Pro Sports

Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games by Major League Baseball on Thursday, becoming the latest high-profile player ensnared in the sport's drug scandals.

The Boston Celtics are back home where they won three Game 5s on their way to the NBA championship last season.
They want to do it again Tuesday night or risk being a stunning first-round playoff casualty two days later in the noisy building of the young Chicago Bulls.

CHICAGO — Another playoff thriller between Chicago and Boston, and this one went to the Bulls.

Ben Gordon scored 22 points, hitting the tying 3-pointer in the first overtime, and the Bulls beat the Celtics 121-118 in double overtime Sunday to tie their first-round series at two games apiece.

The teams split two tight games in Boston, before the Celtics blew out the Bulls in Game 3. This time, they stretched the drama into a second overtime.

CHICAGO — Rookie Micah Hoffpauir homered and hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly, Rich Harden pitched six strong innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 Tuesday night.

Hoffpauir, playing in place of the injured Milton Bradley, hit solo homer in the second inning to tie the score at 1, and his sacrifice fly drove in the first run in a three-run fifth that broke a 2-2 tie.

BOSTON - If words could stop Derrick Rose, the Celtics would be doing better in the playoffs. "Everybody has their night," Boston center Kendrick Perkins said Sunday. "I know it won't happen again. He'll never have another game like that against us."

CHICAGO — Nikolai Khabibulin brings playoff experience to the rest of the Chicago Blackhawks, who are searching to add some of their own.

Not only that, the Blackhawks' No. 1 goalie also carries a whole lot of success against their first-round foe, the Calgary Flames.

The Blackhawks will hit the ice for their first postseason game since 2002 on Thursday night and will be counting on Khabibulin to lead the way. Chicago has only 10 players with playoff experience, totaling 309 games.

The Cubs had taken the lead without breaking a sweat, then went on to win 8-5 Sunday night and take two out of three from their NL Central rivals and finish their season-opening road trip with a 4-2 record.

Chris Carpenter looked like his old self, the one with dominating form that won a Cy Young Award leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 Thursday.

Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart and two other people were killed Thursday when a minivan ran a red light and struck their sports car, authorities said.

Zack Greinke pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Kansas City bullpen was perfect Wednesday night, giving the Royals a 2-0 win over the Chicago White Sox.