NCAA Tournament: Ohio State edges Arizona on last-second shot

LaQuinton Ross hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 2 cheap jersey seconds to play, and Ohio State advanced to the brink of its second straight Final Four appearance with a 73-70 victory over Arizona on Thursday night in the West Regional semifinals at Staples Center.

Ross, the Buckeyes' remarkable reserve, scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half for the second-seeded Buckeyes (29-7), who rallied from an early 11-point deficit and weathered the sixth-seeded Wildcats' late charge for their 11th consecutive victory since mid-February.

Deshaun Thomas scored 20 points for Ohio State, and Aaron Craft added 13 before ceding the Buckeyes' final shot to Ross. Craft hit a similar 3-pointer against Iowa State last Sunday to send the Buckeyes forward.

Mark Lyons' acrobatic three-point play for the cheap jersey wholesale Wildcats (27-8) had tied it with 21.8 seconds left.

Craft dribbled down the clock and gave it to Ross, who coolly drilled his second 3-pointer and set off a wild celebration in the Ohio State section of the Arizona-dominated crowd.

On Saturday, Ohio State will face the winner of the late game between underdogs Wichita State and La Salle. As the only top-eight seeded team left in the West, the Buckeyes will be Atlanta-bound with one more win.

Sam Thompson added 11 points for the Buckeyes, who trailed for nearly the entire first half before pushing ahead and nursing a small lead throughout the final minutes.

Lyons scored 23 points including his gutsy three-point play for the Wildcats, who rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half before falling just short of their second NCAA regional final in four years. Solomon Hill added 16 points in his native Los Angeles, but the rest of Arizona combined for 31 points on 10-for-29 shooting.

After Arizona jumped out to that early 11-point lead, Ohio State gathered its game and mounted a 33-13 surge spanning halftime, taking a 53-43 lead with 11 minutes left. The Wildcats finally answered, but Ross kept the Buckeyes in front with nine consecutive points down the stretch.

Craft became a tournament hero last Sunday cheap NFL Nike Elite Jersey against Iowa State, hitting a last-second 3-pointer and drawing a questionable charge moments earlier in the Buckeyes' 78-75 win. Ross had his turn in the spotlight at Staples Center, and he didn't flinch.

The game was the second NCAA tournament meeting between Ohio State coach Thad Matta and Arizona's Sean Miller, whose friendship goes back two decades to their time together at Miami of Ohio and Xavier.

Despite losing to UCLA in the Pac-12 tournament semifinals to cap an inconsistent stretch of play, Arizona got a No. 6 seeding and blew out Belmont and Harvard in the NCAA tournament's first weekend, reaching the regional semifinals for the 15th time.

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Flacco threw three touchdowns to lead the Ravens to a Super Bowl victory over the San Francisco 49ers last month. The 28-year-old threw 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in the playoffs and was named Most Valuable Player.

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To save almost $16 million under the salary cap, the Atlanta Falcons released running back Michael Turner, defensive end John Abraham and cornerback Dunta Robinson.

Turner's base salary in 2013 was $6.9 million and cheap jerseys his cap figure was to be $8.9 million.

Abraham's release saves the team $5.75 million and releasing Robinson brings a $3.795 million savings.

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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson wholesale cheap jerseys and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o were honoured as the NFL and college players of the year by the Maxwell Football Club.

Teo also won the Chuck Bednarik Award as the collegiate defensive player of the year.

Charlie Joiner calls it quits after 44 NFL seasons as coach, player

Hall of Fame receiver coach Charlie Joiner has been coaching the Chargers’ receivers since 2008.  But he won’t be part of the new coaching staff.

The Chargers have announced that Joiner has retired as 44 total NFL seasons.

He played from 1969 through 1986, with the Oilers, Bengals, and Chargers.  He immediately went into coaching, working with the Chargers from 1987 through 1991, the Bills from 1992 through 2000, the Chiefs from 2001 through 2007, and the Chargers again for the last five years.

Through it all, Joiner made it to only two Super Bowls, with no victories in the championship game.

“It’s time for retirement,” Joiner said. “This is definitely a young man’s game, and it’s time for new blood, new insight and new ways of doing things. I think the players need to be introduced to those new things. It’s time in my life that, at 65, I should be doing something else.”

Joiner was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

If You Can Make It in Delaware, You'll Make It Anywhere

But let Super Bowl XLVII serve as a lesson: A world-champion starting quarterback really can come from anywhere.

San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick and Baltimore's Joe Flacco both went to nontraditional football schools that are light years away from the microscope of the BCS. Kaepernick went to Nevada, where he led the Wolf Pack to a win against then-unbeaten Boise State in 2010. Flacco, meanwhile, came from Delaware, transferring to the Football Championship Subdivision from Pittsburgh. The matchup represents a major departure from last year's Tom Brady-Eli Manning battle, which pitted quarterbacks from the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference.

Nevada has produced a total of 52 NFL players. Delaware has produced 23, for a total of 75. There has never been a Super Bowl where the two starting quarterbacks came from colleges that had fewer NFL alumni.

The Flacco-Kaepernick battle most resembles Super Bowl XXXIV, when the Rams' Kurt Warner (Northern Iowa) beat the Titans' Steve McNair (Alcorn State). Those two schools combined for 81 NFL alumni. That game marked the only time two quarterbacks from non-FBS schools opposed each other in a Super Bowl.

Another strong 4th quarter carries Nets

For the second straight game, the Nets found themselves tied going into the fourth quarter. And, for the second straight game, the Nets wholesale nfl jersey shut down their opponents in the fourth, and came away with a 98-85 victory over Portland at Barclays Center heading into tonight’s showdown in Brooklyn against the Knicks.

“It goes to show that when it comes time to buckle down and get stops, we can make something happen,” said Joe Johnson, who finished with a game-high 21 points and added four assists. “We just have to try to do that in the first three quarters, and not just in the fourth.”

Like they did in Friday’s win over NBA Jerseys Wholesale the Clippers, the Nets (8-4) dominated the Trail Blazers in the fourth, outscoring Portland 28-15, holding the Blazers to 6-for-14 shooting and forcing them to commit seven turnovers.

But the Nets also got the job done offensively late, shooting 50 percent in the fourth and picking up assists on nine of their 11 made baskets while committing just two turnovers.

The offensive effort, in particular, was spearheaded by Deron Williams, who hit his only shot of the quarter — a 3-pointer off an assist from Johnson with 2:36 remaining that gave the Nets a 92-80 lead — and also dished out four assists while not committing a turnover.

Williams finished with 15 points, 12 assists and a career-high four blocked shots going up against Blazers rookie point Cheap Chicago Blackhawks Jerseys guard Damian Lillard — whom Portland took with the sixth pick in the draft, a pick they acquired from the Nets in exchange for Gerald Wallace at the trade deadline in March.

“It’s great to have the weapons, to have the options out there on the floor,” Williams said. “The floor is so much more spread out. We’re getting better at spreading the floor, and it’s just easier to operate out there.”

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