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Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball
Such is the imperfect urban landscape of playground basketball, what many consider the truest expression of the sport. It's basketball without referees, coaches or sneaker deals. Anyone can play, so long as they call ...
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Soccer Roundup Real Madrids Mourinho Calls Season Disastrous
Real Madrid and José Mourinho, its Portuguese coach, were sifting through the debris of what Mourinho termed a disastrous 2012-13 season after ...
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Nice match with Lyon postponed because of heavy rain
PARIS (Reuters) - Heavy rain forced the postponement of the Ligue 1 match between Nice and Olympique Lyon, due to kick off on Saturday at 1900 GMT, until ...
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Essay Jackie Robinson and a Barrier Unbroken
Two big surprises have emerged from the ...
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Serena secures Rome final spot after win over Halep
Williams, world number one and the 15-times Grand Slam winner, stretched her run of consecutive wins to 23 on her way to Sunday's final, where she will meet Victoria Azarenka in a final for the first time since her defeat to the Belarusian earlier this year in Doha. Azarenka, the third seed, proved too strong for Italian hopeful Sara Errani in a 6-0, 7-5 win in the other semifinal that was ...
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Tangling in the Shadow Of Wrigleys Ivy Walls
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Williams Extends Winning Streak to Reach Rome Final
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Olympics star Ennis ties the knot
Bystanders in the picturesque village of Hathersage broke into spontaneous applause outside the Church of St Michael and All Angels as Ennis arrived to marry fiance Andy Hill.Around 100 guests are thought to have attended the hour-long wedding service before heading off to a reception at an undisclosed location.Wearing a V-necked, sleeveless ivory silk gown with a ruffled tulle skirt and a ...
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Azarenka v Williams in Rome WTA final
World No.1 Serena Williams will play the Rome WTA final against Victoria Azarenka, the Belarusian who beat the American this year in the Doha ...
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Marquez on pole for French MotoGP
Spain's championship leader Marc Marquez will start on pole in Sunday's French MotoGP on the Bugatti circuit at Le Mans.Marquez, on a Honda, claimed his second pole position in the sport's elite category, qualifying 0.03 seconds faster than compatriot and world champion Jorge Lorenzo on his Yamaha.Andrea Dovizioso of Italy, on a Ducati, will start from third place after a time ...
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Soccer-Swedish ticket agency to make donation to player fund
STOCKHOLM, May 18 (Reuters) - A Swedish ticket agency accused of profiting from a charity soccer match for a deceased player has said it will make a donation to a fund set up in his memory. AIK had staged a charity match with Dynamo Zagreb after their Croatian goalkeeper Ivan Turina was found dead in his bed on May 2 at the age of 32. The autopsy was inconclusive. A report in the newspaper ...
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Trott and Root Build England Lead
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Promoters Circling One Another as M.M.A. Takes Root in Asia
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Lets finish the job - Wenger
Everton , they still have an outside chance of snatching third place and with it automatic entry into the Champions League - or even forcing an unprecedented play-off, set for May 26 at Villa Park, were the two clubs' overall statistics to finish equal."We know how to behave to win the games, so it's (about getting) that certainty from our long run and bringing that into our next ...
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Inaugural Sports PR Summit To Take Place At MLB Fan Cave
The 2013 Sports PR Summit will bring together PR execs from the various pro sports leagues as well as from the NCAA/college ranks at the MLB Fan Cave in New York. There is apparently a lack of candid conversations between senior public relations people, media members and athletes. However, it is evident that there is a cure on the horizon. It comes in the form of the first-ever ...
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Kings beat Mumbai in Gilchrists final game
Adam Gilchrist's final match as an IPL player ended in victory for his side, the Kings XI Punjab, as they beat the Mumbai Indians by 50 runs to bow out of the tournament on a high.The Kings had already failed to reach the play-offs, while Mumbai were all set for it, so the game had nothing riding on it aside from pride and a desire to do a good job for the Australia legend.The Kings batted ...
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Wrestling revamp in fight for survival
The ancient sport of wrestling on Saturday agreed a wholesale shake-up of its rules to make the sport more attractive for spectators, in a desperate last throw of the dice to stave off the threat of being axed from the Olympics in 2020.The decision of the International Olympic Committee's executive committee in February to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games devastated the global wrestling ...
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Dugan impresses in Dragons win over Eels
St George Illawarra coach Steve Price hailed Josh Dugan's superstar qualities as the former Canberra fullback enjoyed an impressive return to the NRL in the Dragons' 32-12 win over Parramatta on Saturday night.Dugan was superb in his first game in two months after being sacked by Canberra in March for repeated discipline breaches.The former NSW custodian scored two tries and was a ...
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Wrestling rules changed to keep sport in Olympics
International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) interim president Nenad Lalovic of Serbia, shown in this file photo, was elected president of the body in Moscow on Saturday. (File/Associated ...
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OJ Simpsons ex-lawyer contradicts former football stars testimony on guns legal strategy
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - O.J. Simpson's former lawyer defended himself point-by-point Friday against allegations he botched the former football star's armed-robbery trial, after giving damaging testimony that Simpson actually knew his buddies had guns when they went to a hotel room together to reclaim some sports memorabilia. Miami-based attorney Yale Galanter quickly found himself under ...
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Documentary Is an Ode to NYC Playground Basketball
Half-moon hoops, double rims, chain-linked fences for out-of-bounds lines and no net that anyone can recall. Such is the imperfect urban landscape of playground basketball, what many consider the truest expression of the sport. It's basketball without referees, coaches or sneaker deals. Anyone can play, so long as they call "Next." A new documentary, "Doin' it in ...
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TFD Catching up with Squints Ham and the director of The Sandlot
The Sandlot came out 20 years ago. That's the bad news, because it means you're old. Let's start over. The Sandlot came out 20 years ago. That's the good news, because it means you get to participate in some nostalgia. As part of the anniversary of the film, a special edition is out on DVD and Blu-Ray. And, as luck would have it, Chauncey Leopardi (Squints) and Patrick ...
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Ferguson Criticises City for Mancini Sacking
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Carragher open to idea of coaching
Jamie Carragher will bring the curtain down on a 16-year playing career tomorrow but he has not ruled out making a return to the game in a coaching ...
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Police seize Sreesanths laptop diaries
Mumbai police have confirmed that they have seized India fast bowler Sreesanth's belongings from a hotel room in the city, and are hoping to use CCTV footage to see how the player and his cohort Jiju Janardhan operated.Sreesanth was one of three players arrested this week on charged of spot-fixing, and he has since admitted to being involved with bookmakers after phone conversations were ...
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Nashville redeveloping the waterfront
The first phase of the City of Nashville’s redevelopment of the Riverfront in the downtown area was kicked off in late 2010 with the ground-breaking ceremony for a new Riverfront Park, which will replace the current park and expand it by a factor of ten to 6.5 acres.
The redevelopment plan is an ongoing effort to maintain the Riverfront area in downtown as a focal point of the community. Ever since Nashville was founded, as the Nashboro settlement in the 1780s, the river has been an integral source of income and has enhanced the quality of life of residents due to its aesthetic nature and variety of entertainment and leisure pursuits. Read more
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