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  • Lukas rules at Pimlico

    Preakness Day always has been a good one for trainer D. Wayne Lukas. One race before his record sixth Preakness victory yesterday, when Oxbow derailed Orb’s Triple Crown bid, Lukas saddled 24-1 shot Skyring to win the Grade 2, $300,000 Longines Dixie Stakes for Calumet Farm.Under a patient front-end journey with jockey Gary Stevens, Skyring set a slow pace and opened up in the stretch to ...

  • Sharks win in OT Wings get even

    Logan Couture scored a power-play goal 1:29 into overtime to help the Sharks bounce back from two losses in Los Angeles to beat the Kings 2-1 in Game 3 of their second-round series last night in San Jose.Dan Boyle scored a power-play goal early in the first period and Antti Niemi made 26 saves for the Sharks, who got the penalty calls to go in their favor down the stretch in this game.Rookie ...

  • No Ty in this center clash

    INDIANAPOLIS - Following the Knicks’ 106-99 ouster by the Pacers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals last night, center Tyson Chandler was asked why the Knicks never seemed to get back to their early-season form, when they were one of the NBA’s brightest stories."I don’t know, I can’t answer that," Chandler said.Sort of like his in-game responses to ...

  • A Hill of a return

    INDIANAPOLIS - The Pacers prepared for the worst. But it worked out for the best - in every way.Indiana was preparing to go without George Hill, who had missed Thursday’s game with a concussion, but the starting point guard was cleared in the afternoon by team doctors and the league. He started and played 42 minutes in the Pacers’ 106-99 Game 6 Eastern Conference semifinal ...

  • Shumpert’s trey-mendous stretch not enough

    "We wanted to put ourselves in the finals and roll the dice and we didn’t do that,’’ Shumpert said. "I just wanted to win."Shumpert’s explosion came out of nowhere. He had been limited in the first half by foul trouble, playing just 6:33 because three personals. He had scored a total of five points in the game and the Knicks were down 70-60 with 5:23 left ...


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Chronicle

Chronicle

Were I not so exhausted from the overabundance of horror and fantasy films that use the gimmick of having their stories recorded on video firsthand by the characters within the story, I might be more appreciative of some of the clever tricks that debut director Josh Trank pulls in Chronic ... ...

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  • Knicks’ season ends with flat tire in Indy

    INDIANAPOLIS - Carmelo Anthony was finally having his bust-out game, carrying 35 points into the fourth quarter. Melo went bust in the final period, though, and the Knicks season went right along with him.The Pacers are headed to South Beach with a 106-99 Game 6 victory in Game 6 last night at euphoric Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and the Knicks are headed home well short of their goals.In their ...

  • Bruins’ Jagr finding new ways to learn

    BOSTON - Jaromir Jagr was philosophizing, as is his wont."I’m 41 and learning something every day," the Bruins’ No. 68 said following Saturday’s practice in advance of Sunday’s Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Rangers. "The game is quicker than it ever was, and if I want to stay in the league I have to adjust."I can’t play ...

  • Mets Fans Dump Terry

    * Mets manager Terry Collins’ remarks that he doesn’t care about what the fans think or say just shows he has lost control of the Mets’ messy situation. If anything, we fans have been pretty patient about the team’s struggles. Granted, the Mets need to fill the outfield and bullpen with better players, but Collins has done a lousy job in getting his team to play with ...

  • B’klyn native pours in career-high 25 to propel Pacers

    INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana’s Lance Stephenson had an atrocious Game 5 against the Knicks. And the Brooklyn product did it in his home city, at the Garden.He promised to do better in Game 6. Rarely has any promise been so fervently upheld."He was the difference maker tonight," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said with a sigh.Stephenson, the Lincoln High legend, scored a career-best 25 ...

  • Promising season to long summer

    INDIANAPOLIS - The room was as quiet as you would want it to be. You weren’t suffering alone last night when the shots stopped falling and the season started sputtering and the game veered irretrievably south.Wherever you watched the Knicks tumble into the abyss - living room, man cave, saloon - that quiet was matched here, inside the visitor’s locker room at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, ...

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