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Miami head coach Frank Haith will accept the unbeaten Hurricanes’ 85-63 victory over North Florida on Thursday night, with strong reservations. “I thought it was our worst performance of the year,” Haith said. “Our intensity level was not good the whole game. “You just can’t turn it on.” Jack McClinton and Dwayne Collins each scored…

Levance Fields had about as much on his mind as a player can. His team was down two points with 16 seconds left in overtime. He had turned the ball over on Pittsburgh’s last two possessions. He was playing in front of a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden, the arena the junior guard used…

Vince Carter scored 31 points, Richard Jefferson added 29 and the New Jersey Nets overcame a seven-point deficit late in regulation before beating the Miami Heat 107-103 in overtime Thursday night.

LeBron James scored 33 points and shut out Kobe Bryant when the two superstars guarded each other in the final 2:23, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 94-90 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night.

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Willie Parker, the NFL’s leading rusher, broke a bone in his lower right leg in the first quarter Thursday night against St. Louis. Parker, who entered the game with 1,317 yards and consecutive 100-yard games, had one carry for a 1-yard loss before leaving the game. It wasn’t clear how Parker…

Ben Roethlisberger passed for 204 yards and three touchdowns in the first half, giving the Pittsburgh Steelers a 24-17 lead over the St. Louis Rams on Thursday night. Nate Washington caught touchdown passes of 17 and 33 yards and Nigel Davenport caught a 12-yarder from Roethlisberger, who was 10-for-12.

Todd White’s power-play goal 47 seconds into the third period broke a tie and helped the Atlanta Thrashers snap the Ottawa Senators’ winning streak at six, with a 3-2 victory Thursday night. Atlanta, which ended its four-game skid on Tuesday night with a win over Tampa Bay, beat Ottawa for the first time this season…

Guilliaume Latendresse scored two goals in his return from a benching, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 Thursday night. Latendresse, scratched by coach Guy Carbonneau for the Canadiens’ 3-2 loss to Florida on Tuesday, notched the fourth two-goal game of his NHL career — the second this month.

The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations wants NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell to apologize to Chris Simon for mistakenly suggesting the suspended New York Islanders forward would receive counseling for drug and alcohol issues. Phil Fontaine released a statement Thursday, the day after Campbell announced that Simon would be banned for a league-record…

The Miami Heat may protest what they believe was a scoring error in Wednesday night’s overtime loss at Atlanta. Shaquille O’Neal fouled out with 51 seconds remaining in Miami’s 117-111 loss — but statsheets distributed immediately after the game showed the Miami center with five fouls. The sheet was eventually revised to show O’Neal with…

Oklahoma City made its first major move toward permanently attracting an NBA franchise Thursday when Mayor Mick Cornett called for the public to support a proposal to spend more than $100 million to overhaul the Ford Center and build a practice facility. Cornett accelerated plans for the vote by several months so it could be…

The notion of not seeing Alonzo Mourning play basketball again is a difficult one for the Miami Heat to accept. Mourning had surgery Thursday to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee and a quadriceps tear in the same leg. The injury, which he suffered Wednesday night in Miami’s overtime loss at the…