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COLLEGE FOOTBALLAUSTIN, Texas -- Former Baylor football coach Art Briles sued three school regents and a vice president for libel and slander, accusing them of falsely stating he knew of reported assaults and alleged gang rapes by players and didnt report them.The lawsuit also asserts that Baylor officials conspired to damage his reputation and keep him from getting another coaching job. It also seeks damages for emotional distress and likely ending his career as a coach on any level.The lawsuit was filed in Llano County in central Texas. It names Baylor regents Chairman Ronald Murff, board members J. Cary Gray and David Harper, and Baylor Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Reagan Ramsower.Baylor officials declined immediate comment.ATLANTA -- Lamar Jackson picked up another trophy for his marvelous season.The Louisville quarterback got a glimpse of the one he really wants.On a red-carpet night in Atlanta, Jackson captured the Maxwell Award as the nations top college player and signaled himself as the clear favorite for the Heisman Trophy. Jackson already won the Walter Camp Award, also given to the best player.In an interesting twist, Clemsons Deshaun Watson claimed the Davey OBrien award as the nations top quarterback for the second year in a row -- beating out Jackson.Now its on to New York, where theyre both finalists for college footballs most prestigious individual award.PRO BASKETBALLNEW YORK -- A lawyer for a couple who claim Sacramento Kings players Matt Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins assaulted them at a nightclub said theyll rely on videotapes, medical reports and the testimony of witnesses to prove they were attacked.The lawyer, Michael S. Lamonsoff, spoke at a news conference as the couple, Jasmine Besiso and Myrone Powell, held hands nearby a day after their federal lawsuit alleged Barnes choked and knocked Besiso unconscious before both players attacked Powell with punches and kicks inside a Manhattan nightclub on Monday.Lamonsoff said Barnes attacked Besiso, a hairstylist, after trying to choke another woman earlier in the night. He said he hopes the other woman comes forward to authorities. He said Besiso and Powell didnt know the players before the altercation.He said the players were using their celebrity status and vast resources to distort the truth.BASEBALLST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals have scheduled a news conference for Friday morning amid reports theyve reached an agreement with free agent center fielder Dexter Fowler on a multiyear deal.KSDK-TV in St. Louis first reported the deal. The conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. CST.Fowler is a free agent for a second consecutive offseason after returning to the Chicago Cubs in February on a one-year contract worth $13 million. He broke out in his second season on Chicagos North Side, making his first All-Star Game while batting .276 with 13 home runs and a career-best .393 on-base percentage. He had a pair of home runs during the World Series, helping the Cubs end a 108-year title drought.The lanky 30-year-old from Atlanta is a .268 career hitter over nine seasons with Colorado, Houston and the Cubs. He would likely to slot into the Cardinals leadoff spot, giving St. Louis a switch-hitter ahead of lefty-hitting Matt Carpenter and righties Aledmys Diaz, Stephen Piscotty and Yadier Molina.HOCKEYLAS VEGAS -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied the Vegas Golden Knights trademark application a little more than two weeks after the new NHL franchise unveiled its name and logo.The office cites potential confusion with the team name for the College of Saint Rose in New York, which is also the Golden Knights. The Las Vegas franchise is set to take the ice next season.NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said the league will formally respond by a June 7 deadline outlining why it believes the name should be registered in co-existence with that of Saint Rose just as a number of other nicknames currently co-exist in professional and college sports (particularly where there is no overlap as to the sport for which the nickname is being used).OLYMPICSLAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Signaling a potential radical change in the way Olympic host cities are chosen, IOC President Thomas Bach wants to revise the bidding process because it produces too many losers.He wouldnt rule out the possibility of awarding two games at the same time.Bachs comments came the same day the IOC executive board cleared all three candidate cities for the 2024 Olympics -- Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary -- to advance to the next stage of the race.It was the first time Bach has publicly spoken about further changes to the bidding process, which has suffered in recent years as voters rejected bids in referendums, and cities dropped out because of concerns over the costs of the games. 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Led by Lundqvists 35 saves in a second consecutive shutout, the Rangers beat the Capitals 5-0 in an anticlimactic finale of an otherwise tense and tight seven-game series Monday night, eliminating Washington for the second year in a row. "Goaltending is the big thing," said Arron Asham, a fourth-line winger whose goal Monday gave him a pair for the series, twice as many as two-time NHL MVP Ovechkin. "Hanks been our backbone all year." The last NHL goalie to pull off the double shutouts in Games 6-7 was Detroits Dominik Hasek in 2002 against Colorado, according to STATS LLC. "Theres moments where you enjoy it and you think Wow, this is great. And you have fun. But theres also moments where you dont feel great. You feel the pressure and you just want to get it done, so badly," Lundqvist said. "You try to control your emotions. Thats the key for me. Im an emotional guy when I play. I try to just stay calm. Good or bad. I just try to stay calm and focus on my thing." Did that rather well on Sunday and Monday, lifting his career post-season shutout total to eight. "He was really good, but the team was also good, too. I have to give the team some credit. They played hard in front of him," Rangers coach John Tortorella said. Lundqvist, Ovechkin said, did an "unbelievable job; he makes incredible saves." By winning a Game 7 on the road for the first time in its history, New York completed its comeback after trailing in the series 2-0 and 3-2 -- the latest in Washingtons long history of playoff collapses. Now the sixth-seeded Rangers face the No. 4 Bruins, with Game 1 on Thursday at Boston. The Original Six rivals have not met in the playoffs since 1973. New York won that series in five games. "Well enjoy this one tonight," Rangers forward Rick Nash said, "and then get back to work." Nash was held without a goal by Washington, but New York found other scorers. Asham put New York ahead Monday in the first period, before Taylor Pyatt and Michael Del Zotto made it 3-0 early in the second on goals 2:10 apart. Ryan Callahan added a goal 13 seconds into the third period, and when Mats Zuccarello scored with about 13 1/2 minutes remaining, thousands of red-clad fans streamed to the exits. Soon after, when Lundqvist fell forward to smother a puck, chants of "Hen-reeek! Hen-reeek!" from the no-longer-outnumbered Rangers supporters rose in the arena. While Callahan did have 16 goals this season, the other four Rangers who put pucks past Braden Holtby on Monday combined for a total of only 14. "You need your third and fourth lines to get some goals to win games," Asham said, "and it was proven tonight." Also made clear: Lundqvist gives the Rangers a chance to win every game. From the moment Mike Ribeiros ovvertime goal gave Washington a Game 5 victory, Lundqvist was simply superb.dddddddddddd The Swede stopped all 62 shots he faced in Games 6 and 7, showing exactly why he won the Vezina Trophy as the leagues top goalie last season and is a finalist this season. "In a game like this, obviously youre looking for a great start. I thought we set the tone in the first. You just need a couple of good bounces and we got them tonight. A couple of big goals for us," Lundqvist said. "When we scored the fourth one, I thought, OK, we got this. As long as its three, you never know with (the Capitals). They have so much skill, they can turn it around quickly." But Washingtons offence managed to score 12 goals the entire series -- and zero over the final six periods. Indeed, Ovechkin was held without a point in Games 3-7. The Russian wing led the NHL with 32 goals but he heads into the off-season after the longest playoff point drought of his career. He had a goal in Game 1, an assist in Game 2, and that was it. "Its very frustrating," said Ovechkin, never past the second round of the playoffs. "Thats the whole point: Youre here to win the games and try to win the cup." The Rangers-Capitals finale began only a little more than 24 hours after the shoving- and wrestling-filled end of Game 6, which New York won 1-0 on Derick Brassards second-period goal. That, of course, was played at Madison Square Garden, continuing the pattern of the home team winning each of the first six games of the series. That ended emphatically Monday, in a Game 7 so similar to Washingtons 6-2 loss to Pittsburgh in 2009, even Ovechkin brought up that defeat afterward. Another pattern done away with: Games 2-6 between New York and Washington were all decided by one goal. "Quite honestly, tough to explain," Capitals coach Adam Oates said. "Its funny how over the years sometimes the seventh game turns into some form of blowout." Since the start of the 2008 playoffs -- when Washingtons core of Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Mike Green made their post-season debuts -- the Capitals have appeared in nine series, and this was the seventh to last the full seven games. Theyre now 2-5 in those, and Ovechkin and Co. have never been beyond the second round. Going further back, to 1985, the Capitals have lost nine series in which the club led either 2-0 or 3-1. "Nobody is yelling at each other here. Nobody was pointing a figure that it was somebodys fault we (lost) the game. Its everybodys fault," Ovechkin said. "All the guys fault. My fault. (Backstroms). Its everybody. Its not about one person or two people. Its about the team." Truthfully, not much anyone on his team could do Sunday or Monday with the way Lundqvist performed. "We threw the kitchen sink at him at times, and he stood there and defended," Green said. "Hes a great goaltender. We knew that." Notes: The Rangers were 0-5 in Game 7s on the road entering Monday. ... Ovechkins longest span without a point this regular season was three games, something he went through twice: Feb. 14-21 and March 9-12. The Rangers were the opponent in the middle game of both of those droughts. ... The Rangers lost in the Eastern Conference finals last year to the New Jersey Devils, for whom Oates was an assistant coach. ' ' '