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COLLEGEMEN'S BASKETBALL Nebraska vs. Ohio State:4 p.m., ESPN. Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee: 4 p.m., ESPN2. Big South Wild Card High Point vs. UNC-Ash.: 4p.m., ESPNU. Delaware vs. Drexel: 4p.m., CSN. UT at El Paso vs. Louisiana Tech: 5p.m., FS1. Arizona vs. Colorado: 6p.m., ESPN. SMU vs. Memphis: 6p.m., ESPN2. Rutgers vs. Purdue: 6p.m., ESPNU. BYU vs. Portland: 7p.m., CSN. Arizona State vs. Utah: 7:30 p.m., FS1. St. Mary vs. San Francisco: 8 p.m., CSNBA. San Diego vs. Gonzaga: 8p.m., ESPN2. Oregon State vs. Stanford: 8 p.m., PAC-12. COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Stanford vs. Oregon State: 6 p.m.,PAC-12. NBA BASKETBALL Golden State Warriors at Cleveland Cavaliers: 5p.m., TNT. Oklahoma City Thunder at Phoenix Suns: 7:30p.m., TNT. GOLF PGA The Honda Classic Round 1: 11a.m., GOLF. LPGA Honda Thailand Round 2: 10p.m., GOLF. EPGA Joburg Open Round 2: 4a.m., GOLF. NHL HOCKEY Minnesota Wild at Nashville Predators: 5:30p.m., NBCSN. Detroit Red Wings at San Jose Sharks: 7:30p.m., CSN. SOCCER UEFA Europa League Liver- pool vs. Besiktas Round of 32 Leg 2: 10a.m., FS1. UEFA Europa League BSC Young Boys vs. Everton Round of 32Leg 2: noon, FS1. TENNIS ATP Mexican Open Quarterfi- nal: 1p.m., TENNIS. ATP Mexican Open Quarterfi- nal: 3p.m., TENNIS. ATP Mexican Open Quarterfi- nal: 6:30p.m., TENNIS. ATP Mexican Open Quarterfi- nal: 8:30p.m., TENNIS. COLLEGE WOMEN'S WATER POLO S. Clara vs. Stanford: 3:30 p.m., PAC-12. Ontheair a chance to become only the sixth player to capture the career Grand Slam. Like other players, the 25-year-old will venture up to Augusta to practice in the coming month. The real preparation is to play good golf, and to allow that confidence to become mo- mentum that he can carry to the first major of the year. "People talk about mo- mentum and talk about sort of riding it, but I think momentum and con- fidence are two very simi- lar things in golf," McIlroy said. "If you're confident and you've had good per- formances, that confidence seems to carry on. And if you're happy with how practice goes, then you're obviously going to be con- fident going into tourna- ments. So that's sort of how I'm feeling right now. And try to keep that feeling for as long as I can." It seems like it's been a long time already. McIlroy still isn't any- where near the roll Woods enjoyed during his peak years. Going into the 2000 Masters, for example, Woods won 11 times in 19 starts and only twice fin- ished out of the top 10. No one was close to him. In his last 12 starts worldwide dating to the British Open, McIlroy has four victories (including back-to-back majors and a World Golf Champion- ship), four runner-up fin- ishes and has finished out of the top 10 two times. In his last six tourna- ments, he has finished no worse than second place in all but one tournament, the Australian Open. So yes, he's going along quite nicely. The obstacle at the Honda Classic might be rust. McIlroy hasn't played since winning the Dubai Desert Classic on Feb. 1. He got past one potential distraction when he settled a court case involving his former management com- pany. He has been home in south Florida the last three weeks, practicing and play- ing and trying to stay on this roll during an impor- tant part of the season. McIlroy won the Honda Classic in 2012, the first time he rose to No. 1 in the world. A year ago, he was poised to win again until he stumbled on the back nine at PGA National, only to hit 5-wood into 10 feet on the final hole for a two- putt birdie to get into a four-man playoff. Russell Henley won on the first ex- tra hole. McIlroy didn't re- ally get going until a few months later, but he's been tough to beat ever since. "He's the best player in the world," Rickie Fowler said. "And when he's driv- ing the ball well, that's when he's deadliest. So he did a good job of putting himself in play last year and obviously hits longer than a lot of guys, too." Woods isn't around. He said two weeks ago he wouldn't return to compe- tition until his game was in tournament shape. So far, that's just one tourna- ment — the Honda Clas- sic — though the attention on the absence of Woods is sure to ratchet up if he misses Bay Hill. McIlroy is mixing up his schedule slightly this year. He'll be at the WGC event next week at Doral and then play the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill for the first time, mak- ing it likely he will have two weeks off for Augusta. The Masters, at the mo- ment, is not on his mind. "I feel like I've got a nice schedule going into Au- gusta," McIlroy said. "I'm not playing too much, but I'm playing just enough that I should be as sharp as possible going in there. I haven't thought about it. What I really thought about over the past couple of weeks is getting ready for these events coming up, and trying to play as well as I possibly can in those. So that gives me a little confidence going into a lit- tle break to prepare as well as I can for Augusta." McIlroy FROM PAGE 1 the field, this was the hope here," Clark said. "With the batter's box rule, with the in-between innings timing, with the pitching change timing, we're sim- ply hopeful that those ad- justments have some affect on the length of the game but do so without signifi- cantly changing the way the guys play, prepare, do what they need to do." Players agreed to time limits for between-in- nings breaks and pitching changes, and a require- ment batters keep one foot in the box in many in- stances. But the only pen- alties will be warnings and fines, not balls and strikes, and the fines won't start until May 1. "The biggest thing was they were trying to explain the rules of the pace of play, just clarifying what's going on with it," pitcher and Gi- ants player rep Matt Cain said after Clark spoke with the team. "He did a great job of simplifying things." Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has strong feel- ings about the new rules and doesn't plan to alter his approach — even if it means he will be regularly fined. He steps out of the box to try to gain a men- tal edge. The rule requiring hit- ters to keep a foot in the box contains many excep- tions, including swinging at a pitch, getting forced out by a pitch, calling time, faking a bunt, and wild pitches and passed balls. "Well, I might run out of money. Period," Ortiz said Wednesday. "I'm not going to change my game. I don't care what they say." The AFL experiment in- cluded a 20-second clock between pitches, a limi- tation of pitcher's mound conferences involving catchers and managers, and no-pitch intentional walks. "I think it's great that they had a 16-game exper- iment in the Arizona Fall League, but that is not re- flective of a major league game during the season," Clark said. Union FROM PAGE 1 subsequently surprised her and took her for pizza. Now Amelia is consider- ing changing her team loy- alties. "That was very cool," said Lawrie. "Just watching the video, you could see she was sincere about everything. Just to see how much she cared, it definitely showed me something. That's the thing about this game, you never know who's watching. You never know who's look- ing up to you." The A's hope Lawrie can win their own fans over. They are banking that the oft-injured third baseman can finally put together a full season by getting off artificial turf. He smacked 12 homers in just 70 games and 282 plate appearances last year, and his all- around athleticism sug- gests he can be a multi-di- mensional star. "You watch him work out athletically, and I don't think you'll find too many better athletes in the game of baseball," said manager Bob Melvin. "He's fast, he's a good defender, he has power. You look for some of the reports and fore- casts for him earlier in his career to be one of the pre- mier players, but really it's been injuries that have set him back." Lawrie, 25, has been on the disabled list six times during his four years in the majors. Last year he missed 36 games with a broken finger and the fi- nal 48 games of the season with a left oblique strain. The A's new third base- man yearns to show his true potential, but he avoids the Donaldson dia- logue and any comparisons that come with it. "I'm just going to go out and play baseball, do what Brett Lawrie does," he said. "I'm going to play some good third base and try to knock guys in when I get the opportunity. You're not going to do that every time, so there's no sense in pressing." As for the hyperactive juice he brings to the ball- park and life in general, he claimed he can be a laid- back guy away from the ballpark. He countered that, though, by noting he loves chipping golf balls into his swimming pool in his spare time. "I'm pretty easygoing, man. I mean, my leg's do- ing that (bouncing), but it's an athlete thing," he said. "I have energy. I've always been an uplifted player, I've always been a wiry type of player, and I always like to bring the spirits of my teammates up a little bit. If I can get all 24 other guys going, everybody else is go- ing to be a lot better for it." Josh Reddick, one of the A's players closest to Don- aldson when he was here, learned a bit about Law- rie during the off-season when they spent a day film- ing commercials for the up- coming year. "It was just me and him the whole day, so we shot and then we talked about everything," Reddick said. "Brett's very high energy. But sometimes you need that guy to pick you up when you're not doing so hot. He might have gone 0 for 4 the previous night, but he still comes into the clubhouse the next day the same positive guy. He should fit in well here." • The A's held their first full-squad workout, and before that, their first team meeting. Melvin said owner Lew Wolff spoke to the players and was intro- duced with his own walk- up song — "Louie, Louie." The new players also got their first dose of Stephen Vogt's non-baseball talents. Vogt read off a list of new MLB rules while doing his spot-on impression of the late comedian Chris Farley. Athletics FROM PAGE 1 Scoreboard Basketball NBA WESTERNCONFERENCE PacificDivision W L Pct GB GoldenState 44 10 .815 — Clippers 37 21 .638 9 Phoenix 30 28 .517 16 Sacramento 19 35 .352 25 Lakers 15 41 .268 30 SouthwestDivision W L Pct GB Memphis 41 14 .745 — Houston 39 18 .684 3 Dallas 39 21 .650 4½ San Antonio 34 22 .607 7½ New Orleans 30 27 .526 12 NorthwestDivision W L Pct GB Portland 36 19 .655 — Oklahoma City 32 25 .561 5 Utah 21 35 .375 15½ Denver 20 37 .351 17 Minnesota 13 43 .232 23½ EASTERNCONFERENCE AtlanticDivision W L Pct GB Toronto 37 20 .649 — Brooklyn 23 32 .418 13 Boston 22 33 .400 14 Philadelphia 12 45 .211 25 New York 10 46 .179 26½ SoutheastDivision W L Pct GB Atlanta 45 12 .789 — Washington 33 25 .569 12½ Miami 25 31 .446 19½ Charlotte 23 32 .418 21 Orlando 19 40 .322 27 CentralDivision W L Pct GB Cleveland 36 22 .621 — Chicago 36 22 .621 — Milwaukee 32 25 .561 3½ Detroit 23 34 .404 12½ Indiana 23 34 .404 12½ Tuesday'sgames Golden State 114, Washington 107 Cleveland 102, Detroit 93 Oklahoma City 105, Indiana 92 Dallas 99, Toronto 92 Wednesday'sgames Miami 93, Orlando 90, OT Atlanta 104, Dallas 87 Boston 115, New York 94 New Orleans 102, Brooklyn 96 Charlotte 98, Chicago 86 Milwaukee 104, Philadelphia 88 Minnesota 97, Washington 77 Houston 110, Clippers 105 Phoenix 110, Denver 96 Lakers 100, Utah 97 Memphis at Sacramento, (n.) San Antonio at Portland, (n.) Thursday'sgames Golden State at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Oklahoma City at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m. Friday'sgames Washington at Philadelphia, 4 p.m. Cleveland at Indiana, 4 p.m. Orlando at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m. Golden State at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. New York at Detroit, 4:30 p.m. Charlotte at Boston, 4:30 p.m. Miami at New Orleans, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 5 p.m. Brooklyn at Houston, 5 p.m. Clippers at Memphis, 5 p.m. Utah at Denver, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Sacramento, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Lakers, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Portland, 7:30 p.m. NCAAMEN'STOP25 Wednesday 1. Kentucky (28-0) beat Mississippi State 74-56. 2. Virginia (26-1) beat Wake Forest 70-34. 3. Gonzaga (28-1) did not play. 4. Duke (25-3) beat Virginia Tech 91-86, OT. 5. Wisconsin (25-3) did not play. 6. Villanova (26-2) did not play. 7. Arizona (24-3) did not play. 8. Kansas (22-6) did not play. 9. Notre Dame (24-5) did not play. lost to Syracuse 65-60; 10. Northern Iowa (27-2) beat Evansville 68-57. 11. Wichita State (26-3) beat Indiana State 63-53. 12. Iowa State (20-7) lost to No. 19 Baylor 79-70. 13. Utah (21-5) did not play. 14. Maryland (23-5) did not play. 15. North Carolina (19-9) did not play. 16. Oklahoma (19-8) did not play. 17. Louisville (22-6) did not play. 18. Arkansas (23-5) did not play. 19. Baylor (21-7) beat No. 12 Iowa State 79-70. 20. West Virginia (22-6) did not play. 21. SMU (22-5) did not play. 22. VCU (21-7) lost to Richmond 67-63, 2OT. 23. Butler (20-8) beat Marquette 73-52. 24. San Diego State (22-6) did not play. 25. Providence (19-9) did not play. NCAAWOMEN'STOP25 Wednesday 1. UConn (27-1) did not play. 2. South Carolina (26-1) did not play. 3. Baylor (26-2) lost to Oklahoma 68-64. 4. Notre Dame (26-2) did not play. 5. Maryland (25-2) did not play. 6. Tennessee (23-4) did not play. 7. Oregon State (25-2) did not play. 8. Louisville (23-4) did not play. 9. Florida State (25-3) did not play. 10. Arizona State (24-4) did not play. 11. Mississippi State (25-4) did not play. 12. Texas A&M (22-6) did not play. 13. Kentucky (19-8) did not play. 14. Princeton (25-0) did not play. 15. North Carolina (22-6) did not play. 16. Duke (19-8) did not play. 17. Iowa (21-6) did not play. 18. Chattanooga (25-3) did not play. 19. Stanford (20-8) did not play. 20. Rutgers (20-7) did not play. 21. Florida Gulf Coast (26-2) beat North Florida 56-24. 22. George Washington (24-3) did not play. 23. Syracuse (20-8) did not play. 24. California (21-7) did not play. 25. Northwestern (21-6) did not play. NCAAWOMEN'SFARWEST New Mexico 63, Boise St. 50 NHL WESTERNCONFERENCE PACIFICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 61 38 16 7 83 182 171 Vancouver 60 35 22 3 73 171 156 Los Angeles 59 29 18 12 70 162 152 Calgary 61 33 24 4 70 174 158 San Jose 61 30 23 8 68 171 174 Arizona 61 20 34 7 47 134 206 Edmonton 62 18 34 10 46 142 206 CENTRALDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 61 41 13 7 89 186 143 St. Louis 60 38 18 4 80 188 151 Chicago 61 36 20 5 77 180 146 Winnipeg 62 31 20 11 73 173 168 Minnesota 60 31 22 7 69 169 158 Dallas 61 27 25 9 63 191 202 Colorado 61 26 24 11 63 161 175 EASTERNCONFERENCE ATLANTICDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 60 39 16 5 83 162 133 Tampa Bay 62 37 19 6 80 203 167 Detroit 59 33 15 11 77 173 154 Boston 60 29 22 9 67 158 158 Florida 60 26 21 13 65 145 169 Ottawa 57 24 23 10 58 163 161 Toronto 60 24 31 5 53 167 183 Buffalo 61 18 38 5 41 114 204 METROPOLITANDIVISION GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Islanders 62 40 20 2 82 200 173 N.Y. Rangers 59 37 16 6 80 186 145 Pittsburgh 61 35 17 9 79 176 152 Washington 62 33 19 10 76 184 156 Philadelphia 61 26 24 11 63 162 178 New Jersey 61 25 27 9 59 137 161 Columbus 59 26 29 4 56 155 184 Carolina 59 22 30 7 51 134 159 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Tuesday'sgames Chicago 3, Florida 2, SO Vancouver 2, Boston 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Arizona 1 N.Y. Rangers 1, Calgary 0 Carolina 4, Philadelphia 1 Buffalo 4, Columbus 2 Montreal 5, St. Louis 2 Nashville 5, Colorado 2 Edmonton 2, Minnesota 1 Winnipeg 4, Dallas 2 Los Angeles 1, Detroit 0 Wednesday'sgames Calgary 3, New Jersey 1 Pittsburgh 4, Washington 3 Ottawa at Anaheim, (n.) Thursday'sgames Vancouver at Buffalo, 4 p.m. Arizona at N.Y. Rangers, 4 p.m. Montreal at Columbus, 4 p.m. Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:30 p.m. Chicago at Florida, 4:30 p.m. St. Louis at Winnipeg, 5 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 5:30 p.m. Ottawa at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Detroit at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Friday'sgames Boston at New Jersey, 4 p.m. Calgary at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 4 p.m. Chicago at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. Colorado at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Anaheim, 7 p.m. Tennis ATPWORLDTOURDUBAIDUTY FREECHAMPIONSHIPRESULTS Wednesday At Dubai Tennis Stadium Dubai, United Arab Emirates Purse: $2.5 million (WT500) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles SecondRound Andy Murray (3), Britain, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-0, 6-2. Richard Gasquet, France, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (7), Spain, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6). Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Borna Coric, Croatia, vs. Marcos Bagh- datis, Cyprus, 6-4, 3-6, 6-6, retired. Tomas Berdych (4), Czech Republic, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, 7-6 (7), 5-7, 6-0. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-2. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, def. Feliciano Lopez (6), Spain, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-4, 6-3. Doubles FirstRound Jamie Murray, Britain, and John Peers, Australia, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa and Leander Paes, India, 2-6, 6-4, 10-8. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and Nenad Zimonjic, Serbia, def. Vasek Pospisil, Canada, and Edouard Roger- Vasselin (3), France, 6-2, 6-3. Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, and Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-2, 6-2. ABIERTOMEXICANOTELCEL RESULTS Wednesday At The Fairmont Acapulco Princess Acapulco, Mexico Purse: Men, $1.55 million (WT500) Women, $250,000 (Intl.) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles MEN SecondRound Alexandr Dolgopolov (5), Ukraine, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 6-2, 6-3. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, def. Santiago Giraldo (7), Colombia, 6-3, 6-4. Ryan Harrison, United States, def. Grigor Dimitrov (3), Bulgaria, 7-5, 4-6, 6-0. Kevin Anderson (4), South Africa, def. Steve Johnson, United States, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Bernard Tomic, Australia, def. Benjamin Becker (8), Germany, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. WOMEN SecondRound Magdalena Rybarikova, Slovakia, def. Elena Bogdan, Romania, 6-0, 6-2. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def. Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor, Spain, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-5. Maria Sharapova (1), Russia, def. Mari- ana Duque-Marino, Colombia, 6-1, 6-2. Johanna Larsson, Sweden, def. Aleksan- dra Krunic, Serbia, 6-1, 6-2. Doubles MEN FirstRound Dustin Brown and Tobias Kamke, Ger- many, def. Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram, United States, 6-2, 3-6, 10-8. WOMEN FirstRound Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith, Britain, def. Carolina Betancourt and Adriana Guzman, Mexico, 6-0, 6-3. WTAQATARTOTALOPEN RESULTS Wednesday At The Khalifa Tennis Complex Doha, Qatar Purse: $731,000 (Premier) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles SecondRound Agnieska Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Flavia Pennetta, Italy, 6-1, 6-1. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Ekaterina Makarova (5), Russia, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3. Petra Kvitova (1), Czech Republic, def. Je le na J an ko vic , S er bi a, 6 -3 , 1 -1 , r et ir ed . Caroline Wozniacki (3), Denmark, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 6-1, 3-0, retired. Andrea Petkovic (6), Germany, def. Za- rina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. Carla Suarez Navarro (9), Spain, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 7-6 (2), 6-4. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, def. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-1. Doubles FirstRound Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Czech Re- public, def. Julia Goerges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Germany, 6-1, 6-4. Quarterfinals Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Rus- sia, and Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia, 6-3, 3-6, 13-11. ATPWORLDTOURARGENTINA OPENRESULTS Wednesday At Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club Buenos Aires, Argentina Purse: $573,750 (WT250) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles SecondRound Federico Delbonis, Argentina, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-4, 6-2. Pablo Cuevas (3), Uruguay, def. Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, 7-6 (4), 6-1. Juan Monaco, Argentina, def. Leonardo Mayer (5), Argentina, 6-4, 6-4. Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Facundo Arguello, Argentina, 6-4, 6-0. Doubles FirstRound Carlos Berlocq and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def. Stephane Robert, France, and Blaz Rola, Slovenia, 6-1, 7-5. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, and Fabio Fognini, Italy, def. Johan Brunstrom, Sweden, and Nicholas Monroe (3), United States, 6-4, 6-3. Pablo Andujar, Spain, and Olivier Marach, Austria, def. Guillermo Duran, Argentina, and Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-4, 7-5. Thomaz Bellucci and Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, def. Gero Kretschmer and Alexan- der Satschko, Germany, 6-4, 1-6, 10-3. Odds GLANTZ-CULVERLINE For Feb. 26 NCAABasketball Favorite Line Underdog Northeastern 5 at Elon at Michigan St. 8½ Minnesota at Ohio St. 13 Nebraska at Tennessee 1 Vanderbilt at Wright St. 1½ Milwaukee at Drexel 2½ Delaware at Temple 15 Houston Georgia South. 4 at Appalachian St. UTSA 4 at Southern Miss. Old Dominion 7 at Rice at W. Kentucky 11 FAU at Marshall 4 FIU La.-Monroe 1½ at South Alabama at Loui. Tech 5 UTEP Green Bay 9 at Ill.-Chicago Charlotte 2½ at North Texas Texas-Arlington 2 at Arkansas St. Georgia St. 6½ at UALR at Texas St. 7½ Troy at Purdue 14 Rutgers SMU 1½ at Memphis Arizona 10 at Colorado BYU 4 at Portland at CS North. 5 Cal St.-Fullerton UC Irvine 1 at Cal Poly at Santa Clara 5½ Pacific at UCSB 4½ UC Davis at Utah 13 Arizona St. at Stanford 9 Oregon St. at Gonzaga 20 San Diego Saint Mary's 1½ at San Francisco at Hawaii 2½ Long Beach St. ETSU 5½ at The Citadel Chattanooga 3 at VMI at Mercer Pk Wofford W. Carolina 1½ at Furman at I UP UI 7 W . I lli no is at UNC Greens. 2 Samford at E. Kentucky 13½ Jacksonville St. at IPFW 10 Nebraska-Omaha at Austin Peay Pk SIU-Edwardsville at Oral Roberts 3 N. Dakota St. N. Arizona 3 at North Dakota at Monm. (NJ) 3 Rider at Murray St. 13½ E. Illinois UT-Martin 7 at Tennessee St. at Morehead St. 8 Tennessee Tech at N. Colorado 8½ S. Utah at E. Wash. 14 Montana St. at Idaho 1 Montana NBA Favorite Line(O/U) Underdog at Cleveland 3 (215½) Golden State Oklahoma City 4 (217½) at Phoenix NHL Favorite Line Underdog Montreal -145/+125 at Columbus Vancouver -220/+180 at Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers -280/+230 Arizona Chicago -135/+115 at Florida Philadelphia -125/+105 at Toronto St. Louis -135/+115 at Winnipeg at Nashville -150/+130 Minnesota at San Jose -130/+110 Detroit at Los Angeles -250/+210 Ottawa Transactions BASEBALL AmericanLeague BaltimoreOrioles: Agreed to terms with SS Everth Cabrera on a one-year contract. Designated OF Alex Hassan for assignment. KansasCityRoyals: Agreed to terms with C Erik Kratz, INFs Cheslor Cuthbert and Ryan Jackson, Ofs Lane Adams and Jorge Bonifacio, RHPs Aaron Brooks and Michael Mariot and LHPs Brandon Finnegan, Brian Flynn and John Lamb on one-year contracts. NationalLeague LosAngelesDodgers: Agreed to terms with RHP Chad Gaudin on a minor league contract. AmericanAssociation AmarilloThunderheads: Traded OF Johnny Bladel to Sussex County (Can- Am) for future considerations. SiouxCityExplorers: Signed INF Brock Kjeldgaard. FOOTBALL NationalFootballLeague AtlantaFalcons: Signed PK Matt Bryant to a contract extension. BaltimoreRavens: Terminated the contract of Wr/Kr Jacoby Jones. ChicagoBears: Signed CB Demontre Hurst to a two-year contract extension. DetroitLions: Released RB Reggie Bush. GreenBayPackers: Released LB A.J. Hawk. NewOrleansSaints: Named Fitz Ollison senior director of football communica- tions. NewYorkGiants: Released RB Peyton Hillis. WashingtonRedskins: Signed WR Nick Williams. HO CK EY NationalHockeyLeague NHL: Fined Buffalo G Michal Neuvirth $2,000 for diving/embellishment. ArizonaCoyotes: Recalled F Henrik Samuelsson from Portland (AHL). As- signed F Jordan Martinook to Portland. CarolinaHurricanes: Traded F Jiri Tlusty to Winnipeg for a conditional 2015 sixth- round draft pick and a 2016 third-round draft pick. ChicagoBlackhawks: Recalled F Teuvo Teravainen from Rockford (AHL). Assigned D Trevor van Riemsdyk to Rockford. Placed F Patrick Kane on injured reserve. ColumbusBlueJackets: Recalled G Oscar Dansk from Springfield (AHL). As- signed G Anton Forsberg to Springfield. FloridaPanthers: Assigned F Steven Hodges from San Antonio (AHL) to Cincinnati (ECHL). LosAngelesKings: Signed F Kyle Clif- ford to a five-year contract extension. Traded D Ronald McKeown and a first- round draft pick to Carolina for D Andrej Sekera. MinnesotaWild: Named Matthew Hulsizer vice chairman of the board of directors. Announced Philip Falcone is vacating his minority ownership stake. MontrealCanadiens: Reassigned D Dalton Thrower from Brampton (ECHL) to Hamilton (AHL). NewYorkRangers: Reassigned F Oscar Lindberg to Hartford (AHL). St.LouisBlues: Assigned F Niklas Lund- strom from Chicago (AHL) to Alaska (ECHL). TampaBayLightning: Assigned D Artem Sergeev from Syracuse (AHL) to Florida (ECHL). TorontoMapleLeafs: Traded F Daniel Winnick to Pittsburgh for F Zach Sill, a 2015 fourth-round draft pick and a 2016 second-round pick. WinnipegJets: Placed F Blake Wheeler on injured reserve. SOCCER MajorLeagueSoccer D.C.United: Signed G Travis Worra. SportingKansasCity: Signed F James Ansu Rogers. COLLEGE Baylor: Announced RB Silas Nacita is no longer on the football team. Arkansas: Named Jemal Singleton running backs coach and special teams coordinator. | SPORTS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015 2 B