Stuns

Chaminade University is a Catholic school with 1,200 students with a Division II men's basketball team that is probably best known for hosting the annual Maui Invitational tournament. Oh, and for knocking off a big-time program every few decades. Thirty years after pulling off one of the biggest upsets ever in college basketball, the Silverswords beat Texas, 86-73, Monday night during the first day of the invitational. “We are ecstatic,” said Coach Eric Bovaird, whose team immediately became a hot topic all over Twitter following the game.

CORTINA D' AMPEZZO, Italy - Hiking up a road should be simple, right? It's relatively wide, so you're not apt to step off and tumble down the mountain. It's relatively smooth, so you're not likely to stumble. So why am I stopping for a breather every couple of hundred yards while I just saw a guy pushing a baby buggy down the road and my "baby" is by this time somewhere near the top? Well, there is that little matter of grade - or steepness - and Italy's Dolomites, though not of the dizzying height as the Rockies, do make the grade.

Cal Baptist 67, at Pepperdine 65: Larry Dew had 20 points to lead the Lancers, Justus Von Wright scored 17 and NAIA Cal Baptist stunned the Waves in the final minute for a two-point victory. Pepperdine got 22 points from Mychel Thompson and 21 points from Keion Bell. Montana 82, at Loyola Marymount 73 : Derek Selvig had a double-double with 18 points and 10 rebounds and Anthony Johnson had 22 points, including going 14 for 14 from the free-throw line, to lead the Grizzlies past the Lions.

The slaying of 36-year-old Army veteran and soon-to-be college graduate Maribel Ramos has stunned Cal State Fullerton, where she was a well-known member of the campus community. Cal State Fullerton President Mildred Garcia released a statement calling Ramos "a wonderful role model for our students" who will be deeply missed. "Maribel was a beloved student and military veteran who was actively engaged here on our campus and in the community," Garcia said. "We honor her for her past service to our country as an airborne paratrooper in the Army and her commitment to her education.

The U.S. and Canada men's volleyball teams both remained unbeaten in pool play Wednesday, advancing to Friday's semifinals of the NORCECA Olympic qualifying tournament at Long Beach State. The U.S. knocked off Mexico, 25-23, 25-19, 25-14 as expected, but Canada stunned an uncharacteristically sloppy Cuba, ranked fifth in the world, winning in straight sets 25-21, 25-17, 25-21. To keep its Olympic hopes alive, Cuba will have to beat Trinidad and Tobago in Thursday's quarterfinals, likely setting up a meeting with the U.S. in the semifinals.

Max Hall threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to McKay Jacobson in the back of the end zone with 3 minutes 3 seconds left, giving No. 20-ranked Brigham Young a 14-13 victory over No. 3 Oklahoma on Saturday night in front of 75,437 at Cowboys Stadium. The Sooners' last hope to recover ended when Tress Way came up short on a 54-yard field goal with 1:23 to play. Sooners quarterback Sam Bradford, the Heisman Trophy winner last season, sprained his throwing shoulder when he was tackled by linebacker Coleby Clawson in the closing seconds of the first half.

Arthur Aghasya's goal five minutes into overtime lifted Cal FC to a stunning 1-0 upset of the Portland Timbers on Wednesday in a third-round match of soccer's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in Portland, Ore. Aghasyan, who played for a time last season with Real Salt Lake, charged Portland goalkeeper Troy Perkins in the 95th minute and rifled the ball into the goal as Perkins slid on the turf Cal FC, an upstart Ventura County team coached by former...

Roger Federer was a twitchy, unsettled mess, channeling his inner Serena Williams by angrily lecturing the chair umpire. And this was after he had won the third set. The crackling forehands of his 20-year-old opponent, Juan Martin del Potro, bothered him. Del Potro's sneaking glances toward his coach before he'd ask for a call to be challenged bothered him. The swirling winds, the blowing trash, the noisy crowd, these were moments of imperfection unappreciated...

Two weeks into the Southern Section Division 1 baseball playoffs, none of the top four seeded teams has survived, and the biggest surprise came Friday before hundreds of fans who squeezed into and around the Lakewood High diamond to watch the host Lancers stun No. 1-seeded Huntington Beach Edison and ace pitcher Henry Owens, 3-1, in a quarterfinal game. Getting a hit off the 6-foot-7 Owens in the playoffs has been difficult, let alone trying to inflict a defeat. He came in with a 12-0 record and stretched his streak of not allowing a hit during the playoffs to 11 innings when Lakewood's Jimmy Gosano lined a single to start the third inning.

Orange Lutheran's 28-25 victory over No. 15 Santa Ana Mater Dei Friday at Orange Coast College marked five consecutive wins over its Trinity League rival. And it wasn't decided until the final moments. After both teams traded two timeouts with 19 seconds remaining, Orange Lutheran quarterback Mike Markovsky connected with wide receiver Brandon Turner on a six-yard, fourth-down touchdown pass. He then found Gabe York in the end zone for the two-point conversion.

OAKLAND - Klay Thompson had just outdone himself and nearly everyone else in recent NBA playoffs. The shooting guard scored 29 points for the Golden State Warriors in the first half of a Western Conference semifinal game against San Antonio earlier this month. He finished with 34 points, 14 rebounds and three steals in a victory. Someone in the family wanted more, though, and you probably don't need two guesses if you're even vaguely familiar with the Thompson family's picky patriarch.

Much has happened to the planet since 1984, and now Google has come up with a way to have a spectacular, bird's-eye view of the changes. In partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and Time magazine, Google has put together a website that features high-quality satellite pictures of Earth for every year since 1984 for every part of the world. Users can locate any spot on the planet and then watch the tool cycle through images taken between 1984 and 2012. "Today, we're making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth's surface over time," Google said in a blog post .  PHOTOS: Google Street View images of the highest points on the planet The images were taken by Landsat satellites as part of a joint mission of NASA and the USGS.

Grigor Dimitrov stunned Novak Djokovic in the second round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday, beating the top-ranked Serb, 7-6 (6), 6-7 (8), 6-3, for the biggest win of his career. The 28th-ranked Bulgarian saved three set points in the first before taking the lead, and Djokovic then appeared to hurt his right ankle while trailing 4-2 in the second. Djokovic, who ended Rafael Nadal's eight-year winning streak at the Monte Carlo Masters last month, said the loss had more to do with poor preparation than an injury.

TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Excuse David Ragan if he had to ask how to get to Victory Lane. He was, after all, a 100-1 underdog to win at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon. But he was the last man standing on a grueling afternoon when he squeezed past a number of NASCAR veterans on the last lap to pull off a huge upset in the Aaron's 499. “This is a true David vs. Goliath moment,” he said. “Man, this is special.” Ragan used a push from Front Row Motorsports teammate David Gilliland to overtake veterans Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth on a green-white-checkered finish shortly after sunset.

Classmates at Roosevelt Middle School in Glendale were stunned after a 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a school bus on Thursday. Authorities continued to investigate the crash. One item left at a memorial at the site was a white bike, known as a ghost bike, placed there by Danny Gamboa of Long Beach, who regularly leaves ghost bikes at sites where bicyclists have either been injured or killed in crashes in the L.A. area. The Los Angeles County coroner on Friday identified the boy as Jonathan Hernandez, who died shortly after being struck by, and trapped underneath, a school bus Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Riverdale Drive.

Los Angeles police are investigating the death of a DUI suspect whom officers stunned with a Taser prior to his arrest. The suspect, Mark Courtier, 50, also “suffered a laceration to the face … during the takedown” the LAPD said in a statement published Tuesday. Investigators said officers initially were called to a traffic accident in the 400 block of North Vermont Avenue on April 4, when they saw Courtier attempting to flee the scene. “One of the officers deployed a Taser gun in 'direct stun mode' on Courtier, until officers were able to overcome his resistance and handcuff him,” the police statement said.

U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Friday she was "stunned" that the Metrolink regional rail service still runs 87% of its trains with only a single crew member in the control cab. The agency had said it would double up on crew members in locomotives as part of a series of safety reforms after the Chatsworth crash a year ago that killed 25 and injured 135. The so-called second-set-of- eyes plan was a hastily implemented reform after investigators found...

South Pasadena High School was abuzz Friday afternoon with rumors of a party. By Saturday night, one of the school's most promising and popular students, who had attended that evening's party, lay unresponsive on the grass as friends tried frantically to revive him. Aydin Salek, 17, was pronounced dead at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena early Sunday. South Pasadena police said alcohol may have been involved in a collapse so swift and subtle that Salek's friends did not realize at first that anything was wrong.

As if Justin Bieber's European escapades haven't been entertaining enough already, let's add ... a drug raid in Sweden! A strong smell of marijuana got authorities' attention Wednesday night when the bus was outside the Biebs' hotel before the Stockholm show, a police spokesman told the Associated Press. (The cops had been working crowd control to manage the screaming hordes that assembled outside the hotel, said the local paper Aftonbladet .) A special narcotics unit was summoned and the bus was searched while the show was in progress at the Globen arena.

WEST, Texas - Alicia McCowan had just finished her shift at the Sonic drive-in when the blast erupted nearby, leveling buildings in a wide circle. Above, a mushroom cloud bloomed against a yellow-pink sky. She knew the source - the West Fertilizer Co. plant, close to the apartment where a baby sitter was watching her two young sons. She rushed to the damaged apartment building and screamed her kids' names. She found Brayden, 4, dragging Kaegan, 2, down the stairs, and both were OK. But where was their baby sitter?