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DALLAS -- SMU coach Tim Jankovich watched the Mustangs run out to a 32-point lead in the first half against Stanford and couldnt help but take stock of his team in his first year replacing Hall of Famer Larry Brown.Sterling Brown scored 16 points and SMU rolled to a 72-49 win over the Cardinal on Monday night for a 22nd consecutive non-conference home victory. More notably from Jankovichs perspective, it was the fifth straight win -- and most impressive -- since dropping a pair on the road at Southern California and Boise State.Were certainly far more toward the team that I want us to be than we were three weeks ago or so, Jankovich said. What Im picturing and what I feel like were capable, I think weve got a lot of growth potential left. And I am very excited about that.Duke transfer Semi Ojeleye had 13 points and seven rebounds for the Mustangs (9-3), who shot 59 percent to 21 percent in the first half for the Cardinal while taking leads of 12-0, 30-7 and 44-12.Reid Travis, the leading scorer for Stanford (7-4), didnt get a shot in the first half, when Cardinal starters scored one point. He scored all 10 of his points in the second half, while Marcus Sheffield led Stanford with 13 points.Its hard to get the ball inside when the other team doesnt want it to be there, Stanford coach Jerod Haase said. We took the easy route and werent able to get him touches and thats why he didnt get any shots.Shake Milton had 11 points and a career-high nine assists, four on alley-oop dunks. Three were to Jarrey Foster, and the other Ben Moore, who had four of SMUs seven blocks, one off its season high. Fosters second alley-oop made it 44-12 with 5:15 left in the first half.We were knocking down shots here and there and just moving the ball, playing unselfishly, Foster said. I would say that was probably one of the best halves weve played, a lot of energy.The Mustangs, who are 40-3 at home since the start of the 2014-15 season, had a sluggish second half, especially compared to the first, shooting 42 percent and getting outscored 30-24.In the second half, its not like they were playing the same way either, Haase said. Its really hard to gauge.WHERES MOORE?Moore scored all 10 of his points before leaving in the first half with a cut on his lip that required stitches. He was limited to 10 minutes after halftime, but still had a game-high nine rebounds. Its not a lot of fun when Ben Moore is in the dressing room ... getting stitched up and you just keep looking down the bench, going `Is he going to come back or not? Jankovich said.BIG PICTUREStanford: It was a reality check less than two weeks before the Pac-12 opener, with the Cardinal shooting 21 percent in the first half while falling behind by 20 points in less than 9 minutes. Stanford was much more competitive in the first half of a loss at No. 3 Kansas.SMU: A blowout loss to Michigan, followed soon after by the USC and Boise losses, dropped the Mustangs from Top 25 consideration. But they might start getting votes if anyone notices the huge first-half lead in this game.UP NEXTStanford: After wrapping up a non-conference road schedule that covered about 25,000 miles and included a trip to China, the Cardinal get a final Pac-12 tuneup at home against Idaho on Thursday. The league schedule opens at home against Arizona State (Dec. 30) and Arizona (Jan. 1).SMU: The Mustangs finish non-conference with a rare back-to-back, hosting Albany on Tuesday. The American Athletic Conference opener is Dec. 27 at Memphis---Corrects previous versions to show Stanfords record at 7-4 instead of 8-4.---More AP college basketball: www.collegebasketball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 John Gant . The 29-year-old Baines has established himself as one of the top attacking full backs in the country and was the subject of two bids from United during the last off-season. Everton manager Roberto Martinez says that keeping Baines at the club is a "massive boost and exciting for the future" because he brings "maturity and football knowledge in a very specialized position on the pitch" and an "infectious and positive influence to the rest of the squad. Mike Mayers . Any real chance at payback wont come until the playoff. Still, Pittsburgh knows its taut 3-2 win over the Bruins on Wednesday night is a pretty good place to start laying the groundwork. "They are a very good defensive team," Penguins forward Brandon Sutter said. http://www.custommlbcardinalsjersey.com/custom-nelson-briles-jersey-large-151q.html . Siddikur, whose previous win on the circuit came in Brunei three years ago, finished his bogey-free round with a birdie on the 18th for a total of 17-under 199. Indias Shiv Chowrasia, who has finished runner-up in this tournament twice, was in second place after a 66. Yairo Munoz .com) - Following a late-game loss to the reigning NBA champs, the Toronto Raptors will look to sustain their recent high-level play as they travel to Indiana to take on the Pacers. Tyler Webb . John Lucas, signed as a mentor for rookie Trey Burke, showed he can score if required, scoring 12 points of his 16 points in the second quarter as Utah built an 18-point lead. Happiness. How do we get it? Are there instructions? Can we proactively and tactically approach something that is an emotion within our daunting, complex brains? Or is it all genetics, luck and circumstance?I think we can all agree that attitude has a big effect on how successful most people become. And a good attitude starts with happiness. Its why as a parent, teacher or hockey coach, we should know by now that using happiness as a starting point for teaching is the best way for a child to achieve at home, at school and on the fields of play.Dont coach to win.Dont teach for grades.Coach for players to be happy and to love practice and the games. Improvement and wins will follow.Dont teach for grades. Teach students to be happy to learn and be creative. Grades and growth will follow.Wayne Gretzky was the best of his era because no one loved the game more. No one loved and enjoyed competition more than Jack Nicklaus. Gretzky and Nicklaus had great parents and upbringings, which made it easier for them to be optimistic. They were and are basically happy people by combining their immense talent with loving families. That didnt guarantee happiness, but it helped them succeed. There are plenty of stories of people from broken homes who ended up being big successes; the odds are in your favor when you have love and support and are happy.As life goes on and we collect disappointments, we have to learn how to coach our brains to remain as optimistic and happy as possible when faced with adversity. Thats when the game begins. Everybody hurts sometimes.The military teaches its soldiers that mental toughness comes from being optimistic. It wants soldiers not to think catastrophically and not to think of the worst outcome. It wants them to be grateful and generous. There is a reason so many soldiers seem and are so impressive. They are optimistic, giving people.Optimistic people are happier, and happier people are more successful.If you struggle with optimism, here are a few things to remember. Bad things are temporary (just kill the penalty). There are specific causes for things that happen -- not universal truths that you cant define (I suck!). Some days are just not your day (yes, some days it is your day), and youll be fine tomorrow. Dont beat yourself up. Be more like Tigger and less like Eeyore.Ive always told my kids, Quietly try to be your biggest fan.In Daniel J. Siegels book The Mindful Brain, he writes that we can stimulate emotional circuits in the brain by meditating or thinking good thoughts, and we can give the often negative, left side of our brain a crosscheck to the grill. We can coach our brains to think better and more optimistically.Choose your thoughts.In Alex Korbs book The Upward Spiral, he explains that the antidepressant Wellbutrin boosts the neurotransmitter dopamine, as does gratitude. Prozac boosts the neurotransmitter serotonin, and so does gratitude. Gratitude acts like a drug. Remembering to be grateful is a form of emotional intelligence, is something we all should remember. Be grateful, and be generous. It will make you happy. You will be healthier, have more friends and be more successful. Maybe thats why hockey gives out two assists.We love hockey because it makes us happy. The speed, power, grace, sacrifice, agility, toughness and competitiveness all make the heart beat and the dopamine flow. Why do you think youre never in a bad mood 15 minutes before the opening faceoff? The dopamine is wheeling like Connor McDavid.This season, we have an extra two weeks of hockey to kick-start some late summer/early fall hockey dopamine. The World Cup of Hockey is here.Training camps opened this week, and pre-tournament action begins Thursday. The tournament will be held from Sept. 17 to Oct. 1 in Toronto. Eight teams will compete: Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, USA, Europe and North America. Each roster has 23 players: 20 skaters and three goaltenders.This will be the third World Cup of Hockey. The United States won the first in 1996, and Canada won in 2004. A previous version of this tournament was known as the Canada Cup and was contested five times between 1976 and 1991.The 2016 World Cup will be played exclusively on Torontos NHL-sized rink (200 feet by 85 feet) at the Air Canada Centre using NHL rules and NHL officials. Shootouts will be used to decide tie games after 65 minutes in group play, and sudden-death OT will be used in the semifinalls and finals.ddddddddddddThe eight teams are split into Group A and Group B for the preliminary round, in which each team will play its three group opponents once in a round-robin format.Placed in Group A are Team Canada, Czech Republic and USA, plus Team Europe, a pan-European roster of players from birth countries outside the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden. The four teams in Group B are Finland, Russia, Sweden and Team North America, a selection of the top players from Canada and the United States who will be 23 or under as of Oct. 1, 2016.The top two finishers in each group will advance to the semifinals (Sept. 24-25), in which the first-place team from each group will face an elimination game against the second-place team from the other group. The two semifinal winners will meet in the finals, a best-of-three series on Sept. 27, Sept. 29 and, if necessary, Oct. 1.Pretty standard, really (Dr. Evil voice).But this will be more than just a hockey tournament. If you are within driving distance of Toronto, this is a great opportunity for a long weekend for you and your hockey-playing son or daughter to take in and prepare for the long season ahead. I cant think of a better pep rally/pump-up jam to attend to get you and your hockey-playing child fired up. Even if you dont go to a game, it will be a fun couple of days. But if you have a chance to see an international tournament, especially in Canada, do it.The activities (fanfest, concerts by Green Day and the Killers, among others) surrounding the hockey in the beautiful city of Toronto (home to the Hockey Hall of Fame) will be much bigger than an All-Star Game. Of course, there will be more than just one game (two a day at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET for the first week), and the intensity will be very high. Also, there will be excellent September weather. If you can, come experience this event.As Im sure youve heard by now, the family of ESPN networks will broadcast the entire tournament. One broadcast team will be Steve Levy and Barry Melrose with in-between-benches help from Kevin Weekes and Darren Pang. I will be doing six games during the first week of doubleheaders, joined by a combination of Weekesy and Panger.Weekes and I will also be doing two pre-tournament games later this week: Europe vs. North America (23-and-under) at 8 p.m. Thursday on ESPN2 and Canada vs. USA at 7 p.m. Friday on ESPNU.Linda Cohn and Adnan Virk will be sharing anchoring in the studio with Brett Hull and Chris Chelios?the first week, before I assume the studio duties during the second week of the tournament with Hull and Chelly.Without NHL games since 2004, it is surreal that we at ESPN once again are broadcasting a hockey event of this magnitude involving NHL players. Ill try not to mess it up. We are pumped up and will go all-out to bring you a great broadcast. And, of course, we are bringing the old ESPN hockey music back!I was raised a hockey fan by my crazed, sports-fan father, Ed. He was a high school goalie without a mask in the late 1940s and was a sports carnivore. As a child growing up, we didnt have cable TV, so I was largely raised on radio when it came to hockey. We could get Bob Wilson and the Boston Bruins on WBZ Radio, the Pittsburgh Penguins on KDKA with Mike Lange, Dan Kelly and the St. Louis Blues on KMOX, and occasionally,?Chicago Blackhawks games as well.Hockey on the radio was a magical way for a young boy to experience sports. It was theater, a passion play, bloody and frightening and exhilarating. When you rooted for Bobby Orr, well, optimism came easily. If you lost, well, the zen of a Zamboni meticulously washed away the sins, and optimism returned. It was a clean sheet to begin again.Your own imagination was the director of the game on the radio, as well as the casting director. I was Max in Where the Wild Things Are, who grew up among beasts such as John Wensink, Battleship Bob Kelly and Dave Schultz. This gave hockey a mysterious, visceral quality other sports I followed did not have. The flavor of dopamine was different, good to the last drop. You never forget it, and you never run out. Once hockey grabs you, it doesnt let go.Now, as luck and good fortune would have it, I get to do some play-by-play for the greatest hockey players on planet Earth. In Canada. On ESPN.That makes me happy. ' ' '