Kuusamo, Finland - A World Cup ski jump team event postponed on Friday will now take place later Saturday.

Los Angeles  - For nearly two-and-a-half quarters, the Los Angeles Lakers couldn't stop the Dallas Mavericks, until finally figuring it out.

Kobe Bryant scored a season-high 35 points, and the Lakers went on a decisive 17-0 run, bridging the third and fourth quarters en route to their sixth straight victory, 114-107 over the visiting Mavericks on Friday night.

"Tonight was a game where it didn't seem like anything was going our way," said Bryant, who had 23 second-half points. "But we made adjustments and we were able to battle through."

Sydney  - Ethiopian running maestro Haile Gebrselassie could capture his 27th world record at the inaugural HBA Great Australian Run in Melbourne, organizers said Saturday.

Sunday's 15-kilometre race around the streets of Australia's second-biggest city is his first outing since breaking two hours and four minutes in the 42.2-kilometre marathon. He improved his own world record with a time of 2:03:59 in Berlin in September.

The 10,000-metre gold medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is convinced more world marks are his.

"My plan is to at least reach 30 world records," Gebrselassie, 35, said. "I don't know which one I'll break next - maybe the marathon or the half-marathon."

Melbourne, Nov. 29 : An ugly confrontation is looming between national and state cricket administrators on one side and players who feel they have missed out on rich pickings from the postponed Champions League Twenty20 tournament, reports The Daily Telegraph.

Australian cricketers and state cricket adminsitrators are reportedly feeling that the Mumbai terror strikes have cost them financially.

Cricket Victoria and the West Australian Cricket Association officials were last night reportedly still coming to terms with the Cricket Australia missive that they will now not contest the finals of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament.

BOSTON, Nov. 28 - Ray Allen scored 23 points Friday and Boston blew the game open in the second quarter en route to a 102-78 decision over Philadelphia.

The Celtics won their seventh straight and improved the best record in the Eastern Conference to 15-2.

Boston expanded a six-point lead after one period into an 18-point cushion at halftime. The Celtics held the 76ers scoreless for almost the first 4 minutes of the second quarter.

Kevin Garnett added 15 points and the Boston bench received most of the second-half playing time. Leon Powe, Tony Allen and Glen Davis all scored 10 for the Celtics.

ANAHEIM, Calif., Nov. 28  -- Jonas Hiller recorded his second career shutout Friday in Anaheim's 1-0 victory over Chicago.

Hiller, in his second NHL season, filled in for regular starter Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who returned to his hometown of Montreal for family reasons.

Chicago peppered Hiller with 15 shots in the second period and the Anaheim goaltender stopped 26 overall.

The game's lone goal came from Ryan Getzlaf at 15:19 of the second period after assists by Corey Perry and Bobby Ryan. It was Getzlaf's ninth of the year and brought the Ducks their third straight victory following five losses in six games.

Cristobal Huet stopped 20 shots in the Blackhawks' second straight loss.