MINNESOTA DULUTH WINS HOCKEY SEMI
MINN.» Louie Roehl and Jared ST. PAUL, Thomas scored in the first 3:04 and Minnesota Duluth held off Ohio State 2-1 on Thursday night to reach the NCAA hockey championship game for the second straight year.
Hunter Shepard made 19 saves for the Bulldogs (24-16-3), allowing only Tanner Laczynski’s power-play goal in the third period. Sean Romeo stopped 26 shots for the Buckeyes (26-10-5), who beat DU to make it to the semifinals.
The Bulldogs will face Michigan or Notre Dame on Saturday night. Duluth lost 3-2 to Denver in the title game last season in Chicago.
The Bulldogs needed less than two minutes to ignite the heavily partisan crowd, with freshman defenseman Roehl scoring his third career goal.
Just 1:11 later, they made it 2-0 when Thomas got behind the defense and scored on a breakaway.
McGregor turns himself in to police.
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McGregor has turned himself into police in the wake of a backstage melee he instigated that has forced the removal of three fights off UFC’s biggest card of the year.
Video footage appears to show the promotion’s most bankable star throwing a hand truck at a bus full of fighters, after a news conference for UFC 223 at Barclays Center.
McGregor was being processed and no charges had been filed as of Thursday night.
Video showed McGregor with a group of people causing chaos Thursday as they took an elevator to the loading dock at Barclays Center. He can be seen tossing trash cans and being prevented from throwing a barricade at a bus during his unannounced appearance in New York.
The New York Police Department said McGregor threw a hand truck at a bus causing minor injury to an individual on the bus. UFC said three fights on Saturday’s UFC 223 card have subsequently been scrapped.
McGregor hasn’t fought for UFC since November 2016 and was stripped this week by UFC President Dana White of the 155-pound championship he had never defended.
OSU investigating sexual misconduct allegations.
Ohio State is investigating sexual misconduct allegations against a former wrestling team trainer who was with the team from the 1970s through the 1990s, the university announced.
The university said a person recently came forward to accuse Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, of sexual misconduct.
The person said there were multiple victims over a period of time, said Chris Davey, an Ohio State spokesman. The allegations include acts of sexual misconduct with student-athletes and other instances of sexual misconduct, the university said.
Ohio State has not been able to reach any of his family members, Davey said. The school also is not aware of any past criminal charges or lawsuits against Strauss, he said.
Strauss was an associate professor of medicine at Ohio State.
Ohio State said it will publicly release the results of the investigation when it is finished.
Footnotes.
Missouri freshman forward Jontay Porter is following brother Michael Jr. into the NBA draft. Porter said Thursday that he will enter the draft without hiring an agent, allowing him to pull out of the draft and retain eligibility. … Montana junior guard Ahmad Rorie has announced his intention to declare for the NBA draft. Rorie isn’t hiring an agent, meaning he could withdraw from the process by May 30 and still return to the Grizzlies. … Alex Morgan scored twice and the U.S. women’s national team got three goals in the span of four minutes early in the second half to beat Mexico 4-1 in the first of two exhibition matches between the teams. … The Atlantic Coast Conference is making Charlotte, N.C., the long-term home for its football championship game, keeping it in the Queen City through 2030.