Los Angeles  - Kevin Durant was red-hot, and his opponents couldn't put out the fire.

The Oklahoma City player poured in 30 of his Rookie Challenge-record 46 points in the second half, leading the sophomores to their seventh-straight victory over the first-year stars 122-116 Friday night as the NBA's All-Star Weekend tipped off in Phoenix, Arizona.

Los Angeles  - With the NBA trade deadline approaching next Thursday, the Miami Heat and Toronto Raptors tipped off what expects to be a busy week for players finding new homes.

The Heat acquired forwards Jermaine O'Neal and Jamario Moon on Friday in exchange for forward Shawn Marion and guard Marcus Banks.

Val d'Isere, France - Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the world championship giant slalom on Friday, exactly two months after getting his first World Cup win on the same hill.

Janka, 22, led the way after the first run and hung on to it in the second despite a mistake, winning in a combined total 2 minutes 18.82 seconds to take the gold after downhill bronze on Saturday.

Olympic champion Benjamin Raich gave the Austrian men their first medal in Val d'Isere, a silver in 1:19.53. Ted Ligety of the United States rose from ninth to third in 2:19.81 minutes.

Karachi, Feb 13 : Pakistan cricket received a further blow on Friday with the cancellation of a tri-series in Dubai scheduled for late March due to the unavailability of Sri Lankan team.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chief Operating Officer Salim Altaf said that the event would be scrapped.

"We have been told by organisers that the tri-series has been cancelled because, I believe, the Sri Lankan team is unavailable," said Altaf.

The third team was to be Bangladesh, the Dawn reported.

Altaf said he did not know why Sri Lanka could not participate.

Valditrento, Italy - Petra Majdic of Slovenia and Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad were unbeatable again on Friday as they each posted a fifth season sprint win in the cross-country skiing World Cup.

Majdic won the women's freestyle race in 2 minutes 45.6 seconds from former sprint world champion Pirjo Muranen of Finland and Italy's Magda Genuin.

Majdic closed in on World Cup leader Aino Kaisa Saarinen of Finland, who placed 13th on the day to lead with 1,240 points. Majdic is close behind on 1,190 and holder Virpi Kuitunen has 1,069.

Lahore, Feb.