The Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins may have drawn first blood in the opening games of their respective conference finals against the Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins. But Game 2 saw Chicago and Boston simply open up the veins of their opponents and watch them bleed out, as each struck early and often for victories that put them in commanding 2-0 series leads.
The Battle In South Beach didn’t prove to be much of a battle. The Miami Heat used a 33-16 run through the second quarter to blitz the Indiana Pacers in anticlimactic 99-76 win to win what was otherwise an excellent series to settle the championship of the Eastern Conference.
One of last June’s champions answered the bell with the money on the table, as the Miami Heat won last night’s Game 7 against the Indiana Pacers and reached the NBA Finals. Now the other team that won a title in a June of 2012 that was Fit For A King has to stand up.
The American League East is jammed packed with four teams within 2 ½ games of each other and the division has a “flavor-of-the-week” quality. Boston and New York have each had runs in first place, with the Red Sox still there. Tampa Bay has gotten very hot of late. Churning along almost unnoticed, like a horse in the middle of the pack at nearby Pimlico Racetrack, is the Baltimore Orioles.
There’s an array of good action on TV tonight, but there’s no question what the daily sports highlight is—the Battle In South Beach, as the Indiana Pacers visit the Miami Heat for Game 7 of their Eastern Conference Finals. Tip time is 8:30 PM ET on TNT, with the pregame show of Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley starting a half-hour earlier.
One of the NHL’s conference finals went to form yesterday, and another saw the underdog strike first. The Chicago Blackhawks nipped the Los Angeles Kings, but the other favorite, the Pittsburgh Penguins, were outplayed at home by the Boston Bruins. Let’s rehash how Chicago and Boston drew first blood in their best-of-seven series and look ahead…
We’re headed for Game 7 in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals. Over the last three nights, the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers have traded decisive wins on their home floors to set up the big battle on South Beach on Monday night. Our purpose here is to look back at the lessons of Games 5 & 6, and use those to point ahead to the one-game showdown coming up.
The American League MVP race might have a clear frontrunner in Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera, but the National League MVP battle is wide open.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is in Delaware this weekend, as Dover International Speedway hosts the FedEx 400 on Sunday (1 PM ET, Fox). As the drivers jostle for position in the standings, one that often gets overlooked is the man who’s quietly nestled in fourth place, and that’s Clint Bowyer.
The first weekend of June has the conference finals possibly ending in the NBA and just beginning in the NHL. Baseball’s most storied rivalry takes center stage, and there are quality matchups among contenders elsewhere on the diamond. Here’s a look at what fans have on TV for daily sports on Saturday & Sunday
The conference finals in the NHL playoffs begin with a Saturday doubleheader. It starts in the late afternoon from the Windy City, when Los Angeles visits Chicago (5 PM ET, NBC Sports Network). Then the action shifts to the Steel City for the prime-time battle between Pittsburgh and Boston (8 PM ET, NBC).
The last day of May provides sports fans with the first real taste of summer—there’s no NBA or NHL playoff action, so it’s all about baseball on the daily sports docket for Friday.