TODAY IN SPORTS
1. Gaige Herrera; 2. Angie Smith; 3. Jianna Evaristo; 4. Chase Van Sant; 5. Joey Gladstone; 6. Eddie Krawiec; 7. Matt Smith; 8. Ryan Oehler; 9. Steve Johnson;
10. Kelly Clontz; 11. Hector Arana Jr; 12. John Hall; 13. Marc Ingwersen; 14. Ron Tornow; 15. Chip Ellis; 16. Richard Gadson.
Final Results
Top Fuel
Mike Salinas, 3.700 seconds, 330.31 mph def. Steve Torrence, 3.754 seconds, 333.82 mph.
Funny Car
Matt Hagan, Dodge Charger, 3.926, 329.34 def. J.R. Todd, Toyota Supra, 4.141, 239.95.
Pro Stock
Troy Coughlin Jr., Chevy Camaro, 6.637, 208.71 def. Mason McGaha, Camaro, 6.765, 207.94.
Pro Stock Motorcycle Gaige Herrera, Suzuki, 6.706, 202.15 def. Angie Smith, EBR, 6.845, 181.84.
Top Alcohol Dragster
Julie Nataas, 5.147, 276.18 def. Cody Krohn, 5.213, 277.77.
Top Alcohol Funny Car
Matt Gill, Chevy Camaro, 5.511, 266.69 def. DJ Cox Jr., Camaro, 7.084, 143.40.
March 13
1894 — J.L. Johnstone of England invents the starting gate for horse racing.
1920 — NYU wins the national amateur basketball championship in Atlanta. The Violets beat Rutgers 49-24 in the final of the AAU tournament.
1961 — Floyd Patterson knocks out Ingemar Johansson in the sixth round to retain the world heavyweight title in Miami Beach. 1982 — Elaine Zayak of the United States wins the world figure skating championship. 1983 — Randy Smith’s consecutive game streak ends at 906 games, the longest in NBA history. Smith played for Buffalo, San Diego (twice), Cleveland and New York during the streak.
1997 — The America’s Cup, the oldest trophy in international sports and yachting’s most coveted prize, is all but destroyed by a Maori protester who struck it repeatedly with a sledgehammer in Auckland, New Zealand. 1998 — Bryce Drew hits a leaning 3-pointer as time expires to give Valparaiso a shocking 70-69 upset of Mississippi in the first round of the NCAA Midwest Regional.
2001 — Philadelphia’s Mark Recchi picks up his 1,000th career point during 5-2 win over St. Louis. He’s the 60th player in NHL history to reach the mark.
2007 — Lance Mackey wins the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first musher to win major long-distance North American sled dog races back-to-back. On Feb. 20, Mackey won his third consecutive Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, a 1,000 mile race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon.
2007 — Dallas’ Mike Modano becomes the 39th player in NHL history and second born in the United States to reach 500 goals, scoring with 10:24 left in the third period of a 3-2 victory over Philadelphia.
2008 — Bode Miller clinches the men’s overall World Cup ski title. Miller earns his second title in four years with a 12th-place finish in the super-G combined, along with Didier Cuche’s announcement that he would not enter the season-ending slalom in Bormio, Italy. 2011 — The NCAA men’s basketball selection committee releases its 68-team draw, which included a record 11 teams from the Big East, the deepest conference in the nation. The tournament adds three more at-large teams that will open the tournament in what the NCAA is calling the “First Four.”
2012 — BYU pulls off the biggest comeback in NCAA tournament history on a wild opening night. Noah Hartsock scores 16 of his 23 points in the second half and the Cougars rally from 25 points down to beat Iona 78-72 in the first round. It marks the biggest comeback in an NCAA tournament game. Previously, the largest deficit overcome was 22 points in 2001 when Duke fought back to beat Maryland 95-84 in the national semifinals. It’s the second incredible turnaround of the night in Dayton. With President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron watching, Western Kentucky comes back from a 16-point deficit in the final 5 minutes to beat Mississippi Valley State 59-58.
2018 — Russell Westbrook picks up the 100th triple-double of his career and the Oklahoma City Thunder uses a 16-0 run late in the fourth quarter to pull away from the Atlanta Hawks for a 119-107 victory. Westbrook scores 32 points, dishes out 12 assists and grabs 12 rebounds to become the third-fastest player to reach the milestone.
2020 - Elite football in Britain, including England’s Premier League, EFL, Women’s Super League plus in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is suspended until at least 3 April because of COVID-19 pandemic.
NOTE: Three points for tie.
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Saturday, March 4
Los Angeles FC 3, Portland 2 Toronto FC 1, Atlanta 1, tie Columbus 2, D.C. United 0
Miami 2, Philadelphia 0
New England 3, Houston 0 Nashville 0, New York 0, tie Cincinnati 0, Orlando City 0, tie Austin FC 1, CF Montréal 0
New York City FC 1, Chicago 1, tie FC Dallas 3, LA Galaxy 1
Saint Louis City SC 3, Charlotte FC 1 Sporting Kansas City 0, Colorado 0, tie San Jose 2, Vancouver 1
Seattle 2, Real Salt Lake 0
Saturday, March 11 Atlanta 3, Charlotte FC 0
FC Dallas 1, Vancouver 1, tie Cincinnati 1, Seattle 0
Orlando City 1, D.C. United 1, tie New York City FC 1, Miami 0 Philadelphia 1, Chicago 0 Columbus 1, Toronto FC 1, tie
LA Galaxy 0, Sporting Kansas City 0, tie New York 1, Minnesota 1, tie Nashville 2, CF Montréal 0
Austin FC 2, Real Salt Lake 1
Saint Louis City SC 2, Portland 1 San Jose 1, Colorado 0
Sunday, March 12
New England at LAFC, 10:30 p.m.
Name Connor McDavid David Pastrnak Brayden Point Leon Draisaitl Mikko Rantanen Tage Thompson Kirill Kaprizov Jason Robertson Mark Scheifele Bo Horvat Jack Hughes Alex Ovechkin William Nylander Jared McCann Roope Hintz Adrian Kempe Andrei Kuzmenko Timo Meier Carter Verhaeghe Mika Zibanejad
Name
Leon Draisaitl Mika Zibanejad Connor McDavid Tage Thompson Brayden Point Kirill Kaprizov
Name
Linus Ullmark Filip Gustavsson Pyotr Kochetkov Jeremy Swayman Antti Raanta
Ilya Sorokin Frederik Andersen Jake Oettinger Ilya Samsonov Adin Hill
Pavel Francouz Vitek Vanecek David Rittich Alexandar Georgiev Igor Shesterkin Connor Hellebuyck Logan Thompson Pheonix Copley Andrei Vasilevskiy Alex Stalock
Goal Scoring Team GP Edmonton 67 Boston 64 Tampa Bay 66 Edmonton 65 Colorado 64 Buffalo 65 Minnesota 65 Dallas 66 Winnipeg 66 Vancouver 65 New Jersey 61 Washington 62 Toronto 65 Seattle 63 Dallas 58 Los Angeles 67 Vancouver 64 San Jose 61 Florida 66 N.Y. Rangers 65 Power Play Goals Team GP Edmonton 65 N.Y. Rangers 65 Edmonton 67 Buffalo 65 Tampa Bay 66 Minnesota 65
GPI 40 30 20 27 23 49 24 50 33 27 15 41 19 47 47 50 36 30 49 17
G 55 45 43 42 42 42 39 38 38 36 36 36 34 33 32 32 32 32 32 32
Assists
Name Team Connor McDavid Edmonton Nikita Kucherov Tampa Bay Erik Karlsson San Jose Mitch Marner Toronto Matthew Tkachuk Florida Leon Draisaitl Edmonton Quinn Hughes Vancouver Artemi Panarin N.Y. Rangers Josh Morrissey Winnipeg Elias Pettersson Vancouver Nathan MacKinnon Colorado Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Edmonton Sidney Crosby Pittsburgh Rasmus Dahlin Buffalo Adam Fox N.Y. Rangers Kyle Connor Winnipeg Kevin Fiala Los Angeles Evgeni Malkin Pittsburgh Jason Robertson Dallas William Nylander Toronto Short Handed Goals Team Vancouver N.Y. Rangers Chicago Vancouver Vancouver Vegas
Goaltenders Goals Against Record
Team Boston Minnesota Carolina Boston Carolina N.Y. Islanders Carolina Dallas Toronto Vegas Colorado New Jersey Winnipeg Colorado N.Y. Rangers Winnipeg Vegas
Los Angeles Tampa Bay Chicago
PP Name
27 Bo Horvat 19 Chris Kreider 18 Sam Lafferty 18 J.T. Miller 17 Elias Pettersson 16 Reilly Smith
MINS 2349 1756 1166 1458 1319 2836 1386 2941 1941 1490 900 2286 1003 2793 2828 2942 2117 1694 2939 910
GA 74 56 43 56 51 111 55 118 78 61 38 97 43 122 124 130 94 76 132 41
AVG 1.89 1.91 2.21 2.30 2.32 2.35 2.38 2.41 2.41 2.46 2.53 2.55 2.57 2.62 2.63 2.65 2.66 2.69 2.69 2.70
GP A 67 72 66 69 67 64 65 59 64 57 65 56 61 56 65 53 66 52 63 52 53 51 67 50 65 49 61 49 65 49 66 46 66 46 65 45 66 45 65 44
GP SH 65 4 62 4 56 4 64 4 63 4 66 4