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May 30, 2012         12:39 pm One of the stars of a pornographic movie shot partly at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum said he received a congratulatory call from rapper Snoop Dogg, who saw a story about the experience in Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times. The performer, who goes by the name Mr. Marcus, [...]

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05/30/2012                02:55:39 AM MDT Former city Rep. Beto O’Rourke bucked a nationwide trend Tuesday night by ousting eight-term U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes in the 16th Congressional District race. In the final tally, O’Rourke beat Reyes by 23,248 votes to 20,427, or 50.5 percent to 44.4 percent. Nationally, challengers [...]

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After Phelps and Lochte, the crop of USA swimmers expected to win multiple golds runs thin. But 22-year-old Nathan Adrian,winner of a gold and bronze at the 2011 world champs, has shined and established himself as the USA’s best sprint freestyler. The problem for Adrian is that his best events, the 50 and 100 meter freestyle, [...]

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After starting her Beach Volleyball career in 2001, Larissa began collecting medals in 2003 when she teamed with Ana Richa.  While participating in four SWATCH-FIVB World Tour events, including a 17th at the 2003 SWATCH-FIVB World Championships, Larissa and Ana Richa captured a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo.  During 2003, Larissa and [...]

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May 27, 2012                11:16 AM ET Ryder Hesjedal has made history. The Victoria, B.C., native became the first Canadian to win one of cycling’s three Grand Tour events Sunday, wrapping up the 2012 Giro d’Italia with an excellent performance in the 21st and final stage in Milan. He [...]

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May 27, 2012            4:13 pm The U.N. Security Council on Sunday blamed Syrian government forces for artillery and tank shelling of residential areas in Houla as officials from the world body raised their estimate of the death toll in the Friday fighting in the town to 108, including 49 children. “The [...]

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05/27/12            12:24 AM ET Junior Dos Santos flattened Frank Mir with a huge right hand and finished him on the ground at 3:04 of the second round Saturday night, emphatically defending his heavyweight title at UFC 146 on Saturday night. Dos Santos (15-1) picked apart the two-time ex-champion with superior [...]

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05/26/12         07:14 PM ET Sweden’s Loreen has clinched the top spot at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her dance hit “Euphoria,” pushing aside competition from a sextet of Russian grannies and a Serbian balladeer. Juries and television viewers from across Europe awarded Loreen a total of 372 points, handing her [...]

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Once Haley Ishimatsu switched from gymnastics to diving, there was no turning back. While she dabbled in 1-3 meter events, her star rose ten meters above the pool, first as a junior in 2005 and continuing to this day. Ishimatsu placed first in the 2012 USA Diving Winter National Championships and should make a metaphorical [...]

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Alise Post knows BMX is no longer a backyard source of entertainment. It is now big business and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agrees. Her focus on details brought her the win at the 2012 UCI BMX SX Papendal this May. Post chose a risky endeavor to sail over a triple jump combination, giving her [...]

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20 May 2012          14:14 ET People in the Dominican Republic have been voting to chose a new president, in a tight race between two old political rivals. No major incidents have been reported, despite passions runing high over issues such as crime, unemployment and the rising cost of food and fuel. [...]

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Wednesday May 2, 2012 (21:22) Outgoing Cyprus Central Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides said the Eastern Mediterranean island country is facing “unprecedented” economic challenges. It is imperative that structural reforms needed to improve the country’s public finances should be “strengthened and intensified,” Orphanides, whose term as Cyprus central bank governor ended on Wednesday, said in a [...]

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May 18, 2012 If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight will seem to come early on Sunday afternoon, well before the sun actually sets. The cause: a rare annular solar eclipse – a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and the sun, blocks most, but not all, of the sun’s [...]

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1653: GOAL     Manchester City 3-2 QPR – Sergio Aguero (90 mins) This is sheer madness. Sergio Aguero picks the ball up, runs through two men and thumps the ball in at the near post. An incredible finish. from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18017513 ————————————————————————- Sergio Agüero was born on June 2nd, 1988 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Aguero June 2nd, 1988 June 2nd 6 [...]

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May 10, 2012 While Richard Mourdock knocked out the Senate’s most senior Republican in Tuesday’s Indiana primary, a GOP candidate in Utah is hoping to do the same to the second longest-serving Senate Republican: Orrin Hatch. Dan Liljenquist, the former state senator challenging Hatch, quickly fired out a statement Tuesday night, praising Mourdock’s win and [...]

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May 7, 2012          6:05 p.m. Cole Hamels earned a five-game suspension for the way he welcomed Bryce Harper to the big leagues.The 2008 World Series most valuable player was suspended for intentionally throwing at the Washington rookie in the Philadelphia Phillies‘ 9-3 win over the Nationals on Sunday night.Major League Baseball announced the penalty Monday. Hamels also was fined. [...]

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07:36 EST         1 May 2012 Norway’s world 100m breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen has tragically died. Dale Oen, who was 26, was in Arizona at a training camp where he had a cardiac arrest in the bathroom. The Norwegian team is holding the camp in Flagstaff ahead of the Olympics, and [...]

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April 19, 2012 Where’s Wally? He’s at the top of the US Billboard chart, that’s where. Gotye’s smash hit Somebody That I Used to Know continues to take the music world by storm, rocketing up to number one in the US charts overnight and recording one of the highest ever weekly digital sales totals in the country. [...]

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April 27, 2012, 9:10 p.m. Teenage phenom Bryce Harper will make his major league debut at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, and Dodgers utilityman Jerry Hairston Jr. has some advice for fans attending the game: Get there in time to watch theWashington Nationals take batting practice.”He puts on a very good show,” said Hairston, who was in the Nationals’ spring training camp with Harper last year.Harper, [...]

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October 26, 2011 European leaders made progress in resolving the euro zone financial crisis in meetings here that stretched into Thursday morning, but the broad solution they said they were seeking continued to elude them. Earlier, they agreed on a plan to force the Continent’s banks to raise new capital to insulate them from potential [...]

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