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Anaheim Ducks right wing Devante Smith-Pelly, right, celebrates after scoring on Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick in the shootout of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Los Angeles. The Ducks won 4-3. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Ducks beat Kings 4-3 in SO, clinch West’s top seed

By MIKE CRANSTON - Associated Press

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, right, greets Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia before a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Jeter rests, Pedroia moved to leadoff spot

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Boston, firefighters reach tentative labor deal

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Boston Celtics' Kelly Olynyk (41) drives between Cleveland Cavaliers' Anderson Varejao (17), from Bazil, and Jarrett Jack (1) during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, April 12, 2014, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Olynyk scores 25 as Celtics roll past Cavs 111-99

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Boston Bruins' Reilly Smith (18) shoots wide of Buffalo Sabres' Matt Hackett (31) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Saturday, April 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Sabres G Hackett taken off ice on stretcher

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Boston Bruins' Reilly Smith (18) shoots wide of Buffalo Sabres' Matt Hackett (31) during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Saturday, April 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Bruins clinch NHL’s top record, beat Sabres 4-1

By HOWARD ULMAN - Associated Press

Track work to interrupt Downeaster this weekend

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Philadelphia 76ers center Henry Sims (35) looses control of the ball against Charlotte Bobcats guard Luke Ridnour, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, April 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Chris Keane)

Jefferson leads Bobcats over 76ers 111-105

By STEVE REED - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this May 14, 2013 file photo, Boston Marathon bombing survivor Roseann Sdoia uses crutches as she leaves Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. She was at the finish line on April 15, 2013 rooting for friends in the race, when the second bomb went off. Aside from her leg injury, she suffered hearing loss. She was with four girlfriends; three of them lost hearing, and the fourth was unscathed. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

A year after bombing, Boston and its people heal

By DENISE LAVOIE and PAIGE SUTHERLAND - Associated Press

Boston announces marathon public safety measures

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Boston Red Sox batter Grady Sizemore hits a three-run home run as New York Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli, left, looks on during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, April 11, 2014, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

Sizemore, Gomes HRs lead Red Sox over Yankees 4-2

By HOWIE RUMBERG - Associated Press

Everett landowner resists casino disclosure pledge

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Massachusetts drivers get real-time traffic info

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press

Charlotte Bobcats' Gerald Henderson (9) drives past Boston Celtics' Avery Bradley (0) as the Bobcats' Josh McRoberts (11) looks on in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Bradley scores 22 as Celtics top Bobcats 106-103

By HOWARD ULMAN - Associated Press

New York Yankees center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury, left, looks under the cap of Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia after greeting his former teammates during batting practice before a baseball game between the teams at Yankee Stadium in New York, Thursday, April 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Ellsbury gets RBI, run in 1st game vs Bosox

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 10, 2014 file photo, New York Yankees starting pitcher Michael Pineda is shown between pitches during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York. After the New York Yankees' right-hander kept Boston's offense in check for six innings Thursday night, postgame talk centered on the dark, seemingly tacky substance that had been on the lower palm of Pineda's pitching hand. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Players know pitchers try for better grip on ball

By HOWIE RUMBERG - Associated Press

Tyler, Perry’s new ‘Dream On’ for marathon victims

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Watertown, Mass. Police Chief Edward Deveau testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing about the Boston Marathon Bombings leading up to the year anniversary of the attack. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chief describes Boston Marathon lessons learned

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

In this Monday, Feb. 5, 2007 photo, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writer of the film &quot;Submission,&quot; which criticized the treatment of women in traditional Islam and led to the murder of Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh, talks to a reporter in New York. Brandeis University in Massachusetts is taking heat from some of its own about plans to give an honorary degree to Ali, who has made comments critical of Islam. (AP Photo/Shiho Fukada)

Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls Brandeis decision to cancel speech ‘deplorable’

By PAIGE SUTHERLAND - Associated Press