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night. hello, i'm marc edwards and with your latest sports news. we're going to start at the world cup in qatar, and it's been a day of upsets and shock moments. we'll have more on the biggest one of the day between argentina and saudi arabia. but first, defending champions france had an early scare in their opening match against australia in group d before easing to a comfortable 4—1 win, as jim lumsden reports. the last time france began a world cup as champions in 2002, they went out without scoring a goal. saudi arabia's surprise handling of the mighty argentina illustrated the possible, and craig goodwin suggested that the day was not done. they had scant time to enjoy it. the french were shorn of several big names but stepped forward adrien rabiot on his finals debut. australia had lost their way, two goals in five minutes, and a 50th for france for olivier
in phoenix since michael jordan and the bulls won the title in '93. the night belonging to 36-year-old chris paul making his finals debut. he scored half of his 32 points in the third quarter alone. paul joining hall of famers kareem abdul-jabbar and tim duncan only players age 36 or older to score 36 in a game. suns one step closer to winning their first-ever title a 118-105 win. neither team has a player that's ever won a title is shaping up to be a very exciting finals. no super teams. no top seeds in this one. >> the suns look like a superteam right now. chris paul waited 16 years to get in the finals and made it worth the wait last night. >> future hall of famer out there. he's showing some pep in his step. he's walking into the arena like he's your uncle, but he is shining once he's out there. >> there's not much of a
westbrook had 27 points, he made the free throw to give the thunder their first lead of the game. they never turned back after trailing by 13 in the first half. they start to run away with it it. thunder up three here, kevin durant elevates, hits a three. he had 36 points, including 17 in the fourth quarter. since the aba mrjer, only allen iverson has more in a finals debut. the thunder win 105-94, the franchise's first win in a finals since '96 when they were still the sonics. lebron james had 30 points in a losing efforts. the most ever for him in the finals, but in the fourth quarter, just seven points on two of six shooting. game two crucial of course for the heat, only three teams in nba history ever have come back from a 2-0 deficit to win the finals. series resumes thursday, tomorrow night in oklahoma city. yankees and the braves last night in the atl. top of the eighth, yankees down 4-0. alex rodriguez up with the bases loaded, hits one to left, that sneaks out of the yard. that's a game-tying grand slam