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• Just like that, the Miami Heat and a Big Three-Minus-One are headed back to the Eastern Conference finals.
• Wade scored 41 points, James added 28 and the Heat finished off the once-frisky Indiana Pacers 105-93 in Game 6 Thursday night, advancing to face either Boston or Philadelphia in the next round.
• The way Miami's dynamic duo is playing, it may not matter who's got next.
• "They're going to be tough to beat by anybody," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, May 25, the 146th day of 2012. There are 220 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention began at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum. (The Convention ended four months later with the delegates adopting the Constitution of the United States.)
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• On this date:
• In 1810, Argentina began its revolt against Spanish rule with the forming of the Primera Junta in Buenos Aires.
• In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was convicted of a morals charge in London; he was sentenced to two years in prison.
• In 1916, the Chicago Tribune published an interview with Henry Ford in which the automobile industrialist was quoted as saying, "History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
• In 1935, Babe Ruth hit the 714th and final home run of his career, for the Boston Braves, in a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• In 1942, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, frustrated over being driven out of Burma by Japanese troops during World War II, bluntly told reporters in Delhi, India: "I claim we got a hell of a beating."
• In 1946, Transjordan (now Jordan) became a kingdom as it proclaimed its new monarch, Abdullah I.
• In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told Congress: "I believe that this nation (Continued on page 35)
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