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Heat win again: Defending NBA champions top Hawks 98-81 for 19th straight victory
• MIAMI (AP) -- Only a few minutes after the Miami Heat's winning streak reached 19 games, Erik Spoelstra laid down the next challenge.
• And it wasn't to win a 20th straight game.
• Instead, it was to simply win on Wednesday.
• Dwyane Wade scored 23 points and on a night when the stat sheet would suggest a struggle, the Heat rolled once again, extending their winning streak and leading wire-to-wire in beating the Atlanta Hawks 98-81 on Tuesday.
• Next up: The Heat are in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2013. There are 293 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 13, 1933, banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a "holiday" declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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• On this date:
• In 1639, New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.
• In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
• In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure prohibiting Union military officers from returning fugitive slaves to their owners.
• In 1901, the 23rd President of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67.
• In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.)
• In 1938, famed attorney Clarence S. Darrow died in Chicago.
• In 1943, author-poet Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, died in New York. Financier and philanthropist J.P. Morgan, Jr., 75, died in Boca Grande, Fla.
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