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AP PHOTO/CHRIS CARLSON Los Angeles Lakers' center Andrew Bynum (left) looks to pass around Boston forward Paul Pierce during the first half of Game 1 of the NBA Finals Thursday in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES -- '3 Mo' were the words scribbled on the white board in the Lakers locker room after the West champs sent a powerful message in Game 1, battering Boston 102-89 to grab the early advantage in the series.

Minnesota Twins third baseman Nick Punto has a sore groin muscle and will sit out for a game or two. Manager Ron Gardenhire said Friday before the Twins played Kansas City that Punto's status was day to day. Brendan Harris was in the lineup at third base. Punto had three hits in Thursday's win over Boston, raising his average to .269.

Big Red's flexing its 4G muscle today, announcing that it has successfully completed the first true tests on its nascent LTE network -- end-to-end data calls that presumably approximate real-world usage. The action actually happened way back on July 15 in Seattle, while Boston just went down today -- the two markets where Verizon said it'd be running the first trials -- both on 700MHz spectrum won not terribly long ago . LG and Samsung provided the mysterious, unspecified trial devices, b

Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem. “How many generations of women have been told to avoid lifting heavy objects?” Dr. Eric Winer, breast cancer chief at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston, lamented after seeing the surprising results of the new study. “Women who were doing the lifting a