SportsCenter Rundown : LOCKED AND NOT LOCKED (April 12)

How to Win in Divore if Your Wife Loves 2 b. F.cked by Many Many Other Men but Not U How to Claim Your Compensation from your Lawyer who screws U up How to Prevent your wife from Stealing everything from You and meantime Screw with other Men? Simple: never marry a hight school, unless you are only a high school, More..... EASTBOUND AND DOWN The Eastern Conference playoffs are now set, with each of the matchups determined. The Celtics started Delonte West, Von Wafer, Jeff Green, Glen Davis, and Jermaine O'Neal and promptly lost to the Wizards in overtime. (That may or may not have had something to do with that same Von Wafer blowing a dunk before somehow managing to foul that same Jermaine O'Neal.) And since the Heat beat the Hawks, Miami locked up the No. 2 seed for the first time since winning it all in 2006, and locked in a first-round matchup with the Sixers, who locked the Knicks into the No. 6 seed by losing to the Magic. (That may or may not have had something to do with Dwight Howard not blowing this dunk while posterizing Jrue Holiday. Yumbo Jam. But the rim will have its revenge.) WESTBOUND AND UP It's only natural that the West is exactly opposite from the East. Only two of those eight spots are locked in: 1. Spurs 2. Lakers/Mavericks/Thunder 3. Lakers/Mavericks/Thunder 4. Lakers/Mavericks/Thunder 5. Nuggets 6. Blazers/Hornets/Grizzlies 7. Blazers/Hornets/Grizzlies 8. Blazers/Hornets/Grizzlies The Mavs have won three straight (since losing four straight) and can only finish as the No. 2 seed if they finish ahead of both the Lakers and Thunder (since they'll lose the tiebreaker since they're not a division winner). But somebody will come in second. Just like the chicken or the egg or the egg. RIVALRY REVISITED Before the game in San Francisco, the Giants and the Dodgers addressed the 40,000-ish in attendance, asking them to stop the violence and keep their rivalry on the field. Then on that field, Clayton Kershaw threw 6 2/3 scoreless innings at the Giants, running up his streak of consecutive scoreless innings against them to 23 2/3 innings. And according to Uncle Elias, that's the longest streak by any Dodgers pitcher against the Giants since Don Sutton shut them out for 31 straight innings from 1977 to 1978. And so, Kershaw picked up his second win of the season - both against the Giants. Which once again kept the Dodgers from facing Brian Wilson's beard. But not the rest of us. Thankfully. CRAYSY The Rays got their second win of season by scoring almost as many runs in one game against the Red Sox (see: 16) as they did in their first nine games combined (see: 20). Sam Fuld was a single short of the cycle when he came to bat for the sixth time in the ninth, and promptly doubled to left and never even thought about stopping at first. Johnny Damon, who finished a double and a triple short of the cycle, said afterward of Fuld, "At this stage of my career, if that happened, I'm stopping." All told, every Rays starter raised his batting average in this game. Well, every starter except Dan Johnson, who went 0-4 and is now hitting .079. But give him a break. It's not like he's Superman. 9 of 10 (part one) There were 10 baseball games played on Monday Night, and the first 9 of them weren't won by the home team (and if they don't win, it's a shame). And if you went to bed on the 10th with the Blue Jays nursing a 7-0 lead in the 7th against the Mariners in Seattle, you only missed an 8-run comeback capped by a walk-off double by Luis Rodriguez. And if L-Rod hadn't done that, it would have been just the second time ever in the history of baseball that at least 10 games had been played and all of them won by the road team. (And according to Cousin Elias, that time was July 30, 1890 and a 12-game slate.) Why did he have to go and ruin such a beautiful thing? It's like he's the Steve Buscemi of baseball. 9 of 10 (part two) One of those winning visitors was (were?) the Rangers, who became just the 5th team ever in the history of baseball to win at least 9 of the first 10 games in a season after playing in the World Series the previous season. Of course, they lost to the Giants in that World Series. And the other 4 teams to match these Rangers were those Giants (see: 1918, 1923, 1938 and 2003). Each of them started 9-1. And The Rundown would give them all an 'A' for effort, but only the 1923 squad made it back to the World Series. Also, 'A' is for Frog. .206 Derek Jeter enters tonight's game against the Orioles with a .206 average through 9 games this season. The only other time he had a worse start at the plate was back in 1998, when a 23-year-old-Jeter was sitting on .200 entering the 10th game. That year, he bounced back to finish with a .324 average. And a World Series ring. You won't see a better bounce than that. Especially if it involves a kayak and a diving board. "I'm going to kill that dude. I don't give a (expletive deleted)." Them's fightin' words, especially at The Palace. And besides, if you're going to flip out, then flip out right. "I'll be suited up at Lincoln Nebraska !! And first player at QB to meet with the Wolverines for the fourth time!!" Terrelle Pryor took to Twitter (as @TPeezy2) to debunk reports that he is considering whether to apply for the supplemental draft and plans to return to Columbus (via Lincoln). Which is undoubtedly a better reason than Anderson Cooper had to take to Twitter. Which Top Play is the Best of the Best? Jameer Nelson sets up Dwight Howard for the one-handed jam over Jrue Holiday One-legged wrestler Anthony Robles wins NCAA title 9AM ET Josh Elliott, Hannah Storm 12PM ET John Anderson, Chris McKendry 3PM ET Linda Cohn, David Lloyd on ESPNEWS 6PM ET Brian Kenny, Jay Harris 8PM ET Jonathan Coachman, Mike Hill on ESPNEWS 11PM ET Steve Levy, Scott Van Pelt 1AM ET Neil Everett, Stan Verrett 717470 Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored. For all other inquiries, click here. Change My Registration Preference When you registered with our site, you asked to receive the daily newsletter of SportsCenter TV Show. If you wish to change this registration preference, click here. Add me to ESPN's Do Not Email list This email contains an advertisement from: ESPN, 19 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016. To unsubscribe from all types of future commercial email from ESPN, regarding its products and services, click here. © 2011 ESPN Internet Ventures. 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