ginobili with his fifth rebound. and this one is over. >> mark: another thing i've noticed is the way gregg popovich controlled this game with his time-outs. lakers went on a run, he would get a quick time-out, discuss how we're going to gain control of the game once again. he does a great job coaching. >> mike:inobili going back to the free-throw line. they call a technical foul, i believe, on odom. reminder, espn2 delivers the opening night of the major league baseball season tonight. yankees and red sox from fenway park. espn news will be seen in the new york and boston maets. 8:00 eastern on espn2. opening night, presented by dick's sporting goods. no better way to start t baseball season. >> jeff: you worried, mark jackson, about cc sabathia's rough spring? >> mark: i do my home work. i don't just show up and call games. cc norm lip hally has tough tim start the preseason. doesn't matter. cc will be cc. you just see. >> jeff: see, i like that. i have to give you credit for that. how many wins? i think they're go

and manu ginobili reaching a three-year extension with the w spurs. our top stories on espnews right now. john lackey preparing to make his red sox debut and against the yankees no less. the red sox and yankees prepare to tango on espn2, four teams already done this afternoon in the majors. we have the highlights coming up when they're done at the par three contest at the masters, where it's actually not a good thing to win. nobody has ever won it and the green jacket in the same year. why that's bad news for jim furyk potentially. >> local police say they've wrapped up their investigation into ben roethlisberger and the

he pulls ginobili hard to the ground. you see him saying, fellows, fellows, stay on the bench.e's ejected. hill. 29 points, 5 for 6 from three-point legend. from behind the arc. jason terry had 13 points, they all came in the second half. nowitzki to terry again. mavs down by 14. the spurs win it, they take a three game to one lead in their series. that will do it for this espn news update, remember, you can always stay current with espn news. now back to abc's "america this morning." >>> well, humankind shouldn't rush through the welcome mat, but e.t. comes knocking. >> world famous astrophysicalist search hawkly says, take more independence day the dangerous nomad looking to conjure. >> hawking compares them to christopher columbus' arrival which he says didn't fare very well. the documentary airs on the discovery channel. that's the theory at least. >> i believe they could be out there. >>> coming up next, the stories we're following today, including the enormous recovery jobs for people in mississippi. >>> and baseball's best visit 1600 pennsylvania avenue. sneezing ] day a

ginobili went into the locker room, cracked his nose back into place and finished the basketball gamer to beat the mavericks. >>> more than 7 million people watched the first round of the nfl draft on thursday night. it was the most viewed first round in espn's 31-year history, and the first time the network covered the draft during primetime tv. the highest rated markets, jacksonville, florida, and new orleans. >>> a beer vendor at a baseball game in milwaukee got a little more than a good tip yesterday. during the seventh inning, a foul ball went into the crowd and ricocheted off the guy's head. look closely. you can actually see the ball bounce right off his melon. hopefully they gave him a beer and the rest of the night off. he looks all right, though. >>> that's sports. i'm joe carter. >>> an illinois bank has become the latest casualty of the economy. but this closure may have political overtones. how it is connected to the race to fill president barack obama's old senate seat. we'll explain. penningtonct it's rollback ! ah! silver one. that's not a volkswagen. ♪ [ tires screech

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