|
(Continued from page 29)
• In other words, this Bulls-Heat series is just getting started.
• Ray Allen scored 21 points in less than 19 minutes off the bench, LeBron James scored all 19 of his points in the first half and the Heat led by as many as 46 on the way to a wild, whistle-filled 115-78 win over the Bulls in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup on Wednesday night. The series is tied at a game apiece and shifts to Chicago for Game 3 on Friday night.
• "We did a pretty good job of just staying the course," James said. "We just came in with a mindset to be aggressive and play our game. With everything that was going on, we just tried to keep our composure."
•
Today in History
The Associated Press
•
• Today is Thursday, May 9, the 129th day of 2013. There are 236 days left in the year.
•
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 9, 1754, a political cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette depicted a snake cut into eight pieces, each section representing a part of the American colonies; the caption read, "JOIN, or DIE."
•
• On this date:
• In 1712, the Carolina Colony was officially divided into two entities: North Carolina and South Carolina.
• 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 1958, "Vertigo," Alfred Hitchcock's eerie thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, premiered in San Francisco, the movie's setting.
• 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 re (Continued on page 31)
|
|
