Van Gundy compiled a 259-135 regular-season record and a 31-28 playoff record in five years as head coach. Team also parts ways with GM Otis Smith.
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Magic fire Stan Van Gundy
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 3:22pm EDT
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Van Gundy compiled a 259-135 regular-season record and a 31-28 playoff record in five years as head coach. Team also parts ways with GM Otis Smith.
Van Gundy compiled a 259-135 regular-season record and a 31-28 playoff record in five years as head coach. Team also parts ways with GM Otis Smith. -
Where do you feel safest, least safe watching live sports? [Poll]
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 12:48pm EDT
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Dodger Stadium was the site of another incident of violence Sunday, when a man was beaten after a minor traffic accident following Sunday night's game between the Dodgers andSt. Louis Cardinals.
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Clippers' season is over after 102-99 loss to Spurs in Game 4
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 2:40am EDT
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The Clippers are swept out of the Western Conference semifinals by San Antonio, which has won its last 18 games. Blake Griffin scores 21 points for Clippers.
The Clippers didn't go easily when they could have, when many thought they would have.
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It really was fun while it lasted for the Clippers
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 2:20am EDT
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They hang in there with enthusiasm and effort before falling to San Antonio and being swept from the playoffs. When was the last time anyone described the Lakers as enjoyable or full of effort?
I'm sitting here watching a game the Clippers have no chance of winning and it's still a hoot.
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Nick Young provided Clippers a boost
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 2:10am EDT
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The guard, who has been with the team for only 33 games, gave it a scoring spark off the bench in the playoffs.
Like many of his teammates, Clippers guard Nick Young has been coping with an injury throughout his team's playoff series with the San Antonio Spurs.
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Scott Van Slyke's pinch-hit home run lifts Dodgers over Cardinals, 6-5
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 2:10am EDT
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Rookie's three-run drive in the seventh inning, his first home run in the majors, proves the game winner. He got the green light from Manager Don Mattingly to swing on a 3-and-0 pitch from Marc Rzepczynski.
The effect of Sunday's solar eclipse was slightly evident at Dodger Stadium in the fifth and sixth innings, the day's fading sunlight growing even dimmer across the ballpark's right-field corner.
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Staples Center is the one shining star on this manic Sunday
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 1:45am EDT
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Cyclists come and go, Kings and Clippers play and lose, fans move in and out and all runs smoothly as three major sports events converge at Staples Center. Even the solar eclipse goes like clockwork.
Placing surreal moment atop surreal moment — on Sunday at Staples, they were piling up like pancakes — the sun starts to vanish about 5:30 p.m. at L.A. Live. What they call an annular solar eclipse has begun, a cockeyed celestial event that looks as if it were penciled out by Picasso.
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Spurs sweep Clippers out of the playoffs
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 1:23am EDT
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Despite two chances in the final seconds to take the lead or tie the score, Chris Paul and the Clippers come up short in a 102-99 loss to San Antonio in Game 4 of their Western Conference second-round playoff series.
The Clippers' season started with such uncertainty. And then came "The Trade" that brought Chris Paul to Los Angeles.
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Angels' Mike Scioscia defends late-game decisions against Padres
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 12:45am EDT
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With one out in the 11th inning against San Diego, Scioscia calls for a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Langerhans to advance Bobby Wilson from first. The Padres then intentionally walked a hot-hitting Mike Trout.
SAN DIEGO — With the Angels scrapping for the run that might have won Sunday's game, Manager Mike Scioscia essentially took the bat out of the hands of his hottest hitter, Mike Trout .
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Quick action probably saved leg of Dodgers' Mark Ellis
Posted: May 21st, 2012, 12:19am EDT
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Second baseman had emergency surgery to drain blood and fluids from left leg he injured Friday night. Manager Don Mattingly says doctors told him Ellis ran the risk of losing the leg had it gone a few more hours without intervention.
Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly said Sunday that the team doctor told him second baseman Mark Ellis was within several hours of possibly having his left leg amputated if Ellis hadn't had emergency surgery.