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Pacers put unbeaten home playoff record on line vs. Celtics road success tonight

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers can read the numbers. They’re down 2-0 in another best-of-seven series and are heading home, where they are a perfect 6-0 during this season’s playoff run. They need a win in Saturday’s pivotal Game 3 to get back in this series, just as they did last week against New York. And, yes, they’re facing the top-seeded Boston Celtics, who are a perfect 4-0 on the road this postseason. The bleakest part of this equation for Indiana is the possibility of losing All-NBA guard Tyrese Haliburton. The league’s assist champ departed in the third ...

Clark, Indiana Fever win 1st game of season, beat LA Sparks

LOS ANGELES — Caitlin Clark had 11 points and 10 rebounds for her first WNBA double-double and the Indiana Fever beat Los Angeles 78-73 on Friday night to snap a season-opening five-game skid in front of a Sparks record crowd of 19,103 that included several Hollywood stars. “The first one feels really good,” said Clark, who also had eight assists. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana (1-5) with 18 points and Aliyah Boston and Temi Fagbenle had 17 each. Clark’s rebounds were a career high. She missed her first seven 3-point attempts, but finally made one of her trademark deep 3s with ...

Goodrow scores in OT, Rangers outlast Panthers in Game 2 to even series

NEW YORK — Tough guy Matt Rempe added the excitement the Rangers lacked in Game 1 against the defending Eastern Conference champion Florida Panthers. Linemate Barclay Goodrow gave New York and its fans something even more important — an overtime goal. Goodrow scored 14:01 into the extra period to give the Rangers a 2-1 victory in Game 2 on Friday night, evening the conference final. The fourth-line center has four goals in the postseason, matching his total in 80 regular-season games. “It was great, a massive goal. A really clutch goal,” Rangers forward Alexis Lafreniere said. ...

Who is running Congress?

Reflect on the words of Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) in his Washington Post article titled “Why Is Congress So Dumb?” Thereby hangs a tale of congressional anemia and languor. The veteran congressman laments, “our available resources and our policy staff, the brains of Congress, have been so depleted that we can’t do our jobs properly. ... Congress is increasingly unable to comprehend a world growing more socially, economically and technologically multifaceted — and we did this to ourselves.” While the size of the federal government was mushrooming, staff levels in House ...

Mavericks have early control over Wolves in Western Conference finals; Game 2 tonight

MINNEAPOLIS — Kyrie Irving injected a burst of energy into the Dallas Mavericks to begin the Western Conference finals with a furious flurry of drives to the basket against the Minnesota Timberwolves. In the second half, as his shots stopped falling, this matured and refreshed version of Irving that’s been fueling Luka Doncic and the Mavericks kicked in with an all-around effort to lead the Game 1 victory. With an NBA championship and 87 career playoff games on his resume, Irving has the experience in this part of the postseason that nobody on either side in this series can ...

Cleveland Cavaliers fire coach J.B. Bickerstaff

CLEVELAND — J.B. Bickerstaff won and still lost his job. He dragged the Cleveland Cavaliers through some turbulent seasons, getting them back to the playoffs and deeper into the postseason than they’ve been without LeBron James on the roster in more than 30 years. It wasn’t enough. Bickerstaff was fired as Cleveland’s coach Thursday despite the Cavs improving in each of his four seasons and overcoming numerous injuries this year to make it to the second round of the playoffs. His dismissal came a week after the Cavs were eliminated by the Boston Celtics in the Eastern ...