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Cavs win draft lottery Magic will pick second
Nick Gilbert (left) won the NBA draft lottery for the second time in three years. (David Dow/Getty Images) The Cleveland Cavaliers won the rights to the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA draft during the league’s annual lottery drawing on Tuesday. The draft is set for June 27. Nick Gilbert, son of owner Dan Gilbert, represented the team on stage, as he did in 2011, when the Cavaliers won the ...
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Cavaliers Win N.B.A. Draft Lottery Again
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N.B.A. Roundup Clippers Wont Keep Vinny Del Negro as Coach
The Los Angeles Clippers said Tuesday that Coach Vinny Del Negro would not be offered a new contract after the team won its first division title but lost in the first round of the playoffs. Del Negro had a 128-102 regular-season record in three years with the team. The Clippers made the playoffs the last two seasons, last year advancing to the second round for only the second time since ...
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Gagai taking second chance with both hands
After being shown the door by Brisbane last year, Newcastle's Dane Gagai is now looking to emulate Justin Hodges as the world's premier centre after parlaying his good form into a two-year NRL contract extension. The Mackay-born 22-year-old was acknowledged as the best young player at the Broncos with seasoned observers rating him as the most exciting talent to emerge at the club ...
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Sports of The Times Soccer Stadium in Queens Is No Walk in the Park
Inserting a soccer stadium into the green lungs of Queens County is not an incursion of the Yankees into Mets territory, nor is it an invasion of the dangerously furrin sport of soccer into sacred American territory. For that matter, nobody should be horrified at the investment of overseas money into a New York sports team ...
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On Golf Golf Has More Pressing Problems Than Long Putters
The governing bodies of golf have spoken about anchored putting. Hopefully, they were just clearing their throats. The announcement Tuesday that, beginning in 2016, anchoring a putter against the body would be banned ought to be the start of a thorough spring cleaning by the sport. If the United States Golf Association and the Royal & Ancient needed only 174 days of debate before ...
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Essendon AFL player stabbed
Essendon AFL footballer Nathan Lovett-Murray has been stabbed in a domestic dispute in Melbourne.Lovett-Murray, 30, is being treated in Royal Melbourne Hospital for a stab wound to the arm.A 22-year-old man and 17-year-old boy have been arrested and are being interviewed by police.The incident happened at a house in suburban Reservoir just after 10pm (AEST) on Tuesday.The midfielder has played ...
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On Pro Basketball Strapped Knicks Stress Continuity Not Change
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Charlotte franchise wants to bring back Hornets nickname
The National Basketball Association (NBA) team will ask the league's board of governors in July to approve changing the franchise's name to Charlotte Hornets effective with the 2014-15 season, Bobcats owner Michael Jordan said on ...
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NFL notebook San Francisco lands 50th Super Bowl
San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life ...
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Five agencies win Cricket World Cup work
can reveal. The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the ICC Cricket World Cup whittled down the 30-plus expressions of interest (EOI) they received for the three different disciplines to five successful firms. OMD is one of those five having been awarded the media buying duties. CHE Proximity, which was widely rumoured to be on the shortlist along with Ogilvy and GPY&R Melbourne, has ...
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San Francisco’s Political Leaders Ecstatic About Hosting Super Bowl L
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)-- The rotunda at San Francisco's City Hall was packed full of Warriors fans on Tuesday when Mayor Ed Lee was passed a note and a big smile broke out on his face. The city's political and civic leaders were gathered for a Warrior's Day celebration, but it was the news about another sport that Lee was reacting to. You didn't have to be a mind reader to ...
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Andy Murray withdraws from French Open with back injury
Andy Murray, Great Britain, hoists his trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic, Serbia, to win the men's championship at the U.S. Open held at the National Tennis Center on September 10, 2012 in New York. UPI Photo/Monika ...
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M.L.B. Roundup Injury Bug Again Strikes the Giants Starting Rotation
The San Francisco Giants put Ryan Vogelsong on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday and prepared to be without him for two months in yet another challenge for their struggling starting rotation. Vogelsong, a right-hander, had surgery Tuesday morning at Stanford University one day after breaking his pitching hand while at the plate. The expected recovery time is four to six weeks. ...
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Sports Briefing | Track and Field Champion Wont Defend Titles
Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya, the world 5,000- and 10,000-meter gold medalist, said she would not defend her titles at the Moscow world championships in August. ...
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Sports Briefing | Soccer Borussia Dortmunds Goetze May Miss Champions League Final
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Goetze pulled out of training on his comeback from a hamstring injury, putting his participation in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in doubt. He will have a magnetic resonance imaging test before it can be determined if he can play Saturday against Bayern, the club he will join next ...
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N.B.A.s Bobcats to Become Hornets
(Reuters) - The Charlotte Bobcats want to take a step back in time and restore an old nickname to the city. The National Basketball Association (NBA) team will ask the league's board of governors in July to approve changing the franchise's name to Charlotte Hornets effective with the 2014-15 season, Bobcats owner Michael Jordan said on Tuesday. Charlotte's original NBA team enjoyed ...
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Romo active on field while idled over cyst removal
MICDS has been bringing it at the Class 3 girls state track and field meet the past few years. The Rams placed fourth as a team last year ...
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Pregame Dedunos experience earns promotion
ATLANTA -- The decision about the Twins' starting-rotation vacancy hinged, at least in part, on the Detroit Tigers. That's who Minnesota's next starter will face on Friday, the major leagues' highest-scoring team on its home field, and that's why Samuel Deduno was the choice. "I know for a fact [the Tigers] don't like facing him," manager Ron Gardenhire ...
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Three local firms bid on Vikings stadium parking
Three Twin Cities companies are in the running to build a parking and skyway development that would connect to the new, $975 million Vikings stadium. Firms submitting bids to the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority this week were developer Ryan ...
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Southern California San Jose St. share 1st-round lead at NCAA womens golf championships
ATHENS, Ga. - Southern California and San Jose State shared the lead at 4-under 284 after the first round of the NCAA Women's Golf Championships on Tuesday. USC, which won titles in 2003 and '08 and was runner-up to Alabama last year, came in as the top-ranked team in the country, while San Jose State - seeking its first team title in 21 years - was 48th. Duke, which won ...
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Virginia defeats UCLA to win NCAA mens tennis
Virginia's Alex Domijan returns to UCLA's Marcos Giron during their match at the NCAA men's college team tennis championship at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. (AP Photo/Stephen ...
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N.B.A.s Kevin Durant Makes $1 Million Tornado Pledge
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Plaxico Burress Launching Mens Luxury Hosiery Line
The news release seemed like a punch line to an untold joke. Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress, who spent nearly two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh through a pair of sweat pants while at a trendy New York nightclub, was set to host a rooftop party at, you guessed it, a trendy New York nightclub promoting the launch of a ...
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Deals of the week - Vineyard tours Austrian cycling tours Menorca
Less than 200English Wine Week starts on Saturday. To celebrate, Three Choirs Vineyard in Gloucestershire has a two-for-one offer on the daily vineyard tour and tasting, priced at 9. It is valid until the end of June, but not on Thursdays or Fridays. Three-choirs- ...
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Metro Manila takes first steps into the 'future'
The greater region of Manila, Metro Manila, will in a few years posses a futuristic community that its developers claim will redefine the way humans live, providing a glimpse of what is to come in terms of the integration of technology with lifestyles and sustainable environmental practices. The community will essentially be “future-ready” according to developers, but the details on how this will be achieved are murky.
Metro Manila is one of the most populated and developed regions of the country, with the capital city, Manila, responsible in large part for the regions progress compared to the rest of the Phillipines. It makes sense then that the Greenfield Development Corporation and Cisco have teamed up to develop the most futuristic residential community in the country ever. Read more
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