Score Board
NBA
NEW YORK: NBA results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)
Washington 114 CHARLOTTE 111 (OT)
BOSTON 105 Golden State 82 Atlanta 82 MIAMI 79 Dallas 100 HOUSTON 94 DETROIT 98 NY Knicks 86
MILWAUKEE 110 LA Lakers 103
Toronto 95 MEMPHIS 89
Indiana 105 NEW ORLEANS 93
Cleveland 97 MINNESOTA 86
SAN ANTONIO 128 Orlando 110
PHOENIX 127 Sacramento 111
New Jersey 106 PORTLAND 101
LA CLIPPERS 101 Denver 90
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L PCT GB
Boston 9 1 .900 -
Toronto 6 6 .500 4
New Jersey 5 7 .417 5
Philadelphia 3 7 .300 6
NY Knicks 2 9 .182 7 1/2
Central Division
Detroit 7 4 .636 -
Milwaukee 6 4 .600 0 1/2
Cleveland 6 6 .500 1 1/2
Indiana 5 7 .417 2 1/2
Chicago 2 8 .200 4 1/2
Southeast Division
Orlando 10 3 .769 -
Washington 6 5 .545 3
Charlotte 6 5 .545 3
Atlanta 4 7 .364 5
Miami 2 9 .182 7
Western Conference
Northwest Division
Utah 8 4 .667 -
Denver 8 4 .667 -
Portland 4 8 .333 4
Seattle 2 10 .167 6
Minnesota 1 8 .111 5 1/2
Pacific Division
Phoenix 10 2 .833 -
LA Lakers 7 4 .636 2 1/2
LA Clippers 6 4 .600 3
Sacramento 4 8 .333 6
Golden State 3 7 .300 6
Southwest Division
San Antonio 9 2 .818 -
Dallas 8 2 .800 0 1/2
New Orleans 9 3 .750 0 1/2
Houston 6 5 .545 3
Memphis 3 7 .300 5 1/2
nhl
NEW YORK: NHL results on Wednesday (home team in CAPS)
BUFFALO 4 Ottawa 2
Atlanta 5 WASHINGTON 1
Philadelphia 6 CAROLINA 3
Montreal 4 NY ISLANDERS 1
Florida 5 COLUMBUS 2
NY Rangers 2 TAMPA BAY 1
DETROIT 3 St. Louis 0
New Jersey 2 PITTSBURGH 1
Vancouver 4 MINNESOTA 2
DALLAS 2 Anaheim 1
PHOENIX 4 Los Angeles 1
Standings:
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L Otl Gf Ga Pts
NY Rangers 13 8 1 49 41 27
Philadelphia 12 7 1 63 53 25
NY Islanders 11 7 0 46 49 22
New Jersey 9 10 2 50 57 20
Pittsburgh 8 11 2 57 64 18
Northeast Division
Ottawa 16 4 0 63 43 32
Montreal 12 6 3 67 55 27
Boston 10 7 2 49 48 22
Toronto 8 9 5 68 78 21
Buffalo 8 10 1 54 56 17
Southeast Division
Carolina 12 7 3 74 64 27
Atlanta 11 10 0 61 70 22
Tampa Bay 10 9 2 69 63 22
Florida 10 12 1 60 67 21
Washington 6 14 1 47 64 13
Western Conference
Central Division
Detroit 15 5 1 72 50 31
Chicago 11 8 1 62 61 23
St. Louis 11 8 0 47 45 22
Nashville 10 8 2 56 57 22
Columbus 9 8 4 55 55 22
Northwest Division
Vancouver 11 8 2 59 57 24
Minnesota 11 8 2 57 54 24
Colorado 11 8 1 58 59 23
Calgary 9 9 3 60 64 21
Edmonton 8 12 1 49 68 17
Pacific Division
San Jose 11 7 3 57 47 25
Dallas 10 7 4 63 56 24
Anaheim 10 9 3 55 60 23
Phoenix 9 10 0 46 57 18
Los Angeles 8 12 1 59 70 17
Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the
standings and are not included in the loss column (L)
Soccer
Asian Olympic qualifying
SINGAPORE: Results from Asian qualifying matches on Wednesday for the 2008 Olympics Games. The top team in each group qualifies along with hosts China.
x=qualified
Group A
At Pyongyang: North Korea 1 Australia 1
At Doha: Iraq v Lebanon
Standings:
W D L Gf Ga Pts
x-Australia 3 3 0 7 1 12
Iraq 2 2 1 7 2 9
North Korea 1 2 3 3 6 5
Lebanon 1 1 3 2 10 4
Group B
At Seoul: South Korea 0 Bahrain 0
At Aleppo: Syria v Uzbekistan
W D L Gf Ga Pts
x-South Korea 3 3 0 4 1 12
Bahrain 3 2 1 6 3 11
Syria 0 3 2 1 4 3
Uzbekistan 0 1 4 2 6 2
Group C
At Tokyo: Japan 0 Saudi Arabia 0
At Doha: Qatar v Vietnam
W D L Gf Ga Pts
x-Japan 3 2 1 7 2 11
Saudi Arabia 2 3 1 5 3 9
Qatar 2 2 2 5 5 7
Vietnam 0 2 3 2 9 2
Euro 2008 qualifying
PARIS: Euro 2008 qualifying collated results and standings on Wednesday:
(N.B. The top two teams in each group qualified for the 16-team finals together with co-hosts Austria and Switzerland)
Group A
At Baku: Azerbaijan 0 Belgium 1 (Pieroni 53)
At Yerevan: Armenia 0 Kazakhstan 1 (Ostapenko 64)
At Oporto, Portugal: Portugal 0 Finland 0
At Belgrade: Serbia 2 (Zigic 68, Lazovic 70) Poland 2 (Murawski 28, Matusiak 47)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Poland 8 4 2 24 12 28 Portugal 7 6 1 24 10 27 Finland 6 6 2 13 7 24 Serbia 5 6 2 21 11 21 Belgium 5 3 6 14 16 18 Kazakhstan 2 4 7 11 20 10 Armenia 2 3 7 4 13 9 Azerbaijan 1 2 9 6 28 5
Group B
At Tbilisi: Georgia 0 Lithuania 2 (Ksanavicius 53, Kalonas 90+6)
At Modena: Italy 3 (Benjaminsen 10-og, Toni 36, Chiellini 41) Faroe Islands 1 (Jacobsen 83)
At Kiev: Ukraine 2 (Voronin 13, Shevchenko 46) France 2 (Henry 20, Govou 34)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Italy 9 2 1 22 9 29 France 8 2 2 25 5 26 Scotland 8 0 4 21 12 24 Ukraine 5 2 5 18 16 17 Lithuania 5 1 6 11 13 16 Georgia 3 1 8 16 19 10
Faroe Islands 0 0 12 4 43 0
Group C
At Istanbul: Turkey 1 (Nihat 43) Bosnia 0
At Ta'Qali, Malta: Malta 1 (Mifsud 53) Norway 4 (Iversen 25, 27-pen, 45, Gamst Pedersen 74)
At Budapest: Hungary 1 (Buzsaky 7) Greece 2 (Vanczak 22-og, Basinas 59-pen)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Greece 10 1 1 25 10 31 Turkey 7 3 2 25 11 24 Norway 7 2 3 27 11 23 Bosnia 4 1 7 16 22 13 Moldova 3 3 6 12 19 12 Hungary 4 0 8 11 22 12 Malta 1 2 9 10 31 5
Group D
At Nicosia: Cyprus 0 Czech Republic 2 (Pudil 11, Koller 74)
At Frankfurt, Germany: Germany 0 Wales 0
At Serravalle: San Marino 0 Slovakia 5 (Holoko 42, 51, Hamsik 53, Cech 57, 83)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Czech Republic 9 2 1 27 5 29 Germany 8 3 1 35 7 27
Republic of Ireland 4 5 3 17 14 17 Slovakia 5 1 6 33 23 16
Wales 4 3 5 18 19 15
Cyprus 4 2 6 17 24 14
San Marino 0 0 12 2 57 0
Group E
At Tel Aviv: Israel 1 (Barda 35) Macedonia 0
At London: England 2 (Lampard 56-pen, Crouch 65) Croatia 3 (Kranjcar 8, Olic 13, Petric 77)
At Andorra: Andorra 0 Russia 1 (Sychev 39)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Croatia 9 2 1 28 8 29 Russia 7 3 2 18 7 24 England 7 2 3 24 7 23 Israel 7 2 3 20 12 23 Macedonia 4 2 6 12 12 14 Estonia 2 1 9 5 21 7 Andorra 0 0 12 2 42 0
Group F
At Las Palmas, Spain: Spain 1 (Xavi 51) Northern Ireland 0
At Solna, Sweden: Sweden 2 (Allback 1, Kallstrom 57) Latvia 1 (Laizans 26)
At Copenhagen: Denmark 3 (Bendtner 35, Tomasson 44, Kahlenberg 59) Iceland 0
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Spain 9 1 2 23 8 28 Sweden 8 2 2 23 9 26
Northern Ireland 6 2 4 17 14 20 Denmark 6 2 4 21 11 20 Latvia 4 0 8 15 17 12 Iceland 2 2 8 10 27 8 Liechtenstein 2 1 9 9 32 7
Group G
At Bucharest: Romania 6 (Dica 22, 71-pen, Tamas 53, Niculae 62, 66, Marica 69-pen) Albania 1 (Kapllani 64)
At Celje, Slovenia: Slovenia 0 Bulgaria 2 (Georgiev 79, Berbatov 82)
At Minsk: Belarus 2 (Bulyga 49, Korythko 65) Holland 1 (van der Vaart 89)
W D L Gf Ga Pts
Romania 9 2 1 26 7 29 Holland 8 2 2 15 5 26 Bulgaria 7 4 1 18 7 25 Belarus 4 1 7 17 23 13 Albania 2 5 5 12 18 11 Slovenia 3 2 7 9 16 11 Luxembourg 1 0 11 2 23 3
South American World Cup qualifying
SAO PAULO: South American World Cup qualifying results and standings on Wednesday.
Chile 0 Paraguay 3
Brazil 2 Uruguay 1
Ecuador 5 Peru 1
Tuesday, November 20
Colombia 2 Argentina 1
Standings
W D L G Ga Pts
Paraguay 3 1 0 9 1 10
Argentina 3 0 1 8 2 9
Brazil 2 2 0 8 2 8
Colombia 2 2 0 3 1 8
Venezuela 2 0 2 6 6 6
Uruguay 1 1 2 8 5 4
Chile 1 1 2 4 7 4
Ecuador 1 0 3 6 12 3
Peru 0 2 2 2 8 2
Bolivia 0 1 3 3 13 1
(China Daily 11/23/2007 page22)