The Lakers have already made history. They actually have a chance to do it again.Somewhere in the same sphere of improbability that goes with blowing a 24-point lead in an NBA Finals loss, the Lakers will try to win the Finals after trailing, three games to one.It has never been done since the Finals debuted […]
BOSTON — There are two game stories I hate to write: the almost-comeback and anything to do with the officiating. Game 2 of the NBA Finals was both.It’s hard not to mention the refs when one team shoots 38 free throws and the other shoots 10, which is what happened with the Celtics and the […]
Mat Gamel scored the game-winning run on a throwing error in the 13th inning, as Huntsville outlasted Tennessee 3-2 Tuesday night in the fourth of a five-game series at Smokies Park in Sevierville. The Stars won a season-best fifth straight on the road to improve to 28-11 and push their lead over West Tenn in […]
Turiaf came down hard with his left arm and Price went straight down and banged his head on the court. Price leaped straight up as his teammates swarmed the officials and pushed for the flagrant call. Utah coach Jerry Sloan also came off the bench immediately after the play.The officials conferred and kicked out Turiaf, […]
Just for a second, it looked as if Ali Williams was going to let his lip tremble and provide a watery outlet for the turbulent cocktail of emotion raging inside him.Williams, still wearing his scarlet kit, stood outside the home changing room at AMI Stadium, and revealed that playing the blokes holed up across the […]
CALGARY — The odds are steep, but Cory Sarich knows what it’s like to beat them.General belief is 20% of teams win when facing the situation at which the Calgary Flames are staring.The odds are that long for teams which drop the fifth game of a best-of-seven NHL playoff series and fall behind three games […]
ABBOTT, Tony . The Postcard . 354p. Little, Brown . Apr. 2008. Tr $15.99. ISBN 978-0-316-01172-3 . LC number unavailable.Gr 5–8—Retirement mecca St. Petersburg provides the perfect backdrop for Abbot’s mystery. Jason, 13, flies down to Florida to help his dad settle his grandmother’s estate. Worried about his parents’ marriage […]
Fox hunters –t he non-mounted kind who participate in field trails and preserve chases — say they are being treated unfairly in the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries hound study because they don’t have a representative on the Stakeholder Advisory Committee.Timothy Perry, of the Commonwealth Hunting Dog Heritage Group, said he had asked Bob […]
Selection Sunday has come and gone, and the Madness is nigh.For the NCAA tournament selection committee, that madness began early: Sunday’s five conference games had bracket implications, and the 65-team bracket wasn’t done until 20 minutes before CBS began its broadcast. (The biggest drama of the day: Georgia — which otherwise would have gone home […]
F RANKLIN - The last time the Brockton and Franklin girls basketball teams met, the Boxers muscled their way to a 13-point victory. Kelly Meredith and her Panther teammates refused to let that happen again last night.In a clash between two teams headed to the Division 1 South sectionals, Meredith collected 31 points and nine […]