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Monday, 19 January 2009 |
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 Tim Cahill's late equaliser delivered a serious blow to Liverpool's Premier League title hopes and earned Everton a deserved draw in the Merseyside derby at Anfield.
Liverpool looked to be heading back to the top of the table after captain Steven Gerrard's trademark 25-yard finish gave them the lead on 68 minutes. |
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Celtics can’t afford to go to brink |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 LOS ANGELES - Don’t sweat the loss. The Celtics needed one win in Los Angeles and they got it. But now it is incumbent upon them to win Game 6 in Boston tomorrow night.
Even at home, the Celtics want no part of a Game 7.
Still the possessors of a 3-2 lead in the NBA Finals, the Celtics dropped a 103-98 decision to the Los Angeles Lakers last night in Game 5 at Staples Center. Clearly, the victory meant a great deal more to Los Angeles than the loss did to the Celtics. The series now shifts back to the Garden, where the Celtics must win one of the two potential remaining games to secure the 17th championship in franchise history.
A word of advice for the Celtics: Don’t put off until Game 7 what you can do in Game 6.
“We wanted to go back home, but we didn’t want to play,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers mused following the defeat. “Now we’ve got to go play (at home) and we earned that right. That’s why regular season is so important. We fought for it all year. We have Game 6 at home and that’s not a bad place to be.”
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Lakers-Celtics is still bigger |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
Even though it has been 21 years since the teams met in the NBA Finals, their rivalry is still the standard in the league where nothing else really compares.  An NBA Finals is one thing, running the spectrum from Knicks vs. Lakers in 1970 (Jerry West's 60-foot shot in Game 3, Knicks come from 16 down to win Game 5 after Willis Reed is hurt, Reed limps back for the Knicks' Game 7 victory) to Spurs vs. Cavaliers last spring when nothing happened. An NBA Finals with the Lakers and Celtics . . . or listed according to who dominated whom, the Celtics and Lakers . . . is entirely different, an event unto itself. Lakers vs. Celtics is part of something bigger, a rivalry going back almost 50 years that defined the NBA over that time. It has been 21 years since their last Finals . . . and all of a sudden it feels as if those 21 years are gone. They're starting up right where they left off in 1987, with the same people telling the same stories. |
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Lakers say they're far from finished |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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BOSTON -- They need to figure out a few things to win Game 6 tonight in Boston, but they remain resolute. Kobe Bryant's lackluster shooting performances and Celtics' Paul Pierce are most pressing concerns.
The Lakers returned to Boston to find fewer headaches than on their last trip here. The city wasn't teeming with microbiology conventions and college graduations, so there was no trouble finding hotel rooms, allowing the Lakers to clutter their minds with one solitary thought -- force a Game 7.
Coach Phil Jackson was at least one-third correct by saying the Lakers were young enough and dumb enough to win the NBA Finals after trailing 3-1, but an all-important two-thirds of that equation still remains unknown after a Game 5 victory.
Boston is 12-1 at home in the playoffs and one victory away from its first championship in 22 years. Game 6 is tonight at TD Banknorth Garden. Game 7, if necessary, would be in Boston on Thursday.
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Baron Davis learns how to get to the Finals |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 Baron Davis knows he wants to play in the NBA Finals. What he hasn't quite figured out is how to get there. So he sought out experts - pals Chauncey, Tony, and 2008 MVP Kobe - to get some answers. I settle in at the Hilton Garden Inn in El Segundo, sporting a new do, fresh from filming the Zohan spot with Adam Sandler. My season ended a couple of weeks ago, and I got the call from Adam asking me to jump into this commercial where we spoof those ads the NBA has been running. You know, the split-screen thing where two guys from opposite teams are talking about winning it all. Kind of where I wish I were right now: going after that title with the Warriors. I'm still working out at least four hours a day, my production company just launched a website (ibeatyou.com), and my foundation, TeamPlay, is doing a ton of stuff. But I need to figure out one thing: |
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