1.   There are also exclusive interviews and highlights of the playoff series with the San Diego Padres.

2.   An error has been reported in the results of the Western Conference semifinal playoff series between the Portland Trail Blazers and Utah Jazz.

3.   And it is almost certain that the league will have something to say in another Heat-Knicks playoff series.

4.   And it came back to terrorize them Wednesday evening, probably costing them an opportunity to even their playoff series with the Cincinnati Reds at a game apiece.

5.   And so he and his assistants will seek to make the adjustments that are an integral part of a playoff series.

6.   And neither the Lakers nor the Rockets, who begin their first-round playoff series this afternoon, held up under the frenetic pace.

7.   And nobody, except off-season imports Sergei Zubov and Pat Verbeek, had entered a playoff series on a favored team in at least a couple of years.

8.   And Thursday night at the aforementioned Toronto arena, the hallowed Maple Leafs of hockey began a Stanley Cup playoff series against the Devils.

9.   And the two began competing on the same field last night when the Red Sox were to meet Cleveland here to begin their American League playoff series.

10.   And so, too, is this Western Conference first-round playoff series.