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Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs guarantee place in the final
In the NBA playoffs,
The Miami Heat beat the Brooklyn Nets 96-94 to win their Eastern Conference semi finals series on Wednesday at the American Airlines Arena in Miami.
LeBron James netted 29 points with 20 in the second half, and after the game, he expressed his excitement and hope for the Eastern final.
"A lot of emotions and I mean, it's always been like that for us. It's never easy. It's never easy for us and it always come down to, can we get a stop at the end to win and we had to do that. We had to do it once again. So it was a big time finish for our team."
Meanwile,San Antonio Spurs advanced to yet another Western Conference final with a 104-82 win over the Portland Trail Blazers.
Danny Green tallied 22 points and Tim Duncan added 16 points with eight rebounds to help the Spurs to their third consecutive Western Conference final.
The win may have come at a cost, however, as San Antonio's All-Star point guard Tony Parker left midway through the first quarter.
He felt some tightness in his left hamstring and did not return.
Updates from the Italy Open in Rome
In tennis,
The Italy Open continues in Rome and now it is into the third day.
In the women's event, China's No. 1 Li Na is through to the quarter finals after beating Samantha Stosur 6-3, 6-1 in the third round.
Maria Sharapova, the 2011 and 2012 Rome champion, rallied to defeat Puerto Rican qualifier Monica Puig 6-3, 7-5.
With the win the number eight seed set up a third round encounter with Ana Ivanovic.
Top-seeded Serena Williams showed no trouble from a left thigh injury that forced her to withdraw from Madrid. The top-ranked American beat 28th-ranked Andrea Petkovic 6-2, 6-2.
Williams plays fellow American Varvara Lepchenko in the next round, the player she defeated in straight sets in their only previous encounter in Brisbane last year.
She will be seeking her 652nd professional match win, which would tie her with sister Venus for 10th place on the Open Era list.
In the men's event, after the shock defeat of Roger Federer at the hands of the unseeded French player Jeremy Chardy earlier in the day, seeds Tomas Berdych and Grigor Dimitrov enjoyed safe passage through to the last 16 at the Italian Open on Wednesday.
Grigor Dimitrov beat Ivo Karlovic 7-6/ 6-4, and Dimitry Tursunov lost to Tomas Berdych 6-4, 6-3.
Thomas Vermaelen looks ahead to FA Cup final
In football,
The FA Cup Final, which this year is between Arsenal and Hull City will take place on Saturday.
Ahead of the game, the captain of Arsenal, Thomas Vermaelen attended a press conference.
Arsenal went into the game as favourites against Hull City, but Vermaelen believes Saturday's opponents will be tough.
Arsenal hasn't won the trophy in nine years, since their 2005 FA Cup success, and Vermaelen is all too aware of the eagerness to end that silverware drought.
The Arsenal club captain was asked about his future, but Vermaelen insisted he was solely focused on the FA Cup final at this moment.
Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 3-1 to win series
In the NHL Eastern Conference finals, Game 7 has been played by the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens.
Carey Price stopped 29 shots to help Montreal beat the Boston Bruins 3-1, and win the best-of-seven conference semifinal 4-3.
They won the 34th playoff series between the two clubs - the ninth that went the seven-game distance - and advanced to the conference finals for only the second time.
Montreal will play the New York Rangers for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals starting on Saturday at the Bell Centre.
Meanwhile, Trevor Lewis scored, Jonathan Quick made 21 saves, and the Los Angeles Kings forced a seventh game in the Western Conference semifinals with a 2-1 win over the Anaheim Ducks at the Staples Center.
Will Routley wins stage four as Wiggins retains overall lead
The fourth stage of the Amgen Tour of California took place on Wednesday, with riders racing 102.6 miles from Monterey to Cambria.
Will Routley of Canada surprised more favoured sprinters by winning stage 4 of the Amgen Tour of California.
He crossed the finish line in three hours, 48 minutes, 37 seconds and American Gregory Daniel took second place with De Mesmaeker coming in third.
And Sir Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain retained his race lead for the third day.
The field rode alongside the Pacific coast in a course that included three climbs - a total elevation gain of 2,800 feet - and one sprint.
The fifth stage will see the field ride some 108 miles from Pismo Beach to Santa Barbara.
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