On Wednesday, Chris Bosh gets another chance to prove himself against center Roy Hibbert and the Indiana Pacers when the Miami Heat begins its best-of-7 series in the Eastern Conference finals.

What happened in the buildup to this Heat-Pacers Eastern Conference final is something you would find at the intersection of Funny and Sad.

A failed attempt to upgrade Sun Life Stadium appears to have hurt Miami as NFL owners awarded Super Bowl 50 to the San Francisco Bay area and Super Bowl 51 to Houston.

Jose Fernandez kept the Marlins in the game, but Miami’s bullpen gave up six runs after he departed.

After a rain delayed start, Monsignor Pace lost the 4A state title game in extra innings to the undefeated Pensacola Catholic.

A failed attempt to upgrade Sun Life Stadium appears to have hurt Miami as NFL owners awarded Super Bowl 50 to San Francisco and Super Bowl 51 to Houston.

In the Dolphins’ first organized team activities of the year open to the media, new cornerback Brent Grimes showed his impressive athleticism.

Reshad Jones was back at work Tuesday. Randy Starks was still nowhere to be seen.

The NFL is free to twist arms, just like anybody else. So maybe it's just coincidence that all five of the new stadiums that will come on line during Roger Goodell's brief tenure as NFL commissioner have now been awarded Super Bowls.

One of two things is going to happen Tuesday when the NFL awards Super Bowls 50 and 51:

Safety Reshad Jones, unhappy with his rookie contract, missed Monday’s conditioning session and may miss OTAs.

With a tax-subsidized renovation of the Dolphins’ stadium ruled out, South Florida pins its hopes for landing Super Bowl 50 on promising the biggest party the region has ever seen.

The ‘X factor’ in the series might be who wins the battle between Chris Bosh and Roy Hibbert. Bosh, who missed almost all of last year’s Pacers series, will be helped by Udonis Haslem, Shane Battier and Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen

What happened in the buildup to this Heat-Pacers Eastern Conference final is something you would find at the intersection of Funny and Sad.

The coach on the other sideline in a playoff series generally doesn’t get under the skin of the opposing team. But Pacers coach Frank Vogel has managed to do it two years in a row — once for reasons not of his doing.

Heat backup point guard Norris Cole’s job is to short-circuit the Pacers’ offense — and George Hill — especially in the fourth quarter.

With forward Danny Granger lost for the season, third-year forward Paul George has stepped up as the Pacers’ go-to player.

Indianapolis will hold the Indy 500 and a Pacers playoff game on the same day for the first time, but excitement has been building since 1994.

An odd sight piqued the interests of reporters during the Heat’s practice Tuesday, a day before the Eastern Conference finals. It’s not every day you see LeBron James, one of the most physically imposing players in the NBA, working on floaters in the lane.

When Tony Parker started running low on masterful plays, Tim Duncan was there to take over and lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals.

Jose Fernandez kept the Marlins in the game, but Miami’s bullpen gave up six runs after he departed.

The newest controversy to attach itself to the Marlins doesn’t appear to have much of a shelf life. Video captured from Monday’s Philadelphia broadcast briefly showed Marlins starter Alex Sanabia spitting on a new baseball tossed to him moments after Domonic Brown deposited the previous one in the sparsely filled right-field seats.

Mike Moustakas tied it with an RBI single before George Kottaras walked with the bases-loaded to drive in the go-ahead run in a four-run eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night to end a four-game skid.

Matt Garza couldn't have asked for a better return to a major league mound after a 10-month layoff.

Evan Gattis hit a two-out, pinch-hit homer in the ninth to send the game to extra innings and Freddie Freeman won it in the 10th, sending the Atlanta Braves to their fifth straight win, 5-4 over the slumping Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.

The Minnesota Twins were one out away from ending their longest losing streak of the season.

Oakland rookie right-hander Dan Straily was well aware of the ace pitcher and the powerful lineup he was facing.

Bud Norris rolled through six scoreless innings for the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.

Mike Trout even surprised himself in adding to his growing list of impressive big league achievements.

Joe Thornton set the tone for the San Jose Sharks with a dominant first period. After that, the Sharks did their best to hang on and tie up their playoff series against the Los Angeles Kings.

The San Jose Sharks barely held off the Los Angeles Kings at the end for a second straight home win.

John Tortorella's message isn't going to change even though his New York Rangers are in an even more desperate situation than before their latest loss to the Boston Bruins.

It took 40 years for Original Six rivals Boston and New York to face off again in the playoffs.

Patrick Roy and Joe Sakic formed a productive partnership on the ice during their playing days, leading the Colorado Avalanche to two Stanley Cup titles.

The confident Hurricanes intend to seize the opportunity to go on a late-season run, beginning with the ACC tournament.

UM’s offense fizzled Saturday in a loss to Georgia Tech to end the regular season. Next up is the ACC tournament.

The Panthers, who finished with a losing record for the first time in five years, say they can turn it around in the conference tournament.

Heartbreak could not even begin to describe what Monsignor Pace baseball players were going through in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.

Florida Christian’s Chris Pelaez threw a great game, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Central Catholic.

Monsignor Pace found itself in a scoring funk for the second consecutive year at state.

Aliya Moktadier, Kasia Williams, Jayson Plasencia, Ashley Sierra and Hunter Alvarez of Coral Reef Senior High School were selected to participate in the summer agroecology internship hosted by Florida International University.

The state semifinals might be the last place you would expect to find a team that just a week earlier was giving an eight-run cushion to a pitcher selected as one of the nation’s 36 high school baseball prospects to play in the 2013 Under Armour Game in Chicago’s Wrigley Field this August.

The Patriots had no answer for the Cougars’ highly touted prospect Tyler Danish on the mound or at the plate in Friday’s semifinal.

Haines City’s suicide squeeze in the seventh inning gave the Hornets the winning run against St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Monsignor Pace baseball team has 17 seniors who still have a sour taste in their mouths from a 1-0 state semifinal loss to Bishop Verot that ended their junior seasons last year.

Westwood Christian took home the Class 2A trophy thanks to a potent offense and Jason Gutierrez’s complete-game, one-hit effort.

Part of the appeal of golf courses is the nature display that generally comes with them: trees, plants, and animals, such as alligators and iguanas.

Sergio Garcia apologized for saying he would "serve fried chicken" while making a joke about having Tiger Woods over for dinner.

Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia don't like each other, and they're making no effort to disguise their feelings.

The quotation from the proud father was a version of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous words, "Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Carlos Munoz will start Sunday’s Indy 500 in the middle of the front row and is a strong contender in the Indy Lights race, too.

Bruton Smith just can't help himself sometimes.

Bruton Smith just can't help himself sometimes.

IndyCar officials fined Graham Rahal's team $10,000, Ryan Briscoe's team $5,000 and Michel Jourdain Jr.'s team $1,000 Tuesday after they failed post-qualifying inspection.

Justin Allgaier started the season with a new car, a new crew chief and a relatively new pit crew.

Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major League Soccer expansion team in New York that will start play in 2015.

The owners of the 18 Mexican first-division soccer clubs voted Monday to bar one person or one company from owning more than one team.

Chelsea surged to the top of the weekly Associated Press global soccer poll after winning the Europa League and qualifying for the Champions League for the 11th straight season.

Stoke says Tony Pulis left as manager by mutual consent Tuesday, ending his seven-year tenure at the Premier League club.

Jose Mourinho will leave Real Madrid after three years as coach, paving the path for his return to England and a second stint as Chelsea's manager.

Virginia finally took that last step and won an NCAA men's tennis championship.

Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open on Tuesday because of a chronic back injury and will now focus on preparing for the start of the grass-court season next month.

With Kristie Ahn back in the lineup after missing parts of the last two seasons, 12th-seeded Stanford was a different team.

TNA Wrestling’s Chris Dispensa, Christy Hemme, Steve Small, Brian Stifler

Friday night’s mixed-martial arts event at BankUnited Center on the University of Miami campus will be the first Championship Fighting Alliance card to be televised nationally (on AXS TV).

The massive tornado that ripped through a handful of Oklahoma City suburbs and killed at least 50 people grabbed the attention of the sports world on Monday, especially the players and coaches with ties to the area.

A 77-year-old trained a horse that a 50-year-old rode to victory in the Preakness, which should give anyone worried about the graying of America something to cheer about.

A failed attempt to upgrade Sun Life Stadium appears to have hurt Miami as NFL owners awarded Super Bowl 50 to San Francisco and Super Bowl 51 to Houston.

As Bryce Harper ran back to chase Gregor Blanco's hard-hit fly in the ninth inning, memories of last week's scary collision with the wall at Dodger Stadium suddenly surged into his mind.

Bud Norris rolled through six scoreless innings for the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.

Pablo Sandoval hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning after Gregor Blanco's tying triple in the ninth, and the San Francisco Giants rallied past the Washington Nationals 4-2 on Tuesday night.

The Minnesota Twins were one out away from ending their longest losing streak of the season.

The Memphis Grizzlies called their woeful performance against San Antonio in the opener of the Western Conference finals an aberration. It wasn't their brand of basketball, they said. Things would change, they insisted.

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