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HOCKEY

Russia wins world title

Ilya Kovalchuk scored his second goal of the game in overtime, giving Russia its first world hockey title since 1993 with a 5-4 win Sunday over Canada at Quebec City.

Canada took a 4-2 lead into the third period, but couldn’t hold off the Russians. Alexei Tereshchenko and Kovalchuk scored to tie it, setting the stage for the overtime winner.

“Right now we are the champions of the world and it feels so great,” Alex Ovechkin said. “It’s really special to win here because this is hockey and it’s a hockey-mad country.

“It just feels wonderful. It feels so great.”

The world championship hasn’t been won by the host country since the Soviet Union in 1986. Canada won the title last year in Moscow.

The loss also ended a 17-game winning streak for Canada dating to last year’s gold medal win.

Basketball

Here’s a church for you, Mom

Dwyane Wade sat in the first pew Sunday afternoon, looked at his mother, and simply couldn’t hide his emotions.

She had made him cry often before. This time, it was different.

“This is tears of joy,” he said, beaming. “Tears of joy for my mother.”

Before she was known as the mother of the Miami Heat superstar and 2006 NBA finals MVP, Jolinda Wade was known as an inmate, a fugitive, a drug user and drug seller. Her life turned around seven years ago when, after years of urging by her children, she got help and got clean. Along the way, she devoted her life to spreading the word of God, starting her first ministry while doing time in state prison.

Now, that ministry has a new home, called the Temple of Praise.

Jolinda Wade’s very own church.

Her son bought it, and her children and her congregation gathered to dedicate it Sunday in Chicago.

Football

Tressels give to alma mater

Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel is helping Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, kick off a $2 million renovation at the private college’s stadium, where Tressel’s father coached football for 23 years.

Tressel and his two brothers – all alumni of the college in suburban Cleveland – donated an unspecified amount to pay for the replacement of the stadium’s artificial turf. All three attended Saturday’s groundbreaking ceremony at The George Finnie Stadium.

Lee Tressel, coach at Baldwin-Wallace from 1958-80, amassed a 155-52-6 record, won the Division III national championship in 1978.