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TAMPA, Fla. — If No. 1 Georgia beats No. 3 TCU in Monday’s College Football Playoff national championship, Arian Smith will go down in Bulldogs lore for coming off the bench to score his first touchdown of the season — a 76 yarder that sparked Saturday’s comeback win over Ohio…

Staring at a fifth consecutive loss, the Strikers pulled off a miracle at Adelaide Oval thanks to acting captain Matt Short's heroics.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two well-publicized Carolina Hurricanes streaks continued Friday, with the team picking up its franchise-record 10th consecutive win while earning a point in a franchise-record 16th consecutive game.

The Hawks were generally clean and efficient in all three zones Thursday. But an inexplicable error by Boris Katchouk and a continued lack of goal-scoring doomed them to a 3-1 loss.

Impatience caused Raddysh to drift too wide and too low in the defensive zone before the Hurricanes’ first goal Tuesday. But the Hawks addressed it immediately at the first intermission — a level of thoroughness that they hope prevents repeat mistakes.

After a turn-back-the-clock performance Friday against the Blue Jackets, Kane and Toews made little impact in a 3-0 defeat Tuesday — yet again reminding them of the Hawks’ miserable reality.

The Wildcats fired their previous coach in November.

Domi faced one former team, the Blue Jackets, right before the Christmas break — and insisted a controversial joke he made about the city of Columbus was “spun out of proportion.” Domi then traveled Monday to Raleigh for dinner with some old Hurricanes teammates.

Star Hobart Hurricanes veteran Matthew Wade has been handed a one-match BBL ban after being heard swearing during a match again.