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. LOUIS -- Blues coach Ken Hitchcock calls his fourth line forwards
the specialists. Lately, theyve simply been special.Kyle Brodziak got
the tiebreaking goal 7:28 into the third period, lifting St. Louis over
the Nashville Predators 3-1 on Saturday night.Vladimir Tarasenko and
David Perron also scored and Jake Allen made 30 saves, helping the Blues
finish 3-0 on their homestand. St. Louis is 8-1-2 at home this
season.The play of the Blues fourth line of Brodziak, Scottie Upshall
and Ryan Reaves was the catalyst. The unit was a collective plus-3, had
four shots and five hits.Were out here to do a job and if we dont do it,
were told about it, Upshall said. But things have been going good. Weve
turned things around here, a good week at home, and its good to chip
in.Fourth lines are generally expected to provide energy and ice time
until the playmakers can get back off the bench. Hitchcocks crew is
showing rare skill so far down the roster.They make plays, Hitchcock
said. They make smart plays. They make scoring chances. They caused the
first power play that we got in the game. They create all kind of zone
pressure. They were the one line in the first period that was able to
maintain pressure in the offensive zone.Mike Ribeiro scored and Pekka
Rinne made 31 saves for Nashville, which finished a three-game trip
1-2.The Blues snapped a two-game losing streak vs. Nashville but have
dominated the Predators at Scottrade Center, winning five straight.
Overall, the Blues have won six of eight against the Predators.Brodziak
snapped a 1-1 tie with his second goal in three games. He put in a
rebound off Upshalls shot after the pair entered on a 2-on-1 following
P.K. Subbans turnover.I think for the most part all year we felt pretty
good about generating chances, being in their zone and we felt that if
we kept playing that way the goals were going to come, Brodziak said.
And fortunately the last couple of games weve been able to chip
in.Predators coach Peter Laviolette believed a cross-checking penalty
should have been called against the Blues, which caused Subban to turn
the puck over.I thought we were good for two periods, Laviolette said.
They seemed to grab some momentum off of that power play to open the
third period and shortly after that we just couldnt seem to corral it.
They gained some momentum and I think the shots were seven or eight to
nothing at one point there. We start the third and we just couldnt get
going.Tarasenko ripped a wrist shot past Rinne to make it 3-1 with 8:24
left for his team-high seventh goal of the season. The goal came off a
rush following a couple of Allen saves amid a Nashville flurry moments
earlier.Perron put the Blues up 1-0 3:09 into the second period with a
backhand rebound off Jay Bouwmeesters shot from the point. Perron has a
point in each of the last four games.Hes really competitive at the puck,
Hitchcock said. Hes got a big mans game at the puck that makes him a
very effective player in the NHL now.Ribeiro tied it with a power-play
goal 8:59 into the second by pouncing on a puck in the crease that had
trickled through Allen after he got a piece of Craig Smiths shot. The
Blues couldnt convert on two chances to clear the puck leading to the
goal.James Neal had his six-game goal streak snapped for the
Predators.Game notes
The Blues acquired D Reid McNeill from the Penguins in exchange for F
Danny Kristo. McNeill will report to the Chicago Wolves of the AHL. ...
Predators D Anthony Bitetto was sent to Milwaukee (AHL) on a
conditioning assignment. ... Blues D Robert Bortuzzo returned after
missing the last 10 games with a lower-body injury.UP NEXTPredators:
Will host Tampa Bay on Monday night.Blues: Travel to Boston on Tuesday
night.
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he hit to a foot of the pin, and he stayed in front Tuesday until he
completed a 4-under 67 for a two-shot lead over Jason Dufner in PGA
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last few days to conserve energy as the long ATP season finishes next
week at the Paris Masters.
WACO, Texas -- An outside investigation of the Baylor
University sexual violence scandal found 17 women who had reported
sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 Baylor University athletes
since 2011, university regents have told The Wall Street Journal.Those
included four reports of gang rapes, the Journal reported in a story
posted to its website Friday.The investigation by the Pepper Hamilton
law firm in Philadelphia found some players were alleged to have
participated in what one regent called a horrifying and painful series
of assaults over several years. The regents said then-Baylor football
coach Art Briles knew of at least one reported incident but didnt inform
police or school officials.Baylor previously had said the review found
that the football program operated as if it were above the rules.
However, the university had released few details from the Pepper
Hamilton report. That led to increasing public demand, especially among
alumni and Baylor critics, for transparency.There was a cultural issue
there that was putting winning football games above everything else,
including our values, said J. Cary Gray, a lawyer and regent of the
Southern Baptist university. More generally, we did not have a caring
community when it came to these women who reported they were assaulted,
and that is not OK, Gray told the Journal.Briles and Baylors athletic
director were fired earlier this year. President Ken Starr was removed
from his post by regents and he later resigned as chancellor.Two days
before his firing, Briles was called before the regents to discuss the
scandal, Gray said. Art said, `I delegated down, and I know I shouldnt
have. And I had a system where I was the last to know (of the assault
allegations), and I should have been the first to know, Gray told the
newspaper.Briles attorney, Ernest Cannon of Stephenville, Texass, said
his client never discouraged any victims from filing complaints against
players.
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He also said Baylors regents appeared to be violating a
non-disparagement clause that was part of the settlement agreement his
client signed with the university.Cannon also accused the regents of
scapegoating Briles for Baylors overall failure to maintain a strict
Title IX program to guard against sexual discrimination. Numerous
lawsuits alleging violations of the federal Title IX laws allege such an
overall failure.They are pulling their own house down to justify the
mistakes they made. Hes the football coach with no responsibility to
enforce Title IX requirements, Cannon said.Thats their job, he added,
referring to university administrators.Earlier this month, Patty
Crawford, Baylors former Title IX coordinator, resigned and said top
campus leaders undermined her efforts to investigate sexual assault
claims and were more concerned with protecting the Baylor brand than the
students.She also noted the sexual violence problem was a campus-wide
issue not limited to football. The university has said football players
were involved in just over 10 percent of all alleged Title IX violations
in the four years ending with the 2014-15 school year.In response, Gray
said, Football is a fraction, but it is a bad fraction.The regents
statements failed to impress Crawfords attorney, Rogge Dunn of Dallas,
who argued they continue to try to shape the narrative surrounding the
scandal and protect the Baylor image. He told The Associated Press that
the full story will not come until those concerned are placed under
oath.Baylors never going to get past this until it has full
transparency, Dunn told the AP Friday night.
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