Donovan Dent Looks Like A Star As Bruins Beat Trojans

From Steve Galluzzo: One squad was coming disconnected its highest high, nan different disconnected its lowest low, but caller history matters small whenever UCLA and USC meet.

Tuesday night’s matchup wrong Pauley Pavilion was nary exception, arsenic nan men’s hoops programs faced disconnected successful nan first of 2 cardinal Big Ten clashes successful 11 days and nan big Bruins sent their blue-clad fans location happy pinch an 81-62 victory.

Donovan Dent led nan complaint pinch 30 points and 7 assists, Trent Perry had 13 points and 4 assists, Xavier Booker had 11 points and 3 blocks and guardant Tyler Bilodeau added 13 points and 9 rebounds arsenic nan Bruins (19-9 overall, 11-6 successful nan Big Ten) improved to 15-1 connected Wooden Court and stayed successful seventh spot successful convention play pinch 3 games remaining successful nan regular season.

“It took america a while to propulsion distant from a very diversion squad but I’m proud of nan guys, we sewage nan occupation done and stayed healthy,” said UCLA caput coach Mick Cronin, who evened his grounds to 7-7 versus USC since he took complete successful Westwood successful 2019. “When you clasp a squad to 62 it’s difficult to lose.”

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Big Ten standings

Lakers autumn to Magic

From Broderick Turner: The eight-game homestand the Lakers played complete 3 weeks because of nan weeklong All-Star break was an opportunity for them to create a connectivity that would push L.A. successful nan correct direction.

Instead, nan Lakers floundered successful those games astatine Crypto.com Arena, playing .500 hoops (4-4), dropping a 110-109 game to nan Orlando Magic connected Tuesday nighttime erstwhile Luka Doncic passed up a changeable and made a hurried walk to LeBron James, who missed a buzzer-beater.

The Lakers (34-23) person not been a awesome squad astatine location each season, their grounds now opinionated astatine 16-12 successful Los Angeles. And because they mislaid for nan 2nd consecutive crippled astatine home, they are now successful sixth spot successful nan competitory Western Conference.

James vanished pinch 21 points connected eight-for-13 shooting. He besides had six rebounds and 4 assists. After nan game, he was asked why nan Lakers haven’t been truthful bully astatine location this season.

“I don’t know,” James said. “Just haven’t been a bully location team.”

Coach JJ Redick was asked for his appraisal connected why his squad hasn’t been amended astatine home.

“We’re a activity successful progress,” Redick said.

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NBA standings

Freddie Freeman is fresh for nan season

From Jack Vita: For nan first clip since he grounded retired to extremity nan 11th inning successful Game 7 of nan World Series, Freddie Freeman stepped into nan batter’s container successful nan first inning Tuesday against nan Cleveland Guardians astatine Camelback Ranch. Freeman was met pinch cheers by nan thousands of Dodgers fans successful attendance.

After popping retired to 3rd successful his first at-bat, Freeman laced a double to left-center to thrust successful 2 runs successful nan 3rd inning earlier he was lifted from nan Dodgers’ 11-3 victory.

Freeman, who past play battled nan lingering effects of a correct ankle wounded he suffered precocious successful nan 2024 season, said having a much emblematic offseason was important to regaining his fitness.

“It’s been successful a bully spot since I started hitting this offseason,” Freeman said of his swing. “Nice to beryllium capable to deed a shot to left-center already, that’s a bully sign. ... I hadn’t swung a bat till a time earlier FanFest past year. A normal offseason decidedly helps.”

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Sacramento State wants to play USC

From Bill Shaikin: The USC shot schedule this twelvemonth starts pinch a vacancy. The Trojans scheme to invited an force to beryllium wished to nan Coliseum connected Aug. 29, and Sacramento State would emotion to beryllium that opponent.

“We’re trying,” Sacramento State President Luke Wood said Monday.

Wood announced past week that nan Hornets had jumped into nan Football Bowl Subdivision, nan precocious tier of NCAA Division I football, and what much glamorous measurement to make an FBS debut than against nan astir storied squad successful California?

Wood called nan Hornets’ move to subordinate nan Mid-American Conference successful shot “a calculated business determination that would supply our assemblage pinch nan top imaginable exposure.”

LAFC drew a large crowd. Here’s why

From Kevin Baxter: More than 75,000 group packed nan Coliseum for a shot crippled Saturday night.

LAFC hosted nan largest crowd for a shot crippled successful nan world past weekend, nan largest crowd for an MLS season-opening crippled and the second-largest successful convention history.

MLS moved nan crippled from cozy BMO Stadium, LAFC’s regular home, a fewer 100 feet westbound to nan cavernous 77,000-seat Coliseum because Lionel Messi, arguably nan champion to ever play nan sport, would beryllium there. It worked: The crowd was nan largest astatine nan Coliseum for immoderate arena successful much than six years.

But nan group didn’t travel to spot Messi aliases his team, Inter Miami, nan reigning MLS champion. The crowd was not dressed successful Miami pinkish but successful nan achromatic and golden of LAFC, which won 3-0.

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This time successful sports history

1940 — The first telecast of an American lucky crippled is transmitted complete position W2XBS successful New York. The viewing assemblage watches nan New York Rangers conflict nan Montreal Canadiens astatine Madison Square Garden.

1957 — The United States Supreme Court rules that pro football, dissimilar pro baseball, is taxable to nan anti-trust laws of nan United States. The tribunal decides 6-3 that shot is only anti-trust exempt pro sport.

1961 — Niagara ends St. Bonaventure’s 99-game winning streak astatine location pinch an 87-77 triumph complete nan Bonnies.

1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of nan Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points, but New York’s Richie Guerin scores 50 to lead nan Knicks to a 149-135 victory.

1964 — Cassius Clay wins nan world heavyweight title erstwhile Sonny Liston is incapable to reply nan doorbell for nan seventh information astatine Convention Hall successful Miami Beach, Fla.

1977 — Pete Maravich of nan New Orleans Jazz scores 68 points, nan astir by an NBA guard, successful a 124-107 triumph complete nan New York Knicks. Only Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor had scored much points successful an NBA game.

1987 — The Southern Methodist shot squad is suspended for nan 1987 play aft investigations uncover that players received $61,000 from a booster slush fund.

1994 — Oksana Baiul of Ukraine wins nan fig skating golden badge astatine nan Winter Olympics successful Lillehammer, Norway, and Nancy Kerrigan, who was whacked connected nan knee 2½ months earlier, wins nan silver. Tonya Harding, later convicted of hindering prosecution successful nan Kerrigan attack, finishes eighth.

2001 — In nan largest playoff successful PGA Tour history, Robert Allenby wins nan Nissan Open connected nan first other spread against 5 different players. It’s Allenby’s 3rd PGA Tour victory, each of them won successful playoffs.

2010 — In Vancouver, nan Canadian women conclusion nan United States 2-0 for their 3rd consecutive Olympic lucky title. Americans Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane decorativeness 1-2 successful a Nordic mixed race. They are nan first American medalists successful a athletics that’s been portion of nan Winter Olympics since 1924.

2017 — Marit Bjoergen wins a grounds 15th world title golden badge successful cross-country skiing pinch triumph successful a 15-kilometer skiathlon. The 36-year-old Bjoergen has much golden medals than immoderate different cross-country skier — antheral aliases female — successful world title history, having antecedently shared nan grounds of 14 golden medals pinch retired Russian Yelena Valbe.

2017 — Kelsey Plum surpasses Jackie Stiles to go nan NCAA’s all-time scoring leader pinch a career-best 57 points successful nan last regular play crippled of her career, starring No. 11 Washington past Utah 84-77. Plum passes Stiles’ people of 3,393 points midway done nan 4th quarter.

2018 — Kirill Kaprizov scores a power-play extremity successful overtime to assistance nan Russians to nan golden badge successful men’s lucky pinch a 4-3 triumph complete Germany astatine nan Pyeongchang Olympics.

2018 — Norway’s Marit Bjoergen closes retired a singular Olympic career, winning nan golden badge successful nan women’s 30-kilometer wide commencement astatine nan Pyeongchang Games. The 37-year-old Bjoergen is nan only Olympian to triumph 5 medals astatine these Games and finishes her profession pinch 15 medals. She leaves arsenic nan astir dressed up jock successful Winter Olympic history.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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