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NHL
Johnson's goal gives Blues 2-1 victory over Blue Jackets
ST. LOUIS — Erik Johnson scored on a power play with 1:01 to go in overtime, keeping the St. Louis Blues' slim playoff hopes alive with a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.
Andy McDonald had a goal and an assist and Chris Mason made 27 saves for St. Louis, which has won a season-high five straight at home. The Blues are four points behind Colorado with three games to go for the final Western Conference playoff spot and need to finish ahead of the Avalanche, who swept them in the regular season.
Colorado can knock out the Blues on Tuesday night with a
victory at Vancouver.
Derick Brassard scored an early power-play goal and Mathieu Garon made 32 saves for the Blue
Jackets, who have lost three straight. A holding call on Marc Methot with 1:43 to go in overtime opened the door for the Blues, and Johnson scored his 10th of the season on a
McDonald scored his 23rd goal and second in three games on
with the late-season surge raising their record to 17-18-5.
slap shot from the point.
The Blues have been the NHL's worst at home most of the season with the late-season surge raising their record...
a break, beating Garon off a feed from David Perron to tie it midway through the second period.
T the Blues hardly appeared in desperation mode in
the first period, going nearly 13 minutes before finally registering a shot. Columbus outshot St. Louis 11-4 and took the lead on Brassard's power-play deflection.
PGA
Woods expresses many regrets
ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The most compelling and humanizing moment of Tiger Woods' 34-minute mea culpa?
It came when Woods acknowledged having missed the first birthday of his son, Charlie. That occurred Feb. 8, toward the end of his 45-day stay in rehab.
"That hurts a lot," Woods said. "I vowed never to miss another one. It was something I probably will regret for the rest of my life."
Woods spoke of his many regrets Monday during his first session with a full media contingent, calling his behavior "pretty brutal" and admonishing himself for causing "so much harm to the people I love and care about the most on the planet."
Woods opened by making two points. He said he was "blown
away" by the kindness of the Masters galleries Monday morning and apologized to his fellow PGA Tour pros for their being "bombarded" with questions about the indiscretions in his personal life.
"Hopetully after today the players can be left alone to focus on the Masters," he said.
Woods strongly denied any wrongdoing regarding treatment he received from Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, who has been charged with supplying HGH to elite athletes.
"He never gave me HGH or any PEDS," Woods said, referring to performance-enhancing drugs. "I have never taken any illegal drug, ever."
Woods said he chose Galea because Galea had worked with numerous professional athletes and that he needed treatment
following reconstructive knee surgery in June 2008. Woods also disclosed that he tore his right Achilles' tendon six months after his left ACL was repaired.
The dual injuries led Woods to engage in a process called PRP _ platelet-enriched plasma treatments. The procedure, which involves taking blood from a patient and "spinning" it to produce platelets that accelerate tissue repair, speeds the healing process
It is increasingly popular among athletes and legal on the PGA Tour.
Woods was less expansive regarding the other medical drama in his life, the SUV accident that landed him in a hospital in the early-morning hours after Thanksgiving.
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Capitals defeat Bruins 3-2
NHL
Laich's overtime goal gives Caps win over Boston
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Brooks Laich's power-play goal 44 seconds into overtime gave the Washington Capitals a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday night.
season. Alex Ovechkin finished with two assists.
The Bruins gained a point and moved into seventh place in the Eastern Conference with 85 points. Montreal is sixth with 86 points and Philadelphia is in eighth place with 84 points.
Laich's goal came 20 seconds after Boston's Dennis Wideman was called for high-sticking, and the Capitals had the four-on-three advantage.
Laich beat Boston goalie Tuukka Rask, who finished with 27 saves. It was Laich's 25th goal of the
The Capitals played their first game as winners of the Presidents'
the left point beat a screened lose Theodore. It was Wideman's fifth goal of the season.
Hope for most points in the league. They clinched home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs on Sunday night when San Jose lost in overtime to Colorado.
With 1.6 seconds left in the period, the Bruins tied the score at 1...
Boston took a 2-1 lead
Nicklas
NICKIAS
Backstrom, who also assisted on the other two Washington goals, gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead at 7:36 of the first period with his 31st goal. Backstrom took a pass from Ovechkin and his slap shot trickled past Rask. The game was delayed for five minutes while the goal was being reviewed.
With 1.6 seconds left in the period, the Bruins tied the score at 1 when Wideman's shot from
2-1 lead when Patrice Bergeron took a pass from Milan Lucic and deked Theodore out of position and guided the puck into the net. The goal at 7:55 of the second period war
Bergeron's 19th of the season. Theodore stopped 28 shots
Mike Knuble scored his 27th goal when he took a pass from Ovechkin and in a scramble, tapped it past Rusk at 19:31 to tie the game at 2. This goal was also reviewed, but the call stood.
Boston will conclude the regular season on April 11 when it returns to Washington.
MLB
Giants win opener 5-2 Lincecum's pitches help defeat Houston Astros
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HOUSTON — Tim Linceeum pitched seven scoreless innings and the San Francisco Giants beat the Houston Astros 5-2 Monday night.
The Giants got a boost from new left fielder Mark DeRosa, who scored in San Francisco's three-run second inning and added a solo homer in the eighth.
Lincecum (1-0) allowed four hits and struck out seven with no walks to shut down a Houston offense that started the season with star slugger Lance Berkman on the disabled list.
Sergio Romo allowed two hits in a scoreless eighth inning. Houston finally
Houston starter Roy Oswalt (0-1) allowed seven hits and three
runs in six innings as he extended his team record to eight straight opening day starts.
last two outs and the save.
in the second. Lincece didn't allow another hit until a single by Lee with two outs in the fourth, before retiring Geoff Blum to end the inning.
Linceum retired the first five batters before Feliz singled
About the only thing that
Brian Wilson came in for the
slowed Lincecum was the mud that got stuck in his cleats with one out in the fifth. He walked off the mound and motioned to the umpire before a Giants train-
Lincecum retired the first five batters before Feliz singled in the second.
Lincecum allowed four hits and struck out seven with no walks to shut down a Houston offense.
got on the board in the ninth when Carlos Lee singled and scored on a ground by Pedro Feliz, J.R. Towles followed with an RBI double off Brandon Medders.
er came out and handed him something, which he used to dig the chunks of mud out from in between the spikes.
He then returned to the mound and
against Linceum before the hit.
Kaz Matsui gave Houston consecutive hits for the first time in
quickly retired the next two batteries.
Houston's Michael Bourn got his first career hit against Lincecum with bullet single the pitcher had to duck to with one out in the sixth inning. Bourn was 0 for 10
the game with his single to right field. But Lincecum retired Hunter Pence and Lee to end the inning.
He pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning, striking out Feliz
and Towles.
The performance improved his record to 34.2 in 55 starts when the Giants score at least three runs.
Bengie Molina hit an RBI single in the second and John Bowker's run-scoring single pushed the lead to 2-0 and sent pitching coach Brad Arnsberg to the mound for a chat with Oswalt. Juan Uribe added one last run with his sacrifice fly to right field that scored Molina.
The Giants pushed their lead to 4-0 with Edgar Renteria's RBI double in the seventh inning off Chris Sampson.
Oswal allowed a single in each inning he pitched after the second and was helped in the third and fifth innings when Houston turned double plays.
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