While he is busy tutoring current Lakers center Andrew Bynum in the ways of life inside the paint and dealing with the pressures of playoff basketball, Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s book is on its way to becoming a motion picture. “Brothers in Arms,” a nonfiction tome by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton, tells the story of how the unit overcame prejudice and sought to prove themselves on the battlefield by spearheading the Allied Forces’ drive eastward toward Germany during the Battle of the Bulge. [...]
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With back-to-back playoff sweeps, the Cavs have cruised to this point. The holiday shouldn’t make them too rusty, however Orlando’s confidence has to be sky high coming off a grand performance knocking off the defending champions IN Boston in game 7 of their series on Sunday. [...] The Lakers, after a surprisingly testy series that went the distance against Houston, now have a short turnaround, unlike their Jazz series, and face a hot and well-rested Denver Nugget team starting tonight in Los Angeles. [...] First look is at the forward slot. Sidney Crosby’s 2-goal performance in a game 7 win over Washington is a sign of things to come against Carolina. Hurricanes’ Eric Staal is the club’s career playoff scoring leader with 41 points. This will undoubtedly draw the attention of his brother, Jordan, Pittsburgh’s checking center. [...] In hoping to win the Stanley Cup for the fifth time in 12 seasons and to lift the spirits of an especially economically depressed area, Detroit’s tough Game 7 victory over Anaheim sets up an Original Six matchup against the well-rested Chicago squad in the conference finals beginning today at the Motor City’s Joe Louis Arena. [...] The late Chick Hearn, longtime voice of the Lakers, must be going crazy in hoop heaven. Of his many phrases that describe any element of play for a given moment, the most apt for the Lakers as they head into today’s showdown with the Rockets would be- ‘defense on vacation’, ‘my grandmother could guard him, and she can’t go to her left’, or ‘they couldn’t beat the Sisters of Mercy’ [...] Race favorite Rachel Alexandra holds off hard-charging Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to become first filly since 1924 to win the Preakness Stakes. Looks like jockey Calvin Borel made the right choice, but certainly Mike Smith was coming on strong with ‘Bird to make a race of it. Still there can be no doubt as to who the fastest horse is at this time….and it is a lady. The two-time Derby winning-jockey all but guaranteed victory in the Preakness Stakes and, boy, did she deliver. It has been 85 years since a filly won the second leg of the Triple Crown. [...] Fast, young, beautiful and undefeated, no wonder jockey Calvin Borel decided to jump from the Kentucky Derby Winner, Mine That Bird, to the Kentucky Oaks winner, Rachel Alexandra for the 134th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. [...] Michele Scarponi of the Diquigiovanni team won the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday as the race crossed into Austria. Scarponi, who won March’s Tirreno-Adriatico stage race, finished the 248-kilometer (154 mile) stage in five hours, 49 minutes, 55 seconds. Scarponi was part of a five-rider breakaway that led the race for most of the day before the Italian dropped his companions and rode alone across the finish line. Danilo Di Luca of Italy held on to the overall leader’s pink jersey after finishing 36 seconds back. [...] With only Chicago through to the next round after their exciting six game series against Vancouver, all three remaining matchups come down to a seventh game. Anaheim vs. Detroit The Red Wings had clinched their last eight playoff series wins with victories on the road and looked to do the dame here, but Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry each had a goal and an assist and Jonas Hiller made 38 saves as the Ducks beat the Red Wings 2-1 last night to force a decisive Game 7 in the Western Conference semifinal series. Scott Niedermayer and Bobby Ryan added assists for the Ducks, who built a two-goal lead in the second period and managed to shut down the Red Wings until Johan Franzen brought Detroit within a goal with 2:25 to play. Facing elimination, the Ducks returned to the form that carried the team to a league-best 10-2-1 mark in the final weeks of the season, then through a first-round upset of the Presidents’ Trophy-winning San Jose Sharks. [...] |
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