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Saint Joseph's (5-7) will play Boston University in the championship game today at 4 p.m. Boston U. beat South Carolina, 68-67.
* At Akron, Marli Bennett's 11 points led Temple in a 55-43 win over the Zips. The Owls (10-2) opened the second half with a 14-1 run.
Temple will host No. 8 Duke at McGonigle Hall Thursday at 2 p.m.
Manohar Lal Khattar's reaction came after Mr Kejriwal questioned the Haryana government for not being able to improve the condition of the state, and said that the "AAP has improved Delhi in just three years".
AAP rejected claims made by Manohar Lal Khattar about stubble-burning being up by 50 per cent in Delhi.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday attacked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and said that the AAP government has failed to control stubble-burning as it has increased to 50 per cent in the national capital.
"As compared to last year, stubble-burning has declined to 40 per cent in Punjab and Haryana. But it has increased to 50 per cent in Delhi which has only 7,600-hectare agricultural land," he said.
Mr Khattar's reaction came after Mr Kejriwal questioned the Haryana government for not being able to improve the condition of the state, and said that the "AAP has improved Delhi in just three years".
AAP rejected the claims made by Mr Khattar about stubble-burning being up by 50 per cent in the national capital.
Countering Mr Khattar's claims, AAP Chief Spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said that government of Haryana and Punjab have been blamed by several independent studies and not just Delhi government, for its rampant stubble-burning.
"Every independent study has blamed the governments of Haryana and Punjab of creating death chambers around North India," Mr Bharadwaj told IANS.
Mr Khattar said the AAP government proposed to open thousands of Mohalla Clinics for providing primary health care to the community but they have become "halla" clinics.
Hundreds of Mohalla Clinics have turned into cow barns. Some of these centres are also used as parking spaces or for running barber shops, he said.
Mr Bharadwaj, on the other hand, said that the main issue is not about comparing Haryana and Delhi. "But there should be a comparison between Khattar Government and Kejriwal Government," he said.
"We welcome Mr Khattar to send his own delegation to Delhi and compare the Health and Education sectors of the two states. We would be happy to help Haryana government in improving their health and education sectors," Mr Bharadwaj said.
"You (Kejriwal) cannot compare Haryana with Delhi," Mr Khattar said.
Alleging that Mr Kejriwal keeps changing his statements, Mr Khattar said when Mr Kejriwal was in Delhi he said Delhi has the right on the water of the Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal, when he was in Punjab he said Punjab has the right on the canal.
Mr Khattar said that out of the total 176 promises made in the BJP election manifesto, 160 have been fulfilled and more initiatives will be taken soon.
EXPRESS SPORT provides the best transfer news coming out of Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea have been dealt a major blow as Borussia Dortmund midfielder Marco Reus is close to signing with Real Madrid.
Francois Gallardo said: "Real Madrid will sign Reus and operation will close within days."
The German international has reportedly been learning Spanish ahead of his move to the European champions.
Chelsea's pursuit of Inter striker Mauro Icardi could be completed early in the transfer window as the Italian giants line up a cheap replacement for the striker.
As Inter attempt to balance the books ahead of a Financial Fair Play assessment by UEFA, Icardi is available for a cut-price £20million.
Arsenal could be left out in the cold as Barcelona and Juventus are plotting a swap deal between Martin Montoya and Stephan Lichtsteiner.
However, Gunners boss Arsene Wenger feels he does not need to enter the transfer market in January to strengthen his squad.
Brendan Rodgers could line up a sensational move for Fernando Torres.
The ex-Liverpool man who is on-loan from Chelsea at Inter Milan has shown inconsistant form and Jose Mourinho has admitted the Spaniard won't be coming back to Chelsea.
Rodgers could use this to his advantage and bring Torres back to Anfield.
Mario Balotelli has returned to Liverpool training ahead of the Reds' clash against Manchester United on Sunday.
However, the maverick striker has accepted the FA's charge in relation to the Instagram post that included anti-sematic language.
Roma star Gervinho has hit out at Arsenal about the way Arsene Wenger treated him.
“He [Wenger] never had confidence in me… I hate them for the way Wenger treated me,” Gervinho is quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.
Luis Suarez has backed Brendan Rodgers to help Liverpool qualify for the Champions League.
The former Reds' star says Liverpool must qualify for Europe's elite club competition because that is "where they belong".
Premier League clubs will soon play matches on Friday nights as part of a new television deal.
BT and Sky will battle it out to secure the rights to broadcast the Friday nights games from 2016/17.
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 24: People wait to enter the U.S. Supreme Court building, June 24, 2013 in Washington DC.
The Supreme Court passed up a chance to issue a sweeping ruling on affirmative action Monday, sending a controversial case back to a lower court for further review. But the Court’s ruling has important ramifications for the future of the controversial policy, at once upholding the legal underpinnings for affirmative ac...
The narrow ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which a white woman claimed she had been denied admission to the state’s flagship university despite superior qualifications, will make it tougher for schools to prove that considering race is necessary for the purpose of creating a diverse student body.
In their 7-1 decision, the justices said that lower courts did not hold the University of Texas to sufficiently strict scrutiny in ruling that the school was within its rights to deny admission to Abigail Fisher, who sued the college in 2008. Fisher argued that the school’s use of race in its admissions criteria result...
Two courts sided with the university, including the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. But the Supreme Court vacated the Fifth Circuit’s decision, arguing that it failed to heed precedent established by two prior cases, Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke and Grutter v. Bollinger. Those cases, the justices argued, r...
“The reviewing court must ultimately be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the education benefits of diversity,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a carefully tailored majority opinion. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the lone dissenter. Justice Elena Kagan, who was involved with the case...
The justices ruled that lower courts improperly relied on the school’s own determination that it could only achieve diversity by considering race in its admissions. They held that the lower courts failed to apply a test of “strict scrutiny,” a higher level of judicial review that puts the burden of proof on the school....
“[S]trict scrutiny imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice,” the ruling states, adding that relying on the schools “good faith” does not meet the test of strict scrutiny. “Strict scrutiny ...
“The most direct impact” of the ruling, says George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, “is it makes it more difficult for schools to use race as a factor” in admissions decisions. At the same time, Turley says, it was a “setback” for legal scholars who sought to eliminate the use of race in affirmativ...
Despite declining to issue a sweeping ruling on the charged topic, the ruling has ramifications for the future of affirmative action. Kennedy’s opinion reinforces high bar for future judicial review of affirmative action policies. One alternative method of affirmative action, popular among both factions of liberals and...
In a concurring opinion, Thomas likened affirmative action to segregation and argued the court should have gone further to restrict its use. In her dissent, Justice Ginsburg argued that the lower court had sufficiently met the test for judicial review, and said the appellate court’s decision should be upheld.
Roger Bannister's death at the age of 88 prompted a host of emotional tributes to athletics' great barrier breaker on Sunday with the sport's senior figure, Sebastian Coe, saluting him as the "man who made the impossible possible".
Coe and Steve Cram, who followed in the spike tracks of the sport's first sub-four minute miler to also become world beaters, emphasised that, while Bannister had been their running hero, he meant so much more to the life of his home nation.
To Coe, another British world record holder at the mile, Bannister's landmark achievement in 1954 "transcended sport beyond athletics".
Cram, who broke the mile world record in 1985, told Reuters in Birmingham: "Bannister really started off that great British tradition of great middle distance runners which people like Seb (Coe), Steve (Ovett) and myself were able to continue.
"But beyond that, he was part of that pioneering spirit which seemed to exist in the 1950s - with a new Queen on the throne, Everest being conquered, the new TV age and the idea that you could do anything you put your mind to in barrier-breaking.
"The four-minute mile stood out. Someone was going to break that barrier and it turned out to be him. What a great period that must have been to be alive."
To Cram and Coe, the man who now runs the sport as the IAAF president, Bannister's three minutes 59.4 seconds run at Iffley Road, Oxford, was the almost mythical tale which underpinned their own youthful athletics days.
"The first book I read was (Bannister's book) The Four-Minute Mile, my coach (Jimmy Hedley) used to get me to sit and watch that grainy film in the days before YouTube," said Cram.
"I got to meet him after I got selected to go to the Commonwealth Games when I was 17 and he was a big part of my early athletics career development, as the biggest hero in our sport, especially for a 1500 metres runner like me.
"I was completely awe-struck when I met him but he was a gentleman, an engaging personality who put you at your ease."
Cram felt the next generation of athletes were just as inspired by Bannister's legacy.
Mo Farah, the greatest British distance runner of all and one of the finest in the sport's annals, tweeted on Sunday: "I'm so sorry to hear the sad news about Roger Bannister.
"I met him several times throughout my career and he was always humble, supportive and encouraging. He was an inspiration to so many."
At the world indoor championships in Birmingham, the news cast a sad shadow over the final day of events on Sunday as the IAAF prepared a special tribute to Bannister's life and times to be screened to the crowd in Arena Birmingham.
Coe, who had only just learned the news before the launch of a new IAAF Heritage initiative designed to showcase the sport's former greats like Bannister, explained: "This is a day of intense sadness both for our nation and for all of us in athletics."
Coe told his audience: "On May 6, 1954, Roger made the impossible possible. Just one year after the coronation of the young Queen Elizabeth II and the conquering of Everest, he ran the first sub four-minute mile with the help of Christopher Chataway and Chris Brasher.
"The world’s best runners, such as Paavo Nurmi, Jack Lovelock, Arne Andersson, Gunder Hagg and Bannister's personal hero Sydney Wooderson had been seriously attempting the four minute mile for a quarter of a century.
"His achievement was a moment in history that lifted hearts of a nation and boosted the morale of a world still at a low ebb after the war. We have all lost a giant and for many of a deep close friendship. Thank you."
DARPA's created what it's calling the Iron Curtain, which is a system that mounts on top of a Humvee and takes out any rockets shot in its direction. It's pretty nuts.
They've been working on these Active Protection Systems for a while now, but this is the first that works on a moving vehicle. As Danger Room details, It uses radar, optical sensors and some other secret elements to detect projectiles. It then destroys them right before impact, creating an explosion but one that is muc...
The synergy that has propelled the French national team to the title game in the most recent World Cup in Russia has been colorblind — but French citizens and fans have not.
Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh have struggled to get adequate food, housing and medical supplies since their arrival. The upcoming monsoon season is sure to strain already less-than-ideal infrastructure.
The terms President Trump has used to describe a group of Latino immigrants can have serious societal consequences.
As the debate over internet privacy continues in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it would support an option for consumers to choose whether they want their internet browsing and purchasing habits monitored by companies.
Thirty years ago Charles F. Baes, Jr., a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, wrote that the earth was undergoing a great “uncontrolled experiment,” one that would soon reveal the global consequences of rising greenhouse gas concentrations. Today scientists know that deforestation, ...
Despite national campaigns, warnings, and gruesome statistics, a growing number of motorists continue to operate a mobile device while driving.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last week revealed that at any daytime moment across America, about 660,000 drivers are using a cell phone behind the wheel, similar to 2010 stats.
In 2011, distracted driving resulted in more than 3,300 deaths and 387,000 injuries.
"Distracted driving is a serious and deadly epidemic on America's roadways," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. "There is no way to text and drive safely. Powering down your cell phone when you're behind the wheel can save lives maybe even your own."
According to NHTSA's 2012 National Survey on Distracted Driving Attitudes and Behaviors, people aged 21 to 44 are most likely to answer a call while driving; teens (16 to 20) are about 15 percent less inclined to pick up their phone from behind the wheel.
That's in line with March data from AT&T that said nearly half of all adults admitted to texting while driving, compared to 43 percent of teens. Moreover, 43 percent of adults who do so called it a "habit."
So far, 39 states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, have passed a ban on text messaging for all drivers. Ten states also prohibit all motorists from using handheld phones while driving. A majority of people support both laws, and on average believe fines should be at least $200.
"Many drivers see distracted driving as risky when other drivers do it, but do not recognize how their own driving deteriorates," NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said in a statement. "I urge all motorists to use common sense and keep their attention focused solely on the task of safely driving."
In celebration of April's National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, AT&T is calling for businesses to educate employees about the dangers of texting while driving. By the end of March, more than 165 organizations, including Amazon and RadioShack, already signed up for the Texting & Driving It Can Wait campaign.
State-wide crusades continue, as well, as California Judge W. Kent Hamlin last month found that California's talking while driving ban also applies to other mobile activities, like checking a mapping app.
For more, see Which States Have Cell Phone, Texting While Driving Bans?
You have to be in it to get in. Finally, the Devils are legitimately in it. They’re into it, too.
The Undead Devils visit Ottawa tonight six points behind the Sabres for the final playoff berth. Their game in hand tonight, on which a team with such aspirations must capitalize, would make it four points, and their showdown in Buffalo on March 26 — which they’d better win or not deserve to make it — would make the de...
That’s where they’re at, and that’s right in it, now. It’s close enough for them to look squarely in the face.
“We’ve had it in the back of our minds, but now, when you see where we are as far as points go, it makes it more realistic,” Brian Rolston said.
The Devils should have enough incentive from losing to the East’s doormat Senators last week in Newark. They were 2:13 away from a vital point when they gave up the 2-1 winner.
That was Martin Brodeur’s lone loss in 10 games. He is expected to start tonight in his native nation’s capital, although Jacques Lemaire didn’t declare it. Brodeur also joined in the chorus of rising hope.
“It was a bad season. We could salvage a decent season, and make it a great season. That’s what we’re trying to make — a great season,” Brodeur said.
Lemaire finally allowed that his team might just make it. At first, he said, “Guys who have been in this [league] a long time, I don’t think will pick us [to qualify],” Lemaire said.
Since he has been around a long time, he was asked his opinion.
“You believe, with a little help, there would be a little chance,” he said.
“We’ve got some [big] games coming up. If we lose, it will tell a lot. If we win our share, then next week will tell a lot, and it will go on for three weeks,” Lemaire said.
Brodeur, however, claimed the Devils regard themselves as a 10th-place team, not one that is 23-3-2 in its last 28, trying to surpass the 1997-98 Coyotes by holding an 18th straight foe to two goals or less.
“I don’t think we look at ourselves coming back. We think we’re close to Atlanta, Carolina, one of those teams. We’re not a team wishing for a miracle,” Brodeur said.
This is another of their must-wins, the last of six in a row against teams out of playoff berths. A 5-1 record in those six would leave them able to drop eight points max, in their final 12, including two games each against the Bruins and Penguins, and singles vs. Philadelphia, Washington, Montreal, and oh yes, Buffalo...
Brodeur wore his green pants slipcover for tomorrow’s retro uniform night in Newark against the Caps. He also is wearing the same replica of his original mask that he wore in his early days as a Devil.
Brodeur suggested the team might do well to schedule five retro uniform nights a year.

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