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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Atlanta" - "Washington" - 5:1 - Vyach. Kozlov “A” (1+1), “Los Angeles” - “Nashville” - 3:4 - Frolov “LA” (0+1).
Atlanta forward Vyacheslav Kozlov worthily noted his record - the veteran, who will turn 37 in May, repeated Bobby Hollick's club achievement in the number of matches played in a row in the form of the Woodpeckers. Both the Czech and the Russian played 190 games in a row for Atlanta. The 13th number of the Woodpeckers scored a goal and an assist in their record-breaking match. In total, Vyacheslav Kozlov played 1,115 games in the NHL, in which he scored 812 points (342 goals + 470 assists).
Both goals, in which the Russian veteran participated, were scored by Atlanta in the majority. Washington, in turn, was unable to oppose anything to the outsider, and the leader of the attack of the capital team, Alexander Ovechkin, left the court for the first time in the last 11 matches without scoring a single point.
Popovich's anniversary was ruined
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Charlotte" - "Toronto" - 112:86, "Oklahoma" - "San Antonio" - 78:76, "New Orleans" - "Houston" - 84:95, "Memphis" - - Portland - 92:103, Denver - New Jersey - 121:96.
Greg Popovich played his 1000th game as head coach, but San Antonio, led by him, was unable to decorate his mentor’s anniversary with a victory. Even though the Spurs lost to Oklahoma by only two points.
Meanwhile, Cleveland forward LeBron James and Lakers guard Kobe Bryant continue their dispute over the title of MVP of the season. Both were named last week's Most Valuable Players in the Eastern and Western Conferences, respectively. And the Cavaliers and Lakers, with the support of their leaders, guaranteed themselves the first final places in the Central and Pacific divisions.
Arshavin will miss the next match
Football. English Championship. Matches of the 29th round. Chelsea - Manchester City - 1:0, Aston Villa - Tottenham - 1:2, West Ham - West Bromwich Albion - 0:0. Leading : Manchester United - 65 points, Chelsea, Liverpool - 61, Arsenal, Aston Villa - 52 each.
The match "West Ham" - "West Bromwich" ended the program of the 29th round of the English Championship. Following the results of the tour, Russian Arsenal legionnaire Andrei Arshavin was included in the symbolic team. However, the midfielder will not be able to take part in the Gunners' next game against Newcastle due to injury.
Formula 1 proposed to limit budgets
The President of the International Motor Sports Federation, Max Mosley, made a proposal to limit the budgets of Formula 1 teams to 50 million euros per year. The teams themselves will decide how they will distribute this amount - to carry out expensive developments or conduct additional tests or pay for pilots' contracts. According to Mosley, this step will make it possible to turn Formula 1 into a profitable enterprise attractive to private investors.
The teams themselves, even in a crisis, do not limit their expenses. “You would have thought that teams would start cutting staff and financial costs, but instead they started attracting even more people to race than last year,” F1 owner Bernie Ecclestone recently complained in an interview with The Guardian. .
UMMC is the winner of the regular championship
The women's basketball club UMMC (Ekaterinburg) won the two-round tournament of the Women's Super League and will have the advantage of its home court at all stages of the playoffs of the Russian Championship.
In 18 matches, the team, in which the coach changed during the season and the place of the Frenchman Laurent Bouffard was taken by the Latvian Gundars Vetra, who had previously worked with CSKA, won 16 times. The current champion of Russia and the Euroleague, Spartak near Moscow, has the same figure, however, the “red-whites” are slightly inferior to the “Ural girls” in personal meetings - 75:79 in Yekaterinburg and 76:70 a week ago in Vidnoye. By the way, these same teams will have to meet in the Euroleague semifinals in early April, which will take place in Spain.
In general, if it were not for the “small” medals awarded by the Russian Basketball Federation RBF, the significance of the regular season would be very doubtful, because out of ten participants, only two clubs did not make it to the playoffs - outsiders St. Petersburg “Spartak” and Chelyabinsk “Slavyanka”. The quarterfinal pairs look like this: UMMC - Dynamo (Novosibirsk), Nadezhda (Orenburg) - Dynamo M, Spartak Moscow - Dynamo (Kursk), CSKA - Vologda-Chevakata. The series will be held up to two victories according to the “1-1-1” scheme. The matches will take place on March 23, 26 and 29-30.
“Nadezhda” in the upcoming confrontation with “Dynamo” received the advantage of the home court also in personal meetings. Perhaps the overall outcome of the rivalry in this particular pair is the least predictable. In the remaining series, the favorites are clear - these are the teams of the so-called “Big Three” of our women's basketball UMMC, Spartak Moscow Region and CSKA.
Andreev in the fourth round of a major tournament
A major tennis tournament continues on the courts of American Indian Wells. Women's and men's competitions here have the same prize fund - $4.5 million each.
Some of the matches of the third round were played on Tuesday night (the format of the main draw is 96 participants). Russian Igor Andreev achieved continuation of the fight by beating last year's finalist of the Australian Open, black Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - 6:4, 6:4. The second “seeded” Swiss Roger Federer not without difficulty defeated the tallest player on the ATP tour, Croatian Ivo Karlovic (208 cm), nicknamed Mr. Tiebreaker - 7:6 (7:4), 6:3. Karlovich made 13 aces, while his much more titled opponent made only one.
In the women's tournament, multiple winner of the Grand Slam junior championships Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova continues to impress. She successfully passed the third round barrier, leaving Italian Karin Knapp out of action - 6:2, 6:4. Vera Dushevina lost to the Austrian Sybil Bammer - 1:6, 3:6, Alisa Kleybanova failed to cope with the Spanish Nuria Llagostra-Vives - 6:7 (2:7), 3:6.