CHICAGO, Dec. 4  -- Jonathan Toews put Chicago in front with the second of three unanswered third-period goals Wednesday, giving the Blackhawks a 4-2 win over Anaheim.

Towes scored with 1:35 to play to make it 3-2, taking advantage of a wildly bouncing puck that slammed into the end boards and hopped back in front of the Anaheim net.

Chicago began the third period facing a one-goal deficit, but Martin Havlat tied it with 5:45 to go in the stanza. Dave Bolland produced an empty-netter with nine seconds remaining.

The Blackhawks ended a three-game losing streak. Cristobal Huet made 30 saves for his fourth win of the year.

After winning four in a row, the Ducks have dropped two straight. Jonas Hiller made 37 saves in defeat.

Los Angeles  - Unhappy with their slow start, the Toronto Raptors fired coach Sam Mitchell on Wednesday, replacing him with assistant Jay Triano on an interim basis.

"This is a difficult but necessary step the franchise must take," Raptors President and general manager Bryan Colangelo said in a statement on the team's website. "We appreciate all that Sam has done for the organization. We applaud him for his successes and wish him nothing but the best with his future in basketball."

Melbourne, Dec. 4 : Top cricketers of Australia have said that they are ready to take on their Cricket Australia bosses over the issue of more pay and wanting less public exposure.

On the pay front, international and state players currently share in a quarter of all revenue, with Cricket Australia recording a total revenue of more than 146 million dollars in
2007-08, up 26 million dollars from a year earlier.

London, Dec. 4 : Manchester City is likely to spend about 70 million pounds in January on buying at least one of the top notch players like Brazil’s Kaka and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.

The football club’s wealthy Arab owners – the Abu Dhabi United Group – is determined to try to land as many superstars as possible during the transfer season.

According to The Independent, Fernando Torres, Carlos Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo and Samuel Eto''o are the other names under discussion.

London, Dec. 4: Liverpool football star Fernando Torres has said that money will be the only motivating factor for big players to come and join Manchester City.

The Liverpool superstar’s comments came after reports suggested City were preparing a world record 120-million-pound bid for Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas, 27.

London, Dec. 4 : England cricket captain Kevin Pietersen has been able to persuade key all-rounder Andrew Flintoff to undertake the tour of India in spite of fears in the minds of players following last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai.

According to The Sun, Pietersen talked Flintoff into ignoring his safety concerns and agreeing in principle to appear in the two-Test series that begins from December 11.

Fast bowler Steve Harmison has also agreed to play on. Injured fast bowler Ryan Sidebottom will be the only absentee.