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Saturday's local roundup: Tides win on Robinson's walk-off home run
Daily PressBaseball: International League: Trayvon Robinson’s solo home run with one out in the ninth inning gave Norfolk a 6-5 win over the Buffalo Bisons (29-25) before 7,117 at Harbor Park. The Tides (34-22) had lost their two previous games to fall...Tags: Buffalo Bisons, Baseball, Sports, International League, Columbia University
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Kidd retires from NBA after 19 seasons
NEW YORK -- Jason Kidd has decided to retire. A 10-time NBA All-Star point guard, Kidd spent the 2012-13 season with the New York Knicks. He also played for Dallas, Phoenix and the New Jersey Nets in a 19-year career. "My time in professional...
Tags: Brooklyn Nets, NBA Draft, Mike Woodson, Jason Kidd, NBA Finals
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Beijing International Screenwriting Competition announces winners
An American woman arrives in China to retrace the steps of her deceased daughter from a video diary the daughter kept of her trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A young flautist travels to Beijing to audition for a conservatory. A seamstress for a...
Tags: The Pink Panther (movie, 1964), Movies, Entertainment, Maya Rudolph, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Condolences pour in to America's Cup team after sailor dies
SAN FRANCISCO -- Condolences from around the world poured in to the Swedish racing team Thursday after its 72-foot catamaran capsized in the San Francisco Bay, killing one sailor during a training run for the America’s Cup. On the Artemis Racing...Tags: Sailing, Awards and Prizes, U.S. Coast Guard, Around The World Sailing, Twitter, Inc.
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America's Cup: Sailor killed in capsized boat an Olympic medalist
A Swedish racing team identified a British Olympic gold medalist as the sailor killed when a catamaran capsized during training for the America's Cup on Thursday on the San Francisco Bay. Artemis Racing confirmed that Andrew "Bart" Simpson was trapped...Tags: Awards and Prizes, U.S. Coast Guard, Michael Jackson
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Gay athletes have come out while active or retired
Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement. From Martina Navratilova to Greg Louganis to Sheryl Swoopes, men and women from a variety of sports have openly...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Washington Wizards, Sexual Assault, Sports Illustrated, Sex Crimes
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Anti gay-marriage crowd finds their cause fading
In the summer of 2008, the American Family Association's Christian news outlet, OneNewsNow, experienced an Olympic fail: The group's automated system for republishing news articles – through a strict policy of replacing the word gay with the word...Tags: Family, Marriage, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Tyson Gay
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Wedded: Abby von Kelsch and Chad Omweg
Wedding date: Feb. 16, 2013 Her story: Abby von Kelsch, 37, grew up in Stafford, Va. She works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a disaster consultant. Her mother, Linda, is a retired librarian and her father, Hank, is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer who...
Tags: Tim Burton, Weddings, Services and Shopping, U.S. Marine Corps, Badgley Mischka
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Andy Murray flies under the radar but he's still at top of his game
Andy Murray still doesn't pack 'em in, even on a sultry desert-perfect night in a big-time tennis event. Not even when he has taken his game to a level projected by many to be unreachable by the always-solid Scot. In Murray's case, the perception hasn't...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, BNP Paribas, Fred Perry, Yen-Hsun Lu, Tennis
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Istanbul wants wrestling reinstated if it hosts 2020 Olympics
Hasan Arat, the head of Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics, not only wants his city to host the Games, he wants wrestling reinstated if it does. “If we are awarded the Games, Turkey wants to have wrestling events in Istanbul,”...
Tags: Lobbying, Alexandra Raisman, Wrestling, Tiger Woods, Politics
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IOC will drop one sport from Summer Olympics on Tuesday
Grab your lucky rabbit's foot, modern pentathlon fans (all 12 of you). Your sport could be dropped from the Summer Olympics on Tuesday. That is when International Olympic Committee leaders will decide which sport to drop from the Summer Olympics...
Tags: Modern Pentathlon, 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Track and Field, Pentathlon Swimming, Services and Shopping
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The man behind the Ravens' rides
When the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2001 and Ray Lewis, as MVP, got a new SUV, he didn't want just a plain, ordinary one. He wanted icing on that cake. So Lewis took his prize to the Belair Road body shop that has become the go-to place for...
Tags: Jameel McClain, Ed Reed, Anquan Boldin, Services and Shopping, Sam Koch
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