Saturday Sports
NHL
Sidney Crosby scored his 25th goal and added an assist and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 6-3 on Friday. Rickard Rakell and Bryan Rust both had a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who are 22-3-and-4 in their last 28 games against Columbus.
SJHL Playoffs Round 1
Melfort 5 Kindersley 2 (Mustangs lead 1-0)
Yorkton 4 Melville 1 (Terriers lead 1-0)
Weyburn 4 Battlefords 3 (Red Wings lead 1-0)
Flin Flon 5 Humboldt 0 (Bombers lead 1-0)
WHL
WHEAT KINGS 7 PATS 3
BRANDON, Man. — Joby Baumuller and Marcus Nguyen each scored two goals and the Brandon Wheat Kings earned a 7-3 win over the Regina Pats.
Jaxon Jacobson, Luke Shipley and Matteo Michels also scored for Brandon (37-23-4-3), which scored six combined goals between the final two periods.
Caden Brown, Zach Pantelakis and Ephram McNutt replied for Regina (16-43-5-3).
RAIDERS 3 BLADES 2 (OT)
SASKATOON — Brayden Dube capped a two-goal effort with the game-winning score 1:38 into overtime as the Prince Albert Raiders topped the Saskatoon Blades 3-2.
Harrison Lodewyk netted the game-tying goal 14:53 into the third period for Prince Albert (38-23-5-1).
David Lewandowski and Zach Olsen replied for Saskatoon (37-22-4-4).
BRONCOS 5 WARRIORS 3
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Luke Mistelbacher had two goals and one assist to power the Swift Current Broncos to a 5-3 win over the Moose Jaw Warriors.
Ryan Gould, Parker Rondeau and Brady Birnie also scored for Swift Current (35-29-1-2), which got out to a 4-0 edge less than 15 minutes into the opening period.
Lynden Lakovic, with two goals, and Owen Berge replied for Moose Jaw (14-45-6-2).
CURLING
Canada’s Rachel Homan topped South Korea’s Eunji Gim 6-5 on Saturday in the semifinals of the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship in Uijeongbu. The Canadians will face Switzerland in the final game on Sunday. Homan entered the matchup having defeated Scotland’s Sophie Jackson 10-4 in a qualification match earlier in the day.
MLB
Tuesday’s first game of the Tokyo Series averaged more than 25 million viewers in Japan according to Major League Baseball, making it the most-watched M-L-B game in the country’s history. The audience for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs surpassed the 18.7 million viewers who tuned in for the first game of last year’s Seoul Series in South Korea, which featured the Dodgers against the San Diego Padres.
NFL
- The New York Giants and quarterback Jameis Winston have agreed to terms on a two-year, eight-million-dollar contract, The Associated Press is reporting. The 31-year-old Winston joins Tommy DeVito as the only quarterbacks on the Giants’ roster. New York has been in the market in free agency for a veteran, with Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson also mentioned as possible targets.
- Aaron Rodgers has met with the Pittsburgh Steelers. A person familiar with the meeting tells The Associated Press that Rodgers visited on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was not made public. Rodgers spent several hours in the team’s facility gathering information but left without signing a contract. Pittsburgh has an opening at quarterback after Justin Fields signed with the New York Jets and free agent Russell Wilson appears unlikely to return. The 41-year-old Rodgers spent two turbulent years with the New York Jets after a long stint with the Green Bay Packers that included four MVP awards and a Super Bowl title.
MARCH MADNESS
The calendar says it’s March. Most of the madness has been missing so far. There certainly have been upsets. Just ask the owners of the 99.9956% of brackets with at least one blemish. But with the first round of the NCAA Tournament complete, the bracket has been bereft of the buzzer-beaters and major upsets that have become ubiquitous during March Madness. The best the bracket has so far is a pair of No. 12 seeds over 5s. That’s become almost expected — occurring at 35% clip, according to the NCAA. And the only buzzer-beater was in the First Four on Tuesday.
CEBL
The Saskatchewan Rattlers of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) announced Friday that the club has signed 6-foot-4 New Jersey native Nate Pierre-Louis for the 2025 season. The American guard made his professional debut during the 2021-22 season with the South Bay Lakers (Los Angeles Lakers affiliate). Since his rookie year with the Lakers, he has played during the NBA preseason, NBA Summer League, and three additional seasons in the NBA G League. Pierre-Louis will make his international debut with the Saskatchewan Rattlers on May 15th 2025. In his four-year professional career, Pierre Louis has played with six teams in the NBA, NBA G League, and NBA Summer League. He has a career average of 7.1 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.1 steals, 0.5 blocks, and 20.2 minutes in 135 games.
(Canadian Press)
