Sidney Crosby’s so-called slump is over, folks. Crosby scored his first two goals of the season, including the winner with 5:22 left in the third period, to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a wild 6-4 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. “It’s not something I was too worried about,” Crosby said.
For the Ottawa Senators, it was just a matter of time. They peppered Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist throughout the first half of the game and waited for the effort would pay off. It did, and then again, and then once more — all in a New York minute … well, in a team-record 52 seconds to be exact. Dany Heatley scored the first of Ottawa’s record-setting three goals in under a minute of the second…
The New Jersey Devils were starting to feel jinxed before pulling out a last-minute comeback win Saturday night. Imagine how the Atlanta Thrashers feel. Patrik Elias scored two goals, the second on a power play with 27 seconds left to help the Devils beat the winless Thrashers 6-5 on Saturday night. “Tonight the luck turned my way for a change,” Elias said.
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa’s drunken driving hearing was postponed until Dec. 3. La Russa did not appear in court Monday when the hearing delay was announced. He was arrested March 22 and charged with drunken driving after police said they found him asleep inside his running sport utility vehicle at a stop light near the Cardinals’ spring training facility in Jupiter.
The Colorado Rockies were one strike away from not even making the playoffs. Now, they’re one win away from their first World Series. With a cold rain falling, Josh Fogg shut down Arizona’s bats in his first postseason start and Yorvit Torrealba hit a tiebreaking three-run homer to fuel the Rockies’ 4-1 victory Sunday night in Game 3 of the NL championship series.
Buffalo Bills defensive end Anthony Hargrove pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for a fight with police outside a nightclub in August. He was fined $300 fine and must perform 200 hours of community service. Hargrove was charged with resisting arrest, criminal mischief and harassment after police said he broke an officer’s eyeglasses Aug.
Arizona outfielder Eric Byrnes’ rant against Colorado was meant to spark his team. It didn’t. And so Byrnes spent time after the Diamondbacks’ 4-1 loss in Game 3 of the NL championship series on Sunday night backtracking. “I wasn’t speaking negatively about the Rockies,” Byrnes said Sunday after the Diamondbacks fell into a 3-0 hole in the best-of-seven series.
The pitching has been good, the defense fine. The problem is, the Arizona Diamondbacks can’t get a base hit when it matters, and that has them one loss away from being swept by the steamrolling Colorado Rockies in the NL championship series. When a Diamondbacks player has hit one hard with runners in scoring position, one of those charmed Rockies makes a big defensive play.
The Colorado Rockies were one strike away from not even making the playoffs. Now, they’re one win away from their first World Series. With a cold rain falling, Josh Fogg shut down Arizona’s bats in his first postseason start and Yorvit Torrealba hit a tiebreaking three-run homer to fuel the Rockies’ 4-1 victory Sunday night in Game 3 of the NL championship series.
Reggie Bush dodged and darted and left the defense flailing. Drew Brees connected with his own teammates instead of the other team’s defenders. The New Orleans Saints looked like the good Saints again, not the ‘Aints of old, finally breaking into the win column Sunday night with a 28-17 victory over the sloppy Seattle Seahawks.
