Guard Jeff Teague scored 26 points as the Atlanta Hawks held off the Washington Wizards for a 106-101 win in game four of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Forward Paul Millsap scored 19 points and centre Al Horford had 18 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta, who rebounded from a buzzer-beating loss in game three to level the series at 2-2. Washington, who were playing their third consecutive game without
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Hunched over burgers and chili cheese dogs at a Boston-area pub, a group of friends digested Monday’s news of punishment in the “Deflategate” scandal for the New England Patriots and star quarterback Tom Brady. Not surprisingly, there was a full menu of reactions – from praise to disbelief to condemnation – to Brady’s four-game suspension by the National Football League for using under-inflated footballs.
– Plug-in-hybrid and hydrogen-powered Mazdas are coming, by way of Toyota City. That’s right—imagine all the whole-grain, combustion-free goodness of a Toyota Mirai or a Prius Plug-In, but with the sexy, Mazda-shaped bodies you wouldn’t kick off your driveway in the morning. – – The two Japanese automakers want to expand their manufacturing cooperation beyond today’s Mazda-built Scion iA and Japan-only Mazda 3 hybrid, with the goal to electrify more
– Having cobbled together a psychotic supercharged golem to drop between the fenders of the Dodge Challenger and Charger, SRT needed a name. They found it in “Hellcat,” a moniker that had previously graced the WWII-era Grumman F6F, a stubby, radial-powered plane that could finally take the fight to Mitsubishi’s excellent Zero, the pre-eminent carrier-based fighter of the first part of the war. But given Chrysler’s history with cartoon bees and
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-A handful of the self-driving cars currently on the road in California have run into trouble—albeit allegedly not caused by the cars themselves. An investigation by The Associated Press has discovered that four of the 48 autonomous vehicles licensed for operation on public roads there have already gotten into some kind of accident. – All four of the scrapes reportedly happened at less than 10 mph. In two of them the car was in
– The Opel Zafira Tourer wouldn’t appear to be a chic or an epic choice for a strobe-light-and-string-bikini kind of spring break. This, however, was a different kind of road trip. A spunky grandmother rode shotgun and a supercharged six-year-old boy held court on a booster seat in the back. For purposes of context, we must point out it wasn’t our first European road trip. This particular family has a thirst
– Ford is recalling 8963 F-150 pickups in the U.S. for steering shafts that can break, the automaker said today. – Poor riveting on the upper intermediate shaft can cause it to separate from the steering assembly on certain 2015 F-150s, causing a sudden total loss of steering. Ford said it knows of one report of steering failure but did not report any accidents or injuries. Another 3348 F-150s subject to
– We learned two things watching Tag Heuer’s awesome video of current McLaren F1 drivers Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso wheel a modern F1 car and the MP4/4 racer driven by legendary pilot Ayrton Senna. The first is that substituting the word “timepiece” for “watch” in a bid to create a clever headline doesn’t work—as in, Timepiece Old and New F1 Cars Meeting!—and the second is that Tag Heuer knows how to quicken our
-Tesla made history with the introduction of its Model S sports sedan two-plus years ago, prompting approbation from car critics far and wide. This was the breakthrough electric car the world had seemingly been waiting for, offering attractive design, a remarkable interior, and entertaining performance. The price—starting in the mid-$60,000 range after the $7500 federal kickback—was far beyond the average household’s reach, and range anxiety will always be a concern