Raptors forward Chris Bosh felt no remorse after Toronto iced the Miami Heat 96-54 Wednesday night.

“You don’t get anywhere in this world by having sympathy, especially not in the NBA,” Bosh told the Associated Press.

That’s harsh, but true. As for the Heat, well, it’s easy to see why coach Pat Riley has seemed more interested in scouting college stars than coaching his battered team.

“We’ve had four or five games like this year and when it goes, it just absolutely goes,” Riley told reporters. “I’m not going to make any excuses. The worse it got, the more heart we lost.

“Every time a shot rimmed out, we got more and more frustrated. Like the good team they are, they had no mercy, they just put us away. We’ll have our day again. I don’t know when, but we will have our day again.”

Wish Our Town’s Blake Ahearn well. The Heat called and asked him to bring his jump shot to Miami to help this sorry team get through the end of their unfortunate season.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while wondering if Georgia returned to campus in a chartered pumpkin:

• Why couldn’t Belmont maintain its composure for one more minute and pick off Duke?
• Did Mississippi Valley State enjoy its trip to the Big Dance? Or did the 70-29 loss to UCLA take some of the fun out of it?
• By getting eight ground-ball outs in 5 1//3 innings Thursday, did Braden Looper fix his mechanical problems? Is he finally ready for the real games?

BUYER BEWARE

Rams fans wonder why their team didn’t trade for Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Jeff Schultz tells us the Rams were wise.

“What’s the over-under on how long before DeAngelo Hall would be miserable as a Raider?” Schultz wrote. “When Hall gets his money, it will sooth his ego for a time. The problem is, he’s a great player on a good team but a divisive player on a bad team. He will alienate teammates and drive his coach and owner crazy (although in the Raiders’ case, he probably can’t do Al Davis any further harm).

It is unfortunate that the Falcons have to say goodbye to their best player. The problem is, Hall’s not a leader. He is immature, egomaniacal and petulant. The ego part isn’t unusual for a great cornerback. But the other aspects of his personality make him a bad fit for the Falcons, Raiders or any bad or rebuilding team.”

QUIPS ‘R US

Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:

Will Leitch, Deadspin: “Just because Roger Federer, Thierry Henry and Tiger Woods are promoting a razor called ‘Phenom,’ you cannot, in fact, call them ‘phenoms.’ They’re dominant forces in their sports. And ‘dominant forces’ is a better name for a razor anyway.”

Mark Kriegel, FoxSports.com: “Been following the Eliot Spitzer story and I think it’s safe to say there’s more action in one night at the Mayflower Hotel than there is in an entire season of Major League Soccer.”

Tim Keown, ESPN.com: “Anatomy of the coaching staff: (1) The clapping coach (guy who hops off the bench and claps wildly, sometimes on a clipboard, at the beginning of every timeout); (2) furniture coach (guy whose job is to sprint off the bench at the beginning of every timeout and get the chairs in order; (3) clipboard coach (guy who walks diligently and quickly, with a serious look on his face, into position to hand Coach Omniscient his clipboard at the beginning of every timeout).”

Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “Butch Harmon quit as John Daly’s coach, saying, ”The most important thing in [Daly's] life is getting drunk.” Gee, that surprised you did it, Butch? Evidently, the golf bag outfitted with a beer keg hadn’t been a sufficient enough hint.”

Steve Rosenbloom, ChicagoSports.com: “The Cubs want Kerry Wood to be the closer, but the guy can’t even get out of bed on consecutive days. Cubs manager Lou Piniella went out of his way to say that Wood’s back spasms were not related to Wood’s arm or shoulder or elbow, like that’s a good thing. Piniella is new around here, because all this means is that Wood has found a new body part with which he can break everyone’s heart. Quick, someone tell Piniella that this is the part of spring training when you see Cubness rounding into shape.”

Jay Mariotti, Chicago Sun-Times, on college basketball stars heading to the NBA after one season: “The one-and-done charade is only slightly better than the previous system, which allowed immature kids to leap directly from high school to the NBA. This way, at least they’re allowed to grow up for a year, mingle with students their age, attend a toga party, actually do their own laundry once or twice. But face it, these freshmen standouts are on campuses only because a 19-year-old age limit was implemented by Stern, who tired of changing diapers and being attacked by those who cried exploitation. While some kids do go to classes and want to learn, most are majoring in basketball and eyeing a multi-million-dollar escape hatch that opens wide three weeks after the Final Four, when the NBA’s early-entry eligibility deadline kicks in.”

Kriegel again: “More on the political front: Dr. Kevorkian is going ahead with plans to run for Congress in Michigan. I’m not impressed at all. If he really cared for the greater good, he’d go to a place where his services were needed. Like Madison Square Garden.”

Cote again: “Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. will get $20 million to take part in WWE’s next Wrestlemania on March 30 in Orlando. I believe that makes Mayweather the highest-paid prostitute not associated with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.”

MEGAPHONE

“I don’t make mistakes and do some of the things I was accustomed to doing anymore. I don’t want to be the person that I used to be. I don’t regret any of it because I felt going through what I went through here, my ups and downs, helped be the man I am today.”

Nuggets guard Allen Iverson, on his newfound maturity.