Looks like the Pistons will not repeat . . .

Under two minutes, and things look bleak for the Pistons. Oh well, there's always next year.

But will this mean that "SuperClutch" Robert Horry will have as many rings as M.J.? Really?

On a completely different subject, while watching the game, I was flipping to C-SPAN during commercials. I saw a bit of the Rumsfeld-Senate hearing today, and I actually heard Rummy say, in (an angry) response to a Evan Bayh question that it doesn't take a genius to kill people, that it doesn't take a lot of people to kill people, and that "18 people" killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Whaaah?? Weren't there 19 hijackers? And shouldn't the friggin' Secretary of Defense, who was in the Pentagon when it was crashed into, know that?

J.H.C.

OK--The Pistons are down by seven with about 30 seconds. This is over. Emery Out.

OK, OK--Really over now. Am I the only person who thinks Tim Duncan always looks, well, "put upon"? Near tears, even. Like he's never been fouled before this time, and he is terribly bothered by the very thought of it. "How dare you!"