Jeff Hart

Kevin Garnett led the Boston Celtics to their first win on the road in the playoffs. He had plenty of help. Garnett scored 22 points and was one of six players to make the Celtics' first six baskets, helping them build the first of many big leads en route to a 94-80 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night and a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference finals.

It's no surprise the Detroit Red Wings have a Swede to thank for a prime-time performance, but Mikael Samuelsson? The demoted forward busted out of a slump with two goals, and Chris Osgood stifled the Pittsburgh Penguins' young and talented stable of forwards with 19 saves to lift the Red Wings to a 4-0 victory in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals on Saturday night.

Jemile Weeks hit a three-run homer in the third inning and Enrique Garcia threw seven scoreless innings to lead top-seeded Miami into the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship title game, defeating North Carolina State 5-2 on Saturday at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. The Hurricanes will play Virginia in the title game at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Michael Guerrero hit two home runs and drove in four runs in Mississippi's 8-7 win over Vanderbilt Saturday night, lifting the surprising Rebels into the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game. Eighth-seeded Ole Miss (37-23), which lost 7-4 in the first meeting Saturday, will seek its second SEC tournament title in three seasons against LSU on Sunday.

SEVIERVILLE, TENNESSEE -- The Atlanta Braves still haven't decided how long John Smoltz's minor league rehab assignment will last. But they can certainly be encouraged about the way it started. Smoltz tossed a scoreless eighth inning for Double-A Mississippi in Saturday night's game against the Tennessee Smokies.

Auburn baseball coach Tom Slater resigned Saturday after the Tigers failed to make the Southeastern Conference tournament in any of his four seasons. Slater's tenure ended with Auburn's 11-7 loss to LSU Saturday.

One year after losing a playoff at the AT&T Classic when he knocked a shot in the pond, Imada won the same tournament Sunday under nearly identical circumstances for his first PGA Tour victory.

Tony Plagman had a career-high five hits and Brad Feltes drove in three runs to lead No. 25 Georgia Tech past Virginia, 9-7, Saturday afternoon at Davenport Field.

The seventh-ranked Georgia baseball team will head into next week's SEC Tournament, which gets underway Wednesday in Hoover, Ala., at Regions Park as the top seed after winning the regular season title. The Bulldogs are slated to play the No. 8 seed, Ole Miss, at 6 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised live by CSS.

NFL owners could opt out of their agreement with the players union next week, leaving open the possibility of a 2010 season without a salary cap. The labor agreement is on the agenda for the league meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday.