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back in the playoffs, finally to be competing for a championship as a high seed, is a great place for us to be right now."
• It was Indiana's first series win since 2005 and its first clincher on its home court since the first round of the 2000 playoffs. Darren Collison scored 15 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter and George Hill added 15 points for the Pacers, who trailed by two at the end of the third quarter but outscored the Magic 36-16 in the final 12 minutes.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, May 9, the 130th day of 2012. There are 236 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 9, 1712, the Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North Carolina and South Carolina.
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• On this date:
• In 1754, a cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut in pieces, with each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "JOIN, or DIE."
• In 1883, Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset was born in Madrid.
• In 1936, Italy annexed Ethiopia.
• In 1945, U.S. officials announced that a midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
• In 1951, the U.S. conducted its first thermonuclear experiment as part of Operation Greenhouse by detonating a 225-kiloton device on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific nicknamed "George."
• In 1961, in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N. Minow decried the majority of television programming as a "vast wasteland."
• In 1962, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology succeeded in reflecting a laser beam off the surface of the moon. Italian movie director Federico Fellini began filming "8½," his art house classic about a movie director struggling to make a movie.
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