Okla. State’s Smart suspended 3 games

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart was suspended three games by the Big 12 for shoving a fan in the closing seconds of the Cowboys’ loss at Texas Tech on Saturday night.

Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford announced the suspension as he spoke in support of the All-America guard Sunday.

Smart apologized for his actions prior to Ford speaking at the news conference on the Oklahoma State campus.

“This is not how I conduct myself,” said Smart, a top NBA prospect. “This is not how the program is run. This is not how I was raised. I let my emotions get the best of me.”

In a statement released by Texas Tech, the fan apologized for provoking Smart.

“My actions last night were inappropriate and do not reflect myself or Texas Tech ”“ a university I love dearly,” Jeff Orr said in the statement. “I regret calling Mr. Smart a ”˜piece of crap’ but I want to make it known that I did not use a racial slur of any kind.”

U.S. crush Swiss in women’s hockey

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Monique Lamoureux, Brianna Decker and Amanda Kessel all scored within 55 seconds in the first period as the United States romped to a 9-0 victory over Switzerland on Monday to all-but clinch a spot in the Olympic women’s hockey semifinals.

It was the quickest three-goal sequence in Olympic history, with the latter two coming just eight seconds apart.

Kessel, Lamoureux and Kendall Coyne all scored twice for the Americans, and Molly Schaus made 10 saves in her Sochi debut. With a 2-0 winning record, the U.S. is in position for a spot in the medal round regardless of what happens on Wednesday in the game against Canada, the marquee matchup of the round-robin.

German wins women’s super combined

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Maria Hoefl-Riesch won her second straight Olympic super-combined title Monday, with downhill leader Julia Mancuso settling for bronze.

Hoefl-Riesch was fifth fastest in the opening downhill leg, but her superior slalom skills gave her the gold at the finish. She is, after all, the defending Olympic champion in slalom.

The German’s two-run time of 2 minutes, 34.62 seconds was 0.40 seconds faster than silver medalist Nicole Hosp of Austria.

Mancuso, 0.53 behind Hoefl-Riesch, punched the air with her right fist after seeing she had won her fourth career Olympic medal. No other American woman has won more than two.

Anderson gives U.S. slopestyle sweep

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Jamie Anderson stood atop the podium and lifted her arms in triumph, her long and sometimes draining quest for Olympic glory finally complete.

Anderson gave the United States a gold-medal sweep in the first Olympic slopestyle snowboarding competition on Sunday, while Jenny Jones took bronze to win Britain’s first medal in any snow sport.

Sage Kotsenburg of the United States won the first gold medal of the 2014 Olympics on Saturday, soaring to victory in the men’s slopestyle final.

Austria’s Mayer wins men’s downhill

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Matthias Mayer of Austria won the Olympic downhill Sunday as the big favorites struggled in Alpine skiing’s signature race.

The son of an Olympic medalist, Mayer completed the Rosa Khutor course in 2 minutes, 6.23 seconds. Christof Innerhofer of Italy took silver, 0.06 seconds behind, and Kjetil Jansrud of Norway earned bronze, 0.10 behind.

Pre-race favorites Aksel Lund Svindal and Bode Miller finished fourth and eighth, respectively.