The 6-foot-8 Evans is a 10-year veteran

By using the midlevel exception on Teletovic, the Nets effectively eliminated themselves from contention for Jason Kidd. More significantly, under the N.B.A.'s new cap rules, a team that uses the full midlevel must adhere to a $74 million cap for that season. That limit will make any trade for Howard even more challenging, and perhaps impractical.

The 6-foot-8 Evans is a 10-year veteran known for his defensive rebounding and an enforcer's mentality. He was voted the N.B.A.'s dirtiest player in a Sports Illustrated player poll this year.

Teletovic, who is 6-foot-9 and 242 pounds, played for Caja Laboral in Spain, averaging 22 points and 6 rebounds in Euroleague play last season. A skilled shooter, he converted 43.8 percent of his 3-point attempts. 

Liriano scattered five hits and struck out 11 against no walks

The Pirates, who lost for just the second time in their last 11 games at PNC Park, have surged into contention in the NL Central behind a resurgent offense that began the night third in the National League in runs this month. They looked like the team that slumped through April and May against Liriano, who looked for a night like the pitcher who baffled the Pirates during his only other start at PNC Park six years ago.

Liriano scattered five hits and struck out 11 against no walks on June 16, 2006, a performance that came in the midst of a season in which he went 12-3 and made the All-Star team before blowing out his left elbow at the end of the year.

He has showed only flashes of brilliance in the interim and pitched so badly at the beginning of the season he spent some time in the bullpen in May before returning to the starting rotation on May 30.

Legal experts also say aboriginal groups

Niedermayer said Tuesday the Northern Gateway pipeline and its associated tankers are too great a risk to run through B.C.'s so-called "Great Bear region."

"It's tremendously important to me to be a Canadian for the Great Bear. The amazing places we have in our country are part of what it means to be Canadian," said Niedermayer, who grew up in Cranbrook, B.C.

Legal experts also say aboriginal groups and even the provincial government — should the NDP assume office — could mount legal challenges that would delay plans for years and add to the projects' legal and financial risk.

"I think we could see some constitutional battles reaching the courts. But I can't predict the outcome at this point," University of B.C. constitutional law professor Elizabeth Edinger said Tuesday. "But there will certainly be a serious attempt to delay."

Hart Trophy for the league’s most valuable player

"They're a little bit like us, blocking shots, tightening up, winning games, 1-0, 2-1," Richards said. "It's going to be tight — there's not going to be much ice out there the way Hunter's got them playing."

So far in the playoffs, Richards leads the Rangers in points (5), shots (31), face-off percentage (50.4), and shots blocked by forwards (10).

His statistics are similar to those of Ovechkin, who leads Washington in points (5), shots (28), and that other Ovechkin specialty, hits (31).

Across the dressing room, Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers' goalie, was talking about how it felt earlier in the day when he learned he had been named a finalist for the Hart Trophy for the league's most valuable player in the regular season. 

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Brent Johnson relieved Fleury at the start of the third

Brent Johnson relieved Fleury at the start of the third, strapping on his Led Zeppelin mask. The levee had already broken.

Now, the Penguins stare at the forbidding numbers facing a team at a 3-0 playoff deficit. Counting NHL, MLB and NBA, four teams out of 297 have come back to win the series (the 1942 Maple Leafs, 1975 Islanders, 2004 Red Sox and 2010 Flyers overcame the odds).

The Penguins also get to stare at this quote from Hartnell, given to reporters after the game:

"They were going after a couple of our guys' heads. It's scary when it comes down to that level," he said. "You ask the best player in the world, Sidney Crosby, what they're thinking over there: 'That's playoff hockey?'

That made him the favorite among bookies

McIlroy has won twice and finished no worse than third in nine of his last 12 tournaments, and his win at the Honda Classic a month ago made him the second-youngest player (behind Woods) to be No. 1 in the world, even if the top ranking lasted only two weeks.

That made him the favorite among bookies _until Woods ended a 30-month drought on the PGA Tour by winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational three weeks later.

Here they come again.

My middle-class family was bathed in Louisville

The Kentucky state flag shows a city guy and a country guy who are shaking hands, but you don't see the country guy's left hand, something that my eighth-grade history teacher ominously noted.

"That's because he has a knife in it," said Mr. Young.

My middle-class family was bathed in Louisville. It's work ethic fit us. It's underdog status defined us.

My father once threw a shoe into our television set when Terry Howard cruelly missed his first free throw of the season in the final seconds of a 1975 national semifinals loss to UCLA. My older brother Brad attended Kentucky, transferred, and now has a Louisville license plate. Several of my relatives attended Louisville at night or on weekends, including cousin Art, who became a family hero by working his way through school to become a noted radiologist.

My best grade-school friend, Charlie Gabriel, received two degrees from Louisville, played in their pep band, began the "C-A-R-D-S" cheer, in which the name is spelled out by body parts, and today cannot even begin to describe Kentucky.

"I can't talk about them without seeming mean and stupid and small," he said this week. "Let's just say it's all about how you were brought up."