The Atlanta Hawks advanced to the NBA semi-finals for the first time in 45 years with a 94-91 win over Washington in game six after the referee waved off Paul Pierce’s three-pointer at the buzzer. The Hawks will face LeBron James and the second-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, who eliminated the Chicago Bulls in game six of their Eastern Conference series Thursday. “We made just enough plays down the stretch,” said Hawks
(The Sports Xchange) – In less than three minutes, the Golden State Warriors went from nearly allowing the Memphis Grizzlies to erase a 15-point deficit to cruising to a 108-95 series-clinching victory in GameSix of the Western Conference semi-finals on Friday. Warriors guard Stephen Curry’s 62-foot heave as time expired in the third quarter capped an 11-4 scoring run over the final 2:37 of the period and gave Golden State
(The Sports Xchange) – The Atlanta Hawks survived a frantic finish to eliminate the Washington Wizards with a 94-91 win in Game Six of their Eastern Conference semi-final playoff series on Friday. DeMarre Carroll had 25 points and 10 rebounds, Paul Millsap added 20 points and 13 rebounds, and guard Jeff Teague scored 20 points for the Hawks, who advanced despite blowing a 15-point lead in the second half. Wizards
-The denizens of the Mini publicity mill are fond of making go-kart allusions in describing their brand’s products, and those allusions have some foundation in fact. Consider our test car, the new four-door version of the Mini Hardtop, in 189-hp Cooper S tune. It has gunfighter reflexes, hardly a trace of body roll, transient responses reminiscent of a mongoose tormenting a cobra, and steering that’s both quick (2.5 turns lock-to-lock)
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– What It Is: Ford’s Escape crossover, photographed here with camouflage covering styling changes that’ll arrive with the model’s mid-cycle refresh. Today’s Escape debuted roughly around the same time as the Ford Focus compact sedan and hatchback back in 2013, and all share the same platform. While still handsome, the crossover’s look is falling out of line with the younger faces in Ford’s lineup, such as the most recent Fiesta
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– After months of testing in private captivity, Google is ready to release its koala-esque autonomous pod into the wild. The Silicon Valley giant announced in a blog post today that its self-driving bubble-mobile will hit the streets of Mountain View, California, this summer. – The next step in autonomous testing will bring a human along for safety, Google assures us. “[D]uring this next phase of our project we’ll have
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– If you want a truck to let the neighbors know that you’re the baddest mofo this side of the Mississippi, do you get a Ford F-150/Chevy Silverado/Ram 1500? You do not. Nor do you get the F-250/2500HD/2500 versions of same. A Ford F-650 Super Duty or a Chevy Kodiak C4500 is getting closer but still isn’t quite right. No, the savvy choice is an International MXT, like this one
