Sports Columns
By the time you are reading this, 36-year-old Townsend Bell of San Francisco, who will start fourth in today’s Indianapolis 500 in a car fielded by Henderson’s Sam Schmidt, probably will have gotten a good night’s sleep — provided there wasn’t a party going on down the hall at his hotel in downtown Indianapolis, like the night before he qualified.
Even with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade on their side, the Miami Heat were all but left for dead, cold as a corpse with the odds stacked high against them.
Another 48 minutes of torture for the Chicago Bulls revealed something that is no secret. If Derrick Rose does not take all of his offensive talents to South Beach, the Bulls are in big trouble.
Rarely is the sequel as good as the original. It would have been crazy to expect Dirk Nowitzki, the Dallas Mavericks’ 7-foot shooting stud, to come close to duplicating his near-perfect Game 1 performance.