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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2017 SPORTS NFL NFL owners approve Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas SAN FRANCISCO: National Football class stadium in the entertainment capi- Oakland in 1977 and 1981 and one in appeared to be all but dead after casino The Raiders will become the second League team owners gave the green tal of the world will give us the opportu- Los Angeles in 1984. mogul Sheldon Adelson and later major professional sports franchise to be light on Monday to the Oakland Raiders nity to achieve that greatness,” he told Oakland is also about to lose the Goldman Sachs changed their minds based in Las Vegas. The National Hockey to move to Las Vegas, paving the way for reporters following the vote. The Golden State Warriors National earlier this year about helping to finance League’s Vegas Golden Knights begin the building of a $1.9 billion stadium in Raiders will play the 2017, 2018 and pos- Basketball Association team, which is the stadium construction. playing in the 2017-18 season. the US gambling capital. The plan by sibly 2019 seasons in Oakland before building an arena in neighboring San Adelson had pledged up to $650 mil- Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf made an Raiders owner Mark Davis, who has been kicking off the 2020 season in Las Vegas, Francisco Davis acknowledged some lion toward construction of the domed 11th-hour push over the weekend to the driving force behind the relocation Davis said. It marks the second time fans in Oakland would be disappointed stadium but pulled his support in convince the owners and the NFL to effort, won the support of 31 of the Oakland fans will see the Raiders leave and even angry at the decision, but said January after the team presented a lease delay the vote so she could promote a league’s 32 owners, with only the Miami the city where they began play in 1960 frustration should be directed at him proposal without his knowledge. plan to keep the team in Oakland. It Dolphins’ ownership dissenting. in the old American Football League. and not the team’s coaches or players. The Raiders secured financing to included a new, $1.3 billion stadium. “My father used to say that the great- The team, known for its black and sil- He said his goal in the meantime was to replace Adelson’s portion from Bank of The plan would also have set aside ness of the Raiders was in its future,” ver uniforms and working-class appeal, “bring a championship back to Oakland.” America Corp. land for the Oakland Athletics baseball Davis said, referring to Al Davis, from played in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994 An additional $750 million will come team, which currently shares the 51- whom he inherited the team in 2011. before returning to Oakland. The team MOVE HAD BEEN IN DOUBT from public funds via a visitor’s tax on year-old Oakland Coliseum with the “The opportunity to build a world- won two Super Bowl championships in The Las Vegas relocation plan Las Vegas strip hotel rooms. Raiders. —Reuters FIGURE SKATING Virtue, Moir return in ice dance at Helsinki worlds HELSINKI: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir hasn’t changed,” Virtue said. “But what has returned from a two-year hiatus following changed is the depth in the field and the their silver medal at the Sochi Olympics to technical aspect. post the two highest ice dance scores of all “Skaters are executing extremely clean time, the Canadian power couple making it turns and technical callers are recognizing clear they’re still among the best in the those,” she said. “The specific elements are world. They’ll be chased at the World Figure much more pertinent. You can’t miss. But Skating Championships by the most domi- there’s also a little more freedom creatively, nant nation. The US is sending a contin- which is nice. We watched the world cham- gent to Helsinki this week led by reigning pionships last year from the stands and we silver medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani were awed at the level of ice dance in the that has every reason to believe it can world right now.” Their worlds in Finland knock Virtue and Moir from the top step of begin with the short dance Friday and con- clude with the free dance Saturday, and are an important benchmark heading into next year’s Winter Olympics. Along with the Canadians and Americans, all eyes at Hartwall Arena will be on the pairing of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. The French team has captured the past two gold medals, and will be trying for the first three-peat in ice dance in two decades. But in those previous victories, Papadakis and Cizeron didn’t have Virtue and Moir in the field. WORLD RECORD The 2010 Olympic gold medalists won gold at Skate Canada and the NHK Trophy RALEIGH: Detroit Red Wings’ Henrik Zetterberg (40), of Sweden, controls the puck while Carolina Hurricanes’ Victor Rask (49), of Sweden, chases in last fall, then won their first Grand Prix front of Red Wings goalie Petr Mrazek (34), of the Czech Republic, during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Monday. —AP Finals in December. In doing so, Virtue and Moir broke their own world record with 197.22 points, two points clear of what NHL Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White posted when they won gold at the 2014 Sochi Games. Virtue and Moir credit much of their suc- Lack leaves on stretcher cess to moving their training base to Montreal, and parting with longtime coach Marina Zoueva for Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon - who just happen to as Wings win in OT again MARSEILLE: In this Dec. 10, 2016, file coach Papadakis and Cizeron, creating an photo, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of intensely competitive camp. “We’re very Canada compete in the Ice Dance Free lucky we train at a rink that has seven RALEIGH: Andreas Athanasiou crashed into Dance Program during ISU Grand Prix of teams going to the world championships, Eddie Lack as he scored in overtime on Monday NHL results/standings Figure Skating Final in Marseille, south- and kind of using that motivation to keep night, giving the Detroit Red Wings a 4-3 NHL ern France. —AP us moving,” Moir said. “To be perfectly victory over Carolina on a play that left the Calgary 4, Colorado 2; St. Louis 4, Arizona 1; Tampa Bay 5, Chicago 4 (OT); Detroit 4, Carolina 3 (OT); Buffalo 4, Florida 2; Nashville 3, NY Islanders 1. frank, this is probably the most prepared Hurricanes goalie with a frightening injury. Lack the podium. Madison Chock and Evan we’ve been for a world championships in remained down for several minutes before he was taken off on a stretcher, with both teams Western Conference Ottawa 41 25 8 194 191 90 Bates are the reigning bronze medalists, our whole career.” They aren’t the only ones Central Division remaining on the ice and forming a semicircle to Toronto 35 24 15 227 219 85 while Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue brimming with confidence. The Shibutani WLOTLGFGAPTS Boston 39 30 6 214 202 84 watch him. Lack flashed a thumbs-up sign as he Chicago 48 21 7 229 197 103 are coming off silver medals at Skate siblings followed their US title by taking sil- Tampa Bay 37 29 9 210 210 83 was wheeled away. Team spokesman Mike Minnesota 44 24 7 240 190 95 America and Trophee de France. ver at Four Continents behind Virtue and Florida 33 31 11 195 213 77 “We’ve competed against a lot of these Moir, with the other two American teams Sundheim said Lack was moving his arms and Nashville 39 25 11 225 206 89 Buffalo 32 32 12 192 218 76 teams for many years, so in some ways it nipping at their heels.—AP legs after he was taken off the ice. An official St. Louis 41 28 6 211 200 88 review determined that the puck was in the net Winnipeg 34 35 7 225 241 75 Detroit 31 32 12 188 220 74 before Athanasiou made contact with Lack. Lack Dallas 31 33 11 206 238 73 Metropolitan Division finished with 23 saves for Carolina. Colorado 20 52 3 147 253 43 Washington 49 17 8 238 163 106 Pacific Division CYCLING Columbus 48 19 7 232 171 103 Anaheim 41 23 11 199 185 93 LIGHTNING 5, BLACKHAWKS 4, OT San Jose 42 26 7 201 182 91 Pittsburgh 46 18 11 258 211 103 Doctor in doping row insists Yanni Gourde had a breakaway goal 4:25 into Edmonton 41 25 9 223 195 91 NY Rangers 46 26 4 241 201 96 overtime as Tampa Bay rallied from a three-goal Calgary 43 29 4 211 204 90 NY Islanders 35 28 12 219 228 82 he gave Wiggins legal drug deficit to beat Chicago. Victor Hedman set up Los Angeles 35 32 7 180 186 77 Carolina 33 27 14 196 212 80 the winner with his third assist of the game. Vancouver 30 36 9 172 219 69 Philadelphia 35 32 8 197 220 78 Arizona 27 40 9 181 244 63 LONDON: The doctor at the centre of a States that contained a banned substance Tampa Bay, which trails Boston by a point for the New Jersey 27 35 13 171 220 67 Eastern Conference doping rules row involving British cycling not used in the UK version.

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