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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Kobe Bryant hit a baseline jump shot with 4.2 seconds left and the Los Angeles Lakers wrapped up a six-game road trip by holding on to beat the Raptors 94-92 on Sunday, their eighth victory in nine meetings with Toronto
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Zambia has won the African Cup of Nations, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a dramatic final at Stade de l'Amitie.
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AP“They gave it their best shot to win this thing,” Martin said. “We had an awesome car.”
Rookie Busch and Wallace also passed Martin, who’s fourth in the points, 21 back.
Newman led the first 30 laps, but faded badly before recovering to finish fifth and stand third, 12 points behind the leader.
Just before the halfway mark, Roush Racing topped the scoreboard with Biffle, Kurt Busch, Martin and Matt Kenseth running 1-2-3-4. There has never been such a finish of teammates in NASCAR history.
Johnson was glad to see them fall behind.
“I don’t know what happened to them,” he said. “I was glad to have Kyle behind me, but to be honest I sort of forgot about him being a teammate there at the end.”
Johnson, who started fifth in a field of 43, led 134 of 404 laps in the $5 million race. His Chevrolet beat that of Busch by 0.080 seconds in a race extended for a green-white-checker finish after Joe Nemechek wrecked on lap 398.
Finishing third on the high-banked concrete oval was Wallace in a Dodge, followed by the Ford of Martin and Newman’s Dodge.
“I’m having better runs than I’ve had in a long time,” said the retiring Wallace, honored by the track before the race. “I want to go out on top of my game, and I’m doing that right now.”
The winner averaged 115.054 mph in a race slowed 11 times by 50 laps of caution. There were 15 lead changes among seven drivers.
Completing the top 10 were Elliott Sadler, Jeremy Mayfield, Kyle Petty, Carl Edwards and Casey Mears.
Kurt Busch, the reigning series champion, led 192 laps, but cut a tire and finished 23rd. He’s 10th in the standings, 170 points behind.
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