Новости за 23.03.2024

CJ McCollum scored 30 points, Jose Alvarado added 17 and the New Orleans Pelicans had no trouble in a 111-88 win over the Miami Heat on Friday night.

Brazil's soccer federation president Ednaldo Rodrigues said Friday that the rape convictions of former footballers Dani Alves and Robinho end ''one of the most nefarious chapters'' in the country's sports history.

Brooks Lee is a former first-round choice who is likely to play at Target Field sooner than later.

Jaylen Brown scored 33 points and the NBA-leading Boston Celtics won their eighth straight game, beating the short-handed Detroit Pistons 129-102 on Friday night.

The Senate bogged down Friday evening on a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills, increasing the prospects that funding for some key federal agencies could lapse and initiate a partial government shutdown beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

The north metro could also get walloped with up to 18 inches.

The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month. But at a time when immigration is increasingly a concern for voters, the numbers were still among the lowest of Joe Biden's presidency.

Playing four days after the death of a former hockey player she dated, Aryna Sabalenka beat Paula Badosa 6-4, 6-3 on Friday in the second round of the rain-soaked Miami Open.

Blake Cashman, the former Eden Prairie and Gophers star, is the Vikings' answer to losing veteran Jordan Hicks. A review of Cashman's breakout 2023 season shows he might be ready to help fill those shoes.

The teams are battling for playoff seeding in the Western Conference with time quickly running out.

A cement truck on a Texas highway veered into a school bus carrying more than 40 prekindergarten students returning from a field trip to a zoo, killing a boy on the bus and a man in another vehicle, authorities said.

Stewart Cink made a great escape from the pine straw for an unlikely birdie and had a 4-under 67 that gave him a five-way share of the lead Friday in the Valspar Championship and a chance to entertain thoughts of winning for the second straight tournament.

Several assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing at least 40 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide.

KJ Simpson rattled in a tiebreaking jumper from the baseline with 2 seconds left, and 10th-seeded Colorado beat seventh-seeded Florida in a 102-100 thriller on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Republican Mike Boudreaux advances to special election to complete the term of ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

John Poulakidas scored 28 points, Samson Aletan made a key block during a wild scramble in the final seconds, and 13th-seeded Yale rallied in the final five minutes to take down No. 4 seed Auburn 78-76 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.

Getting past the Blues on Saturday will be vital for the Wild, who are guaranteed to lose ground in the playoff race next week.

Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft allegations involving Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.

You won't draw recruits with that.

DEED tool can provide guidance for degree-seekers in Minnesota.

The shots at times looked crazy. Maybe some of them were crazy. Off balance. Deep. Double-teamed. Hand in his face. Hand on his back. Off flares. Off curls. Spotted up. On the run.

Betting, bookies, lies, theft — the barely begun baseball season has taken one on the chin.

The widening partisan divide may make responding to the inevitable next pandemic even more difficult.

The state has the ingredients to create its own rideshare apps — services with integrity that would meet both drivers' and riders' needs.