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The Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat face off in south beach in game one of the NBA Finals for the right to call themselves champions. Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavericks has been great in this postseason, averaging 28.4 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. For the home town heat, Lebron James has been scorching. James is averaging 26 points, 8.9 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game. Much has been made regarding the big two and a half of the Miami Heat, for they have scored a crazy 73.5 percent of their team's 92.9 points per game. And although the Dallas Mavericks went 2-0 against the Heat in the regular season, that does not carry much weight. The Chicago Bulls went 3-0 against the Miami Heat in the regular season, and the Boston Celtics went 3-1 against the Heat; but both teams fell victim to the big two and a half in the playoffs. Short synopsis, the Heat have the better stars, but the Mavericks have the better bench and Dirk Nowitzki is the one player that Lebron can't guard one on one; so I'll go with Mavericks in 7. Tip off is at 9:00 on ABC.

It's not just basketball that has it's championship series getting underway this week. The Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins will play game one of the Stanley Cup Finals tomorrow night. Like the Heat, the Canucks have been lights out in the playoffs. They have a high powered offense led by the Sedin twins and Ryan Kesler with a combined 55 points during their playoff run. In addition to the three pronged attack, the Canucks have had an elite power play, 28.3 percent conversion percentage, in the playoffs compared to the pathetic power play of the Bruins at 8.2 percent. Boston however has only allowed 45 goals in the playoffs behind Vezina Trophy favorite Tim Thomas. In addition to getting better slightly better play from their netminder, the Bruins have surprisingly out scored the Canucks in the playoffs 58-50. This series, like many in hockey, comes down to goal tending and although Roberto Luongo has been great, Tim Thomas has been the best this entire season. These two teams split the regular season series, so we all should be in for a great seven game series. In the end, Lord Stanley's Cup will be shipping up to Boston.

Auto racing and crashes go together like Romeo and Juliet, peanut butter and jelly and college kids and "studying"; yet on the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500, the timing for this crash could not have been worse. J.R. Hildebrand, a 23 year old rookie, ran his car on the final turn of the race to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Hildebrand was not in front of the pack for long, for he passed two time winner Dario Franchitti on lap 196 and held the lead until the fateful turn. The young buck's slip up opened the door for 32 year old Dan Wheldon to take the checkered flag instead. Wheldon had won the Indy 500 back in the year 2005. Like Hildebrand, we all have had that feeling of getting so close, but yet so far from accomplishing something important and cool. It's a bummer for Hildebrand, and even if he wins the 101st Indy 500, this one will always be the one that got away.

As far as sports streaks go, doing something 28 times in a row is either really good or terrible. And for Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Jo-Jo Reyes, a major league record 28 consecutive starts without-a-win loosing streak was quite bad. However, things seemed to turn for Reyes as he snapped his streak with the Blue Jays 11-1 trouncing of the American League Central leading Cleveland Indians yesterday. Reyes pitched a complete game