Helio Castroneves danced the Roger Penske (record 15th win) team to his third Indianapolis 500 win at a rather slow pace of 150.315 mph which included 8 caution flags for accidents. Media Darling Danica Patrick finished third.

The Chicago Black Hawks, taking exception to a hard hit by Detroit’s Niklas Kronwall on Hawks’ forward Martin Havlat in their OT win in game 3 of the NHL Western Conference Finals, came out firing and fueled with revenge, its intense home crowd, not to mention, the Red Wings scratching of superstars Niklas Lidstrom and Pavel Daysyuk due to injuries. The youthful Hawks then took a three-period lesson from the more poised Red Wings, who coasted to a 6-1 win and a 3-1 edge going back to Detroit Wednesday. Black Hawks coach Joel Quenneville blamed the loss on a bad call in the first period before the Hawks took 16 penalties for 56 minutes, three misconducts and an ejection of Ben Eager.

Major League Baseball returns to regular league games with the NL West leading Dodgers, boasting baseball’s best record at 30-15, at Colorado. NL Central leaders Milwaukee (26-17) will be hosting the 26-18 Cards, and Florida takes on the NL East leading Phils (24-18) tonight. In the American League, AL East leaders Boston (26-18) are at Minnesota, AL Central top dog Detroit (24-18) is at Kansas City and the Yankees visit AL West leader Texas (26-17).

The Lakers and Nuggets take it up again tonight in the NBA Western Conference Finals at 9:00 PM Eastern Time. Here’s hoping George Karl has taken some time to work on an inbounds play that doesn’t involve throwing in to the Lakers’ Trevor Ariza. This series could easily be 3-0 Nuggets (just like it could be 3-0 Magic in the East) with a little late game coaching.

Oh yeah. Tennis is being played in France.