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J.A. Adande: How excited am I for the playoffs? I'm even fired up to watch the Eastern Conference.

Chad Finn is the sports media columnist for the Globe and writes the irreverent Touching All the Bases blog for Boston.com.

'We just didn't want to be the seventh seed, to be honest,' John Wall said. John Wall used to scribble, "playoffs," on his sneakers before each game to remind himself of the shared goal within the Wizards organization.

The former president stopped to have lunch with Calipari on April 17, during which he called the book terrific.

George Herman Ruth Jr. stayed in the game too long. In his last season and playing for the Boston Braves in 1935, the legendary Babe batted .181, could barely trot around the bases and stuck around mostly because he thought he'd be offered the manager's job, which he wasn't.

The regular season has come to an end for the Oklahoma City Thunder. They finished the season 59-23 and are going into the playoffs with the No.

It wasn't all brass bands and pickle juice en route to prominence as a stand-up comedian for Hannibal Buress.

For the second straight season the fourth-seeded Chicago Bulls enter the playoffs wondering how much different their outlook would be if Derrick Rose was healthy.

Brooklyn had a chance to clinch the No. 5 seed on Tuesday at home against New York, but missed badly.

After scoring 25 points in Monday's 101-89 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant has 2,551 points this season, marking the second-highest single-season total by any NBA player in the last 23 years, per the Elias Sports Bureau .

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MANILA, Philippines Manny Pacquiao may get a guaranteed sum of USD 20 million from his recent bout against Timothy Bradley, but a big chunk of it will still go to the US Internal Revenue Service .

Our view: The return of Baltimore's Michael Phelps to competitive swimming raises hopes - and misgivings - of his biggest fans George Herman Ruth Jr., the pride of Pigtown, stayed in the game too long.

With the 2013-14 season coming down to a close, it's almost a 100% certainty that the Milwaukee Bucks will finish with the worst record in the League and have the most ping pong balls at the 2014 Draft Lottery.

Detroit's Joe Dumars passes off as he gets caught between Boston's Danny Ainge, right, and Dennis Johnson during the first half of the basketball game at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich., Feb. 28, 1988.

Brewer scored a career best 51 and joined an elite list of only Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson and Rick Barry to net more than 50-plus points and get more than six-plus steals in a game.

Interesting from Josh Ezekowitz on Stats GMs versus former player GMs : "Of course, none of the scouts who've won NBA titles as GMs would be described as dilettantes masquerading as having advanced degrees in the game of basketball.

Warren Buffett is being compared to Michael Jordan. Which wouldn't be that surprising, except this is Washington Wizards Michael Jordan we're talking about.

The Bobcats are on a four-game winning streak, and one of those wins even came against a playoff-bound team.

Interesting news out of Indiana, where coach Frank Vogel will try resting his players to solve the team's bewildering slump.