Johnson stays on track during late caution, wins at Kansas (Yahoo Sports)
Jimmie Johnson pulled into victory lane after his late-race gamble paid off to win the rain-delayed Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway, then pulled out his cellphone and tried to dial his wife in the first few minutes of Mother’s Day. Johnson, so dominant on mile-and-a-half tracks, held off Kevin Harvick as the clock struck midnight heading into Sunday. They were chased across the line by Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammates
Kyrie Irving is limping. Chris Paul is limited. Health will surely factor into the Game 4s today’s schedule, when Cleveland visits Chicago and Houston visits the Los Angeles Clippers – with the Cavaliers and Rockets trying to avoid 3-1 deficits. The Cavs revealed after Chicago’s win Game 3 that Irving has been playing through a sore foot since the first-round series against Boston.
Steve Kerr says his Golden State Warriors are going through a learning process as a very young team. The Memphis Grizzlies are using their hefty postseason experience to make the lesson as painful as possible. Zach Randolph scored 22 points and Marc Gasol added 21 points and 15 rebounds as the Grizzlies beat the Warriors 99-89 on Saturday night to take a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference semifinal. ”This
Another prized pick from last weekend’s NFL draft is expected to miss the season after suffering a major knee injury at a rookie minicamp. The tight end from Ohio State tore his left anterior cruciate ligament at a special teams practice Saturday afternoon and had to be carted off the field. Heuerman’s injury came 24 hours after Jaguars first-rounder Dante Fowler Jr., was lost for the season with a torn
Devante Smith-Pelly and Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau found the openings they needed to help keep the Montreal Canadiens’ playoff hopes alive. Smith-Pelly got Montreal started and Parenteau scored the winner with 4:07 left in a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series. ”I hope they showed the replay of the bench, the boys were so fired up,” forward Max Pacioretty
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW/DONETSK (Reuters) – Some Russian soldiers are quitting the army because of the conflict in Ukraine, several soldiers and human rights activists have told Reuters. Their accounts call into question the Kremlin’s continued assertions that no Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine, and that any Russians fighting alongside rebels there are volunteers. Evidence for Russians fighting in Ukraine – Russian army equipment found in the country,
By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday that the peace process in eastern Ukraine was progressing despite difficulties. Merkel reaffirmed her support for the peace efforts and repeated her calls to Putin to use his influence with pro-Russian separatists battling Kiev government forces to end a conflict in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since
By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf CAIRO/ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s dominant Houthi group accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by its adversary Saudi Arabia but said it would respond to any violations of the pause. Neighboring Saudi Arabia had said on Friday that the ceasefire could begin on Tuesday if the Iranian-allied militia agreed to the pause, which would let in badly needed food and medical supplies. Backed
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – David Cameron can thank Britain’s winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. By Sunday morning, 100,000 people had signed a petition launched by the society and another campaign group, Unlock Democracy, that states: “The 2015 general election has shown once and for all that our voting system is broken beyond repair.” It urges
A gunman killed three relatives and a neighbor in a late-night rampage in a Swiss village before turning his weapon on himself, local police said on Sunday. The presumed killer, a 36-year-old Swiss national who was separated from his wife and the couple’s three children, shot dead his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, police told a news conference.
