Score board

Basketball

Results on National Basketball Association games on Wednesday (home teams in CAPS):

Miami 105 CHARLOTTE 92

Chicago at INDIANA, ppd

New Orleans 97 ORLANDO 94

Cleveland 87 WASHINGTON 84

ATLANTA 126 Detroit 119 (2OT)

Philadelphia 99 MEMPHIS 89

MILWAUKEE 108 Brooklyn 93

Houston 87 MINNESOTA 84

SAN ANTONIO 100 Toronto 80

DENVER 126 LA Lakers 114

NY Knicks 99 PHOENIX 97

Golden State 94 UTAH 83

PORTLAND 109 Sacramento 91

Soccer

Belgian League

Results on Wednesday:

Charleroi 1 Mons 2

Zulte-Waregem 2 Louvain 1

Lokeren 3 Cercle Brugge 0

KV Mechelen 1 Ghent 0

Waasland-Beveren 1 RC Genk 1

Club Brugge 0 Courtrai 0

English Premier League

Results on Wednesday:

Aston Villa 0 Tottenham 4 (Defoe 57, Bale 61, 73, 84)

Everton 2 (Osman 52, Jagielka 77) Wigan 1 (Kone 82)

Fulham 1 (Berbatov 8) Southampton 1 (Lambert 85-pen)

Man Utd 4 (Evans 25, Evra 58, van Persie 71, Hernandez 90) Newcastle 3 (Perch 4, Evans 28-og, Cisse 68)

Norwich 0 Chelsea 1 (Mata 38)

QPR 1 (Cisse 68) West Brom 2 (Brunt 29, Green 49-og)

Reading 0 Swansea 0

Stoke 3 (Walters 5, 49, Jones 12) Liverpool 1 (Gerrard 2-pen)

Sunderland 1 (Johnson 53) Man City 0

Postponed

Arsenal vs West Ham (London Underground sstrike)

English Championship

Results on Wednesday:

Barnsley 1 Birmingham 2

Bolton 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1

Burnley 2 Derby 0

Cardiff 2 Crystal Palace 1

Charlton 1 Ipswich 2

Huddersfield 1 Blackpool 1

Hull 0 Leicester 0

Middlesbrough 1 Blackburn 0

Nottingham Forest 4 Leeds 2

Wolves 0 Peterborough 3

Postponed

Bristol City v Watford (waterlogged pitch)

Scottish Premier League

Results on Wednesday:

Dundee 0 Celtic 2 (Samaras 16, Hooper 71)

Dundee Utd 1 (Gunning 2) St Johnstone 1 (McLean 47-og)

Hibernian 0 Ross County 1 (Brittain 57)

Inverness CT 2 (Shinnie 38, Foran 67) St Mirren 2 (Imrie 2, Thompson 55)

Kilmarnock 1 (Kelly 27-pen) Hearts 0

Motherwell 4 (Hateley 9, Murphy 31, 45, Higdon 55) Aberdeen 1 (Hayes 34)

China Daily

(China Daily 12/28/2012 page24)