BOSTON (AP) — Jill Saulnier had a goal and an assist and Czech goalkeeper Klara Peslarova came into the game in the second period and stonewalled Minnesota for 40 minutes as the Boston Fleet scored four unanswered goals to earn a 4-2 win in their only home game in the month of February. Down 2-0, Boston opted to swap keepers to start the second period, sending Peslarova out to make her PWHL debut. A veteran of the Swedish Women’s Hockey League and a five-time member of the Czech National team, the 28-year-old was eating an orange on the Boston bench when she was told she was taking over. Unfazed, she turned in 15 saves and backstopped the comeback.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The winning total last year: 211 points. The winning total this year: 41 points. An All-Star Game like none other — since it was three games, not one — still had plenty of flash and not a lot of fire. And in the end, Jayson Tatum had the dunk that decided a crown. Shaq’s OGs won the first All-Star mini-tournament in NBA history on Sunday night, getting 15 points from Tatum and 12 from Stephen Curry to beat Chuck’s Global Stars 41-25 in the final. It was the debut of the All-Star mini-tournament format: four teams, three games, first to 40 points wins.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A college student named Jaren Barajas beat Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard in a 3-point shooting contest during the All-Star Game and won $100,000. Lillard needed to make three to win, while Barajas had to hit just one basket from way back — and with the clock winding down and Lillard having missed after they’d announced those would be the final attempts by both players, Barajas let it fly once more and sunk it. Off the backboard, no less, just as his father had always taught him: use the glass. It was his sixth or seventh attempt, he couldn’t remember for sure.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla (AP) — William Byron raced to his second straight Daytona 500 victory, dodging a string of late-race wrecks that knocked out a chunk of contenders and sent the Hendrick Motorsports driver into victory lane Sunday night at Daytona International Speedway. Ninth in the No. 24 Chevrolet with one lap left, Byron became the first back-to-back winner since Denny Hamlin in 2019-20. Byron took advantage of another wreck on the final lap — NASCAR did not drop the caution and let the field race to the finish — and took another, familiar burnout in Daytona International Speedway. The 27-year-old Byron held on to win after two weather delays totaling more than 3 1/2 hours.