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Heat guard Dwyane Wade, right, has averaged 16.5 points a game in the NBA Finals.
Wade, Heat Fully Ready For Spurs’ Counterpunch NBA Finals Dwyane Wade thinks there’s no one better than the Miami Heat at dealing with the mental challenge of the playoffs. In his eyes, only one other team might compare. He’s talking about the San Antonio Spurs. That’s why Wade believes these NBA Finals are just getting started. When he looks at the Spurs, he sees qualities his own team has, including an ability to break down a loss and quickly correct things. It’s what Miami did before Game 2 of the Finals, and it’s what Wade expects the Spurs to do before the title series resumes with Game 3 in Miami tonight. “You never put them away,” Wade said. “I think they always believe and it’s the same with us. You can’t, you won’t, put us away because we’re always going to believe. That’s why this is a perfect, different animal, kind of series. They’re the other team like
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us. They don’t lose much and when they do they come back and be better in the next game. So we’ve got to come out and do the same thing.” That would explain why on Monday, instead of a day off, the Heat gathered to watch video of Game 2. By winning in San Antonio to even the finals at 1-1, home-court advantage now belongs to the Heat. But no one in their locker room thinks it’s going to get easy now. “They came out great. They played a great game,” Spurs guard Tony Parker said after Miami’s 98-96 win in Game 2. “Now it’s our turn to go over there and get one. We played pretty well all season long on the road and so we’re going to have two great opportunities to try to come up with a win.” TIM REYNOLDS (AP)
George Mason Names New AD
More than two decades after winning a Super Bowl ring with the Redskins, Brad Edwards is back in the neighborhood as the new athletic director at George Mason. GMU doesn’t play the sport that made Edwards famous, and his arrival doesn’t mean the university plans to add football anytime soon. “The financial numbers of football are very tough,” President Angel Cabrera said. The former safety will use football to play the fundraising game, though, having retained Redskins connections in the area. (AP)
Former UCLA star is lead plaintiff in suit against the NCAA College Basketball
The battle to give top football and basketball players a cut of the billions of dollars flowing into college athletics began in earnest Monday with former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon taking the stand in federal court to describe how he spent long hours working on his game and as few as possible on his grades. The lead plaintiff in a landmark antitrust suit against the NCAA said his goal at UCLA wasn’t to get a degree, but to get two years of college experience before being drafted into the NBA. “I was an athlete masquerading as a student,” O’Bannon said. “I was there strictly to play basketball. I did basically the minimum to make sure I kept my eligibility academically so I could continue to play.” The testimony came as a trial that could upend the way col-
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O’Bannon Takes Stand
Former UCLA star Ed O’Bannon helped lead the Bruins to a national title in 1995.
Meanwhile … As the trial began, the NCAA announced it had reached a $20 million settlement in a related case involving video games that used the likeness and images of players without getting their permission. NCAA attorney Donald Remy acknowledged that the settlement in a suit brought by former Arizona State and Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller will result in some current players getting money but doesn’t change the NCAA’s strong belief that the collegiate athletic model is lawful. (AP)
lege sports are regulated opened, five years after the suit was filed. O’Bannon and 19 other plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken for an injunction that would allow athletes to sell the rights to their own images in television broadcasts and rebroadcasts. If successful, the plaintiffs in the class-action case — who are not asking for individual damages — could pave the way for a system that uses some of the huge money flowing into television contracts to pay athletes for their play once they are done with their college careers. TIM DAHLBERG (AP)
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