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That doesn't happen that often," Adelman said, marveling at that particular five-pass play. "That just shows guys are willing to move the ball. I do believe we have a very unselfish team." Adelman has preached the virtues of ball movement since training camp, but in their six-game winning streak, the Rockets have been passing more effectively and confidently than at any other point of the season. The Rockets matched their season high with 29 assists against the Cavaliers on Thursday, then surpassed it with 32 against the Hawks on Saturday. In the winning streak, the Rockets' longest this season, they have averaged 26.8 assists. Prior to this run, they averaged 18.9. "When we move the ball and share the ball and get good shots, we score points, and we're a much, much better team," Battier said.
SATURDAY CLOCKWATCH
1649: Hargreaves shoots wide from distance for Manchester United, who still trail Bolton 1-0 at the Reebok. 1648: Watford still trail Barnsley 3-2 at Oakwell. 1647: Leon Osman glides through the Sunderland defence to slot home Everton's seventh at Goodison. Bad dat for the north east, with Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough conceding 13 goals between them. At least Sunderland have managed to score one. 1646: Goals like London buses at the Emirates, where Tomas Rosicky has doubled the lead for Arsenal against Wigan. 1646: Forster has scored his second of the afternoon to bring Brighton back on level terms with Carlisle at the Withdean. 1645: Arsenal have finally broken Wigan's resistance, captain William Gallas sparing the Gunners' blushes by scoring seven minutes from time.
Pick ‘n’ roll: Thursday’s best NBA bets
The Pistons are on the verge of their first three-game losing streak of the season, and they'll have to beat the defending NBA champs on the road to avoid that. Detroit is fresh off an 11-game winning streak in which it outscored opponents by an average of 17 points, but it's all gone wrong this week. The Pistons have shot 39.9 percent from the field in the last two games, failing to score more than 86 points in either contest. It's not going to get any easier for the Pistons tonight when they face Spurs star Tim Duncan. He has recorded double-doubles in all 10 regular-season home games against Detroit in his career, leading San Antonio to a 9-1 record. Pick: Spurs Memphis Grizzlies at Sacramento Kings (-4, 203) Three key injuries have contributed to the Kings dropping six of their last eight games overall and four of five at home.
Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure
Also, Huckleberries has attracted about 2,085,000 page-views through the first 11 months of 2007, compared to 1.13M at this time last year. So HBO has almost doubled viewership in the last 12 months. Sportslink, the combined sports blog, came into its own this month by attracting more than 300,000 page-view -- an average of over 10,000 per day. The print side might be struggling but the online is healthier than ever. Now, for your Wild Card ... .
Do you feel the need, the Need for Speed?
With a rev of the engine and a screech of the wheels, the hottest title in car gaming history is about to hit the circuit. Need for Speed(tm) ProStreet provides thrills and spills at every corner, junction and hairpin bend and you'll need all your finest road handling skills to pass the test. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, it's all too easy to become immersed in an unmatched, believable race experience. It's a groundbreaking Need for Speed(tm) experience, which throws you into a head to head battle against the best street racers in a multitude of racing showdowns. The impeccable precision and impressively detailed photo-realistic graphics, effectively transports you to the centre of the action. It's a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle.
Scientists aglow over drug for radiation poisoning
With the Starship Enterprise seemingly doomed after losing warp power, Mr. Spock exposes himself to lethal radiation in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. After repairing the engines and saving the day, Spock dies. Evidently, the movie's writers didn't think scientists would find a drug to cure radiation poisoning by the late 23rd century. Yet local scientists may be on the verge of doing just that more than two centuries before the setting of the Star Trek film. Rice University's Jim Tour and his colleagues at two Houston health institutions have found a drug that, when given to mice before radiation exposure, is 5,000 times more effective than the best-available therapy for radiation injuries. Officials at the Department of Defense, seeking remedies for the radiation sickness that would follow a nuclear strike, were so taken by the research that they recently gave Tour a $540,000 grant and asked him to compress the next phase of testing into an almost unheard-of nine months.
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