Game 7 and Big Win for USA Soccer

Game 7 tonight
- The winner take all game 7 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals is tonight at 8:30 back in Miami and all the pressure is on the presumed NBA champions, the Miami Heat.
- Of the 20 ESPN pundits who picked the winner of the series, only 5 picked the Heat to win in 7 games. The rest picked the Heat to win in 5 or 6 games, which will give you an idea of how big an upset it would be if the Pacers, who are playing so well as a team with big man Roy Hibbert and all around player Paul George contributing so much. On the Heat's side it's turned into the "Big One" instead of the "Big Three" as Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade have all but disappeared (except in the media where Wade is complaining about not getting enough shots).
- The Heat get big man Chris Andersen back tonight after he was suspended for shoving Pacers F Tyler Hansbrough.
- Hibbert was fined $75,000 after Game 6 for cursing and using the phrase "no homo" to complete a response to a question. Hibbert had arguable his best game of the series in game 6 without Andersen playing to guard him.

US Defeats Germany

- Three Soccer stories in three weeks?! The US National Team defeated Germany 4-3 in an exhibition game on Sunday. Clint Dempsey lead the US with two goals, within 5 minutes, mid-way through the second half.

- Jozy Altidore scored his first international goal in almost two years, and then German goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen misplayed a pass that ended up in his own goal three minutes later giving the US a 2-0 lead. After Germany scored a goal in the 51^st minute to cut the deficit in half, Dempsey struck. First from a cross by Altidore, the second just a short while later he struck from about 5 yards outside of the box giving the US a 4-1 lead. The two goals for Dempsey moved him to 2^nd all-time in the US National scoring list.

- Though the Germans mounted a furious comeback, they fell just short. The German team was only playing one player from its A-team that won a world cup in 2010 and a Euro Cup in 2012. Altidore looks to take the reigns from Dempsey and teammate Landon Donovan as the best US front line player. He just scored 31 goals while playing for a team in the Netherlands, a record for a US Player in a European season.