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Villanova beats No. 14 North Carolina 83-81 in OT, advances to title game at Battle 4 Atlantis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Justin Moore scored five of his 16 points in overtime and Eric Dixon had a career-high 34 points and 10 rebounds as Villanova beat No. 14 North Carolina 83-81 on Thursday in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis.Villanova (5-1) will play Memphis, an 84-79 winner over No. 20 Arkansas, in the championship game on Friday. North Carolina (4-1) will play the Razorbacks for third place. North Carolina guard Cormac Ryan hit a 3-pointer in the corner, off a nice drive and pass by Elliot Cadeau, and tied the game at 68 with 34.4 seconds left in regulation. Moore dribbled down the clock before finding Dixon for a 3-pointer try that rattled out. North Carolina took it to midcourt before calling a timeout with 3.3 seconds left. RJ Davis inbounded and got the ball back before his off balance 3-point attempt hit off the back of the rim.Moore put Villanova ahead for good in overtime on a three-point play with 2:08 left. Mark Armstrong added 10 points for Villanova...

Jones scores career-high 36, Memphis beats No. 20 Arkansas in semis at the Battle 4 Atlantis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — David Jones had a career-high 36 points and five steals to help Memphis beat No. 20 Arkansas 84-79 on Thursday in a semifinal game at the Battle 4 Atlantis.Memphis (5-0) will face Villanova in the title game on Friday. Arkansas (4-2) faces No. 14 North Carolina for third place.Jones was 10 for 14 from the field, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range, and 12 of 14 at the line. The 36 points tops the 33 he scored against Louisville on Dec. 10, 2021, while playing for DePaul. Jones became the second Memphis player since 2010 with 34-plus points and four-plus steals in a game, joining Jeremiah Martin.Nick Jourdain added 12 points for Memphis, and Jaykwon Walton scored 11.Khalif Battle scored 21 points for Arkansas. Davonte Davis added 15 points, Trevon Brazile had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Tramon Mark scored 12.Memphis was called for an administrative technical foul with 2:07 left for having six players on the floor. Battle made two free throws to get ...

Boogie Ellis scores 22 points in his homecoming to lead No. 23 USC over Seton Hall, 71-63

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Boogie Ellis scored 22 points in his homecoming and Joshua Morgan blocked a school-record 10 shots for No. 23 Southern California, which blew most of a 20-point lead before beating Seton Hall 71-63 in the Rady Children’s Invitational on Thursday with Bronny James sitting near the end of the bench. James was on the court for pregame warmups for the second straight game, although he mostly watched from under the basket, did some rebounding and then took three shots from the corner.The son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has yet to make his collegiate debut after it was determined he had a congenital heart defect that was treatable and the team has not given a timetable.“It’s just cool to be back home,” said Ellis, a fifth-year senior who played at Mission Bay High before starting his college career at Memphis. “It was a great experience. I’m glad I got to play in front of my family on Thanksgiving.”Isaiah Collier scored 15 and Kobe Johns...

Un misterioso rayo cósmico que se observó en Utah vino de más allá de nuestra galaxia, dicen científicos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

(CNN) — Los científicos espaciales que intentan comprender los orígenes enigmáticos de los poderosos rayos cósmicos detectaron una partícula extremadamente rara y de energía muy alta que creen que viajó a la Tierra desde más allá de la Vía Láctea.La energía de esta partícula subatómica, invisible a simple vista, equivale a dejar caer un ladrillo sobre el dedo del pie desde la altura de la cintura, según los autores de una nueva investigación publicada este jueves en la revista Science. Esta partícula rivaliza con el rayo cósmico más energético jamás observado, la partícula “Oh-My-God”, que fue detectado en 1991, estableció el estudio.Los rayos cósmicos son partículas cargadas que viajan por el espacio y caen sobre la Tierra constantemente. Los rayos cósmicos de baja energía pueden emanar del Sol, pero los de energía extremadamente alta son excepcionales. Se cree que viajan a la Tierra desde otras galaxias y fuentes extragalácticas.Así se celebró el primer Día de Ac...

Garzon hits 5 3s, scores 23 as No. 21 Indiana beats No. 19 Lady Vols 71-57 at Fort Myers Tip-Off

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Yarden Garzon hit five 3-pointers and finished with 23 points to help No. 21 Indiana beat No. 19 Tennessee 71-57 Thursday night at the Fort Myers Tip-Off. Garzon made 9 of 20 from the field, missed one of her six 3-point shots, grabbed five rebounds and had five assists. She scored 11 points and had two assists as the Hoosiers outscored Tennessee 21-12 in the second quarter to take control of the game. Indiana (4-1) closed the first half with a 17-5 run — including three 3s by Garzon in the final three-plus minutes — to take a 33-21 lead into intermission. Sara Puckett made a basket in the paint to open the scoring in the third quarter and make it a 10-point game but Sydney Parrish answered with a 3-pointer and the Lady Vols got no closer. Puckett and Karoline Striplin each scored 13 points on 5-of-11 shooting for Tennessee (3-2). Jasmine Powell made 5 of 10 from the field and finished with 12 points. The rest of the Lady Vols combined to shoot 25% (8 of 32) ...

I-70 westbound closes at Genesee after crashes pile up on snowy road

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Westbound Interstate 70 was closed after multiple crashes on Thursday night as a snowstorm moved into Colorado.I-70 westbound was closed from Genesee to Chief Hosa, or mile points 256-253, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up for alerts from the Pinpoint Weather team The closure went into effect around 7:45 p.m. Colorado State Patrol said multiple crashes happened as winter driving conditions hit the stretch of interstate. The two left lanes of eastbound I-70 also were closed along the same stretch.A passenger vehicle traction law was in effect for U.S. 285 from C-470 to the Park County line and I-70 from Golden to the Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel.Semi trucks jackknife on I-70In one crash, a car driver lost control, according to CSP. A semi truck jackknifed to avoid the car and was broadsided by another semi.Evergreen Fire Rescue also said it was responding to multiple vehicle crashes in the area. "If you’re drivi...

Europe should offer Trump a Ukraine deal he can’t refuse

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

Joseph de Weck is the Europe director at Greenmantle. He is the author of “Emmanuel Macron. Der revolutionäre Präsident.”With United States President Joe Biden and his predecessor currently tied in the polls, Europe is waking up to the possibility that Donald Trump may well win back the White House. And preparing for another potential Trump presidency is now preoccupying European minds.As it stands, Europe’s biggest fear is that the Republican firebrand could cut U.S. support for Ukraine. Republicans in Congress are already blocking $24 billion in new Ukraine aid, and since the Hamas massacre on October 7, many in the U.S. argue that transferring scarce munitions to Kyiv could undermine Israel’s war efforts.At the same time, Europe’s leaders are under no illusion: In the short-term, Europe cannot replace the weapons, intelligence and diplomatic backing that Kyiv is receiving from the U.S.What Europe does have, though, is money — which might just be the key to convincing Republicans ...

This is the West’s war too

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

Gideon Sa’ar is a minister in the Israeli Government, a member of the Security Cabinet and chairman of the New Hope Party.In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza. It uprooted every Israeli and every community. Every Israeli grave was relocated. All soldiers were withdrawn, and military bases shuttered. Israel unilaterally withdrew to the pre-1967 border.Gaza has always been an epicenter of hate, incitement, and terrorism against Israel. Since Israel’s withdrawal, instead of choosing prosperity and peace, instead of developing Gaza into the Singapore of the Middle East, Hamas and Islamic Jihad decided to use the entity as a launching pad for their armies to wage their war against Israel.In the past decades and elsewhere in the Middle East (Lebanon, Yemen and others), Islamist terrorists have taken control and created “terror states” that operate and function completely differently from normal sovereign states.They’re not just a “terrorist organization” acting within the territory of anothe...

3 options for how to deal with your enemies: Jail, nasty names, and vomit

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.We all have different ways of coping with people we don’t like, sometimes involving measures as barbaric as slightly terse emails or frowning. Russia is rather more direct when dealing with its enemies, with falls from tall buildings and airplane-based mishaps among the favorites. This week, Russian media reported that Susana Jamaladinova, a Ukrainian of Crimean Tatar origin known professionally as Jamala, is on the country’s wanted list. The one-time Eurovision winner’s crime? Discrediting Moscow’s army. Boo!Jamala, a vocal critic of Russia’s occupation of her native Crimean peninsula and of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 with the song “1944,” which is about the deportation and ethnic cleansing of around 200,000 Crimean Tatars carried out by Soviet authorities in May 1944 — much as Taylor Swift’s “1989” is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and th...

Geert Wilders seeks coalition allies after seismic Dutch election

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:49:20 GMT

THE HAGUE — Far-right populist Geert Wilders wants to be the Netherlands’ next prime minister.His party won around 25 percent of Wednesday’s vote, becoming by far the largest in the lower house of parliament, but there are still many bridges to cross before he can form a government.Political parties are meeting on Friday with Speaker Vera Bergkamp to decide who should be the so-called scout — a senior statesman or woman who looks into possible government coalitions in the days after an election.Within a week of the election, the parliament will appoint an informateur to conduct detailed negotiations with the most likely candidates.The last government of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte took a record 299 days to coalesce; this time it could take even longer.Founded in 2006, Wilders’ PVV has finally become the largest party in parliament, and as its leader declares, can “no longer be ignored.” But while he definitely has his rivals’ attention, it’s by n...