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Home ice hasn't meant much in the all-California series between the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings.
J. Thomas Schieffer has been hired by baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to run the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Lakers forward Derrick Caracter was arrested in New Orleans Sunday, accused of public drunkenness and shoving a pregnant cashier at an IHOP.
Kobe Bryant had 17 points for the Lakers, but did not score in the first half and finished 5 of 18 shooting. He also came up lame late in the fourth quarter, favoring his left ankle after a collision with Willie Green.
Chris Paul had 27 points, 15 assists and 13 rebounds, and the New Orleans Hornets held on for a 93-88 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night to even their first-round playoff series at 2-2.
Hornets coach Monty Williams says he put in calls to NBA headquarters to ask why game officials were allowing Lakers' big men to stand in the paint under the New Orleans basket for more than 3 seconds and aggressively bump defenders out of the way.
Nick Spaling scored his second goal of the game at 4:53 of the third period and the Nashville Predators closed out their first postseason series victory to advance to the Western Conference semifinals, beating the Anaheim Ducks 4-2 on Sunday.
John Lackey beat his former team again with eight superb innings, Carl Crawford hit his first home run in a Boston uniform, and the Red Sox completed a pitching-dominated four-game sweep of the Angels on Sunday with a 7-0 victory that extended their winning streak to five.
Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 21 games with a single in a five-run first inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-3 for their fourth win in five games.
Jonathan Quick made 51 saves to help Los Angeles hold on to a big lead that Kyle Clifford and Wayne Simmonds helped provide and the Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 in Game 5 on Saturday night to remain alive in their first-round series.
Chris Paul insisted he could not remember exactly how or when he wound up with a left thumb injury that forced him to practice with a black wrap on his left hand on Saturday.
Andrew Bynum's knee was the topic of discussion at Saturday practice as the Lakers prepare for game 4 Sunday on KCAL 9 in New Orelans. Bynum went down hard in the 3rd quarter holding his surgically repaired knee. He Scored 14 points and 11 rebounds in game 3.
Kobe Bryant hasn't called anybody anything so far in the NBA playoffs, though it's easy to imagine what kind of names he had in mind for his teammates following a shocking Game 1 loss to the New Orleans Hornets.
Chris Paul is practicing with a wrap on his left hand, the result of a thumb injury during the Hornets' loss to the Lakers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Friday night.
Jeff Baker hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs got a banner day from the top of their lineup in a wild 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.
