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Miami Heat to retire Tim Hardaway's No. 10 jersey

For six seasons, Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway led the Miami Heat on the longest consecutive streak of playoff appearances in franchise his tory.

Soon, they now will be reunited again this time in the AmericanAirlines Arena rafters.

Hardaway will become only the second Heat player in Miami's 21-year history to see his jersey retired. The Heat announced Thursday that Hardaway's No. 10 jersey would be honored during a pregame ceremony before the Oct. 28 season opener against the New York Knicks.

Tim Hardaway bonds with son on, off the court

Sunken into one corner of a beige sectional couch in his family's living room, Tim Hardaway Jr. is watching a classic NBA Finals contest from 1985, part marveling at the abilities of greats like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, part mocking the pace of a game that seems so much slower than the one he is used to watching now.

The game on the screen, the championship-clinching Game 6 between the Lakers and Celtics, actually happened seven years before the 6-5 budding basketball star was born, so it seems especially ancient to him. There is actually a stack of VHS tapes to the left of the television that are older than him.

A few feet to his left, dad settles into a black chair, not at all insulted that his son is discussing the inabilities of players from a generation ago. Tim Hardaway -- he doesn't go by Sr. just yet -- played against half the players on the screen early in his career, so he quickly comes to their defense.

Louisiana players living dream with Saints

When Randall Gay saw middle-aged men exchange tearful embraces in the Louisiana Superdome, he could relate.

Gay grew up in Brusly, near Baton Rouge, in a home of Saints fans. Just about all his relatives loved the Saints, his friends loved the Saints, and so did he.

"When you get accustomed to something, which, everybody around here is accustomed to losing, you really get accustomed to it, so you never think it's going to change," Gay said, talking about Saints fans' reaction to reaching the Super Bowl. "It just shows the passion and how people really love this team and what they've been through all these years."

Tim Hardaway's son tries to perfect his junior crossover

Tim Hardaway Jr. saw his father's crossover move so many times, he lost count.

There is one, however, that stood out.

In the Miami Heat's 1999 Eastern Conference series against New York, Hardaway Sr. -- a five-time NBA All-Star -- scored off a crossover and then pointed to then-6-year-old Tim Jr. in the stands.

`I'm happy to see the sky again'

Hoisting pickaxes, hammers and saws, rescuers dug through the wreckage of a flattened Port-au-Prince supermarket Sunday, crawling into crevices so small that they could barely breathe.

Trapped in the teetering, five-story structure was a 49-year-old woman, on her knees, her body rolled into a tight ball. She was praying in Creole.

A 7-year-old girl, crouched in another area, was wedged between cakes and cookies -- meager vestiges of what was once a Caribbean market bustling with shoppers.