Новости за 05.03.2016

UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania - A Philadelphia-area school district superintendent has apologized for a class skit in which students dressed in Ku Klux Klan-like outfits, calling the activity "inappropriate" and showing "poor judgment."

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Coach Cameron Newbauer now has to pay up on his promise. It's time to take his Belmont Bruins for ice cream.

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois - The University of Illinois' new athletic director issued a vote of confidence in men's basketball coach John Groce on Saturday, praising his leadership and making clear he will continue in the position.

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Paige Piatkowski had 11 points and five rebounds and Elkhorn South won its first state championship in girls basketball with a 43-33 victory over Waverly in the Class B title game Saturday.

BOSTON - Clemson coach Brad Brownell walked over to Boston College coach Jim Christian and gave him a long embrace, offering some encouragement at the end of the Eagles' long regular season.

LINCOLN, Nebraska - Not long after the season, Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. called a meeting with the offensive players who'll be seniors in 2016 and reminded them they have one more chance to capture a title.

PHILADELPHIA - Villanova turned its season finale into a championship bash.

Winnipeg is finally getting an outdoor NHL game.

Italy was first through to the Davis Cup quarterfinals after beating weakened visitor Switzerland 3-0 on Saturday.

NEW YORK - Providence coach Ed Cooley leaned forward, smiled and gave a quick assessment of the play of sophomore guard Jalen Lindsey.

KHARTOUM, Sudan - Hassan al-Turabi, the Sudanese Islamist who played a key role in the 1989 coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir to power and who once hosted Osama bin Laden, died Saturday at the age of 84.

NEWARK, New Jersey - Reigning Olympic champion Gabrielle Douglas soared to victory in the 2016 American Cup on Saturday, serving notice she's ready to make another run at the podium in Rio de Janeiro this summer.

BUIES CREEK, North Carolina - Ahmad Thomas and Dylan Smith each scored 18 points and No. 4 seed UNC Asheville upset No. 1 seed High Point 80-69 in the semifinals of the Big South Conference tournament on Saturday.

DALLAS - Nic Moore's 100th game for No. 24 SMU will be the last for the senior point guard and the Mustangs.

PARIS - Wendi Deng attended Nina Ricci's Paris collection just a few hours after her ex-husband, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, got married to Jerry Hall across the English Channel in London.

SOUTH BEND, Indiana - With his team mired in an offensive slump, Notre Dame coach Mike Brey decided to push them.

DENVER - Officials in Denver are planning to evict people from homeless camps that have popped up around homeless shelters and in public places.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina - Second-ranked Notre Dame got the kind of test coach Muffet McGraw wanted in March.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee - Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy attempted to downplay his new membership in an exclusive fraternity.

DETROIT - Jordan Fouse scored 18 points, Carrington Love had seven steals - a Horizon League tournament record - and No. 4 seed Green Bay beat ninth-seeded Cleveland State 65-53 on Saturday in the first round.

BERLIN - Bayern Munich took another small step toward an unprecedented fourth successive Bundesliga title with a hard-fought scoreless draw at closest rival Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain - Thousands of Basque separatist sympathizers held a rally in northern Spain on Saturday celebrating the release from prison of a prominent regional leader four days after he completed a more than six-year sentence for trying to resurrect the banned political wing of armed group ETA.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - A New Jersey man who fatally punched his girlfriend's toddler daughter when the child wouldn't let him comb her hair after a bath has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

WATFORD, England - Leicester moved five points clear at the top of the English Premier League with nine games left after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Watford on Saturday.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Kazakhstan leads Serbia 2-1 in the first round of the Davis Cup after Andrey Golubev and Aleksandr Nedovyesov beat Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic 6-3, 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the doubles match.