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Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Clippers” – “Houston” – 95:82, “Sacramento” – “New York” – 90:114, “Utah” – “Orlando” – 94:103, “Denver” – “ Golden State - 123:105, Milwaukee - Indiana - 121:103, Dallas - Oklahoma - 103:99, Chicago - New Jersey - 113 :104, Philadelphia - Washington - 104:89, Charlotte - Detroit - 86:90, Atlanta - Cleveland - 97:92.
After Friday's 72-88 loss to Cleveland, Philadelphia's head coach, one of the league's best defenders in the mid-1980s, Maurice Cheeks, who had been with the Sixers since 2005, was fired. In the current championship, the team under his leadership won only nine victories in 23 matches. Cheeks became the fifth NBA coach to lose his job this season. Pi were previously released from their posts. Jay. Carlesimo (Oklahoma), Eddie Jordan (Washington), Sam Mitchell (Toronto) and Randy Wittman (Minnesota). In Saturday's game with Washington, the basketball players were led by Tony DiLeo, who holds the position of assistant general manager at the club.
The leader of Dallas, German forward Dirk Nowitzki, brought his team 46 points. Out of 30 shots into the Oklahoma hoop, he made 17, and twice he managed long-range hits, and the German national team player never missed, making 10 free throws. “New York” caused a rout of “Sacramento”, playing powerfully in the first quarter (43:21). Al Harrington scored among the winners with 33 points. Atlanta broke Cleveland's streak of 11 consecutive wins. Andrei Kirilenko scored 17 points for Utah, but his team was defeated due to an outright failure in the third period (12:34).
The seventh double of the league's best sniper
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Philadelphia" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 6:3 - Malkin "P" (0+1), "Columbus" -- "Islanders" -- 3:1 -- Tyutin "K" (0+1), " New Jersey - "Buffalo" - 2:4, "Ottawa" - "Tampa Bay" - 2:0 - I. Zubov "O" (0+1), "Nashville" - " Dallas" -- 3:0, "Edmonton" -- "Vancouver" -- 3:0 -- Grebeshkov "E" (0+1), "Los Angeles" -- "Minnesota" -- 3:1 -- Frolov "L" (1+0), "Boston" -- "Atlanta" -- 4:2, "Rangers" -- "Carolina" -- 3:2 (bullet) -- Zherdev "R" (0+ 1), “Montreal” - “Washington” - 1:2 - Ovechkin “V” (0+1), Semin “V” (0+1), Vic. Kozlov "V" (0+1), "Phoenix" -- "Detroit" -- 4:5 (bullet) -- Datsyuk "D" (0+2), "San Jose" -- "St. Louis" " -- 5:4.
Austrian Buffalo forward Thomas Vanek has already made his seventh double this season and, with 24 goals scored, continues to lead the list of the best snipers in the league. Vanek's goal was the anniversary, the ten thousandth in the history of Buffalo. The fifth pick of the 2006 draft, Boston forward Phil Kessel, having opened the scoring in the match with Atlanta, extended the series of games in which he scores points in the scoring classification using the “goal plus pass” system to 15 matches. His team has won seven victories in its last eight matches.
San Jose remains the best team in playing on home ice - not a single loss in regulation time in 18 matches (16 wins and 2 overtime losses). The first assist in an NHL match was scored by 21-year-old Chelyabinsk native Ilya Zubov from Ottawa. He was called up by the Senators from the American Hockey League club Binghampton.
In the post-match shootout, Russians Sergei Samsonov, Nikolai Zherdev and Pavel Datsyuk failed to score, although the latter two assisted their partners when scoring goals in regular time. Nashville goalkeeper Dan Ellis was recognized as the first star of the busy game day, stopping all 27 shots.
Our handball players won bronze at the European Championship
Noticeably updated after the “silver” Beijing Olympics for us, the Russian women’s handball team won bronze medals at the European Championships in Macedonia. In the match for third place, Evgeni Trefilov's team prevailed over Germany - 24:21.
Three days earlier, our handball players had already met with the Germans at the end of the second group stage and then suffered defeat (22:27). The Russia-Norway semifinal was a repeat of the decisive match of the Olympics. And again the game against the Scandinavian squad did not go well for Trefilov’s team. By the fifth minute, the Norwegians had scored six unanswered goals, while the Russians achieved their first goal from the game only in the 19th (!) minute, and before that Irina Poltoratskaya had twice made seven-meter free throws. In the other semi-final, the Spanish team turned out to be stronger than the German team - 32:29. The decisive match of the championship Norway - Spain ended late in the evening.
Bobsleigh and skeleton masters distinguished themselves in Igls
The Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup stage in Igls, Austria brought the Russian team not only a victory for the four-man crew of Alexander Zubkov and a silver medal for Alexander Tretyakov, but also unexpected bronze medals for pilot Dmitry Abramovich and Svetlana Trunova.
Zubkov, his accelerators Roman Oreshnikov, Dmitry Trunenkov and Dmitry Stepushkin won the sum of two runs over the crew of the American pilot Stephen Holcomb by 0.14 seconds. Third place with a lag of 0.2 seconds. occupied by Abramovich, Philip Egorov, Andrey Yurkov and Pyotr Moiseev. Thus, we can say that the Russian team already has three world-class pilots. Zubkov and Evgeniy Popov have already won the main prizes at the end of the season in the World Cup, Abramovich is now among the winners of the stage for the first time.
The performances of our skeleton masters have always been in the shadow of the bobsledders, but this time the head-down sledding specialists experienced unprecedented success. In both the men's and women's competitions, the Russians took the podium. Alexander Tretyakov lost only to German Frank Rommel, achieving silver for the second time this season. The best time in two races for women was shown by Shelley Rudman (Great Britain), Kerstin Szymkowiak (Germany) took second place in the final protocol, and Trunova’s third place was a pleasant sensation, because at the previous stages of the season she finished 13th and 19th. However, this is not the first “bronze” of a Russian woman at the World Cup. Svetlana was a prize-winner in January of this year at a competition in Cesana (Italy).