CSKA achieved victory in Siena

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In the match of the ninth round of the ULEB Euroleague, CSKA basketball players won a difficult away victory over the Italian club Montepaschi (Siena) - 69:66. Three seconds before the siren about the end of regulation time, the hosts fouled Ramunas Siskauskas, who was recently recognized as the best athlete of Lithuania in 2007. At the time of the violation, the Baltic player was trying to take a throw from behind the six-meter line. Ramunas showed himself to be a cold-blooded master and was accurate from the penalty line three times in a row.

“We started the match well, but after several mistakes we lost sight of it and stopped playing the kind of basketball we’ve become accustomed to lately,” the club’s official website quotes CSKA head coach Ettore Messina as saying. - Suffice it to say that we made seven turnovers and allowed the opponent to shoot two-pointers with a percentage of 82. At halftime, I told the guys that even if we lose, it would be better if we did it by showing our signature game, and not being in a strange depression. My players came out for the second half extremely concentrated, feeling responsible. We paid special attention to avoiding our opponents getting under our rim and were very patient on defense.”

CSKA continues to lead the standings in Group A with eight wins and one loss. The gap from their closest pursuers is two victories.

Hatton fight - Mayweather broke all records

British broadcaster Sky announced that the pay-per-view broadcast of the fight between WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Briton Ricky Hatton, which took place on December 8, was purchased by more than one million UK residents. And although the broadcaster will not release final figures until January, they already suggest that the number of people who bought the broadcast will be about 1.4 million, and the proceeds from the sale will be £20 million. Thus, the Hatton-Mayweather fight significantly surpassed in this indicator the 2002 fight between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson, which previously led among British channels with 750 thousand sales of paid broadcasts, reports allboxing.ru.

However, this is not the only record set by this fight. Bookmakers say British fans have bet a total of more than £10 million on Hatton. That's more than was bet on Lewis Hamilton to win a Formula One race this year, and more than has ever been bet on any British athlete. It should also be noted that for the first time in history, the number of paid broadcasts of a boxing match in Britain exceeded that of the United States. Overseas, the paid broadcast of the Mayweather-Hatton fight was bought by about 850 thousand viewers.

Simon earns record disqualification

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Buffalo" -- 1:2 - - Afinogenov "B" (1+0), "Detroit" -- "Los Angeles" -- 6:2 -- Datsyuk "D" (0+1 ), "Chicago" -- "Nashville" -- 5:2 -- Radulov "N" (0+1), "Anaheim" -- "Colorado" -- 2:1.

The Islanders played without their forward Chris Simon, who the day before earned the longest suspension in NHL history. The forward will miss 30 matches of the regular season for deliberately stepping on the foot of Pittsburgh player Jarkko Ruut with the blade of his skate. This is not Simon's first lengthy suspension. He had already served a 25-game sentence for hitting New York Rangers forward Ryan Hollweg in the head with his stick. Given this circumstance, the club took additional sanctions against its player: the Islanders temporarily suspended Simon’s contract and fined him $292,000.

UEFA allocated tickets for Russia

The European Football Union has determined the ticket quota for the matches of the Russian national team at Euro 2008, which will be held from June 7 to 29 in Austria and Switzerland. Russian fans will get 17,996 tickets for the group stage matches of the European Championship, the official website of the RFU reports. For the matches of our national team with Spain and Sweden, which will take place in Innsbruck, Russian fans will receive 5962 tickets each. For the Greece-Russia game, which will be held in Salzburg, 6,072 tickets will be given to the Russian side. 6,000 tickets will be provided to fans of Guus Hiddink's team in the quarter-finals, should it reach the quarter-finals.

Boston's winning streak at home ended

Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Washington” — “Chicago” — 84:95, “Indiana” — “Philadelphia” — 102:85, “Charlotte” — “Utah” — 98:92 — Kirilenko (12 points + 5 rebounds +5 assists), “Boston” — “Detroit” — 85:87, “New York” — “Cleveland” — 108:90, “Atlanta” — “Miami” — 117:111 (OT ), “Memphis” — “San Antonio” — 88:85, “Milwaukee” — “Sacramento” — 89:102, “Minnesota” — “Golden State” — 96:111, “Houston” -- "Orlando" -- 92:97, "Dallas" -- "Phoenix" -- 108:105, "Seattle" -- "New Orleans" -- 93:107, "Portland" -- "Toronto" - - 101:96.

“Detroit” interrupted the home unbeaten streak of “Boston”, which has not yet lost at home this season. Everything was decided at the last second. Pierce's miss 1.7 seconds before the siren proved fatal for the hosts. And visiting point guard Billups, in turn, forced a foul on himself and was accurate from the free throw line 0.1 seconds before the end of the match.

Utah continues to have troubles. The Jazzmen were unable to win against an outsider, and in addition, Girichek quarreled with the team's head coach Jerry Sloan right during the match and, without waiting for the end of the game, left the bench.

Prepared by Andrey VDOVIN and Ilya TRISVIATSKY