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College hockey
Terriers rally, win title in overtime
Boston University must feel as though it got to celebrate this NCAA hockey championship twice.
Trailing by two goals with a minute left in regulation, the top-seeded Terriers stormed back to force overtime, then beat Miami (Ohio) 4-3 on a shot that went in off a RedHawks player in the extra session Saturday night in Washington.
Colby Cohen was credited with the winning goal on a slap shot that ricocheted high off sliding Miami defenseman Kevin Roeder’s leg 11:47 into OT and gave BU its fifth national hockey title – and first since 1995.
Miami led 3-1 in the third period before BU’s Nick Bonino had a goal and an assist in the closing 60 seconds, including the tying score with 17.4 seconds left off a deft pass from Hobey Baker Award winner Matt Gilroy.
Hockey
Play a lot, lose a lot
Few things in life are certain, but here is one: Play hockey long enough, and for enough bad teams, and you are going to lose a lot of games.
Eventually they pile up, and when Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Curtis Joseph lost to the Buffalo Sabres, 3-1, on Wednesday, he tied Gump Worsley for most losses in NHL history: 454.
Maple Leafs teammate Brad May, sounding like the losing is starting to have a numbing effect all around, called Joseph’s tying the record “pretty neat.”
“It’s not neat that he’s got the most losses,” May told the Associated Press, “but think about how many games he’s played.
”You know what? Cecil Fielder hit the most home runs one year, if I’m not mistaken, and he had the most strikeouts too. Wayne Gretzky had the most giveaways one year, and he had the most assists in the league.
“The bottom line is nothing ventured, nothing gained. Curtis has been an incredible goaltender.“
Joseph did his best to shrug off No. 454.
”There’s too many good things in my life for me to even think about losses,“ he said.
Basketball
PSU to name coach by Tuesday
Portland State Athletic Director Torre Chisholm says he plans to name a new men’s basketball coach to replace Ken Bone no later than Tuesday.
Vikings associate head coach Tyler Geving appears to have the inside track to replace Bone, who left to take over the program at Washington State.
But Chisolm said Friday he still was talking to candidates.
The Oregonian of Portland said Chisholm didn’t name other candidates he is interviewing.
Washington assistants Cameron Dollar and Jim Shaw also are thought to be in the short list.