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Whoa! Look who won game 2 of the NBA Finals Thursday night between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat. Well put it this way, it wasn’t Miami.
Dirk Nowitzki shook off an injury to his non-shooting hand and made a tie-breaking layup with 3.6 seconds left and the Mavericks came all the way back from 15 points down in the fourth quarter to beat the Heat 95-93 and tie the NBA finals at one game apiece.
“You can just sense it in us that we weren’t going to give up, we were going to be resilient,” Dallas guard Jason Terry said.
Nowitzki, the game hero … for Dallas … made two late baskets using his (non-shooting) left hand – despite a torn tendon on the middle finger. He finished with 24 points.
SIDEBAR: I’m pulling for Dallas, heh! heh!
With a $163-million (U.S.) payroll you got the sense that the Red Sox would turn it around – and they have – pulling into Toronto for a two-game series against the Blue Jays just one game below the .500 mark.
Boston (17-19) will have to wait a bit to get over that hump as the Blue Jays (16-20) finally broke into the win column after three consecutive losses, recording a 7-6 victory in 10 innings.
It was a drawn-out, topsy-turvy affair in which the Blue Jays took a 6-5 lead in the eighth inning when David Cooper, playing just his ninth game since getting called up from the minors, drilled his first major-league home run off Boston reliever Daniel Bard.
With Frank Francisco in to protect the lead in the ninth, Boston slugger Adrian Gonzalez hit his second home run of the game to tie it up.
Rajai Davis engineered the winning run, singling with one out in the 10th and then stealing second base – on a pitch out no less.
Not content with that, Davis then stole third, which set the table for Cooper and he came through once again, launching a sacrifice fly to centre field to score the winning run.
Boston opened the year with six consecutive losses, the club’s longest season-opening drought since 1945.
The natives were restless, especially with Crawford, one of their big off-season free-agent acquisitions, who had been more bust than boom.
Crawford has picked up the pace in the 15 games prior to Tuesday’s contest, batting .305, including a couple of walk off hits, raising his average from .135 to .211. He singled home Boston’s first run in the second inning on Tuesday to extend his hit streak to 10 games.
You knew the list was gonna leak today, sooner or later.
ABC is set to reveal the cast for its forthcoming “Dancing With the Stars” tonight at the end of “The Bachelor.” TMZ, however, is not waiting around.
The website says it has confirmed 6 of the 11 celebrities who will appear on the show – among them Wendy Williams, who had been rumored to be part of the cast; and rapper Lil’ Romeo, who was booked for the show several years ago but injured his leg and was replaced by his father, Master P.
Below is the list of confirmed celebs and their partners, according to TMZ:
Wendy Williams & Tony Dovolani
Lil’ Romeo & Chelsie Hightower
Chris Jericho & Cheryl Burke
Kendra Wilkinson & Louis van Amstel
Kirstie Alley & Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Disney star Chelsea Kane & Mark Ballas
Thirty years after the first Internet addresses were created, the supply of addresses officially ran dry on Thursday.
But don’t panic. The transition to a new version of addresses is already well under way and, for most people, should occur without even being noticed.
At a special ceremony in Miami on Thursday, the organization that oversees the global allocation of Internet addresses distributed the last batch of so-called IPv4 addresses, underscoring the extent to which the Web has become an integral and pervasive part of modern life.
Every computer, smartphone and back-end Web server requires an IP address — a unique string of numbers identifying a particular device — in order to be connected to the Internet. The explosion of Web-connected gadgets, and the popularity of websites from Google Inc to Facebook, means that the world has now bumped up against the limit of roughly 4 billion IP addresses that are possible with the IPv4 standard introduced in 1981.
The solution is IPv6, a new standard for Internet addresses that should provide a lot more room for growth: There are 340 undecillion IPv6 addresses available. That’s 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.
“If all the space of IPv4 were to be sized and compared to a golf ball, a similar-sized comparison for IPv6 would be the size of the sun,” said John Curran, the chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, one of five nonprofit organizations that manage Internet addresses for particular regions of the world.
Just in case you’re worried, Curran added that “we don’t ever intend to see another transition.”
For companies with websites, the transition to IPv6 means configuring their computer equipment to support the new standard rather than upgrading hardware, Curran said. Those that don’t could see the performance of their sites slowed down, and potentially cut off to some users in the future.
Laptops, smartphones and other Web-connected gadgets, as well as Web browsers, already support IPv6, though Curran notes that according to some estimates less than 1 percent of
Internet users may not have their equipment configured properly and will need to adjust their settings in the months ahead, as websites increasingly adopt the new standard.
The Jennifer Lopez era of “American Idol” has started off with a ratings plummet, compared to last year’s season opener.
Numbers for Wednesday night’s tenth season premiere fell 13 percent among total viewers and 18 percent in the ad-coveted demographic of 18-49-year olds, according to preliminary data from Nielsen.
The much-hyped two-hour opener, featuring new judges Lopez and Steven Tyler with returning judge Randy Jackson, was watched by 26.1 million viewers with a 9.7 in the demo.
Last year’s premiere – which kicked off the final year of Simon Cowell, considered by many observers to be the show’s linchpin – was watched by 29.9 million viewers and averaged an 11.8 demo rating. That was down slightly compared to the 2009 premiere, which averaged 30.4 million viewers and an 11.7 rating in the demo.
American Idol has been declining since the 2007 season when the premiere installment attracted a high of 37.4 million viewers with a 15.8 in the demo.
Regina King is dismissing reports she’s planning to marry former “The Cosby Show” star Malcolm Jamal-Warner, insisting they are not engaged – but are definitely dating.
The two have known each other since the 1980s, and King admits their friendship has since taken a romantic turn.
“Malcolm and I have a lot in common,” she tells Essence. “We’ve both been child actors and were also blessed to be raised by incredible mothers who instilled good values in us.
“Things are maturing nicely. (But) no, we’re not engaged.”
King has a 15-year-old son from her previous marriage to Ian Alexander, Sr. They divorced in 2006.
Filming is set to start next week on Tyler Perry’s new movie Good Deeds with Gabrielle Union, Thandie Newton, Beverly Johnson, and Rebecca Romijn. In the romantic comedy, Perry plays a guy who’s set to marry an uptown girl when he falls in love with a downtrodden single mom. Perry had an amazing opening weekend with Madea’s Big Happy Family. The TBS network recently announced plans to cancel Perry’s House Of Payne TV show, which starred Allen Payne, LaVan Davis and Lance Gross. After five years and seven seasons, the show is ending. House Of Payne is going to be replaced with another Tyler Perry production, For Better Or Worse. This show is based on his hit movie Why Did I Get Married. The TV version will star Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White reprising their roles from the movie as the battling hairdresser and sportscaster.