Serious drivers and wacky cars in rally
from Hungary to Mali (AP) While the Dakar
Rally is canceled, dozens of drivers are still braving dirt roads and desert
sands in a quirkier version of a Europe-to-Africa race. A caravan of cars,
trucks and motorcycles -- including an ambulance, an ice cream truck and a
Hummer -- left Budapest on Saturday hoping to arrive in Bamako, Mali, on
Jan.
Officials want Dakar Rally to return in
2009, not sure of route after terrorist threats (AP) Dakar Rally officials want the race to return in 2009, but aren't
sure of the route after this year's event across the Sahara desert was canceled
because of terrorist threats. "We will do everything" for the 2009 rally to take
place, French sports minister Bernard Laporte said on RMC-Info radio
Thursday.
Brett Favre spotted his favorite target all alone and let fly. He hit Donald
Driver, all right -- with a snowball. Favre frolicked in the flurries the entire
afternoon, throwing three touchdown passes as the Green Bay Packers beat the
Seattle Seahawks 42-20 Saturday to reach the NFC championship game.
Pats lead Jaguars 28-17 after 3 quarters
(AP) Tom Brady completed his first 16
passes and was 23-of-24 for 194 yards and three touchdowns in the first three
quarters Saturday night to help the New England Patriots open a 28-17 lead over
the Jacksonville Jaguars in their AFC playoff game. Laurence Maroney ran 15
times for 111 yards and a 1-yard touchdown as the Patriots tried to extend their
perfect season with a 17th consecutive victory.
No. 5 UCLA tops No. 4 Washington State
(AP) Washington State couldn't make a dent
against UCLA's defensive pressure most of the game. When the Bruins let up, the
Cougars unleashed a stunning barrage of 3-pointers and still lost. The
fifth-ranked Bruins knocked the No. 4 Cougars from the unbeaten ranks Saturday
with an 81-74 victory led by freshman Kevin Love's eighth double-double of the
season.
When the turnover count hit 20, the Boston Celtics were in trouble. Now, the
team that had been routing the NBA has lost two out of three. The Washington
Wizards, overcoming a sloppy night of their own, rallied from a seven-point,
fourth-quarter deficit and closed the game with a 15-4 run Saturday night for an
85-78 victory over the Celtics Both teams showed the aftereffects of tough games
the...
It took Bob Knight 42 seasons to get to the brink of 900 wins. Oklahoma
State's Obi Muonelo needed less than 2 minutes to call off the celebration.
Muonelo hit four straight 3-pointers in a 95-second stretch, and Oklahoma State
throttled down in the second half to deny Knight his 900th career win with a
74-55 defeat of Texas Tech on Saturday.
Roger Clemens talked about pitching and conditioning. What he didn't talk
about was steroids. In a session before about 1,000 Texas high school baseball
coaches Saturday, the seven-time Cy Young Award winner stuck to baseball and
cracked jokes, making no mention of the allegations in the Mitchell Report that
he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Hibbert's 3 lifts No. 7 Hoyas over UConn
(AP) Roy Hibbert knew it. His Georgetown
teammates and coach John Thompson III knew it. Now Connecticut and the rest of
the country knows it, too. The big guy can shoot from outside. Way outside. The
7-foot-2 Hibbert stepped back, squared up and swished a tiebreaking 3-pointer
with the shot clock winding down and less than 5 seconds left in the game
Saturday, capping his 20-point, eight-rebound performance...
Kentucky hands No. 13 Vandy first loss
(AP) Unlike the start of his tenure at
Kentucky, coach Billy Gillispie more than met expectations in his Southeastern
Conference debut. Freshman Patrick Patterson had 23 points and 12 rebounds to
lift the Wildcats to a 79-73 double-overtime win over No. 13 Vanderbilt on
Saturday, stealing back some of the luster missing from the historic program
during Gillispie's rocky start.
Daniel Alfredsson scored his second power-play goal of the game with 2:56
remaining to lift the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on
Saturday night in a matchup of the NHL's top two teams. Alfredsson restored
Ottawa's lead with his 28th goal of the season after the Senators blew a 2-0
advantage earlier in the period.
A fast start and a strong finish gave K.J. Choi the round he was looking for
Saturday in the Sony Open. Choi got up-and-down from the bunker on the par-5
18th to cap off a 4-under 66 and double the size of his margin, taking a
four-shot lead into the final round as he tries to become the first outright
wire-to-wire winner at Waialae in eight years.
