she's had a lifelong commitment to our district, and she's prepared children for kevin garnett in -- children for kindergarten in our pre-kindergarten class at the early education school. she in fact embodies the goals of this district. she provides a strong foundation in academics for our pre-kindergarteners, our youngest scholars. she believes in a strong foundation for early learning so that our little ones will become lifelong learners. in fact, this distinguished service award is going to thrill her. she is so passionate and so committed to her work, and i am pleased to be an administrator who can say to you all thank you very much for honoring her and for in fact honoring our school with this award. thank you. [applause] >> next on our agenda, as i mentioned earlier, i'm going to call up carrie slaughter to come up here and let's start recognizing nationally board certified teacher. this is good trivial pursuit stuff, but tonight we celebrate 29 of our san francisco unified school district faculty members who have just become nationally board certified! whoo! [cheers and applau

kevin garnett fired up. he played well, 13 points and 12 rebounds. rondo was sensational and they got huge play from their bench, jajuan johnson the rookie, chris wilcox normally a bench player started. >> jeff: i like this strategy by chicago. they cut themselves, they're out of time-outs, they made themselves so they get a 30-second time-out. >> mike: aha. >> jeff: rules need to be changed. you should not be able to get a free time-out. you should have to substitute late. >> mike: so very smart. >> jeff: they get a time-out for nothing. i'm going to have everybody cut by someone when -- >> mike: coming up on espn from atlanta, lebron james and the heat playing their atlanta hawks who played extremely well. part of a doubleheader tonight on espn. all right. 9.8, bulls would need a miracle finish here. obviously they've got to put up a three. watson to deng. deng -- thinks he's going to drive. 2.4 remaining. and boston just has to inbound. they do to pietrus. pietrus fouled with 1.5 left but the celtics will get this one. and apparently for boston, a

the dish to kevin garnett for the bucket, celts over the bobcats 94-84. >>> now to oakland.llis put on a show. 30 points by halftime and finished with 48. unfortunately the warriors needed three more. ellis missed the game tying three in the final seconds. the thunder held on to win it 119-116. >>> hockey. what did lightning give steven stamkos for his birthday? how about a pie in the face? good to see the team splurge for his gift. he returned the favor against the kings and scored league leading 35th goal of the year to tie the game. l.a. came right back. rob scuderi with a hail mary type pass to kyle clifford. kings beat the lightning 3-1. >>> the city of new york threw a giant party for the super bowl champs yesterday. giants treated to a tickertape parade in manhattan. hundreds of thousands lined the streets for the parade. mvp eli manning and justin tuck joined mayor bloomberg on the parade route. certainly a big day in the big apple. i hate to be the one who has to pick up all of that confetti. >> that is your early look at sports. i'm fred roggin. >>> for another loo

vying cutting the deficit to two in the dying minutes but boston made sure of the way thanks to kevin garnett and the game's biggest bucket the visitors holding out for the ninety three ninety six. now the clock ticking down to sunday's super bowl the new england patriots and new york giants have held their annual press day and reveal key factors which could determine who will be crowned champions the media days pretty much like a circus atmosphere with players and coaches fielding hundreds of questions from hundreds of journalists the giants defeated the patriots in the super bowl final of two thousand and eight and despite winning ten straight games coming into the final the patriots know they'll have to be flawless against a very strong giants' defense and that has put even more pressure on new england star man tom brady i'm going to make sure i don't throw any interceptions and make sure i try to play really well. they're good team i mean i think that's that's why they're here they force you into a lot of mistakes. but we can't go out there and make mistakes and expect to win we've got to