h 1:34 remaining giving Washington State an 87-59 lead.BIG PICTUREWashington State: Even with the win, the work of rebuilding the Cougars continues in their third season with Ernie Kent as coach. Last year, WSU opened with four straight wins, and was 8-4 heading into its Pac-12 schedule. But the Couga

Celtic travel to Firhill on Saturday lunchtime looking to restore their four-point advantage at the top of the Premiership in front of the Sky Sports cameras.Aberdeen narrowed the gap with a 2-1 win at the same venue on Tuesday night, and Ronny Deilas men will be boosted by the return of Nir Biton as they look to put some daylight between themselves and their nearest challengers.The midfield lynchpin has missed the last three games and fellow-midfielder Stefan Johansen (ankle) is rated 50/50 after coming off during last weeks Scottish Cup win over Morton. Striker Carlton Cole is not available as he is on personal leave while Jozo Simunovic remains sidelined with a knee injury and fellow defender Dedryck Boyata is suspended. Celtic may have failed to win their last two Premiership games - they have not gone three league matches without a win since November 2012 - but Hamilton Academicals Eamonn Brophy is the only man to have breached their defence in their last six games. Scott Brown says Celtic can still have a successful season and win the double Deila said: If we can get our quality out on the pitch then we can give Partick Thistle a hard time. Thistle did well against us last time while we should have performed better. We want to show how good we really are and build on Sundays positive performance and get the three points.Thistle boss Alan Archibald is taking heart from his sides narrow 1-0 defeat at Celtic Park in January but knows exactly where the main opposition threat lies.We were only one minute away from drawing with Celtic at Parkhead last time out, although it seemed to help them when Nir Bitton was sent off midway through the second half, he told the Evening Times. Thistle boss Alan Archibald wants to turn up the heat on their Glasgow rivals They then sat back and hit us on the counter attack and Leigh Griffiths ended up doing what he does best. Hes undoubtedly been the Player of the Year so the first thing we need to do to give ourselves a chance is to stop him.I think we need to stay strong for the first 15-20 minutes. Theyll have a big support at our place - we want to silence them and get them on their players backs. Partick boss Archibald is expecting a great game this weekend We need to try and use that. If theyre under more pressure because Aberdeen are doing well then good. Well use that as motivation.Thistle midfielder Stuart Bannigan again misses out with a knee injury while right-back Mustapha Dumbuya (ankle) will also be absent. Get a Sky Sports Day Pass Dont miss Partick Thistle v Celtic. Watch live on NOW TV for ￡6.99. No contract Nike Air Force 1 Korting . The lawyers filed a 33-page amended complaint Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, expanding on the suit originally filed Oct. 3 in New York Supreme Court. 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Nike Air Force 1 Uitverkoop .Y. -- Leading 3-0 with only 11:25 left, the Colorado Avalanche committed a seemingly meaningless penalty to give the New York Islanders a power play.ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands -- Josh Hawkinson scored a career-high 29 points and added 14 rebounds, as Washington State downed Montana 87-63 Saturday in a consolation-round game at the Paradise Jam tournament.Conor Clifford added 12 points, Malachi Flynn had 11 and Charles Callison 10 for the Cougars (3-1), who went up 41-20 by the halftime break and led by as many as 28 points in the second half.After taking a tough loss last night (to No. 22 Creighton), we knew we had to bounce back, Hawkinson said. Its hard to double two big guys inside. With Conor being the inside presence that he is, he allows me to get open shots.Jared Samuelson had 14 points and Ahmaad Rorie 10 for the Grizzlies (0-4), who shot just 34.8 percent from the field (23 of 66) and made 7 of 27 3-pointers.We were just flat, a letdown from last night (a loss to N.C. State), Montana coach Travis DeCuire said. We just didnt make shots. Thats been an issue for us this year. We have to get the ball going through the basket again.Hawkinson had a double-double in the first half, scoring 17 points and grabbing 100 rebounds.dddddddddddd That, and a 14-3 run over a six-minute span early in the first half, staked Washington State to a double-digit lead it would never relinquish.The Cougars took their biggest lead in the final two minutes, with Vionte Daniels 3-pointer with 1:34 remaining giving Washington State an 87-59 lead.BIG PICTUREWashington State: Even with the win, the work of rebuilding the Cougars continues in their third season with Ernie Kent as coach. Last year, WSU opened with four straight wins, and was 8-4 heading into its Pac-12 schedule. But the Cougars went 1-17 in conference play, and finished the year 9-21.Montana: The Grizzlies are off to first 0-4 start since the 1971-72 season under then-coach Jud Heathcote. That years team went on to finish the season above .500, at 14-12.UP NEXTWashington State: Will play Loyola-Chicago in the tournaments fifth-place game Monday.Montana: Faces Oral Roberts in the tournaments seventh-place game Monday. ' ' '