Guentzel’s heroics give resilient Penguins commanding…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Penguins co-owner Mario Lemieux hooked a sharp right into the coaches’ office that’s adjacent to the Penguins dressing room here at Nationwide Arena late Sunday evening and let out a throaty, celebratory scream. The reason, of course, was a 5-4 overtime victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets, one that gave the Penguins a three-games-to-none grip on the series, one obtained by a team oozing resilience and an organization that employs some youngster named Jake who seems to have little regard for the whole idea of postseason experience. That kid, Jake Guentzel, scored the overtime winner at 13:10 of the extra session, quickly sniping a feed from Sidney Crosby to complete his hat trick and finish the Penguins’…
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Penguins beat Blue Jackets 5-4 in…

FOXSports.comPenguins beat Blue Jackets 5-4 in OT to take 3-0 series lead (Apr 16, 2017)FOXSports.comCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Jake Guentzel had a hat trick, including a goal at 13:10 of overtime, to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night and give them a 3-0 lead in their first-round playoff series …Guentzel’s heroics give Penguins commanding series lead on ColumbusPittsburgh Post-GazetteNHL Playoffs: Guentzel scores hat trick, OT winner to put Penguins up 3-0 on Blue JacketsComcast SportsNet PhiladelphiaJake Guentzel’s hat trick completes comeback for Penguins against Blue JacketsUSA TODAYNBCSports.com -Yahoo Sports -ESPN -NHL.comall 787 news articles »
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Boyd, Avila lead Tigers past Indians…

FOXSports.comBoyd, Avila lead Tigers past Indians 4-1 for series winFOXSports.comCLEVELAND (AP) — Matthew Boyd allowed one run in six innings, Alex Avila hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Sunday to take two of three from the AL champions. Boyd (2-1) won his second straight start, and …Alex Avila’s homer leads Tigers past Indians for 3rd straight series winMLive.comall 170 news articles »
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Boyd, Avila lead Tigers past Indians…

FOXSports.comBoyd, Avila lead Tigers past Indians 4-1 for series win (Apr 16, 2017)FOXSports.comCLEVELAND (AP) Matthew Boyd allowed one run in six innings, Alex Avila hit a two-run homer and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians 4-1 on Sunday to take two of three from the AL champions. Boyd (2-1) won his second straight start, and …Cleveland Indians’ lackluster homestand ends with a whimper in 4-1 loss to Tigerscleveland.comAlex Avila’s homer leads Tigers past Indians for 3rd straight series winMLive.comTigers 4, Indians 1: Matt Boyd and some sharp relief workBless You Boys (blog)CBSSports.com -Sporting News -Let’s Go Tribeall 166 news articles »
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Watertown Daily Times | A breakthrough…

The controversial laboratory tool known as CRISPR may have found a whole new world to conquer. Already the favored method of editing genes, CRISPR could soon become a low-cost diagnostic tool that could be used practically anywhere to determine if someone has an infectious disease such as Zika or dengue.CRISPR – which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – is basically a bacterial immune system that uses “molecular scissors” to snip away genetic material from invasive viruses. Early in this decade, researchers figured out how to exploit the natural system to craft a relatively cheap, remarkably easy-to-use technology for editing genetic codes almost as readily as using a word processor to revise a paragraph.On Thursday, Feng Zhang, one…
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Crosby, Penguins edge Blue Jackets 4-1…

FOXSports.comCrosby, Penguins edge Blue Jackets 4-1 for 2-0 series lead (Apr 14, 2017)FOXSports.comPITTSBURGH (AP) Mike Sullivan’s decision to throw together Sidney Crosby, Conor Sheary and Jake Guentzel was two parts pragmatism and one part experimentation. The Pittsburgh Penguins were banged up in mid-March and needed a spark. So Sullivan …Patient Penguins dominant to start Stanley Cup defenseUSA TODAYall 572 news articles »
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Trump picks critic of Ex-Im Bank…

President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpHouse Intel Dem visits Cyprus for Russia probe Trump picks critic of Ex-Im Bank to lead it Trump to speak at NRA leadership forum MORE on Friday announced his intent to nominate former Rep. Scott GarrettScott GarrettTrump picks critic of Ex-Im Bank to lead it House GOP targets Dems over ObamaCare during recess Huizenga to chair influential subcommittee overseeing Wall Street MORE, a Republican from New Jersey, for president of the Export-Import Bank.While in Congress, Garrett voted against reauthorizing the bank and said that it “embodies the corruption of the free enterprise system.”If confirmed, Garrett would serve a four-year term at the helm of the bank, which aims to make U.S. exports more competitive around the world by…
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Warriors, Spurs lead first-round power rankings

CLOSE A.J. Neuharth-Keusch and Jeff Zillgitt of USA TODAY Sports take a look at the four postseason matchups in the East. USA TODAY SportsGolden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant congratulates guard Klay Thompson during the second half at Amway Center.(Photo: Kim Klement, USAT)With the NBA playoffs starting Saturday, the USA TODAY Sports NBA team took a power rankings pulse on the 16 teams that managed to make it this far. Voting was an inexact science, with respective playoff brackets not taken into account. In essence, who’s hot and who’s not? And clearly, LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers — who lost four consecutive games at the end of the regular season and thereby dropped the No. 1 seed — are…
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Prey’s lead designer created a game…

Prey is the next big game coming for the consoles and PC on May 5. It’s a first-person action-adventure game where you shoot a lot of space aliens. That part of the story of this game from Bethesda and its Arkane Studios division isn’t so novel, but the enemies are. The so-called Typhon creatures are amorphous black blobs that jump out from the landscape to surprise you. You play as Morgan Yu, a half-Chinese, half-German man trapped on a space station. The enemies, also known as Mimics, can take the shape of anything around you, and you have to figure out ways to stop them and destroy them. One of the ways is to shoot a “gloo” gun at them,…
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Ronaldo ends drought to beat stellar…

There were an atypical three Champions League quarterfinal first legs played Wednesday, with Monaco beating Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the rescheduled match following Tuesday’s traumatic bus attack.In the other games, Real Madrid beat 10-man Bayern Munich 2-1 in a thrilling match in Germany thanks to a second-half Cristiano Ronaldo double, while Atletico Madrid saw off Leicester City 1-0 on the strength of an Antoine Griezmann penalty, though the door remains open for the Foxes to provide another shock.Here are some thoughts from a compelling round of matches, beginning with Real Madrid’s triumph in Germany:Ronaldo ends drought, while Vidal rues PK missTwo minutes on either side of halftime defined this heavyweight clash that was so full of subplots, you barely knew…
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