josh jones knocking down the corner trey. a one-point lead for richmond. later in o.t. mason.t's moore driving for the rack. he scores. 71-67, george mason wins. >>> to american university. the eagles hosting lafayette earlier at bender arena. first-half action. au is up 3. darius pee wee gardiner 3 of his 20 points. america led by 12 at halftime. second half, lafayette trying to get back in the game. down 9. nice jump shot there. 23 points for the senior. american they beat lafayette, the final 88-77. >>> let's move on to the pros now. it's nba all-star weekend. the festivity taking place in new york. the big event despite lacking big names is still the dunk contest. this is the mathis standout. he put on a show for the fans with this 360 reverse dunk. that is just awesome. the degree of difficulty -- >> impressive. >> all 10s across the board. takes a lot to impress these judges. first place, though, went to this guy. zach levine of the minnesota timberwolves. that gets you first place. jordan-esque. john wall picked him to win the dunk contest back on monday. speaking of jo

that's josh jones in the corner. richmond takes a one-point lead. later in overtime here comes mason. marquis moore drives attacking the basket here gets that to go. mason's up one. they go on to win this game over richmond 71-67. now we head down to south carolina. buzz williams the hokies visiting clemson. all tigers first half. clemson working the ball around. blossom, hits a corner three. second half tigers starting to take over this time jordan roeper and later in the half more from roeper comes up with the steal. finishes the other way. this basketball version of the rope-a-dope game high 22 points for jordan. clemson passes virginia tech 75-54. >>> and don't forget about the maryland/terps visiting penn state tonight. big time game. maryland heart broken on the road lately. they've lost their last three games away from college park by an average of 19 points. maryland head to happy valley to take on the nittany lions. they beat that team just ten days ago. tip-off at 8:30 tonight over on the big 10 network. see if maryland can get it done. >>

a couple minutes later, josh jones, g. w. loses, 56-48. they struggled. >>> west virginia at oklahoma state, number 22 versus number 24. west virginia's juwan staten gets a block. it goes to gary brown. he had 18 points, 8 rebounds, staten puts it on ice. west virginia wins by 10 at oklahoma state. >>> all right, georgetown played a prime time game today at verizon center. their crowd, a little better because they played pre-storm today. so a lot of fans in the house. early, barry trotz. they break a 1-1 tie. there was only five minutes left. looked like they would win it in regulation. they head to overtime and the shootout and kuznetsov gets it done. nascar, kurt busch lost his appeal. he was suspended after he was found to have committed an act of domestic violence and will not race in the daytona 500. his younger brother was injured when his car smacked the wall. he suffered a compound fracture of the leg and then broke his left foot as well. wow. that wall didn't have the energy absorb safe barrier. the track president said, we're goi

>> josh: tom jones. tom jones. >> oh. >> jimmy: it is? >> that's a a good one. >> josh: what is it?sh: that's all i got. i don't remember -- yeah. >> jimmy: that's fantastic. wait. >> josh: i need the machine. >> jimmy: we're having a a karaoke night. next time we're here, we're doing this. i love this. >> it's like the midwest meets karaoke. >> jimmy: oh, but this is fun. i like this. because i think -- i can see you have a little competitive thing in you. >> oh, very much so. >> jimmy: you do, right? >> it's a problem. >> jimmy: it is? >> yeah. i'll race anybody right now. that's how we -- >> jimmy: no one wants to race you, gabrielle. >> race me. race me. i'll race you right now. >> jimmy: no. i don't wanna, okay? don't make me. [ cheers ] take my heels off! you have a -- you were that competetive, you have a a professional taboo game team -- a team of taboo players. >> we have taboo league. >> jimmy: a taboo league? >> it has since been dismantled. >> jimmy: because it got too crazy? >> it was high stakes and -- it started out as fun between couples and then people would break u

jone joining me now is josh barro. it is strieging toking the relative emphasis between foreign affairs and the economy as the economy has gotten better. >> does it? it was a talking point that served them well because it was true. as it has improved what is left to say about it? great job? things look zood. -- good. a lot of it is driven by gas prices. >> and where we are in the business cycle. >> i think the victory lap is oversold for that region. when you're coming out of a recession, you're supposed to have really big job growth. if you look at coming out of the 1982 recession, we were creating 400,000 jobs a month. you're supposed to be able to have fast growth. it is great that we're getting it now. it would have been better five years ago, so yes, enjoy this but bragging too much about it is a little much. >> i also think there is a kind of asymmetry in politics sometimes is that if it is bad, it's the president's fault, and if it is good in both cases if is not attributable to the president, you get it on the

jones. my ferocious and yet incredibly kind director, james marsh. working title focus, lisa and anthony, nina and my team of dallas josh jean jason, alan kyle britneyk my family, you, hannah my wife. i love you so much we have new fella coming to share our apartment. thank you. >> announcer: please welcome last year's best actor, matthew mcconaughey. >> good evening. all right. the great film critic roger ebert once said, "when a movie character is really working, we become that character." each of these five gifted actresses didn't just make us feel for them, they made us feel like them. broken, gone, lost, resilient, determined, and finally, found again. here are the nominees for performance by an actress in a leading role. marion cotillard -- "two days, one night." felicity jones -- "the theory of everything." >> i know you all think that -- that i don't look like a terribly strong person. but i love him. and he loves me. we're going to fight this illness together. all of us. >> julianne moore -- "still alice." >> i can't find it. >> can't find what? >> i can't find my phone. >> it's the middle of the night. >> it's important. it goes off at 8:0

jones. my ferocious and yet incredibly kind director, james marsh. working title focus, lisa and anthony, nina and my team of dallas josh jean jason, alan kyle britneyk my family, you, hannah my wife. i love you so much we have new fella coming to share our apartment. thank you. >> announcer: please welcome last year's best actor, matthew mcconaughey. >> good evening. all right. the great film critic roger ebert once said, "when a movie character is really working, we become that character." each of these five gifted actresses didn't just make us feel for them, they made us feel like them. broken, gone, lost, resilient, determined, and finally, found again. here are the nominees for performance by an actress in a leading role. marion cotillard -- "two days, one night." felicity jones -- "the theory of everything." >> i know you all think that -- that i don't look like a terribly strong person. but i love him. and he loves me. we're going to fight this illness together. all of us. >> julianne moore -- "still alice." >> i can't find it. >> can't find what? >> i can't find my phone. >> it's the middle of the night. >> it's important. it goes off at 8:0

josh accident thanks very much. sue, down to you. >> ty thank you. the oil market is a session highs for west texas intermediate, and that is pushing the dow jones industrialrage towards its session highs on the trading session. we're up almost 8% on west texas intermediate, and we're up almost 6% on ice brent crude. now, the dow jones industrial average just popped to the up side another 1.5%. 256, almost 257 points to the up side. better than 1% gain for the s&p 500. the nasdaq is up two-thirds of a percent, and the russell is up almost 1.5%. big moves in the currency markets, and in the bond market today. the u.s. dollar against the euro having some major moves. the euro moving to the down side earlier on but then turned right around and moved towards its session highs. and in terms of interest rates, we had a sell-off in the treasury market, and that has moved bond yields, ty all the way across the yield curves. >> it's so interesting how traders love falling oil prices until they don't love fall oil prices. then they love rising oil prices. >> that's where we are. >> that's why stocks are up 250 some points. sue, good to see you. hurry home. that's it