Live Updates: NBA Finals game one

It's finals time in the NBA. Keep up with the action from game one with tvnz.co.nz's live updates.
End of game Heat 92 - Mav 84
The Heat have taken game one of the NBA finals. It was the big three that did it for them in the end. They combined for 65 points to stay undefeated at home these playoffs. Dirk Nowitzki led all scorers with 27 for Dallas but ultimately it wasn't enough against the incredible scoring of the Heat.
LeBron and Wade finished with a flourish as Dwayne threw the pass for James to throw down.
James top scored for Miami with 24 points and 9 rebounds, Wade had 22 points with 10 boards and Bosh had 19 with 9 rebounds.
Game two is also in Miami at the same time on Friday (NZT).
Q4 10:52 Heat 89 - Mav 79

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Wade makes a massive play to almost put the game beyond doubt. He makes the rebound before putting an on point pass to Bosh who throws it down. Dallas use their final time out.
Q4 10:48 Heat 87 - Mav 79
Bad foul on Terry gives the Heat an eight point lead.
Q4 10:24 Heat 85 - Mav 79
Nowitzki takes it to the bucket and gets fouled. He's automatic from the line and adds the free throws with no worries. He'll need some big plays here with just over a minute and a half remaining.
Q4 10:00 Heat 85 - Mav 75
The big three are on fire down the stretch. Massive play from LeBron as he's fouled but still makes the massive jam. Dallas need to make stops now.
Q4 08:54 Heat 82 - Mav 73
Dwayne Wade is heating up down the stretch. After coming up with a big block on Shawn Marion to get the ball back, Wade's nailed a three-pointer to get the biggest lead of the night.
Q4 08:16 Heat 79 - Mav 73
Questionable foul on Nowitzki. He looked to have got the ball cleanly from Bosh but the referee saw it differently. That's Dirk's fourth foul.
Q4 08:00 Heat 77 - Mav 73
A Couple of big plays at each end. Wade hits a mid-range jumper to give Miami their biggest lead of the night. But Marion answers back with a three-point play.
Q4 07:25 Heat 75 - Mav 70
Scrappy period for both sides as neither can get a shot to go. LeBron's just been handed his fourth personal foul which could be a worry. Chandler can only make one of the free throws however. Erik Spoelstra calls timeout for Miami.
Q4 05:24 Heat 74 - Mav 69
Timeout Dallas as Udonis Haslem extends the Heat lead to five and will go to the line for one more. Dallas will need some of their stars to step up in the next few minutes to stay in the game.
Q4 04:00 Heat 72 - Mav 69
Dwayne Wade's found his range a bit more in the second half as he makes another mid-range jumper. Stevenson answers right back for the Mavericks with a three from the corner.
Q4 02:30 Heat 68 - Mav 66
Dirk's starting to get the better of this defence as he catches the ball and drives for a left-handed lay-up. He has 21 points.
Q4 01:19 Heat 68 - Mav 64
Brendan Haywood splits a pair of free throws for the Mavericks. He was the worst free throw shooter in the league in the regular season with 36%, he will be pleased with 50% so far tonight!
End of third quarter Heat 65 - Mav 61
Wow! LeBron lands his fourth three of the night at the buzzer. He was defended well but hit the fade-away regardless. Who says he's not clutch? He has 19 points tonight.
Q3 11:44 Heat 62 - Mav 61
Nowitzki takes his points tally to 17 after he's fouled. Some complaints from the Heat but it was a blatant foul.
Q3 11:00 Heat 60 - Mav 59
LeBron James lights up with a go-ahead three heading into the end of the quarter. Dallas call another timeout.
Q3 9:00 Heat 55 - Mav 57
The Mavericks' Peja Stojakovic is struggling from behind the arc, normally an excellent three-point shooter he's 0 for three tonight. Udonis Haslem has just been called for a travel to give Dallas the ball and they call a timeout.
Q3 6:30 Heat 53 - Mav 57
Looks like Shawn Marion's been taking shooting classes from Nowitzki as he lands a fade away jumper. He has 13 points tonight.
Q3 4:30 Heat 48 - Mav 53
Free throws are starting to be something of a worry for the Heat, they've missed six already for 57% accuracy, meanwhile Dallas are at 80% from the line.
Q3 3:00 Heat 47 - Mav 51
Dwayne Wade's come to life to stop the run with back to back baskets. He's fouled on the second but can't make the free throw.
Q3 2:00 Heat 43 - Mav 51
Great start to the quarter for Dallas. They go on a 7-0 run to start the half and grab their largest lead of the game so far. Miami point guard Mike Bibby just missed his fourth three pointer of the game, he has no points and two assists to show for his 9 minutes on court tonight. Heat call time-out.
End of first half Heat 43 - Mav 44
The Heat get the ball up the court and give Mike Miller an open look at a three but he can't make it count. An exciting first half where defence has been key, Miami are shooting at 38% while the Mavericks are at 37%. Interestingly both teams are shooting at a higher three-point percentage with 6 from 14 attempts for 43%.
Chris Bosh and Dirk Nowitzki lead their respective teams with 13 points a piece. Jason Terry's contributed 12 off the bench for Dallas, while LeBron has 7.
Q2 11:55 Heat 43 - Mav 44
The benches are stepping up here with Terry (Dallas) and Chalmers (Miami) trading threes before half-time. Miami have the last possession of the half.
Q2 10:48 Heat 38 - Mav 41
Jason Kidd's showed his class as a passing point guard throwing up the alley-oop for Chandler who is fouled and gets the three point play.
Q2 09:30 Heat 35 - Mav 36
Nowitzki's starting to heat up. He landed his first three and then followed it up with tough fade-away jumper.
Q2 08:43 Heat 35 - Mav 31

Bosh takes a seat after picking up his second foul for a loose ball call. He's had a productive first half with 11 points and 7 rebounds. Dallas call time-out.
Q2 07:30 Heat 30 - Mav 29
The Heat are doing a good job of defending Nowitzki so far. Using the double team they've restricted him to 1 from 5 shooting and only sent him to the charity stripe twice.
Q2 06:30 Heat 27 - Mav 26
The back and forth nature of this second quarter continues as LeBron makes a nice lay up for the seventh lead change of the quarter. He has 10 points. Miami call time out.
Q2 03:30 Heat 22 - Mav 24
Barea's done what he's done so well already in these playoffs and made a good drive to the basket for an easy lay-up. Previously Chalmers missed a free throw for Miami, their third miss from the line.
Q2 02:30 Heat 21 - Mav 22
Nowitzki goes back to the line and predictably makes both his free throws. LeBron's sat down for his first rest of the night.
Q2 01:30 Heat 18 - Mav 20
Great start to the quarter for Bosh as he throws down a tip-in off a LeBron miss. Terry fires right back with the Mavericks' fourth three. JJ Barea's checked in for Dallas, he's been explosive so far in these playoffs.
End of first quarter Heat 16 - Mav 17
Nice play by Jason Terry to end the quarter as he's hit hard by LeBron to go to the line. After trailing for the entire quarter the Mavericks have their first lead and LeBron already has two personal fouls. James leads all scoreers with 8 and Terry leads the Mavs with 6.
Q1 11:00 Heat 16 - Mav 15
Dirk Nowitzki's about to check back into the game. The Mavericks have already made three three-pointers at 50 percent accuracy.
Q1 10:00 Heat 16 - Mav 12
Dwayne Wade's just missed a pair of free throws. However LeBron's made up for it draining his first three-pointer of the night to put the Heat up by four and forcing Dallas to call a time-out.
Q1 08:30 Heat 13 - Mav 11
Veteran Jason Kidd's brought the Mavs back within two with back-to-back threes. Dallas showed their trademark ball movement around the perimeter to give Kidd the open looks.
Q1 06:30 Heat 11 - Mav 5
LeBron's come to the party now. Turning defence into offence to draw a foul on Nowitzki for a three point play. James has 5 points, only he and Bosh have scored for the Heat so far.
Q1 06:00 Heat 8 - Mav 5
It's been a good start for the least talked about member of the Big Three Chris Bosh. He has 6 points and 2 rebounds already.
Q1 04:30 Heat 6 - Mav 5
A scrappy period of play there with both sides turning the ball over. It ends when a foul is called on LeBron and Chandler splits the free throws.
Q1 02:00 Heat 4 - Mav 4
The Heat have Joel Anthony marking up Nowitzki. Dirk's just drawn a foul from him and nailed the two free-throws as easy as you like.
Q1 01:30 Heat 4 - Mav 2
And the finals are under way. It's the Heat that have made the faster start with LeBron landing his first jumper of the match. However Nowitzki fired back for Dallas. The Heat are yet to lose at home in the playoffs.
12:58pm
In a rematch of the 2006 Finals, Miami's "Big Three" come up against the veteran-laden Dallas Mavericks led by the almost unguardable Dirk Nowitzki.
The Heat won the last series this sides met in 4-2 after the Mavericks had led 2-0 early in the series, however that was before LeBron James combined with Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade to form one of the most powerful combinations in the game.
Game one is in Miami and the sides will use the following starting line ups.
Dallas: Dirk Nowitzki, Shawn Marion, Tyson Chandler, Jason Kidd, Deshawn Stevenson
Miami: LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Joel Anthony, Mike Bibby, Dwayne Wade

source : http://tvnz.co.nz/basketball-news/live-updates-nba-finals-game-one-4202390

Monopoly lost: Atlantic City's rise and fall

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Four years ago, some Atlantic City casino customers were shelling out $1,000 for a brownie sprinkled with edible gold dust in a Baccarat crystal they could take home.

Nowadays, some wait until 11 p.m. to eat so they can get a steak dinner for $2.99.

At the beginning of 2007, Atlantic City's 11 casinos were at the top of a wave of prosperity. Starting with the 1978 opening of Resorts, the nation's first casino outside Nevada, Atlantic City for years was the only place to play slots, cards, dice or roulette in the eastern half of the United States. The cash kept pouring in, the busloads of visitors kept coming and the revenue charts went one way: straight up.

And then, they didn't. Now, battered by competition from casinos all around it, Atlantic City is in a fight for its very survival.

The resort is furiously trying to remake itself into a vacation destination that happens to have gambling, but with no guarantee it has a winning hand even as other threats loom, including the possible expansion of casinos to north Jersey racetracks and a growing push for online gambling.

Intoxicated by years of success, Atlantic City missed numerous opportunities to diversify its offerings, widen its customer base and fend off competition that clearly was on its way even 20 years ago.

"The atmosphere was a total irrational exuberance; it truly was," said Robert Griffin, CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts, who worked at Trump properties here in the 1980s and 1990s. "There was a feeling that there was no end to the good times and that the money would never end."

Then, disaster struck the nation's second-largest gambling market. A perfect storm of competition right on its doorstep in Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware, coupled with the recession, pummeled Atlantic City worse than any other casino market. In four years, a billion and a half dollars vanished, along with thousands of jobs and tourists. Pennsylvania, with its 10 casinos, is poised to knock Atlantic City into third place at some point next year.

How did things go so wrong so fast?

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Cars streamed into Atlantic City on May 26, 1978, and people lined the Boardwalk for blocks, waiting to get inside Resorts on the first day it was legal to gamble there.

People bought tickets for buffets they had no intention of eating, just to sneak inside the casino earlier than the rest. Men relieved themselves into plastic coin cups to avoid losing their spot at the tables by going to restrooms. And cash - more than anyone had ever seen and more than management could imagine - flooded into the counting room, to the point that it took nearly an entire day to count it.

"It was euphoria," said Steve Norton, who was Resorts' executive vice president when it opened and now runs a casino consulting firm in Indiana. "I mean, it was an unbelievable time."

One after another in the 1980s, casinos kept coming. Revenues reached a high point of $5.2 billion in 2006.

And then the Pocono Downs harness racing track in Luzerne County, Pa., added slot machines and opened them to the public on Nov. 14, 2006. Suddenly, people in the heart of one of Atlantic City's key feeder markets could drive 10 or 20 minutes to play the slots instead of making a three-hour round trip to Atlantic City. In less than four years, there would be 10 casinos in Pennsylvania, all of which now offer table games, too.

They took in nearly $2.5 billion last year, approaching Atlantic City's $3.6 billion. So far this year, they are running neck-and-neck: $996 million for Pennsylvania, and $1.1 billion for Atlantic City.

"If you didn't anticipate this competition coming, you were asleep at the wheel," said Israel Posner, executive director of the Lloyd Levenson Institute of Gaming at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

David Schwartz, director of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Center for Gaming Research, said Atlantic City can be successful again, "but it's going to require a reinvention."

"Basically, the city needs to stop looking backward and start looking ahead," he said.

A look back reveals many missteps and lost opportunities. The most obvious: a failure to reinvent the resort as a place to go for more than gambling. Atlantic City belatedly jumped on the bandwagon, adding non-gambling amenities over the past eight years like celebrity restaurants, spas, shopping and top-name entertainment. The Borgata even built a stand-alone luxury hotel called the Water Club, and Harrah's indoor pool has become a cash cow, doubling as one of the city's hottest nightspots.

But back then, anything customers couldn't bet on was seen as a waste of money.

"Nobody wanted to build anything other than casinos," Norton said. "The property values shot up so high, it didn't make sense to build anything else."

There's plenty of blame to go around. Casino owners focused only on their own properties instead of the market as a whole, a habit that Atlantic City is only recently shaking off. Competing against each other instead of Las Vegas was the city's playbook for decades.

Now, the casinos are banding together for joint marketing efforts, and will chip in to help sponsor the biggest names in entertainment, rather than letting one casino pay the whole cost of a Britney Spears or Lady Gaga show, or a rodeo. And three casinos are even thinking of jointly funding a new convention or trade show center in Atlantic City to draw badly needed midweek business.

New Jersey also erred by failing to approve legalized sports betting in 1991 when it was given the chance to do so ahead of a nationwide ban, gambling experts say. A state senator sued the federal government in 2009 to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, but the suit was dismissed by a federal judge last month.

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When Griffin, the Trump CEO, lays his head on the pillow at night, he worries that New Jersey will one day succumb to political pressure from lawmakers in the more populous northern part of the state to expand casino gambling to the Meadowlands racetrack, 10 minutes from New York City. Analysts expect it would instantly become a $1 billion market. State law now allows casino gambling only in Atlantic City.

"That would devastate us," he said. "This would become a two-casino town; it wouldn't even take five years. That's what keeps me up at night."

Maddie Downey, a bartender at the Showboat, has her own worries. The single mom has already lost one casino job when the Sands closed in 2006, and worries that gas prices will stay near $4 a gallon, keeping people away from Atlantic City.

"I'm just glad to have this job," she said. "I just hope it doesn't get any worse, and I hope the price of gas comes down."

When the Indian-run Foxwoods casino opened in Connecticut in 1992, it was the closest casino to Atlantic City - and a sure sign that more were to come. Mohegan Sun, another tribal casino, opened in Connecticut four years later. The resort responded by allowing its casinos to stay open 24 hours a day; they formerly had to close for a few hours in the wee hours of the morning. It also introduced new games like poker, keno and racing simulcasts.

But the money kept coming in, and the two Connecticut casinos didn't prove to be a major problem for Atlantic City, which sat on its cards. No new casinos opened until the Borgata in 2003, which would usher in a new era of grand dreams - very few of which would ever come true.

The Borgata touched off a casino arms race, with companies from across the country vying to build the next mega-resort here. At the start of 2008, there were plans for as many as four new casinos; MGM Mirage unveiled a $5 billion, three-tower casino project that would have been the largest ever built here.

Pinnacle Entertainment blew up the Sands to make way for its own $2 billion casino resort, modeled on a beach house. Before setting off the explosives that would bring it down, then-CEO Dan Lee spoke of the importance of keeping the market fresh, new and exciting. The challenge, he said, is "to compete in this new world, or be the next implosion."

Yet by the end of 2008, Pinnacle and MGM's projects imploded on their own, and Revel, the first of the new projects to actually put shovels in the ground, was limping along. It would run out of money in 2009 and halt construction on the interior. Morgan Stanley, its major financer, walked away from the project, deciding it was better to take a nearly $1 billion bath on the deal than to stay in Atlantic City.

After scouring the globe for financing, including asking the Chinese government, Revel CEO Kevin DeSanctis finally secured new financing in February 2011 that allowed the project to resume, with some state tax incentives.

"Every market got hit, but nobody faced the amount of new competition coming online as much as Atlantic City did," said Larry Mullin, who was president of the Borgata at the time and now runs an Australian casino company. "We were just exposed. Nothing was going to stop the convenience customer from trying a product that was closer to them. I just don't think there was any silver, magic bullet. It was a very tough situation."

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Torn between demands from the New Jersey casino and horse racing industries, New Jersey's incoming governor, Republican Chris Christie, sided in 2010 with the casinos, which provided more tax revenue to the state's coffers. He refused to allow slot machines at the racetracks - something the racing industry has long wanted to keep pace with its competitors in other states.

New Jersey staged a quasi-takeover of Atlantic City's casino and tourist zones; Christie called it "a partnership." But the new tourism zone is run by the state and takes charge of many functions Atlantic City's often dysfunctional municipal government had long struggled with, including safety, cleanliness and economic development. (At one point just a few years ago, four of the previous eight mayors of Atlantic City had been arrested on corruption charges.)

The $30 million in annual payments that the casinos had to pony up to the horse racing industry, in return for keeping slots out of the tracks, will now be used to market Atlantic City nationally. The state rewrote many of its famously strict regulations for casinos, removing, among other things, minimum staffing requirements. They even allowed casinos to keep some jackpots that had built up on progressive slot machine games that they decide to cancel.

State-mandated economic redevelopment funds collected from each casino will now be used solely for projects within Atlantic City; before, the money was spread around the state.

The help cannot come too soon. Casinos are selling at fire-sale prices. Within the past year, The Tropicana, Resorts and Trump Marina have all sold for about 10 cents on the dollar from their values of just a few years ago. The Atlantic City Hilton stopped paying its mortgage in 2009 and is looking for a buyer. The casinos have shed nearly 15,000 jobs since 1997, with more layoffs to come.

The extra marketing money is crucial to Atlantic City's future, said Frank Fantini, a Delaware casino consultant and publisher.

"If it can create that same, "I gotta go party!' atmosphere that Las Vegas has, it ought to be able to work," he said.

Griffin, the Trump CEO and Casino Association president, said Atlantic City should bottom out at around $3.5 billion, then slowly start to grow again.

"There's a lot of pain coming, but I strongly believe that in 2012 you're going to see us coming back," he said. "I definitely think better days are ahead for Atlantic City."

Could that be a new marketing slogan for Atlantic City? Most of America seems to know that "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Yet how many people can correctly cite Atlantic City's tourism slogan, "Always Turned On"? The resort is thinking of a new slogan.

The effort has been going on for three years.

source : http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/05/31/20110531atlantic-city-rise-and-fall.html

Will Smith hundred puts Durham in command against Warwickshire

Few county batsmen have had cause to be grateful to the long-serving Warwickshire groundsman Steve Rouse this season but Will Smith was delighted to acknowledge Rouse's contribution to a day he will never forget. Smith, the unassuming right-hander who captained Durham to their second consecutive Championship in 2009 only to be ousted last May four games into the title defence, capitalised on a blameless pitch and some indisciplined home bowling to reach an unbeaten 153, his first century for 20 months.

Wickets had tumbled in each of the last two championship matches here and Warwickshire had been docked eight of the points gained from their victory over Worcestershire because the pitch was so capricious.

"A few of us were thinking: 'Christ, it's not going to be easy at Edgbaston," said Smith, who felt under extra pressure in his battle to re-establish himself in the ranks with the first-choice opener Mark Stoneman close to a return from the broken hand that created a vacancy at the top of Durham's order. "But this is a good pitch, and I've enjoyed batting on it. Batsmen are always judged on hundreds – and I was the only one of our top six who hasn't scored one this season."

He endured a nervous tea interval on 99, risking only an apple, but the first ball he received in the evening session from Rikki Clarke was short outside the off stump, allowing him to punch a simple single and then to punch the air exuberantly.

"Obviously things haven't gone my way in the last 18 months," he later said with understatement and a grin. "There were times when I wondered about my future in the game but I spent the winter thinking how much I enjoy it and that I had too much of a good opportunity to let it go lightly. I love playing for Durham and I want to do so for many years, so I've got to try everything for that to happen."

When Michael Di Venuto and Gordon Muchall failed to cash in, Durham were in danger of squandering Phil Mustard's correct call at the toss, with Clarke and Naqaash Tahir each earning a reward for accurate opening spells. Ben Stokes played enough handsome strokes to underline his promise before flicking Boyd Rankin lazily to midwicket just after lunch but that was the last success of the day for a Warwickshire attack lacking penetration or control.

Instead Dale Benkenstein, who preceded Smith as captain and remains a highly influential dressing-room figure, contributed a typically unspectacular 90 to an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 221, a new record for any Durham wicket against Warwickshire. Mike Denness, the former England captain who was sent in case of any further pitch problems, had a wasted journey.

How to choose the correct Air Conditione

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Portable AC’s
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Sports Illustrated's Jim Tressel Story Due Today

Jim Tressel's resignation was likely triggered by the impending publication of a Sports Illustrated article on Ohio State and violations of NCAA rules taking place under Jim Tressel's supervision. While no one outside of SI has gotten a look at the article, one thing is certain: George Dohrmann is the writer, and that means nothing good for Ohio State even with Tressel's resignation this morning.



Dohrmann won his Pulitzer in 2000 for reporting on academic fraud in the Minnesota men's basketball team, and has continued his investigative streak by writing about the Mike Vick dogfighting scandal, NCAA violations in the Arizona men's basketball program, and as if that weren't enough, has also written about the Barry Bonds steroid case. If the content is a mystery, the credentials of the writer involved are beyond established at this point.

Dohrmann himself tweeted this morning that the story would be published later today or tonight, so for the moment he's like the rest of us: waiting for the SI editorial staff to dot the i's, cross the t's, and show the world the final nail in Ohio State Jim Tressel's coffin.

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