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Tavares scores twice to lead Maple Leafs over Predators 3-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John Tavares scored two goals and added an assist, Joseph Woll made 22 saves and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Sunday night.Alexander Kerfoot also scored for Toronto, which has won two of its last three. The Maple Leafs are seven points ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning for second place in the Atlantic Division with Toronto having one game in hand. Auston Matthews had two assists.Tyson Barrie had a goal and an assist, Cody Glass also scored and Kevin Lankinen made 31 saves for Nashville, which lost back-to-back home games over the weekend. The Predators remain five points behind the Winnipeg Jets for the Western Conference’s second wild-card berth, with Nashville having played two fewer games. Tavares scored the game’s first goal at 18:06 of the opening period. With the Maple Leafs on a power play, Tavares beat Lankinen from the low slot after a slick tic-tac-toe passing sequence from Matthews and Mitchell Marner.Kerfoot doubl...

Magic overcome 44 points by Bridges, beat Nets 119-106

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cole Anthony had 21 points to lead eight Orlando scorers in double figures, and the Magic overcame Mikal Bridges’ 44 points for a 119-106 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday night.Franz Wagner added 19 points and 10 rebounds, Wendell Carter had 18 points and six rebounds and Jalen Suggs returned from an injury with 16 points to help the Magic win their third straight. Paolo Banchero finished with 11 points and nine rebounds.Bridges made six of nine 3-point shots and came up one point short of his career high of 45 points. Cam Thomas added 18 points for the Nets, who lost for the sixth time in seven games, one night after routing the Miami Heat.Bridges had 19 of Brooklyn’s 25 points in the first quarter, but Carter scored seven points on an 18-5 spurt midway through the second period that put Orlando ahead to stay.Anthony and Mo Wagner led another third-quarter run that pushed the Magic’s lead to 88-71, and the Nets never got the lead under 15 ...

Burns captures Match Play, Toms wins again on Champions Tour

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sam Burns went on a tear Sunday afternoon with eight birdies on his final 10 holes and enough help from Cameron Young for a 6-and-5 victory to win the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. It was the second-largest margin in an 18-hole match in this tournament.Burns won for the fifth time on the PGA Tour. Young, who had a late rally with clutch birdies to eliminate Rory McIlroy in the semifinals, had to settle for his sixth runner-up finish in the last 18 months.Burns made it to the championship match Sunday afternoon only when defending champion Scottie Scheffler missed a 4-foot birdie putt on the 20th hole of their semifinal match. Given new life, Burns made birdie from a fairway bunker with a 15-foot putt to advance.Young had a brief lead early in the title match, and then Burns was unstoppable. He won five of the next six holes. Young had to make a 20-foot birdie putt to halve the 11th hole, and then Young hit into the water on each of the next two holes.Burns w...

Jaylen Brown’s 41 points helps Celtics past Spurs 137-93

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 41 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics to a 137-93 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.The Celtics were without star forward and leading scorer Jayson Tatum, who was sidelined with a left hip contusion. But Boston still moved to 1½ games behind Milwaukee for the Eastern Conference’s best record with its seventh victory in nine games. Malcolm Brogdon added 20 points and nine assists for Boston, and Derrick White had 19 points with eight rebounds.Zach Collins scored 21 points with seven rebounds for San Antonio, which was without 2022 ninth-overall draft pick Jeremy Sochan (sore right knee) for the fourth time in five games. Keldon Johnson, who scored 30 in a loss Friday at Washington, was also out.Malaki Branham added 15 points and Sandro Mamukelashvili 13 for the Spurs, who lost all four games of their road trip.Brown got hit in the face late in the opening quarter and a mask he’s wearing for a facial fracture go...

Anunoby scores 29, VanVleet has 28 as Raptors rout Wizards

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — O.G. Anunoby scored 29 points, Fred VanVleet had 28 and the Toronto Raptors never trailed in a 114-104 win over Washington Wizards on Sunday.Pascal Siakam had 19 points and 11 rebounds and Jakob Poeltl had 12 points and 12 rebounds.Ninth-place Toronto clinched the three-game season series with the Wizards and maintained a three-game lead over 11th-place Washington in the Eastern Conference standings. Both teams have seven games remaining.Scottie Barnes scored 13 points in his return to the starting lineup after missing two games because of a sore left wrist as Toronto won for the ninth time in 10 home games.Kristaps Porzingis scored 26 points and Corey Kispert had 19 for the Wizards, who have lost four straight road games.Deni Avdija and Johnny Davis each scored 15 points for Washington and Daniel Gafford had 10.The short-handed Wizards played without guard Bradley Beal (left knee) for the third straight game, while forward Kyle Kuzma (right ankle) sat for the fourth ...

La OTAN califica de “peligrosa e irresponsable” la retórica nuclear de Rusia

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

(CNN) — El anuncio de Rusia de que trasladará armas nucleares tácticas a Belarús es “peligroso e irresponsable”, dijo el domingo a CNN un portavoz de la OTAN.“La OTAN está atenta y vigilamos de cerca la situación. No hemos visto ningún cambio en la postura nuclear de Rusia que nos lleve a ajustar la nuestra”, dijo la portavoz de la OTAN, Oana Lungescu, en un comunicado.“La referencia de Rusia al intercambio nuclear de la OTAN es totalmente engañosa”, continuó Lungescu, refiriéndose a las afirmaciones de Putin de que su movimiento simplemente reflejaría los de las naciones occidentales.ANÁLISIS | Con el plan de armas nucleares tácticas en Belarús, Putin opta por asustar al mundo para distraerlo de sus problemas“Los aliados de la OTAN actúan con pleno respeto de sus compromisos internacionales. Rusia ha incumplido constantemente sus compromisos de control de armas, y recientemente suspendió su participación en el Nuevo Tratado START”, dijo.“Rusia debe volver al...

What is a Medina Alert and when is it issued?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Medina Alerts in Colorado aren't issued as often as many might believe.A representative with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Sunday that, on average, the organization issues five to 10 alerts each year. “You won't see a Medina Alert in every single hit-and-run case out there, even if it is covered in the media," Audrey Simkins, an investigative analyst with CBI said. She said law enforcement agencies will reach out to CBI to have the alert issued if they believe the public can help find the car or driver involved. Denver hit-and-runs on the rise “[To qualify for a Medina Alert], there has to be serious bodily injury, harm or death to the person involved in the accident and there needs to be information that an alert will be of assistance,” Simkins said. Some of the information to help in the alert she said includes a picture of the car, a license plate number or a portion of the plate. She said other good details to share if the vehicle has some unique ...

Daniel Radcliffe and longtime girlfriend Erin Darke expecting first child

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

(CNN) — Daniel Radcliffe and his girlfriend Erin Darke are going to be parents.Scott Boute, a representative for Radcliffe, confirmed to CNN on Sunday that the longtime couple are “expecting their first child.”The “Harry Potter” star and Darke have been together for a decade after first meeting while filming the 2013 drama “Kill Your Darlings.” Radcliffe and Darke later reunited on the set of the dramedy “Don’t Think Twice” in 2016, and Darke has more recently appeared in various episodes of Radcliffe’s TBS comedy series “Miracle Workers.”While promoting “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” in 2022, Radcliffe told Newsweek that he’s open to exposing his kids to the magic of movie sets one day.“I want my kids, if and when they exist…I would love them to be around film sets,” he said, adding that while film sets are “wonderful places” for kids, he feels the...

Pastrnak scores twice, Bruins top Hurricanes 4-3 in shootout

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — David Pastrnak eclipsed the 50-goal mark by scoring twice and the Boston Bruins won their seventh game in a row by defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in a shootout Sunday.Charlie Coyle and Jake DeBrusk Scored in the shootout in a matchup of Eastern Conference division leaders.Jakub Lauko also scored for the Bruins, who earned their 57th victory and are five wins shy of matching the all-time NHL record with nine regular-season games to play. Charlie McAvoy had two assists and Jeremy Swayman made 34 saves.Jack Drury, Brady Skjei and Sebastian Aho scored for the Hurricanes, who won three of their previous four games. Brett Pesce had two assists and Frederik Andersen stopped 35 shots.Pastrnak’s 50th goal of the season came 4:43 into the game. He received pass from McAvoy and skated half the length of the ice on a breakaway to beat Andersen.Drury, set up in the slot, scored his second goal of the season off a pass from Jalen Chatfield at 7:44 of the second.Just 1:...

Chicago Bulls question Nikola Vučević’s ejection by refs: ‘He may have been asking them if they wanted to go out to dinner’

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:14:00 GMT

Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan still isn’t certain exactly what Nikola Vučević said to the officials to earn a double-technical ejection from Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers.Donovan was well within earshot when Vučević shouted down referee Sean Corbin after receiving his first technical foul, which immediately triggered a second technical from crew chief Tony Brothers. It wasn’t a matter of volume or proximity; Vučević was speaking Serbian, a language that Donovan, Brothers and Corbin don’t understand.“I don’t know how they can T him up when he’s talking Serbian,” Donovan said after the game. “He may have been asking them if they wanted to go out to dinner that night.”Vučević exclusively curses in Serbian when he’s on the court, a trait that often helps him to avoid trouble as a typically levelheaded veteran. But that didn’t protect him in the second quarter Su...