-HD 7-½ 7-1½ 3-HD 1-1¼ 5.801140 Global Stage, Maldonado 121 5 10-2 10-210-1½ 6-HD 2-2½ 11.506248 Double Shuffle, Sutherland 121 11 9-1½ 9-HD 8-HD 8-½ 3-HD 15.003070 Sir Bell, M Pedroza 121 1 3-HD 4-HD 4-½ 5-1½ 4-NK 16.102212 Coluda, J Rosario 121 6 1-1 1-1 1-½ 1-HD 5-HD 3.603006 El Merito (CHI), E Flores 113 10 5-½ 8-1½ 9-½ 7-HD 6-1¼ 13.303006 Dress Code, V Espinoza 119 9 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1½ 7-HD 17.202175 They Call Him El, Talamo 121 4 8-HD 6-HD 6-½ 4-HD 8-HD 16.202080 Yodelen Dan, A Quinonez 121 7 11 11 11 9-3 9-8¼ 4.703027 Violon Sacre, Henderson 116 2 6-1½ 5-1½ 5-1½ 11 10-2½ 9.803027 Fantastic Pick (GB), Nakatani 121 3 4-½ 3-½ 3-HD10-HD 11 4.60

Time—:23.06 :47.25 1:11.39 1:35.80 1:47.55 Cloudy. Firm.

8—Porfido (CHI) ........ 13.60 6.40 4.405—Global Stage .................. 12.40 8.4012—Double Shuffle .......................... 7.20

Winner—Porfido (CHI) B.h.10 byMash One (CHI) out of PiazzaVenezia (CHI), by Roy. Bred byHaras Sumaya (CHI). Trainer: EoinG. Harty. Owner: Fer, Pete andYanez, James.Scratched—Farmer Giles (IRE),SyncobeatClaimed—Coluda by JeffreySengara. Trainer: Mike Mitchell.

DAILY DOUBLE (1-8) PAID $29.00; DAILY DOUBLE POOL $20,373EXACTA (8-5) PAID $65.20; SUPERFECTA (8-5-12-1) PAID $17,450.40

TRIFECTA (8-5-12) PAID $1,112.00PICK THREE (3-1-8) PAID $31.50; PICK THREE POOL $58,429

3162—1 1/16 Mile. ‘La Canada Stakes’. Fillies. 4 yearolds. Purse $150,000.

RACE 8Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ ¾ Str Fin Odds3033 Include Me Out, Talamo 118 4 5-4 5-8 4-1½ 1-2½ 1-4¼ 8.503033 Great Hot (BRZ), Sutherland 118 3 4-½ 4-HD 2-HD 2-1½ 2-¾ 2.60(2179)Tiz Flirtatious, J Rosario 118 6 2-1½ 2-1 3-HD 3-1 3-¾ 1.702136 Love Theway Youare, Quinnz 118 2 6 6 6 4-½ 4-4¼ 24.80(2185)Capital Plan, R Bejarano 118 5 3-1 3-HD 5-4 6 5-2¼ 3.303033 May Day Rose, Mn Garcia 118 1 1-HD 1-½ 1-1½ 5-½ 6 4.70

Time—:22.64 :45.86 1:10.12 1:35.25 1:41.89 Cloudy. Fast.

6—Include Me Out ..... 19.00 6.40 3.404—Great Hot (BRZ) ................ 3.60 2.408—Tiz Flirtatious .............................. 2.60

Winner—Include Me Out Dbb.f.4by Include out of Don’t Trick Her,by Mazel Trick. Bred by BreretonC. Jones (KY). Trainer: Ronald W.Ellis. Owner: Jay Em Ess Stable.Scratched—Big Tiz, MissRadiance



3163—6½ Furlongs. Maiden Claiming. 4 year olds andup. Claiming Price $20,000. Purse $19,000.

RACE 9Index Horse, Jockey Wt PP ¼ ½ Str Fin Odds3038 Jim’s Decision, D Flores 122 4 9-HD 5-1½ 1-1 1-½ 1.902184 Crestatorre, J Verenzuela 122 1 5-½ 4-½ 3-3 2-HD 25.602105 Smart Hombre, H Berrios 122 3 1-HD 1-½ 2-1½ 3-3¾ 7.507008 Broken Glass, C Santiago Reyes 122 5 4-½ 6-HD 5-2½ 4-2¼ 6.203002 Maybe Tuesday, E Flores 115 8 13 12 7-HD 5-½ 19.50.... Gamblin On Jack, A Quinonez 122 2 11-½ 9-HD 6-1½ 6-¾ 23.803098 East Sky, J Scott 122 6 2-1 2-½ 4-HD 7-1¼ 122.203055 Roheryn Strider, D Vergara 122 10 6-HD 8-1½ 8-HD 8-2¾ 14.003038 Indian Knight, Mn Garcia 122 12 3-HD 3-1 9-½ 9-½ 4.603098 Warren’s Tiger, K Krigger 122 11 7-HD 7-1½ 10-6 10-9¾ 21.302107 Sharp Upbeat, K Stra 122 7 10-HD 10-HD 11-2 11-2¾ 74.302161 Bluffside, O Figueroa 122 9 12-1 11-1 12 12 70.201159 Salty Robbin, A Delgadillo 122 13 8-½ DNF 6.00

Time—:21.78 :44.70 1:09.97 1:16.74 Cloudy. Fast.

4—Jim’s Decision ........ 5.80 3.60 2.801—Crestatorre ...................... 17.40 10.603—Smart Hombre ........................... 5.00

Winner—Jim’s Decision Dbb.r.4by Chapel Royal out of Ethel, byCryptoclearance. Bred by CenterHills Farm (KY). Trainer: VladimirCerin. Owner: Manzani, Ron,Resnick, Barnet, Sarno, Russ andCurrie, Virginia.Scratched—Own It

DAILY DOUBLE (6-4) PAID $58.20; DAILY DOUBLE POOL $97,277EXACTA (4-1) PAID $62.60; SUPERFECTA (4-1-3-5) PAID $2,860.70

SUPER HIGH FIVE (4-1-3-5-8) 1 TICKET PAID $34,387.60TRIFECTA (4-1-3) PAID $432.40

PICK THREE (8-6-4) PAID $291.20; PICK THREE POOL $84,591PICK FOUR (1/6-8-6-4) 1655 TICKETS WITH 4 CORRECT PAID $212.50;

PICK FOUR POOL $460,929

PICK SIX (1-3/5-1/6-8-6-4) 588 TICKETS WITH 5 OUT OF 6 PAID $79.80PICK SIX (1-3/5-1/6-8-6-4) 11 TICKETS WITH 6 CORRECT PAID $9,959.40;

PICK SIX POOL $205,072PLACE PICK ALL 203 TICKETS WITH 9 CORRECT PAID $98.70;

PLACE PICK ALL POOL $26,167

On-Track Attendance: 5,144. Mutuel Handle: $1,172,806.Inter-Track Attendance: 6,308. Mutuel Handle: $1,988,914.Out of State / Phone: N/A. Mutuel Handle: $4,578,057.Total Attendance: 11,452. Total Mutuel Handle: $7,739,777.

SANTA ANITA CHARTSSOCCER

CONCACAFWOMEN’S OLYMPIC QUALIFYINGAt Vancouver, British Columbia

StandingsTop two nations in each group advance

GROUP AW T L GF GA PTS

Canada 2 0 0 8 0 6Costa Rica 2 0 0 4 0 6Cuba 0 0 2 0 4 0Haiti 0 0 2 0 8 0

Today’s gamesCuba vs. Haiti, 5 p.m.Canada vs. Costa Rica, 7:30 p.m.

GROUP BW T L GF GA PTS

United States 2 0 0 27 0 6Mexico 2 0 0 12 0 6Guatemala 0 0 2 0 18 0Dominican Rep. 0 0 2 0 21 0

Sunday’s gamesMexico 7, Dominican Republic 0United States 13, Guatemala 0

Tuesday’s gamesGuatemala vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m.United States vs. Mexico, 7:30 p.m.

SEMIFINALSWinners QualifyFriday, Jan. 27

Group B winner vs. Group A second place, 5 p.m.Group A winner vs. Group B second place, 8 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIPSunday, Jan. 29

Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

TRANSACTIONSHOCKEY

National Hockey LeagueNHL—Suspended Boston D Andrew Ference three

games for boarding N.Y. Rangers D Ryan McDonaghduring Saturday’s game.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Assigned C Steve Zalewskito Albany (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS—Reassigned F Stephane DaCosta to Binghamton (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING—Reassigned D EvanOberg to Norfolk (AHL).

COLLEGEAUBURN—Named Scot Loeffler offensive

coordinator.WISCONSIN—Named Mike Markuson offensive

line coach.

GOLFPGA TOUR

HUMANA CHALLENGEAt La Quinta

Purse: $5.6 millionp-PGA West (Palmer Course): 6,950 yards, par-72

q-La Quinta Country Club: 7,060 yards, par-72n-PGA West (Nicklaus Course): 6,924 yards, par-72

Final RoundFinal round played on the PGA West Course

$1,008,000Mark Wilson 66n-62p-67-69—264 -24

$418,133Johnson Wagner 68p-67q-66n-65—266 -22John Mallinger 67q-65n-68p-66—266 -22Robert Garrigus 73p-64q-61n-68—266 -22

$224,000Jeff Maggert 69p-65q-69n-64—267 -21

$194,600John Senden 69q-64n-68p-67—268 -20David Toms 0 63q-65n-72p-68—268 -20

$156,800Bobby Gates 68p-63q-71n-67—269 -19Ben Crane 65n-63p-70q-71—269 -19Brandt Snedeker 64n-68p-66q-71—269 -19Zach Johnson 68p-65q-65n-71—269 -19

$123,200Brendon de Jonge 65q-71n-70p-64—270 -18Jason Dufner 71p-63q-68n-68—270 -18

$95,200Gary Christian 66n-68p-73q-64—271 -17Sang-Moon Bae 64n-69p-72q-66—271 -17Pat Perez 67q-67n-74p-63—271 -17Rory Sabbatini 68p-68q-68n-67—271 -17Martin Laird 66p-69q-67n-69—271 -17

$72,800Harris English 69q-62n-73p-68—272 -16Camilo Villegas 63n-68p-72q-69—272 -16Steve Marino 65q-68n-68p-71—272 -16

$56,000Josh Teater 71q-66n-67p-69—273 -15Bob Estes 64n-70p-71q-68—273 -15Matt Kuchar 71p-67q-70n-65—273 -15Stephen Ames 66n-67p-70q-70—273 -15

$42,280James Driscoll 69q-70n-68p-67—274 -14Paul Goydos 70q-69n-69p-66—274 -14Jarrod Lyle 68p-67q-67n-72—274 -14Brendon Todd 66p-67q-69n-72—274 -14

$31,858Kevin Na 66n-68p-73q-68—275 -13William McGirt 67n-71p-68q-69—275 -13Kevin Chappell 65q-68n-72p-70—275 -13M.A. Carballo 69q-66n-70p-70—275 -13Brett Quigley 67p-68q-70n-70—275 -13Bud Cauley 66q-67n-71p-71—275 -13Chris DiMarco 68q-64n-72p-71—275 -13Cameron Tringale 68n-64p-71q-72—275 -13Jason Bohn 68p-70q-71n-66—275 -13

$24,080Lee Janzen 69n-66p-72q-69—276 -12Ken Duke 67n-65p-74q-70—276 -12Chez Reavie 70q-70n-70p-66—276 -12

$18,512Chris Kirk 68q-63n-74p-72—277 -11Kyle Reifers 69p-69q-67n-72—277 -11Roberto Castro 68n-70p-70q-69—277 -11Carl Pettersson 71q-70n-67p-69—277 -11Erik Compton 67n-69p-72q-69—277 -11Ryan Moore 72q-61n-75p-69—277 -11Brian Gay 69n-68p-72q-68—277 -11

$13,821Charles Howell III 69p-70q-68n-71—278 -10Joe Durant 68p-71q-70n-69—278 -10George McNeill 73p-65q-71n-69—278 -10Ricky Barnes 68q-69n-72p-69—278 -10Phil Mickelson 74q-69n-66p-69—278 -10

$12,488Bo Van Pelt 67q-71n-69p-72—279 -9Jimmy Walker 70q-66n-71p-72—279 -9Brian Harman 69q-69n-69p-72—279 -9Justin Leonard 69p-68q-70n-72—279 -9Michael Thompson 71n-67p-69q-72—279 -9Troy Kelly 71p-70q-67n-71—279 -9Blake Adams 66p-71q-72n-70—279 -9Jeff Overton 67p-70q-73n-69—279 -9Ted Potter, Jr. 64n-73p-73q-69—279 -9Charlie Wi 71p-71q-68n-69—279 -9

$11,816Spencer Levin 68q-67n-72p-73—280 -8Bill Haas 71n-69p-70q-70—280 -8

$11,368Danny Lee 69p-69q-69n-74—281 -7John Rollins 68n-68p-72q-73—281 -7Nick O’Hern 68p-70q-71n-72—281 -7Brendan Steele 70n-69p-70q-72—281 -7Kevin Kisner 68q-73n-68p-72—281 -7Jamie Lovemark 68q-68n-73p-72—281 -7

$10,976Tommy Biershenk 68q-64n-72p-78—282 -6

$10,808Marco Dawson 72p-70q-68n-73—283 -5Kevin Sutherland 69n-68p-73q-73—283 -5

$10,640Charlie Beljan 71p-69q-69n-75—284 -4

CHAMPIONS TOURMITSUBISHI ELECTRICAt Hualalai Golf Course

Scottsdale, Ariz.Purse: $1.8 million

Yardage: 7,107; Par 72Final Round

$307,000Dan Forsman 67-65-69 — 201 -15

$185,500Jay Don Blake 69-67-67 — 203 -13

$121,000Michael Allen 67-68-69 — 204 -12John Cook ) 69-67-68 — 204 -12

$86,000Gary Hallberg 68-71-66 — 205 -11Jeff Sluman 68-66-71 — 205 -11

$60,000Brad Bryant 70-64-72 — 206 -10Mark Calcavecchia 71-69-66 — 206 -10Jay Haas 66-69-71 — 206 -10Tom Watson 69-65-72 — 206 -10

$45,000Fred Couples 72-66-69 — 207 -9

$38,333Olin Browne 72-66-70 — 208 -8Tom Lehman 65-72-71 — 208 -8Bruce Vaughan 65-71-72 — 208 -8

$32,000Russ Cochran 68-69-72 — 209 -7Bernhard Langer 68-72-69 — 209 -7Mark McNulty 68-70-71 — 209 -7

$25,250David Eger 69-69-72 — 210 -6Brad Faxon 66-72-72 — 210 -6Larry Mize 69-70-71 — 210 -6Corey Pavin 66-72-72 — 210 -6

$21,500John Huston 68-71-72 — 211 -5Loren Roberts 66-70-75 — 211 -5

$19,000Larry Nelson 73-68-71 — 212 -4Nick Price 73-69-70 — 212 -4Rod Spittle 72-68-72 — 212 -4

$15,875Tom Kite 69-72-72 — 213 -3Mark O’Meara 71-70-72 — 213 -3Ted Schulz 72-70-71 — 213 -3Mark Wiebe 72-69-72 — 213 -3

$14,000David Frost 69-72-73 — 214 -2Bob Gilder 69-70-75 — 214 -2Kenny Perry 73-67-74 — 214 -2

$12,750Curtis Strange 70-72-73 — 215 -1Denis Watson 69-67-79 — 215 -1

$12,000Ben Crenshaw 70-72-75 — 217 +1

$11,500Mike Reid 71-73-75 — 219 +3

$11,000D.A. Weibring 71-71-79 — 221 +5

$10,500Lanny Wadkins 74-72-76 — 222 +6Fuzzy Zoeller 71-74-77 — 222 +6

$10,000Hale Irwin (0) 79-73-77 — 229 +13

EUROPEAN TOURVOLVO GOLF CHAMPIONS

At The Links Course at FancourtGeorge, South AfricaPurse: $2.53 million

Yardage: 7,271; Par: 73Final

(x-won on first playoff hole)x-Branden Grace 68-66-75-71 — 280Ernie Els 71-71-71-67 — 280Retief Goosen 72-68-70-70 — 280Nicolas Colsaerts 64-76-69-72 — 281Charl Schwartzel 75-67-68-72 — 282Jose Maria Olazabal 71-68-72-73 — 284Raphael Jacquelin 71-69-77-69 — 286Louis Oosthuizen 69-71-72-74 — 286Thomas Aiken 68-70-77-72 — 287Paul Lawrie 72-68-74-74 — 288Padraig Harrington 69-74-70-76 — 288Robert Rock 73-70-79-67 — 289Oliver Fisher 77-72-69-71 — 289Robert Karlsson 74-70-72-73 — 289Lee Slattery 73-65-77-74 — 289David Horsey 69-72-76-73 — 290Thomas Bjorn 71-70-75-74 — 290Hennie Otto 71-69-76-74 — 290Alexander Noren 72-68-74-76 — 290Simon Dyson 75-70-73-73 — 291Darren Clarke 74-68-73-76 — 291Tom Lewis 68-74-77-73 — 292Matteo Manassero 76-73-76-68 — 293Miguel Angel Jimenez 71-72-79-72 — 294S S P Chowrasia 75-71-72-76 — 294Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 74-72-78-71 — 295Matthew Zions 70-75-77-73 — 295Joost Luiten 69-72-77-77 — 295Garth Mulroy 71-75-76-76 — 296Kenneth Ferrie 71-76-80-70 — 297Colin Montgomerie 70-75-80-75 — 300Pablo Larrazabal 74-74-78-76 — 302Michael Hoey 78-72-76-82 — 308Pablo Martin 76-73-90-73 — 312Thomas Levet 81-73-82-76 — 312

BASEBALLMLB

CALENDARFeb. 1-21—Salary arbitration hearings, St.

Petersburg, Fla.Feb. 12—Voluntary reporting date for Oakland and

Seattle pitchers, catchers and injured players.Feb. 17—Voluntary reporting date for other

Oakland and Seattle players.Feb. 19—Voluntary reporting date for other

team’s pitchers, catchers and injured players.Feb. 24—Voluntary reporting date for other

team’s other players. Mandatory reporting date forOakland and Seattle.

March 2—Mandatory reporting date for otherteams.

March 2-11—Teams may renew contracts ofunsigned players.

March 19—Last day to place a player onunconditional release waivers and pay 30 daystermination pay instead of 45 days.

March 28-29—Seattle vs. Oakland at Tokyo.April 2—Last day to request unconditional release

waivers on a player without having to pay his full2012 salary.

April 4—Opening day, St. Louis at Miami. Activerosters reduced to 25 players.

June 4—Amateur draft.July 10—All-Star game, Kansas City, Mo.July 13—Deadline for amateur draft picks to sign.July 22—Hall of Fame induction, Cooperstown,

N.Y.July 31—Last day to trade a player without

securing waivers.Sept. 1—Active rosters expand to 40 players.November TBA—Deadline for teams to make

qualifying offers to their eligible former players whobecame free agents, fifth day after World Series.

November TBA—Deadline for free agents toaccept qualifying offers, 12th day after World Series.

Dec. 2—Last day for teams to offer 2013contracts to unsigned players.

Dec. 3-6—Winter meetings, Nashville, Tenn.

BOXINGFIGHT SCHEDULE

FridayAt Northern Quest Casino, Airway Heights, Wash.

(ESPN), Ruslan Provodnikov vs. David Torres, 10,junior welterweights; Ji-Hoon Kim vs. Yakubu Amidu,10, lightweights.

SaturdayAt Turning Stone, Verona, N.Y., Brian Minto vs.

Tony Grano, 10, NABF heavyweight title eliminator.At Springfield, Mo., Cory Spinks vs. Sechew

Powell, 12, IBF junior middleweight title eliminator.Feb. 3

At Texas Station Casino, Las Vegas (ESPN2),Edison Miranda vs. Isaac Chilemba, 10, lightheavyweights.

Feb. 4At Frankfurt, Germany, Yoan Pablo Hernandez vs.

Steve Cunningham, 12, for Hernandez’s IBFcruiserweight title; Enad Licina vs. Alexander Alexeev,12, for the vacant European cruiserweight title; EduardGutknecht vs. Vyacheslav Uzelkov, 12, for Gutknecht’sEuropean light heavyweight title.

At San Antonio (HBO), Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs.Marco Antonio Rubio, 12, for Chavez’s WBCmiddleweight title; Nonito Donaire vs. Wilfredo VazquezJr., 12, for the vacant WBO junior featherweight title;Vanes Martirosyan vs. Troy Lowry, 10, juniormiddleweights.

Feb. 10At Uncasville, Conn. (ESPN2), Demetrius Andrade

vs. Derek Ennis, 12, IBF junior middleweighteliminator.

At Buenos Aires, Argentina, Luis Alberto Lazartevs. Johnriel Casimero, 12, for the interim IBF juniorflyweight title.

Feb. 11At Houston (HBO), Jose Miguel Cotto vs. Jose Luis

Castillo, 10, welterweights.At Las Vegas (SHO), Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto,

12, welterweights; Gary Russell Jr. vs. Dat Nguyen,10, super featherweights; Erislandy Lara vs. RonaldHearns, 10, middleweights.

Feb. 17At College Park Center, Arlington, Texas (ESPN2),

John Molina vs. Marvin Quintero, 10, lightweights.At Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, Calif. (SHO),

Thomas Dulorme vs. Jose Reynoso, 10, for the vacantNABF welterweight title; Michael Oliveira vs. MiltonNunez, 10, middleweights.

Feb. 18At Brondby, Denmark, Brian Magee vs. Rudy

Markussen, 12, for the interim WBA World supermiddleweight title.

At Olympic Hall, Munich, Vitali Klitschko vs. DereckChisora, 12, for Klitschko’s WBC heavyweight title.

At American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas(SHO), Paul Williams vs. Nobuhiro Ishida, 12, juniormiddleweights; Tavoris Cloud vs. Gabriel Campillo, 12,for Cloud’s IBF light heavyweight title.

At Durango, Mexico, Jorge Arce vs. Lorenzo Parra,12, for Arce’s WBO bantamweight title.

Feb. 24At the Galen Center (ESPN2), Juan Carlos Burgos

vs. Cristobal Cruz, 12, junior lightweights; EfrainEsquivias vs. Roberto Castaneda, 10, superbantamweights.

Feb. 25At Stuttgart, Germany, Alexander Povetkin vs.

Marco Huck, 12, for Povetkin’s WBA Worldheavyweight title.

At St. Louis (HBO), Marcos Maidana vs. DevonAlexander, 10, welterweights; Adrien Broner vs. EloyPerez, 12, for Broner’s WBO junior lightweight title.

Feb. 29At Hobart, Australia, Daniel Geale vs. Osumanu

Adama, 12, for Geale’s IBF middleweight title; KaliMeehan vs. Kertson Manswell, 12, heavyweights.

March 3At Duesseldorf, Germany, Wladimir Klitschko vs.

Jean-Marc Mormeck, 12, for Klitschko’s WBA SuperWorld-IBF-WBO-IBO heavyweight titles.

At Staples Center (HBO), Yuriorkis Gamboa vs.Rocky Juarez, 12, lightweights.

March 7At Hobart, Australia, Daniel Geale vs. Osumanu

Adama, 12, for Geale’s IBF middleweight title; Billy Dibvs. Eduardo Escobedo, 12, for Dib’s IBF featherweighttitle.

March 10At Coliseo Roberto Clemente, San Juan, Puerto

Rico (SHO), Orlando Salido vs. Juan Manuel Lopez,12, for Salido’s WBO featherweight title; Miguel AngelGarcia vs. Michael Farenas, 12, featherweights.

March 16At Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, Calif.

(ESPN2), Kendall Holt vs. Tim Coleman, 10,welterweights.

March 17At Madison Square Garden, New York (HBO),

Sergio Gabriel Martinez vs. Matthew Macklin, 12,middleweights; Magomed Abdusalamov vs. RaphaelZumbano Love, 10, heavyweights.

COLLEGESMEN’S BASKETBALL

MIDWESTCleveland St. 83, Milwaukee 57Indiana 73, Penn St. 54Minnesota 75, Northwestern 52N. Iowa 66, Drake 52South Florida 75, DePaul 59Wisconsin 67, Illinois 63

SOUTHE. Kentucky 78, Longwood 71NC State 78, Miami 73UNC Greensboro 61, Samford 60Virginia Tech 47, Virginia 45

EASTBoston U. 65, Hartford 46Lehigh 90, Lafayette 76Loyola (Md.) 65, St. Peter’s 54Manhattan 71, Niagara 64New Hampshire 64, Binghamton 49Rider 89, Canisius 65Vermont 90, UMBC 62

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLWEST

California 60, Washington St. 55Colorado 56, Arizona 54Seattle 86, UC Irvine 58

SOUTHWESTRice 72, Southern Miss. 43SMU 68, East Carolina 44Tulane 66, Tulsa 51UTEP 87, Houston 43

MIDWESTAkron 78, Ball St. 70Bowling Green 70, E. Michigan 54Buffalo 62, N. Illinois 46Drake 67, Indiana St. 59Illinois St. 79, Creighton 66Iowa St. 66, Texas Tech 49Kent St. 67, Cent. Michigan 64Miami (Ohio) 82, W. Michigan 67Michigan 66, Indiana 48Nebraska 64, Minnesota 49Ohio St. 96, Illinois 84Saint Louis 70, Rhode Island 55Toledo 52, Ohio 33Wisconsin 75, Northwestern 55

SOUTHArkansas 72, LSU 52Duke 80, Maryland 72George Mason 71, VCU 58Georgia 61, Mississippi 47Georgia Tech 79, Florida St. 55James Madison 50, William & Mary 40Kentucky 57, Florida 52Memphis 70, UAB 59Mississippi St. 62, Auburn 57North Carolina 60, NC State 50South Carolina 65, Vanderbilt 60, OTTowson 56, Georgia St. 52UALR 61, W. Kentucky 50UCF 55, Marshall 44UNC Wilmington 76, Old Dominion 54Wake Forest 94, Clemson 65

EASTBinghamton 64, New Hampshire 55Boston U. 53, Hartford 46Delaware 60, Drexel 49Fairfield 57, Niagara 46Hofstra 72, Northeastern 66Iona 77, Canisius 67Louisville 64, Georgetown 61Loyola (Md.) 59, Manhattan 45Penn St. 68, Iowa 52Siena 67, Rider 56Syracuse 70, Seton Hall 66UMBC 67, Vermont 58

ODDSNFLFeb. 5

Super BowlAt Indianapolis

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOGNew England 3½ 3½ (55½) N.Y. Giants

NCAA BASKETBALLFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOGat Old Dominion 8 NortheasternSyracuse 4½ at CincinnatiDrexel 10 at William & Maryat VCU 14 Hofstraat Georgia St. 11 James Madisonat Delaware 15½ Towsonat George Mason 11½ UNC Wilmingtonat Kansas 18 Texas A&MLoyola Marymount 1½ at Santa ClaraIona 10 at Sienaat Georgia Southern 10 The Citadel

NBAFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOGat Philadelphia 14 WashingtonOrlando 2½ at Bostonat Oklahoma City 15 Detroitat Chicago 13 New JerseyAtlanta 2 at Milwaukeeat Minnesota 2½ HoustonSan Antonio 4½ at New Orleansat Dallas 5½ Phoenixat Portland 11 Sacramentoat Golden State 1 Memphis

NHLFAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEat Kings -140 Ottawa +120at Carolina -130 Winnipeg +110at Toronto -140 N.Y. Islanders +120at Detroit -155 St. Louis +135at Nashville -240 Columbus +200San Jose -175 at Edmonton +155

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