A cocker spaniel named Simba miraculously survived an encounter with the third rail of the CTA Brown Line tracks early Monday on the Northwest Side. The 10-year-old canine went lacking late Sunday as his homeowners futzed with a storage door that wasn’t working correctly within the 4300 block of North Lawndale Avenue within the Albany Park neighborhood. “We immediately started looking around the neighborhood,” stated Frances Jimenez, who’d simply returned house from a double shift as a nursing assistant and was trying ahead to mattress when she realized her canine was gone. “He’s like our baby, a part of the family,” she stated, noting her and her husband filed a police report within the wee
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No. 1 Kansas Basketball Survives Triple-OT Scare From No. 2 Oklahoma
The No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks won the battle of the Big 12 on Monday and stayed atop the mountaintop, handing conference rival No. 2 Oklahoma its first loss of the season in a thrilling 109-106 triple-overtime game. Sooners senior guard Buddy Hield scored a game-high 46 points, tied for the most points by a visiting Kansas opponent ever. Teammate Jordan Woodward also was a menace, racking up 27 points before fouling out of the game in the third overtime. Kansas senior forward Perry Ellis was masterful for the Jayhawks, dropping 27 points and pulling in 13 rebounds, while guard Wayne Selden Jr. added 21 points. Kansas and Oklahoma rose to Nos. 1 and
Hockey East Roundup: Vermont Survives No. 10 BC In 3-2 Overtime Win
It took a miracle for Boston College to reach overtime, but in the extra period, its luck finally ran out. Freshman forward Alex Tuch scored for the No. 10 Eagles (17-10-2) with 9.6 seconds remaining in regulation to send the game into overtime, but Vermont forward Anthony Petruzzelli scored 1:47 into added time to help the No. 17 Catamounts (17-10-2) escape with a dramatic 3-2 win Friday night at Kelley Rink. The contest between two ranked teams was a back-and-forth affair from the start, as both squads traded goals in the first period. Vermont took a 2-1 lead in the second period with a goal off the stick of forward Kevin Irwin, and that lead would