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Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Atlanta" - "New Orleans" - 89:79, "Detroit" - "Orlando" - 98:84, "Denver" - "Houston" - 95:97, "Miami" - " Chicago - 130:127 (2OT), Minnesota - Washington - 99:110, Portland - Lakers - 111:94.
The main hero of the match in Miami was Dwyane Wade from the host team, who brought his team 48 points. The black basketball player made five of six long-range shots and made 12 assists. Chicago shooting guard Derrick Rose spent 55 minutes on the court. 20 sec. pure time. His teammate Ben Gordon scored 43 points. By the way, Wade, along with Utah playmaker Deron Williams, were recognized as the best players in the league over the past week.
Portland denied the Lakers their 50th league win. During this game, a serious brawl broke out between players from both teams. The cause of the conflict was Trevor Ariza's flagrant foul on Spanish Trail Blazer defender Rudy Fernandez. The referees ejected Ariza from the court for the rest of the match, and Fernandez, who lay unconscious for several minutes, was sent to a nearby hospital.
The infirmary of the reigning champion Boston is expanding. The previously injured Tony Allen, Kevin Garnett, and Brian Scalabrine were joined by main playmaker Rajon Rondo and forward Glen Davis. The Celts play their next game on Wednesday in Miami and will be without five players. However, Boston head coach Doc Rivers is not inclined to dramatize the situation: “Some of our basketball players will get the game practice they lack, and at the same time we will understand how to act in such a difficult period for the team. It will be a rewarding experience."
In Montreal there is a change of coach
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Carolina" -- "Rangers" -- 3:0 -- Samsonov "K" (0+1), Babchuk "K" (0+1), "Los Angeles" -- "Vancouver" -- 3:2 - - Frolov “L” (0+1), “Ottawa” - “Toronto” - 2:1 - - Volchenkov “O” (0+1).
Montreal fired its head coach - Guy Carbonneau was sacked. In the year of their centenary, the Canadiens are at risk of not making it to the playoffs: so far 35 wins and 31 losses with a minimal margin from relegation to the danger zone. General manager Bob Gainey commented on management's decision: "We've been playing poorly lately, sometimes below average, so a change is overdue." While Gainey himself came to the coaching bridge. Guy Carbonneau, who retired from playing nine years ago, has been Montreal's coach since 2006.
Dynamo is one step away from winning the regular season
Volleyball. Super League. Women. 18th round. "Fakel" - "Spartak" - 0:3 (24:26, 13:25, 23:25), "Uralochka-NTMK" - "Leningradka" - 3:2 (25:20, 22:25 , 15:25, 25:17, 15:12), "Dynamo" M - "University" - 3:0 (25:14, 25:15, 25:14), "Zarechye-Odintsovo" - " Dynamo-Yantar - 2:3 (24:26, 25:21, 25:17, 22:25, 10:15), Balakovo NPP - Avtodor-Metar - 3:1 (25: 20, 25:23, 16:25, 25:22), “Nugget” - “Indesit” - 2:3 (22:25, 25:13, 25:19, 17:25, 13:15). The leaders are: "Dynamo" M - 16 wins - 2 defeats, "Nugget", "University" - 12--6, "Zarechye-Odintsovo", "Uralochka", "Spartak" - 11--7.
Dynamo Moscow needs to win one match out of four remaining to take first place in the regular season. In general, the development of events in the Women's Super League is difficult to predict. For example, Lipetsk Indesit, after eight defeats in a row at the start of the tournament without personnel changes, won eight victories in the next ten matches and turned from a hopeless outsider into a team in the playoff zone. The winner of the Russian Cup, Belgorod "University", on the contrary, after a series of seven victories in the next five matches, only once prevailed. Leningradka, having successfully competed in the European Challenge Cup, where it reached the Final Four, suffered its fifth defeat in a row. The Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant left last place in the standings, which the new head coach of the country’s women’s team, Vladimir Kuzyutkin, recently left. His place in the club was taken by Igor Kurnosov.
UEFA against transfers of young players
The idea of UEFA President French Michel Platini on the need to ban international transfers of football players under the age of 18 has received full support from the continent's leading clubs and national leagues. The corresponding tripartite agreement between UEFA, the European Club Association and the football players' union has already been signed. This document also contains a clause stating that the young player must sign his first professional contract with the club that raised him. However, this document does not yet have any real legislative force. In the European Union, there is a rule on the free movement of labor, and this concept includes persons over 16 years of age, and athletes are not included in any separate special category.
For example, for the same reason, the International Volleyball Federation, which wanted to introduce a limit on the number of foreign players in club teams, has not yet been able to legitimize its limit. Not long ago, representatives of a number of international and European team sports federations tried to draw the EU’s attention to the fact that sport is a separate field of activity, but so far things have not moved forward.
Federer hired a new coach
Multiple Grand Slam winner Swiss Roger Federer, currently ranked second in the world classification, has signed a contract with a new coach. It was 43-year-old Australian Darren Cahill.
Cahill retired as a player in 1994, and his best achievement in major tournaments can be considered reaching the semi-finals of the 1988 US Open. As a mentor, he managed to work with such famous tennis players as Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt. Cahill also worked as a tennis analyst for ESPN.