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Hockey

Crosby will miss All-Star game

Sidney Crosby’s badly sprained ankle will force him to miss Sunday’s NHL All-Star game, and a number of games after that. How many still isn’t certain.

Crosby, the leading All-Star vote-getter, injured his right ankle Friday during the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-0 loss to Tampa Bay, and the preliminary diagnosis was a high ankle sprain.

Team doctors are expected to re-examine his ankle today. The ligament injury normally requires a long recovery – usually at least a month, and often longer.

The NHL has not formally announced Crosby won’t play Sunday, but the nature of the injury means Crosby is certain to be out for an extended stretch.

Colleges

Several from area take weekly honors

Adris DeLeon of Eastern Washington has been named Big Sky conference men’s basketball player of the week, sharing the honor with Dezmon Harris of Weber State.

DeLeon, a 6-foot junior guard from New York, scored a career-high 42 points in Eastern Washington’s 91-85 overtime victory over Northern Colorado on Thursday. The 42 points constituted the third-highest single-game total in Eastern Washington history.

Harris, 6 feet 1 inch and a senior guard from Texas, averaged 22 points a game and shot 66.7 percent from 3-point range as he led Weber State to victory over Montana State and Montana.

In the Pac-10, Washington’s Jon Brockman, who averaged 23.5 points and 15 rebounds in two games, was named player of the week.

In women’s basketball, Gonzaga’s Heather Bowman, who averaged 24.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in two games, was named West Coast Conference player of the week.

In track and field, Idaho’s Russ Winger and Mykael Bothum earned Western Athletic Conference men’s and women’s field athlete of the week honors.

Winger, a senior from Colorado Springs, Colo., threw the world’s fifth-best and the NCAA’s top throw of the year in the men’s shot put at the WSU Indoor Open, winning the competition with a toss of 64 feet, 2 ¼ inches.

Bothum, a sophomore from Hermiston, Ore., won the women’s shot put at the WSU meet with a throw of 49-9 ¼.