Score board
NBA
NEW YORK: Results from Wednesday's NBA games (home team in CAPS):
TORONTO 122 Washington 83
PHILADELPHIA 112 Milwaukee 69
ORLANDO 107 Miami 91
Denver 106 MEMPHIS 102
Golden State 116 NEW ORLEANS 103
MINNESOTA 83 Chicago 67
UTAH 100 NY Knicks 89
Cleveland 84 PORTLAND 83
SACRAMENTO 105 Charlotte 91
LA CLIPPERS 95 Atlanta 88
Standings:
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L PCT GB
Boston 35 8 .814 -
Toronto 25 20 .556 11
New Jersey 19 26 .422 17
Philadelphia 18 28 .391 18 1/2
NY Knicks 14 31 .311 22
Central Division
Detroit 32 13 .711 -
Cleveland 25 19 .568 6 1/2
Indiana 19 27 .413 13 1/2
Chicago 18 27 .400 14
Milwaukee 18 29 .383 15
Southeast Division
Orlando 29 18 .617 -
Washington 24 20 .545 3 1/2
Atlanta 18 24 .429 8 1/2
Charlotte 18 28 .391 10 1/2
Miami 9 35 .205 18 1/2
Western Conference
Northwest Division
Utah 28 18 .609 -
Denver 27 18 .600 1/2
Portland 26 19 .578 1 1/2
Seattle 10 35 .222 17 1/2
Minnesota 9 36 .200 18 1/2
Pacific Division
Phoenix 33 13 .717 -
LA Lakers 28 15 .651 3 1/2
Golden State 28 19 .596 5 1/2
Sacramento 20 24 .455 12
LA Clippers 14 28 .333 17
Southwest Division
New Orleans 32 13 .711 -
Dallas 31 13 .705 1/2
San Antonio 28 16 .636 3 1/2
Houston 25 20 .556 7
Memphis 13 33 .283 19 1/2
NHL
NEW YORK: NHL results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)
ATLANTA 4 Pittsburgh 1
MINNESOTA 5 Anaheim 1
Buffalo 1 FLORIDA 0
DETROIT 3 Phoenix 2
CALGARY 5 San Jose 4
COLORADO 6 Chicago 3
SOCCER
English Premier League
LONDON: English Premier League results on Wednesday:
Chelsea 1 (Ballack 32) Reading 0
Derby 1 (Jihai 47-og) Manchester City 1 (Sturridge 63)
Everton 0 Tottenham 0
Manchester United 2 (Ronaldo 10, 13) Portsmouth 0
West Ham 1 (Noble 90-pen) Liverpool 0
Standings
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Man United 18 3 3 48 11 57
Arsenal 17 6 1 49 17 57
Chelsea 16 5 3 37 16 53
Everton 13 4 7 40 23 43
Aston Villa 11 8 5 43 31 41
Man City 11 8 5 31 25 41
Liverpool 10 10 3 37 17 40
Blackburn 10 8 6 32 31 38
Portsmouth 10 7 7 34 25 37
West Ham 10 6 7 29 21 36
Tottenham 7 7 10 44 40 28
Newcastle 7 6 11 27 42 27
Middlesbrough 6 7 11 21 37 25
Sunderland 6 5 13 24 42 23
Bolton 5 7 12 24 34 22
Reading 6 4 14 30 50 22
Birmingham 5 5 14 23 36 20
Wigan 5 5 14 23 40 20
Fulham 2 10 12 23 42 16
Derby 1 5 18 12 51 8
German Cup
BERLIN: Results of Wednesday night's German Cup third round ties:
Rot-Weiss Essen 0 Hamburg 3 (van der Vaart 6, Trochowski 52, Olic 55)
Carl Zeiss Jena 2 (Petersen 84, Simak 116-pen) Arminia Bielefeld 1 (Wichniarek 42)
Werder Bremen II 2 (Heider 57, Peitz 71) VfB Stuttgart 3 (Gomez 29, 33, 43)
VfL Wolfsburg 1 (Karimov 91) Schalke 04 1 (Loevenkrands 27)
Wolfsburg win 5-3 on penalties
Tuesday
1899 Hoffenheim 2 (Kern 51, Nilsson 12) Hansa Rostock 1 (Orestes 71-og)
Alemannia Aachen 2 (Kolew 10, Ebbers 40) 1860 Munich 3 (Schwarz 82, Kucukovic 85, Johnson 88)
Wuppertaler 2 (Damm 26, Saglik 29) Bayern Munich 5 (Klose 14, 27, van Buyten 50, Toni 53, Altintop 88)
Borussia Dortmund 2 (Federico 19, Klimowicz 80) Werder Bremen 1 (Diego 82-og)
Italian league
ROME: Italian league result on Wednesday:
Reggina 0 AC Milan 1 (Gilardino 18)
Standings
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Inter 15 5 0 43 13 50
AS Roma 13 6 1 38 19 45
Juventus 11 7 2 39 17 40
Fiorentina 10 7 3 32 18 37
Udinese 9 6 5 23 22 33
AC Milan 8 6 5 31 16 30
Sampdoria 8 4 8 26 24 28
Atalanta 6 8 6 29 28 26
Palermo 6 7 7 27 34 25
Genoa 6 7 7 20 27 25
Napoli 6 6 8 30 31 24
Catania 5 8 7 18 22 23
Livorno 5 6 8 23 31 21
Lazio 4 8 8 22 29 20
Parma 4 7 9 22 29 19
Torino 2 12 6 17 24 18
Reggina 3 9 8 17 29 18
Siena 3 8 9 22 31 17
Empoli 3 7 10 15 28 16
Cagliari 3 4 13 15 37 13
Italian Cup
ROME: Italian Cup quarterfinals 2nd leg results on Wednesday:
Catania 2 (Spinesi 44-pen, Morimoto 89) Udinese 1 (Pepe 1)
4-4 on aggregate, Catania win on away goals rule
Fiorentina 1 (Semioli 17) Lazio 2 (Kolarov 35, Rocchi 62)
Lazio win 4-2 on aggregate
Juventus 2 (Del Piero 14, Iaquinta 31) Inter Milan 3 (Balotelli 10, 54, Cruz 39-pen)
Inter win 5-4 on aggregate
Played Saturday:
Roma 1 (Mancini 60) Sampdoria 0
Roma win 2-1 on aggregate
Semifinal draw:
Roma v Catania, Lazio v Inter
ties to be played April 16 and May 7
Scottish League Cup
GLASGOW: Scottish League Cup semifinal result on Wednesday: Rangers 2 (Ferguson 50, Darcheville 69) Hearts 0
Spanish Cup
MADRID: Spanish Cup quarterfinals, second leg, results on Wednesday:
Atletico Madrid 3 (Miguel 9-og, Aguero 19, Valera 60) Valencia 2 (Cleber Santana 28-og, Mata 36)
3-3 on aggregate, Valencia qualify on away goals rule
Real Mallorca 2 (Ibagaza 8-pen, Arango 56) Getafe 1 (Granero 81)
2-2 on aggregate, Getafe qualify on away goals rule
Tennis
Vina del Mar International
SANTIAGO: Vina del Mar International men's singles second-round results from Vina del Mar, Chile on Wednesday:Pablo Cuevas (Uru) bt Fernando Verdasco (Spa x4) 7-5, 6-3; Juan Monaco (Arg x3) bt Martin Vassallo Arguello (Arg) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Juan Pablo Brzezicki (Arg) bt Marcel Granollers (Spa) 6-2, 6-2; Jose Acasuso (Arg x7) bt Daniel Gimeno (Spa) 6-2, 6-2.
(China Daily 02/01/2008 page23)
