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LOS ANGELES -- Notre Dames Muffet McGraw will receive the John R. Wooden Awards Legends of Coaching honor.The annual award is given to college basketball coaches who exemplify the late UCLA legends standard of coaching success and personal integrity.McGraw will receive the award on April 7 at the College Basketball Awards in Los Angeles. She is the third female coach to be honored, joining Tara VanDerveer of Stanford and the late Pat Summitt of Tennessee.McGraw has spent 29 years at Notre Dame, where she guided the Irish to the 2001 national championship. She was inducted into the Womens Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.Other previous winners of the award include Roy Williams of Kansas, Mike Krzyzewski of Duke and the late Dean Smith of North Carolina. . Durant finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds, Jackson matched his career high with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting and Lamb scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting, lifting the Thunder to a 94-88 win over San Antonio and snapping the Spurs 11-game winning streak. . Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC failed to make the postseason while Montreal Impact fell at the first hurdle losing heavily to Houston Dynamo in the Eastern Conference Knockout Round. . Hamelin, who triumphed in the 500 on Saturday, edged out Victor An of Russia by 0.021 seconds to maintain his lead in the World Cup standings. Russias Vladimir Grigorev was third. In the relay, Canada took control six laps from the finish line to beat Russia and the Netherlands. . Pert has formerly spent time as an assistant coach with Cardiff City, Coventry City, and Bahrain mens national team. "Martyn is a highly-respected coach with experience at the top levels in England," said Whitecaps FC head coach Carl Robinson. . Peter Gammons, an analyst for Major League Baseballs network and website, drew the ire of hockey fans on Sunday when he criticized the two NHL teams on Twitter for their physical game the night before. Indias Jeev Milkha Singh scored 2-under 69 after 18 holes?to start his campaign in the European Tour British Masters event on Thursday. This placed Jeev in tied-21th place, with Finlands Mikko Ilonen, Scotlands Marc Warren, Englands Tommy Fleetwood and South Africas Richard Stern leading with 5-under 66 after completing their first rounds in Hertfordshire, England.Jeev began his campaign from the back nine and registered his first bogey on the 17th hole after shooting par scores on the seven holes before that. His form improved on the front nine as he shot birdies on the second, fourth and fifth holes.ddddddddddddJeev had finished tied-54th at this European Tour event last year. He had last participated in the KLM Open where he had failed to make the cut.His best result on the European Tour this year has been a tied-7th place finish at the Thailand Classic in March. He has failed to make the cut in 10 of the 16 tournaments that he has participated in on the European Tour in 2016. ' ' '
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