1. Local estimates put the economic impact of one playoff game at $ 8 million.

2. There was no reason for a playoff game because both were assured of advancing to the postseason.

3. After defeating Pennsylvania in a playoff game Saturday he announced his retirement, effective after the Tournament.

4. The Yankees are losing 9-0 in a playoff game when Jair beats out an infield hit to the right side.

5. But it was a playoff game against the Lakers.

6. In 1974, teams traded home court after each playoff game.

7. Before the Lakers' playoff game at Utah on Saturday night, Jackson said he had spoken to Winters' family and that Winter was resting.

8. That's 195 million more than watch an NBA playoff game, on average.

9. But it was a playoff game against the Lakers. The first home game. I twisted it again in the third quarter. Then again in the fourth.

10. We were fortunate enough to get tickets for Saturday's playoff game./playoff game.html

11. If it was a regular-season game, I probably would have come out and told the trainer we need to look at it. But it was a playoff game against the Lakers.

12. Indeed, one of the marks of a good coach is the adjustments he can make from one playoff game to the next.

13. As the Lakers wrapped up their final practice before Sunday's first-round playoff game against the Denver Nuggets, Andrew Bynum and Trevor Ariza sat together on a large medicine ball.

14. The Lakers hemmed and hawed their way through another playoff game against the Utah Jazz, leaving Phil Jackson plenty of possible options for the locker-room whiteboard.

15. Similar procedures were to be in place for an N.B.A. playoff game in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night and for all remaining basketball playoff games, officials said.

16. It was the end of his senior football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram.

17. Yao called off his 2008-09 season when he was injured in the playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers on May 10.

18. During the Lakers' three-peat run, Shaq averaged 30 points and 14.5 rebounds per playoff game.

19. He had told The Dispatch on Tuesday that it was probably too much to ask to see LeBron James in person at a Cavaliers' playoff game.

20. The coach pretended not to hear him. There was no way he wanted is worst player in this close playoff game.

21. Chien-Ming Mang became not only the first Asian pitcher to win 19 games in one season but also the first Asian pitcher to win a playoff game.

22. That moment will come when Sasha Vujacic comes off the bench and hits a shot to win a playoff game.

23. And Wang became the first player from Taiwan to cpmpete in a Major League playoff game.

24. It was a physical meeting that featured a pair of double-technicals and enough shoving to pass for a playoff game, but both teams were tired when it ended.

25. They will be fun to watch, but let's see them win a playoff game before getting 29 national dates.

26. It was the end of his last football season, and as he trotted onto the practice field shortly before the big playoff game, the coach met him with a telegram.

27. You invite your friends over to watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV.