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Jessica Jerome earned the first American spot for the first women's ski jumping competition in Olympic history, in February in Sochi, winning the United States trials in Park City, Utah. Jerome scored 248.5 points on her two jumps to secure a spot in Sochi. Lindsay Van was second, 2.0 points back. Alissa Johnson was third.
Nicholas Fairall won the men's competition with 253.5 points to earn his first Olympic spot. Anders Johnson was second, 4.5 points behind. Peter Frenette finished third.
■ The double Olympic champion Simon Ammann of Switzerland won the first stage of the Four Hills Tour in Oberstdorf, Germany, the most prestigious ski jump competition ahead of the Sochi Games.
Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League with a scrappy 1-0 win at Newcastle, while Chelsea kept the pressure on the Gunners with a 2-1 win over Liverpool.
Arsenal's Olivier Giroud ended a personal drought of seven matches without a goal.
Eden Hazard and Samuel Eto'o secured a fourth consecutive home win for Chelsea after Martin Skrtel opened the scoring for the Reds. Third-place Chelsea trails Arsenal by 2 points and Manchester City by a point.
Elsewhere, Everton beat Southampton, 2-1, and Tottenham trounced Stoke, 3-0.
Aksel Lund Svindal, the overall World Cup leader, mastered the fresh snow conditions on the Stelvio course in Bormio, Italy, on Sunday to win a downhill for his fourth victory of the season.
Svindal, of Norway, clocked 1 minute 54.08 seconds to finish 0.39 of a second ahead of Hannes Reichelt of Austria. Erik Guay of Canada placed third, 0.51 back, for a strong follow-up to his downhill victory in Val Gardena a week ago.
The top American finisher was Travis Ganong of Squaw Valley, Calif., in 10th, while Bode Miller struggled with the conditions and finished 35th.
Svindal extended his overall lead over the two-time defending champion Marcel Hirscher to 195 points. He also leads the downhill standings and is shaping up as the favorite for the speed events at the Sochi Olympics. Svindal won a medal of each color at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
■ Marlies Schild of Austria set a World Cup record by earning her 35th slalom victory, overtaking Vreni Schneider of Switzerland on top of the career list in the discipline.
Schild was sixth after the opening leg in Lienz, Austria, but used a blistering second run to finish in 1:55.63 and beat the American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin, who led the competition after the first run. Shiffrin finished 0.41 of a second behind.
The Olympic slalom champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany was third, 0.63 behind Schild.
Shani Davis ruled again in the 1,000 meters at the United States Olympic speedskating trials in Kearns, Utah, edging Brian Hansen. Davis, a two-time defending Olympic champion, won with a time of 1 minute 7.52 seconds.
Jonathan Garcia, who was disqualified the previous day in the 500 for not wearing his timing transponders after skating fast enough to make the Olympics, came back to finish fourth in the 1,000 at 1:07.96, good enough to claim his first Olympic berth.
Heather Richardson won the women's 1,000.
The team indefinitely suspended Bynum, their enigmatic center, on Saturday for "conduct detrimental to the team" and barred him from all team activities.
Bynum, who signed a two-year, $24 million contract with the Cavaliers in July, did not travel with the club to Boston for Saturday's game, and it is likely he has played his final game for Cleveland. The Cavaliers will probably try to trade him.
The suspension is not a shock given that he has not played consistently and has appeared to be uninterested while on the court. Earlier this season, the 7-foot Bynum, who did not play at all last season for Philadelphia because of knee injuries, talked openly about retirement and said his medical issues have been a challenge.
CELTICS 103, CAVALIERS 100 Jeff Green and Jordan Crawford each scored 19 points, Brandon Bass added 15 points and had a game-saving blocked shot in the closing seconds and host Boston held on for a victory over Cleveland.
Kyrie Irving led the Cavaliers with 32 points.
HAWKS 118, BOBCATS 116 Paul Millsap scored a season-high 31 points, Lou Williams scored 10 of his season-best 28 points in overtime and Atlanta rallied to beat visiting Charlotte.
Al Jefferson had 24 points and a season-high 23 rebounds and Gerald Henderson added 22 points for the Bobcats.
ROCKETS 107, PELICANS 98 Dwight Howard had 24 points and 17 rebounds and James Harden scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter in host Houston's comeback win over New Orleans.
Chandler Parson added 19 points and 7 rebounds, and Terrence Jones had 17 points and 8 rebounds for the Rockets.
SUNS 115, 76ERS 101 Miles Plumlee scored a career-high 22 points to go with 13 rebounds, and host Phoenix bounced back from its worst loss of the season to beat Philadelphia.
Goran Dragic added 21 points and Eric Bledsoe 20 for the Suns. Marcus Morris made three fourth-quarter 3-pointers and scored 18 points.
T-WOLVES 117, BUCKS 95 Kevin Love had 33 points and 15 rebounds for his sixth straight double-double, and visiting Minnesota climbed back to .500 by routing Milwaukee.
Nikola Pekovic added 19 points and 11 rebounds, and Love hit four of the Timberwolves' 11 3-pointers.
GRIZZLIES 120, NUGGETS 99 Zach Randolph scored 20 points, and host Memphis got 62 points from its bench to beat Denver.
Six Grizzlies finished in double figures, and Memphis shot 52 percent while sending the Nuggets to their sixth straight loss.
MAVERICKS 105, BULLS 83 Monta Ellis had 22 points, and visiting Dallas took control early in coasting to a victory over Chicago.
Dirk Nowitzki and Vince Carter added 18 points apiece for the Mavericks.
WIZARDS 106, PISTONS 82 John Wall had 20 points and 11 assists, Marcin Gortat added 16 points and host Washington routed Detroit. Trevor Ariza and Bradley Beal each added 15 points for the Wizards.
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Jim Boeheim stared up in frustration at the Carrier Dome scoreboard, his No. 2 Orange in big trouble against eighth-ranked Villanova (11-1).
The Wildcats had started Saturday's game by hitting four straight 3-point shots and led, 25-7, midway through the first half after a dunk by Josh Hart.
Syracuse (12-0) went nearly four minutes without a basket as the Wildcats looked exactly like the team that had already beaten two ranked opponents.
"There was no indication we were going to get going," Boeheim said.
If the Orange were frazzled by their largest deficit of the season, it never showed. They responded with a 20-0 run over the next five minutes to take their first lead and never trailed again, winning, 78-62, in a game between two of nine unbeaten teams left in N.C.A.A. Division I.
KENTUCKY 73, LOUISVILLE 66 Kentucky guards Aaron Harrison and Andrew Harrison combined for 28 points, including 11 during a critical second-half stretch with Julius Randle sidelined by cramps, helping the 18th-ranked Wildcats (10-3) beat No. 6 Louisville in Lexington, Ky.
The Harrisons, who are twins, amply filled the void left by Randle, turning a 52-51 deficit with 11 minutes 1 second remaining into a 68-58 lead with four minutes left. Russ Smith scored 19 points for Louisville (11-2).
UCONN 82, E. WASHINGTON 65 Shabazz Napier had 15 points and 9 assists to lead 15th-ranked Connecticut (11-1) over Eastern Washington (5-6) in Bridgeport, Conn.
Napier led a balanced offense in which five Huskies reached double figures. Ryan Boatright had 14 points and Niels Giffey, making his first start this season, added 13 for UConn.
DUKE 82, EASTERN MICHIGAN 59 Jabari Parker scored 23 points and No. 9 Duke (10-2) beat visiting Eastern Michigan.
Mike Talley scored 20 points to lead the Eagles (7-4). WISCONSIN 80, PRAIRIE VIEW 43 Sam Dekker had 16 points and 11 rebounds for his third career double-double as No. 4 Wisconsin (13-0) cruised past visiting Prairie View (2-10).
MICH. ST. 101, N. ORLEANS 48 Keith Appling scored 16 of his career-high tying 27 points in the first half to help No. 5 Michigan State (11-1) pull away and rout visiting New Orleans (3-5).
MEMPHIS 75, JACKSON ST. 61 Michael Dixon scored 14 points, Shaq Goodwin had 13 points and 7 rebounds, and No. 17 Memphis (9-2) never trailed against visiting Jackson State (4-8). UMASS 69, PROVIDENCE 67 Derrick Gordon's put-back with 1.1 seconds left in overtime lifted 23rd-ranked Massachusetts (11-1) to a victory over visiting Providence (10-3).
GONZAGA 74, SANTA CLARA 60 David Stockton scored a season-high 21 points as No. 24 Gonzaga (11-2) beat visiting Santa Clara (7-7) in the teams' West Coast Conference opener.
ST. JOHN'S 65, COLUMBIA 59 D'Angelo Harrison scored 15 points and Orlando Sanchez had 12 points and 9 rebounds to lead St. John's (9-3) to a victory over Columbia in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at Barclays Center. Grant Mullins had 17 points for Columbia (7-6).
HARVARD 94, FORDHAM 86 Siyani Chambers scored 19 points and finished with nine assists as balanced shooting by Harvard (11-1) led to a victory over host Fordham (7-5).
GEO. WASH. 69, HOFSTRA 58 Maurice Creek had 17 points and 4 steals to lead George Washington (11-1) to a victory over host Hofstra (3-8).
NORTHERN IOWA 90, IONA 78 Seth Tuttle scored 11 points to help Northern Iowa (6-6) hold off visiting Iona (5-6).
WOMEN
MARYLAND 110, WOFFORD 53 Alyssa Thomas had her second triple-double in three games to lead No. 8 Maryland (11-1) to a rout of visiting Wofford (2-9) in the Terrapin Classic semifinals.
BAYLOR 82, MCNEESE STATE 57 Odyssey Sims scored 27 points, and No. 9 Baylor (10-1) beat visiting McNeese State (7-4).
STANFORD 86, FRESNO STATE 54 Chiney Ogwumike scored 16 of her 20 points in the first half and No. 4 Stanford (11-1) routed host Fresno State (6-5).
