Red-hot Devils top Hurricanes in overtime

NHL: Mattias Tedenby scored his second goal of the game 2:42 into overtime and the New Jersey Devils continued their winning ways without goalie Martin Brodeur by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Tuesday night in Newark, N.J.

Fellow rookie Nick Palmieri tied it with 2:54 to play in regulation and Johan Hedberg made 20 saves and picked up an assist on the winner in helping the Devils win for the 10th time since Jan. 9 (10-1-2).

Rookie Jeff Skinner had two goals for Carolina.Brodeur hurt his right knee in a win Sunday over Montreal and the team listed his status as day to day.

• Sharks’ Couture continues road dominance: Logan Couture set an NHL record on the way to helping San Jose top Washington.

The Sharks’ center became the first rookie to get seven winning goals on the road in a season when he broke a scoreless tie with 8:05 to play in a 2-0 win over the host Washington Capitals.

Grizzlies hand Thunder rare OT loss

NBA: Zach Randolph had 31 points and 14 rebounds, Tony Allen scored a season-high 27 while harassing NBA scoring leader Kevin Durant and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Thunder 105-101 in overtime in Oklahoma City.

Durant had 31 points and 11 rebounds, but got off just one shot in overtime and also had a key turnover in the final 20 seconds with the Thunder down by three.

The Grizzlies won despite playing without Rudy Gay who sat out with a sprained right big toe. Russell Westbrook added 21 points and 11 assists for Oklahoma City, which lost for the first time in six overtime games this season.

• James cranks up Heat in victory: LeBron James had 41 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists, Chris Bosh added 19 points and the Heat rallied from 14 points down to beat the Indiana Pacers 117-112 in Miami for their seventh straight victory.

Dwyane Wade scored 17 and Mario Chalmers added 16 for the Heat.

Roy Hibbert scored 20 points and added 10 rebounds for Indiana, which fell to 4-1 under interim coach Frank Vogel. Danny Granger scored 19 and Tyler Hansbrough added 18 for the Pacers.

• 76ers stun Hawks at home: Elton Brand scored 13 of his 17 points in the first half and Philadelphia jumped out to a 20-point lead in the opening period and cruised to a 117-83 win over the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta.

The Hawks had won 14 of their last 16 at home. All-Star center Al Horford (back) was absent for each of those losses.

• Love sets T-Wolves’ record in win: Kevin Love set a Minnesota record with his 38th consecutive double-double, scoring 20 points and grabbing 14 rebounds in the Timber- wolves’ 112-108 win over the Houston Rockets in Houston.

Love passed Kevin Garnett (2006) for the team’s double-double record. Love’s streak is now the longest since Moses Malone had 44 in a row during the 1982-83 season with Philadelphia. Utah’s John Stockton also had a 37-game streak of double-doubles in 1989.

Moore guides Huskies over Mountaineers

Women’s basketball: Maya Moore scored 27 points, including several key baskets down the stretch, and No. 2 Connecticut (23-1, 11-0 Big East) needed a second-half comeback to hold off No. 17 West Virginia 57-51 in Morgantown, W.Va.

Moore surpassed 20 points for the ninth time in 10 games.

Madina Ali led West Virginia (20-5, 6-5) with 17 points and Liz Repella added 13.

No. 14 Purdue holds off rival Indiana

Men’s basketball: E’Twaun Moore scored 25 points and JaJuan Johnson added 15 to help No. 14 Purdue (19-5, 8-3 Big Ten) pull away for a 67-53 victory over Indiana (12-13, 3-9) in West Lafayette, Ind.

Freshman Will Sheehey scored a season-high 14 points and Jordan Hulls added 13, but Indiana still dropped under the .500 mark for the first time this season.

• Wildcats spoil Pearl’s return: DeAndre Liggins tied a career high with 19 points and No. 18 Kentucky (17-6, 5-4 SEC) ruined Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl’s return to the bench with a 73-61 victory in Lexington, Ky.

Pearl had been suspended for Tennessee’s (15-9, 5-4) first eight conference games by SEC commissioner Mike Slive as punishment for lying to NCAA investigators during an ongoing probe into the school’s recruiting practices.

Decision on Cal Bears sports expected

Miscellany: A decision on whether California’s baseball team and four other programs will be saved will come Thursday.

UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof says Chancellor Robert Birgeneau will announce Thursday whether the baseball, men’s and women’s gymnastics and women’s lacrosse teams will be reinstated after a decision in September to eliminate the programs after this school year. The men’s rugby team is also hoping to avoid being reclassified as a “varsity club sport,” a new category at Cal.

Reducing the number of intercollegiate teams from 29 to 24 will save an estimated $4 million a year and affect 163 of the school’s more than 800 student-athletes, as well as 13 full-time coaches.

• Vonn ‘skiing in a fog’ at worlds: Lindsey Vonn is clearly not herself. Perhaps more worrying, the Olympic downhill champion isn’t sure when she’ll be fully recovered from her head injury.

Attempting to defend her super-G title in the opening race of the world championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Vonn finished seventh – a dismal performance given her commanding strength in this event. She was 0.84 seconds behind Austrian winner Elisabeth Goergl.

“It’s like I’m skiing in a fog,” Vonn said.

Vonn landed on her head during a spectacular fall in giant slalom training in Austria last week and pulled out of Friday’s World Cup slalom.

“It’s very frustrating because it’s not pain. I can’t just fight my way down and fight my way through the pain. I have no fight; I can’t think,” she said. “It’s awful, it’s awful.”

Vonn’s status is in sharp contrast to that of U.S. teammate Julia Mancuso, who took the silver medal. She finished a mere 0.05 seconds behind Goergl for her fourth career medal at the worlds, adding to her three Olympic medals. Maria Riesch of Germany won the bronze.

• Frontier Conference expands: Southern Oregon University and North Dakota’s Dickinson State will join the Frontier Conference at the beginning of the 2012-2013 season.

Conference Commissioner Kent Paulson said that Dickinson State will join as a full member, while Southern Oregon will join as an associate member in football.

The conference includes Carroll College as a full member that offers football, along with Lewis-Clark State in Lewiston, which does not have football.