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7 p.m. tampa bay at boston » nHL network
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10 p.m. columbus at edmonton » nHL network
nba
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1 p.m. miami vs. Washington (split squad) » WJFK (1580 am)
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noon Villanova at georgetown » Wttg (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45), Wtem (980 am)
noon auburn at tennessee » esPn2
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1 p.m. Kentucky at florida » Wusa (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
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2 p.m. rutgers at purdue » Big te n network
2:30 p.m. seton Hall at creighton » Wttg (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45)
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3:30 p.m. missouri Valley, semifinal: drake vs. bradley » CBs sports network
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5:30 p.m. mountain West, final: san diego state vs. tbd » Wusa (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
6 p.m. north carolina at duke » esPn
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12:30 a.m.
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West coast, quarterfinal: saint mary’s vs. tbd » esPn2Women’s college basKetball
11 a.m. atlantic 10 , semifinal: saint louis at dayton » CBs sports network
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1 p.m. north carolina Wilmington at delaware » nBC sports Washington Plus
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5 p.m. sec, semifinal: arkansas vs. south carolina » esPnu
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7:30 a.m. english premier league: bournemouth at liverpool » nBC sports network
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golf
Ailing Woods to miss
Players Championship
The strongest field of the year
at the Players Championship will
be without the biggest draw in
golf. Tiger Woods isn’t playing.
Woods will miss the event for
the first time other than when he
was recovering from any of his
nine surgeries. His agent, Mark
Steinberg at Excel Sports
Management, said in a text,
“Back just not ready. Not long
term concern.”...
Tyrrell Hatton lost his swing
on his back nine Friday without
losing his head and battled
through a tough test at Bay Hill
in Orlando on Friday to shoot a
- At 7 under par for the
tournament, he shares the lead
with Sung Kang going into the
weekend at the Arnold Palmer
Invitational.
Kang birdied four of his last
seven holes for a 68.
Rory McIlroy made a mess of
No. 8 and ended up with a 7 3 that
still left him within two shots of
the lead....
Monday qualifier David
Morland IV shot a 10-under 61 at
Newport Beach Country Club in
California to take a two-stroke
lead in the PGA To ur Champions’
Hoag Classic.
tennis
Te nnis players at the BNP
Paribas Open that starts next
week in Indian Wells, Calif., will
have to manage their own towels
on court, and ball kids will wear
gloves while working matches at
the combined men’s and women’s
tournament, m easures brought
about because of fears of the
coronavirus....
Reilly Opelka of the United
States beat Denis Istomin of
Uzbekistan, 6-2, 7-5, in the
opening match of a Davis Cup
qualifier in Honolulu.pro football
Austin Ekeler ’s breakout
season with the Los Angeles
Chargers resulted in a contract
extension.
The running back agreed to a
four-year deal with the Chargers
worth $24.5 million, including
$15 million guaranteed. Ekeler
was set to become a restricted
free agent when the new league
year starts March 18.auto racing
Ryan Newman was back at
the track, sipping on a Coke and
casually strolling through the
infield of Phoenix Raceway in
Avondale, Ariz.
It was hard to believe he was in
a terrifying wreck at the Daytona
500 less than three weeks ago.
“It’s great to be alive,” Newman
said. “If you look at my car, it’s a
miracle.”
The harrowing crash on the
last lap at Daytona had many
fearing the worst. To the shock of
almost everyone, Newman
walked out of a hospital less than
48 hours after the crash and said
Friday he feels “fine.”
— From news servicesdigestASSOCIATED PRESSNew York Yankees slugger Aar-
on Judge has a broken rib, and it’s
not clear whether he will need
surgery, leaving doubt when he
will b e back in the l ineup.
Manager Aaron Boone said he
thought the star right fielder hurt
himself m aking a diving catch late
last season.
“Frustrated, especially with an
injury t hat happened at t he end of
last year and still didn’t heal up,”
Judge said. “A t least we have an
answer, so now we can start work-
ing on a solution. Overall, I’m just
mad. I want to be out there with
my team, especially in spring
training. We’ve got a good team
here, a good club, and we’ve got a
lot of goals here i n 2020.”
Judge will r est two weeks while
recovering from the stress frac-
ture t o his first right rib. He hasn’t
played in any spring training
games while dealing with sore-
ness in his right pectoral muscle
and shoulder and has no timeline
for a return.
“I want to be out there. But thefirst thing is you’ve got to get this
healed, get this r ight, and t hen you
can move forward,” Judge said.
“The biggest thing is I want the
pain to go away and get this
healed u p.”
Judge underwent about a doz-
en tests, including an MRI exam
and CT and bone scans, to deter-
mine t he source of his pain.
“It shows signs of healing, so
we’re going to give it the next
couple weeks and retest to show
how much healing is going on
with that rib,” B oone said.
l BREWERS: Christian Yelich
took to Milwaukee so much he
staked his long-term future to the
team.
His new deal a dded $ 187.25 mil-
lion over seven seasons to the
remaining $27.75 million Yelich
was guaranteed as part of the
seven-year, $49.57 million con-
tract he signed in March 2015 with
Miami. It includes a no-trade
clause and no e arly opt-outs.
“Knowing that Christian is go-
ing to be here now for the better
part of the next decade certainly
allows us to map out how we’regoing to remain competitive for
that time period,” Brewers Gener-
al Manager David Stearns said
Friday, “and that was a priority of
Christian’s, that we have the abili-
ty to remain competitive during
his term as a Brewer.”
Brewers owner Mark Attanasio
said talks with Yelich began over
lunch on Halloween. Yelich did
not discuss an opt-out provision
and was not thinking about the
potential of free a gency.
“I don’t have any regrets about
it. It’s just one of those things in
the path my career took,” Yelich
said.
l METS: Tim Tebow was reas-
signed to minor league camp after
going 2 for 13 in spring training
with his first extra-base hit i n four
years.
The 32-year-old outfielder and
former Heisman Trophy-winning
quarterback homered against De-
troit’s Alex Wilson on Feb. 25. He
also h ad three walks.
Te bow has a. 151 average (11 for
73) in four spring trainings with
the Mets. After a three-year stint
at quarterback in the NFL, hejoined the Mets organization in
late 2016. He hit .148 (4 for 27)
with eight strikeouts during
spring training in 2017, .056 (1 for
18) in 2018 and .267 (4 for 15) last
year.
He batted .163 in 77 games last
season at Class AAA Syracuse in
his second straight injury-short-
ened s eason.
l INDIANS: Cleveland out-
fielder Oscar Mercado will under-
go an MRI exam on his left wrist,
which he injured while making a
diving catch in an exhibition
game.
Mercado got hurt when he
caught a ball hit by San Francisco’s
Alex Dickerson in the fourth in-
ning of Thursday’s game i n Scotts-
dale, Ariz. The initial diagnosis
was that Mercado had suffered a
sprain.
l DIAMONDBACKS: Arizona
infielder Domingo Leyba was sus-
pended for 80 games following a
positive test under Major League
Baseball’s d rug program.
Leyba tested positive for the per-
formance-enhancing substance
Boldenone, an anabolic steroid.spring training notesYankees’ Judge out indefinitely with a broken rib
ASSOCIATED PRESST he St. Louis Blues’ e ight-game
winning streak came to an end at
the hands of a team very few
would have expected to beat them.
The New Jersey Devils ended
more than six years of frustration
against the Blues by stunning the
defending Stanley Cup champi-
ons, 4-2, on Friday night in New-
ark.
And it was a stunner in all
aspects.
Dakota Mermis scored his first
NHL goal. Fellow defenseman
Connor Carrick got his first of the
season. And cast-aside goaltender
Cory Schneider made 31 saves and
added an assist in posting his first
win at home in more than a year
and helping New Jersey end a
12-game skid a gainst St. Louis dat-
ing from January 2 014.
“They beat us pretty badly the
last few years since I’ve been here,
so it’s nice to take one from them,and I thought we played well,” s aid
Schneider, who was banished to
the American Hockey League in
November after a bad start. “I
don’t think we snuck one out or
got lucky, but we matched them
play for play, and I thought we
were with them right until the
end.”
The Blues, who started their
winning streak with a shutout of
the Devils on Feb. 18, didn’t go
easily. They closed their deficit to
3-2 on a goal by Jaden Schwartz
with 3:11 remaining and were in it
until J oey Anderson i ced the game
with an empty-net goal with
57 s econds to play.
“We played some real good
hockey,” St. Louis Coach Craig
Berube said. “We won eight games
in a row and just wound up just
not playing good enough tonight.
You are not always going to have
your best game, night in and night
out. This tonight, I thought they
were a lot better than us. So they
deserved to win.”
Vince Dunn also scored for the
Blues, and Jordan Binnington had
28 saves in losing f or the first time
in seven s tarts.l RED WINGS 2, BLACK-
HAWKS 1: Tyler Bertuzzi and
Robby Fabbri s cored to give D e-
troit a two-goal lead, and it held on
to beat visiting C hicago.
Jonathan Bernier stopped
32 shots for the NHL-worst Red
Wings, who ended their fifth six-
game losing streak of the season.
Patrick Kane scored his
31st goal with 1:05 left in the
second period to pull Chicago
within a goal. Corey Crawford had
23 saves for the Blackhawks.
Chicago had won f our straight.
l FLAMES 3, COYOTES 2:
Matthew Tkachuk assisted on all
three goals f or Calgary, w hich beat
visiting Arizona for its third
straight victory.
Johnny Gaudreau, T. J. Brodie
and Mikael Backlund scored for
the Flames, and Cam Ta lbot
stopped 3 2 shots.
Ta ylor Hall had a goal and an
assist for the Coyotes.
l JETS 4, GOLDEN
KNIGHTS 0: Connor Hellebuyck
made 29 saves for his NHL-lead-
ing sixth shutout of the season,
leading W innipeg past visiting Ve-
gas.Patrik Laine and Nikolaj Ehlers
each had a goal and an assist for
the Jets, who have won five
straight at home. Kyle Connor got
his team-leading 36th goal, and
Mathieu Perreault also s cored.Canadiens great Richard dies
Hall of Famer Henri Richard,
the speedy and durable center
who won a record 11 Stanley Cups
with the Montreal Canadiens,
died at 84 after battling Alzheim-
er’s d isease.
The y ounger brother of super-
star Maurice “Rocket” Richard
was nicknamed “the Pocket R ock-
et” for his smaller frame. From
1955 to 1975, he p layed 1,256 regu-
lar season games for the Cana-
diens, a team record, and had
358 goals and 688 assists.
l MISC.: The NHL sent a memo
to teams urging players to limit
contact with fans because of the
coronavirus outbreak.
The move follows a similar di-
rective this month by the NBA,
which instructed its players to
stop high-fiving people and t o
avoid taking items for auto-
graphs.nHl roundupIn a stunner, New Jersey stops t he champs’ s treak
DeviLs 4,
BLues 2BY SAMANTHA PELLpittsburgh — The Washington
Capitals are suddenly a desperate
team.
They haven’t fallen out of first
place in the Metropolitan Divi-
sion — they are tied with the
Philadelphia Flyers with
87 points — but they continue to
flail, an array of miscues causing
them to spiral with the postsea-
son just a month away.
For a squad that early on
looked primed to win the Presi-
dents’ Trophy as the regular sea-
son’s top team, Washington is
facing a challenging new reality.
The Flyers, winners of eight
straight, are playing their best
hockey down the stretch. And
despite a recent six-game losing
streak, the Pittsburgh Penguins
are just three points behind and
have a game in hand.
The Capitals will face the Pen-
guins twice more in the regular
season, and both contests will be
at PPG Paints Arena. The teams
meet Saturday in a high-stakes
matinee and will clash again
March 22. The Capitals and Pen-
guins split two February match-
ups at Capital One Arena. Wash-
ington won the most recent bat-
tle, 5-3, on Feb. 23. At the time,
that win was seen as a potential
breakthrough for the Capitals.
Now? Not so much.
The Capitals are 10-12-2
against Metropolitan Division
opponents this season. Including
Saturday’s matchup, the Capitals
have four division games left.
“You got to go through adversi-
ty; you got to go through bad
times; you got to learn some
tough things. And our group is
learning them, and it is certainly
not any fun,” Coach To dd Reirden
said. “We have to continue to
learn and go through the
p rocess.”
The Penguins have won their
past two games and are entering a
challenging stretch of 10 straight
division games. Pittsburgh is
catching the Capitals at a vulner-
able time — following losses on
consecutive nights during which
they gave up 11 goals combined.
The players seem to acknowledge
a sense of urgency, but the ques-
tion is whether that can translateinto consistent e ffort over
60 minutes.
“I’m confident with the team. I
know the response is there,” cap-
tain Alex Ovechkin said. “We just
have to realize: We have to play
smart; we have to play simple. As
soon as we start thinking through
it too much and do some stupid
decisions on the ice, it cost us the
game.”
During Thursday’s 6-5 over-
time loss to the New York Rangers
at Madison Square Garden —
Mika Zibanejad had five goals,
including the winner in the extra
period — the Capitals couldn’t
stay out of their own way. Ovech-
kin, who scored two third-period
goals, including the equalizer
with 42.9 seconds left to send the
game to overtime and secure a
point in the standings, addressed
that issue afterward.
“Obviously our line didn’t play
well at all,” Ovechkin said. “A nd I
think we get mad. We try to do
some bad things on the ice. Me,
[Evgeny Kuznetsov], and, youknow, it cost us zone time, and we
have to play better no doubt. It’s a
good lesson. It’s a hard lesson, but
we have to take it and accept it.... [On Wednesday] night I make
mistake, and it cost us a game.
To night, I lost my ‘ D’ again. I have
to play better in the defensive
zone.”
The Capitals followed the same
pattern in their past two games:
Get momentum with a big goal,
surrender it because of penalties,
bounce back with a goal or a kill
but follow that up with another
penalty. The Capitals took seven
minor penalties against the
Rangers, including three in a row
late in the third period. Zibanejad
scored his fourth goal in that
stretch — and Washington was
fortunate the Rangers didn’t c api-
talize more often.
“I think it’s just individual mis-
haps for the most part,” Capitals
defenseman John Carlson said of
the plethora of penalties. “I think
a lot of the time it is not even for
breakdowns. Sometimes you can
live with them when it is a break-
down and someone has got to
overextend or get caught out of
position, but a lot of our penalties
right now feel like they are not
because of that, and that’s got to
be better.
“We got to hold each other
accountable. We can only say or
show so much. We n eed to clean it
up ourselves.”
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