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Bulls' first game since Derrick Rose's season-ending knee injury.
• The superstar point guard received a standing ovation and waved to the crowd as he limped onto the court to present the game ball, then watched from a suite as the 76ers blitzed the Bulls in the third quarter.
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With Clemens trial in full swing, some of the most infamous baseball scandals
• The trial of former star pitcher Roger Clemens on charges that he lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids and human growth hormone is just the latest example of a big name from baseball becoming embroiled in scandal.
• With Clemens' friend Andy Pettitte retaking the stand Wednesday, this is a look at some of the other cases in which the sport's major figures got into hot water.
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• March 12, 1921 -- Accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, Chicago White Sox pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, first baseman Chick Gandil, shortstop Charles "Swede" Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver, outfielders "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Happy Felsh and infielder Fred McMullen were suspended for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The players had already been suspended by the team on Sept. 28, 1920, following their indictment on criminal charges.
• The "Black Sox" were acquitted on Aug. 3, 1921, but banned from the game by Landis the following day.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, May 2, the 123rd day of 2012. There are 243 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with elite American forces at his Pakistan compound, then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run.
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