Новости за 19.02.2017

TAMPA, Fla. — Dellin Betances doesn’t feel he needs to talk with Randy Levine after the New York Yankees president called the reliever a victim of “over-the-top demands based on very little sense of reality” by his representatives at an arbitration hearing Friday won by the team. The Yankees beat Betances in the year’s final

XALAPA, Mexico — Mexican authorities say the dead bodies of five men were dumped along a highway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The state prosecutor’s office says in a statement that the corpses were found Sunday next to the road between La Tinaja and Cosoleacaque. Prosecutors say the victims were shot in the

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Chattanooga funeral home says longtime Howard High School basketball coach Henry Bowles has died. He was 80. A notice posted on the website of John P. Franklin Funeral Home says Bowles died Sunday. Bowles coached boys basketball for 29 seasons at his alma mater and 39 overall. He compiled a 616-260

INDIANAPOLIS — Suddenly, the Butler Bulldogs have figured things out. Their offense is working, their defense is improving and the wins are starting to pile up. It’s even hard for coach Chris Holtmann to find faults right now. Nate Fowler scored 15 points, Kelan Martin added 14 points and eight rebounds and No. 24 Butler

TAMPA, Fla. — Feyonda Fitzgerald scored 23 points and Donnaizha Fountain 22 and Temple beat No. 22 South Florida 77-71 on Sunday for its fifth straight win. Maria Jespersen’s 3-point play with 2:46 remaining gave USF its first lead since the opening quarter but Fitzgerald and Fountain answered with seven and five points, respectively, in

MADISON, Wis. — Nigel Hayes was in vintage form, going strong to the hoop. Bronson Koenig returned from a leg injury to provide a jump-shooting boost off the bench. No. 11 Wisconsin played like it was fighting to get into the NCAA Tournament, even if the Badgers are virtually guaranteed to be playing into mid-March.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Adam Eaton donned his “go-to shirt” — a gray T, with the words “Mighty Mouse” in red, and a sketch of the small-but-strong cartoon character who debuted in the 1940s — before and after the Washington Nationals’ first full-squad workout of spring training on Sunday. The piece of casual clothing,

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — After watching his club go through all kinds of injury struggles last year yet make the postseason, New York Mets general manager Sandy Alderson improved the team by making a pair of major signings. He sent a message to the rest of the National League. “We’re all-in here. I think

ATHENS, Ga. — Yante Maten, Georgia’s leading scorer, is out indefinitely with a sprained right knee. Bulldogs coach Mark Fox updated Maten’s condition Sunday. Fox said he did not know when Maten could return, but it appeared surgery was not necessary and the 6-foot-8 junior would make a full recovery “in time.” Maten hurt himself

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Darnell Foreman scored 15 points with four assists, Matt Howard added 14 points, including three 3-pointers, and Penn used a big second-half run to beat Yale 71-55 on Sunday for its fourth straight win. AJ Brodeur had 12 points with nine rebounds, Ryan Betley also scored 12, and Devon Goodman had

DURHAM, N.C. — Lexie Brown scored 10 of her 28 points in the decisive third quarter, Rebecca Greenwell finished with 22 points, a season-high 13 rebounds and four assists, and No. 13 Duke beat 16th-ranked Miami 83-70 on Sunday for its seventh consecutive win. Brown made 8 of 10 from the field, including all four

LOS ANGELES — Dustin Johnson is one round away from reaching No. 1 in the world. Johnson birdied his last three holes Sunday morning for a 7-under 64, giving him a five-shot lead going into the final round in the afternoon at the Genesis Open. The U.S. Open champion was in such complete control that

MUNICH — Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he supports repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act but thinks a plan floated by Congressional Republicans last week to phase out the expanded Medicaid program that’s providing health care coverage to previously uninsured Ohioans is a “very bad idea.” Kasich’s comments came during an appearance Sunday on

WASHINGTON — Matt Husek scored 20 points on 8-for-9 shooting — including 4 of 5 3-pointers — and Robert Champion scored 16, including his 1,000th career point, and Holy Cross beat American U 69-54 on Sunday. Jehyve Floyd’s layup capped the Crusaders’ 9-0 opening run, and Husek put Holy Cross up for good (11-9) with

ATHENS, Greece — AEK Athens defeated Greek league leader Olympiakos 1-0 in an ill-tempered game on Sunday that saw 12 yellow cards and two dismissals. Astrit Ajdarevic scored the only goal in the 34th minute with a free kick that deflected off Olympiakos defender Manuel da Costa. Olympiakos’ athletic director Francois Modesto was sent to

PROSPERITY, S.C. — Authorities say an officer in South Carolina responding to a hostage situation shot a man who pointed a gun at deputies after leaving the home. Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said in a statement that the armed man ran from the home in Prosperity at the same time the three hostages inside

MINSK, Belarus — Five people have been detained and one policeman injured in a clash between Ukrainian nationalist demonstrators and police outside the presidential administration building in Kiev. The Sunday evening clash involved demonstrators in camouflage and balaclavas who tried to set up a tent camp in support of nationalists who have blocked coal shipments

NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist and the Rangers handled the challenge of facing one of the league’s top teams. Mats Zuccarello scored a third-period goal and Lundqvist made 31 saves in the New York Rangers’ 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday. Ryan McDonagh scored in the first period for New York, which has

LAKELAND, Fla. — When the Detroit Tigers indicated they were willing to listen to offers for their top players, Ian Kinsler became a prime candidate to be traded. The second baseman tried his best to keep an even keel amid the offseason speculation. “This is the club I want to be on. They’re all rumors,”

ROME — Pope Francis says cardinals don’t always choose “the most intelligent” of their lot to be pontiff. A child asked Francis during a papal visit to a Rome parish on Sunday how he became pope. Francis said the man picked as pontiff “perhaps isn’t the most intelligent, the shrewdest, the quickest to do what

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Krystyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic came from a set down to upset 16th-seeded Roberta Vinci of Italy 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Sunday. The 58th-ranked Pliskova, who played under the watchful eye of her twin sister, second-seeded Karolina Pliskova, was facing defeat as Vinci served

ALLEN, Texas — A 17-year-old Dallas-area high school transgender wrestler who is transitioning from female to male has won a girls regional championship after a female opponent forfeited the match. Mack Beggs, a Euless Trinity High School junior who is undefeated this wrestling season, hugged losing opponent Madeline Rocha, from Coppell, on the victory stand

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Charges have been dropped in at least 18 central Florida criminal cases and hundreds more could be reviewed while authorities investigate a sheriff’s deputy who investigators say was caught on his own body camera taking $100 bills from a DUI suspect. The fallout from Volusia County Deputy John Braman’s resignation last

PITTSBURGH — Tyler Cavanaugh scored 19 points, making 13 of 14 free throws, and George Washington defeated Duquesne 77-70 on Sunday. While Duquesne was outscoring the Colonials in the paint, 40-18, George Washington (14-13, 6-8 Atlantic 10) was making 12 of 26 3-pointers to 4 of 13 for the Dukes. Yuta Watanabe scored 14 points

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Top-seeded Kei Nishikori was beaten 7-6 (4), 6-4 by Alexandr Dolgopolov on Sunday in the final of the clay-court Argentina Open. Dolgopolov won his third ATP singles title and his first in five years. It was also the Ukrainian’s first victory over his Japanese opponent after losing their previous five head-to-head