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David J. Neal: Miami Heat must play matador and slay Chicago Bulls

Can the Heat please put this series out of our misery Wednesday night?

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David J. Neal: Indianapolis 500 was scene of Mom’s valuable lessons

Sunday is Mother’s Day. Back when Foyt, Andrettis and Unsers defined auto racing in this country, that often meant Saturday would have been scheduled to be the first day of Indianapolis 500 qualifying, Pole Day. To me, Pole Day was the real Mother’s Day.

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David J. Neal: Gritty Bulls challenge Miami Heat’s core identity

Now comes the game Heat fans should be nervous about: Game 2, at home, down 1-0 to Chicago.

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David J. Neal: Let the Miami Dolphins wallow in their own pity party

The Dolphins sounded more like losers on this spring Sunday than they usually do on fall Sundays.

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David J. Neal: Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen nesting with Miami Heat

The Heat’s new kid fits. That’s not always a lock, either in a school or in the schoolyard of a professional sports locker room.

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David J. Neal: Tiger Woods appears more human as Masters looms

You can gauge how the golfing public feels about Tiger Woods’ game by how long it takes to answer this question: For this week’s Masters, are you taking Tiger or The Field?

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Boo Weekley views the bright side at Honda Classic

Boo Weekley teed off at the Honda Classic at 6:45 a.m. Thursday as the pre-dawn darkness faded. The last Boo Weekley Honda Classic round anybody remembers ended in near darkness of sunset.

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Penn State’s Joe Paterno just the latest campus king to fall

Hard to watch, now, isn’t it? Nobody ever thought just the sight of those bland Penn State uniforms and that craggy guy with the Poindexter glasses on the sideline could make skin crawl.

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Superstars deliver on rainy night at World Masters Tour

Saturday night at Sun Life Stadium, a stop of the World Soccer Masters Tour, set up like a dream of the late Joe Robbie:

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Dream Team documentary misses point

Little redeems as well as the polish of time. Damaging flaws become annoying quirks, abilities get exaggerated into superhuman powers, and it all seems so rosy.

NBA conspiracy theories resurface after LeBron-Durant no-call

The Heat and Oklahoma City get two days off before Sunday’s NBA Finals’ Game 3. No off days, however, for the sports conspiracy crowd that looks at the NBA the way the John Birch Society looks at the past 70 years.

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Solution for Miami Heat is as simple as hitting free throws

All the athletic health buzzwords — “evaluations,” “significant progress” and “premature” — departed Heat coach Erik Spoelstra’s mouth regarding the possible Game 5 return of Chris Bosh and settled into a loop of attempted vague.

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Miami Heat’s playoff dogfight begins in earnest with Indiana Pacers

The phrase, repeated by Heat coach Erik Spoelstra on Wednesday, acts as calming admonition to the panicky among Heat followers and a warning to the brash.

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Florida Panthers coach Kevin Dineen must choose between a hot goalie and experienced one

Which way will he go? Which way will he go?