Bryant scored 19 points and tied a season high with 14 assists despite a nagging left foot injury, and the Los Angeles Lakers kept pace for the Western Conference's final playoff spot by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 103-98 on Saturday night.

NPR: Kobe Bryant Leads Lakers Past Kings, 103-98

Two tug boats are dragging the nearly 900-foot, 14-story Triumph at a jogger's pace to the harbor, where Carnival hopes to return 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members to freedom on Thursday, the cruise line said.

CNN: Befouled cruise ship scheduled for Thursday docking

For most of the day Wednesday, two tugboats dragged the nearly 900-foot, 14-story Triumph at a jogger's pace to the harbor, where the 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members on board will get off the vessel on Thursday, the cruise line said.

CNN: Supplies reach befouled cruise ship in Gulf of Mexico

Rangers' American star offered pace and movement, but only once, with a rasping left-foot shot, did he threaten to score and on that occasion the impressive Smith was behind the ball.

BBC: Rangers 2-1 Motherwell

If California's growth continued at the pace it did from 1960 to 2000, Johnson said, then there would be one person per square foot in the state within 300 years.

CNN: The California Dream is fizzling out