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Greensboro, NC (Sports Network) - Kendall Marshall scored 18 points to go along with 11 assists as North Carolina advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the last six years with a dominating 87-73 victory over Creighton.
It was revealed after the game, however, that Marshall suffered a fractured right wrist in the game and his status for the remainder of the tournament is unknown.
"We'll speak to the hand specialist tonight with Kendall and his family and we'll see what happens after that," North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said.
Harrison Barnes added 17 points and John Henson, the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, played his first game of the tourney because of a sprained left wrist and contributed 13 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for the top- seeded Tar Heels (31-5).
North Carolina will now face No. 13 seed Ohio in the Midwest Regional semifinal game on Friday.
Doug McDermott scored a game-high 20 points for eighth-seeded Creighton (29-6), which failed to win consecutive NCAA Tournament games for the first time in program history.
Gregory Echenique had 12 points while Antoine Young and Josh Jones scored 10 points apiece in a losing effort.
"First and foremost, I couldn't be more proud of my basketball team and our basketball program. It's been a remarkable ride," Creighton head coach Greg McDermott said. "We're disappointed that we lost. We came here with every intention of winning this game."
After a back-and-forth opening six-plus minutes saw Creighton holding a 12-11 lead, James Michael McAdoo's three-point play sparked a 9-0 run to put North Carolina ahead, 20-12.
Doug McDermott and Young dropped in consecutive jumpers to snap the run and bring Creighton within four before the Tar Heels reeled off a 19-8 swing to run out to a 39-24 advantage on Barnes' trey with 5 1/2 minutes left in the first half.
UNC maintained a double-digit lead over the next three minutes, but after McAdoo's layup put the Tar Heels ahead, 43-28, with three minutes remaining in the half, they would miss their next six shots as Creighton recorded the final seven points of the frame to make it a 43-35 game at the break.
The Tar Heels then dominated the second half, opening the period with four straight points and leading by double digits for the remainder of the game.
Creighton shot 46.4 percent in the second half compared to a 37.5 percent shooting performance in the first, but North Carolina was able to keep pace, shooting 46.9 percent in the final 20 minutes to deny any hope of a Bluejay comeback.
The Tar Heels reached the regional semifinals for an NCAA-record 31st time...North Carolina improved to 107-40 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including a 49-9 mark as a No. 1 seed...Creighton fell to 10-18 in the tournament...The Bluejays are 0-3 all-time against North Carolina.
Rhode Island football is preparing to open the 2015 season at Syracuse.
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Troubled defensive lineman Ray McDonald was released by the Chicago Bears Monday after being arrested on charges of domestic violence and child endangerment.
Milwaukee Brewers right-handed pitcher Wily Peralta has landed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained oblique.
Warriors star Stephen Curry returned to Game 4 of the Western Conference finals after a scary fall left the league MVP dazed and confused.
The Chicago Blackhawks recalled rookie defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk Friday from Rockford of the American Hockey League.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Are $60 LED lightbulbs a bright idea for your home?
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LED bulbs -- which employ a 21st century version of the light-emitting diodes first used on the red numeric displays of 1970s-era calculators and digital clocks -- cost $25 to $60 apiece. But they can last 20 years or more and produce light using a fraction of the energy a traditional incandescent lightbulb consumes.
For instance, a 12.5-watt LED bulb will typically produce as much light as a traditional 60-watt incandescent bulb does and will last around 25 times as long before burning out."We've had some LEDs burning in our test labs for nearly 17,000 hours nonstop, and when we pulled them out a few months ago and tested them, they were as bright as when we first put them in," Lehrman says. Consumer Reports also found LEDs use slightly less electricity than high-efficiency compact fluorescent lights consume -- and last years longer. LEDs also lack the small amounts of toxic mercury CFLs contain, and -- unlike most fluorescent lights -- can work well with dimmer switches or outdoors in cold weather. LED bulbs also come on instantly, whereas CFLs need anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes to warm up and reach full brightness. But LEDs aren't without their critics. The bulbs have become a lightning rod for opponents of a 2007 federal law that will phase out most incandescent bulbs by 2014 and force consumers to switch in many cases to LEDs, CFLs or halogen lights. "What's the matter with leaving the choice to the consumer?" asks Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which opposes the law. "It's fine if somebody wants to come out with something new in the marketplace, but let's not mandate that something has to go away because you showed up."

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Cloak of Invisibility Close to Reality
A real cloak of invisibility is no longer hidden to researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can "cloak" an item from detection by microwaves.
In fact, scientists said that they have even expanded the number of wavelengths they can block.
In 2006, the team reported they had developed " meta materials" that could deflect microwaves around a three-dimensional object, making it invisible to the waves.
The system works like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.
Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use by making mobile communications clearer.
"Cloaking technology could be used to make obstacles that impede communications signals 'disappear,'" said David Smith of Duke University in North Carolina, who worked on the study published in the journal Science.
Smith was part of the same research team that in 2006 proved such a device was possible.
He said the new material is easier to make and has a far greater bandwidth. The new cloak is made up of more than 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass arranged in parallel rows.
Smith said they developed a series of mathematical commands to guide the development of more types of meta materials to cloak objects from an increasing range of electromagnetic waves.
"The new device can cloak a much wider spectrum of waves – nearly limitless – and will scale far more easily to infrared and visible light. The approach we used should help us expand and improve our abilities to cloak different types of waves," said Smith.
He said the goal was not to make something visible disappear. Cloaking can occur anywhere on the electromagnetic spectrum.
"Humans 'see' using visible light, which has wavelengths just under a micron (a millionth of a meter). But cell phones and other wireless devices 'see' using light that has a wavelength on the order of many centimeters," Smith said.
He said objects could block the "view" of these devices, making mobile phone communications more difficult.
"You might have two or more antennas trying to 'see' or receive signals, one being blocked by the other," he said. "You could imagine adding cloaks that would make one antenna invisible to the next, so that they no longer interfered."
Smith said the notion of a device that makes objects invisible to people is still a distant concept, but not impossible.
"This latest structure does show clearly there is a potential for cloaking — in the science fiction sense — to become science fact at some point," he said.
While the study's funders included Raytheon Missile Systems and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Smith said the technology is not intended to replace "stealth" technology.
"Just about all technologies that have any application, naturally have potential in military applications," he said.
"If this has an impact on communications applications, even commercial, those same applications presumably exist in defense contexts."
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