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The Rangers are back in the World Series for the second straight season after losing in five games to the San Francisco Giants last year in their first- ever appearance. After their second straight AL West title and a franchise-record 96 wins this past season, the Rangers disposed of the Tampa Bay Rays in the [...]

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Apr 06, 2010 If 40-year-old Brett Favre returns for a 20th NFL season, it will be perfectly legitimate for teammates to call him “Grandpa” around the locker room. Favre confirmed to ESPN that his daughter, Brittany, has given birth to a son. The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder had reported late last month that Brittany, 21, was expecting. [...]

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Fri Jun 17 09:07am EDT There are plenty of players who have turned heads at the ongoing USA 16-and-under developmental camp, yet none have done so for a more unique reason than BeeJay Anya, one of the top junior prospects (Class of 2013) in the country. Anya’s full wingspan was officially measured and published for the first [...]

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August 23, 2011, 2:03 p.m. Tennessee‘s Pat Summitt plans to coach “as long as the good Lord is willing” despite recently being diagnosed with early onset dementia.In a statement from Summitt released by the university on Tuesday, the Hall of Fame coach said she visited with doctors at the Mayo Clinicin Rochester, Minn., after the [...]

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10:01 AM on Fri., Aug. 12, 2011 Eugene Lockhart Jr. is scheduled to plead guilty in a mortgage fraud case this afternoon before a federal judge. He faces up to 10 years in prison after filing paperwork late Thursday indicating he was pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lockhart, who got the nickname [...]

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Friday, August 12, 2011 An 18-year-old was dismissed from the U.S. Ski Team’s development squad after he was accused of getting drunk and then urinating on a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight. Robert “Sandy” Vietze, of Warren, Vt., was detained by police at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning after [...]

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August 3, 2011 Annie Mist Thorisdottir from Iceland won the CrossFit world championships over the weekend in Los Angeles and has now been personally congratulated by President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson. In his letter, the president states that Annie Mist Thorisdottir has shown young people how far it is possible to go with discipline, training and [...]

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August 3, 2011    2:50 pm Alex Rodriguez is the subject of a Major League Baseball investigation for his alleged participation in high-stakes underground poker games, the league said Wednesday. The New York Yankees third baseman is said to have played at least twice — including in one game that involved several high-profile actors, cocaine and [...]

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August 3, 2011   2:39 p.m. Former Occidental College quarterback Andy Collins, a three-time Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference offensive player of the year, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 27. Collins died Tuesday at Imperial Point Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to the Broward County medical examiner’s office. The cause [...]

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January 21st, 2010 Laura Vikmanis: Meet the NFL’s Oldest Cheerleader Despite the fact that they are ever in the public eye, NFL cheerleaders don’t get much press. But on this Friday night, this is hardly the case for Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Laura Vikmanis, who has been unearthed as the NFL’s oldest cheerleader at 42 years [...]

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July 20, 2011, 1:44 p.m. More change is in the works for Tiger Woods– a new caddie.Woods announced Wednesday that he and longtime bagman Steve Williams have parted ways, ending a 12-year run that included 13 of his 14 major championships. “I want to express my deepest gratitude to Stevie for all his help, but [...]

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Japan, USA ready for battle royal The FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011 comes to a conclusion on Sunday, with two-time world champions USA bidding to complete a hat-trick of titles against the technically accomplished Japanese, who are making their first appearance in the Final and have yet to record a win against the Americans. [...]

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10:21 AM ET, 07/15/2011 First it was Paul the Octopus, the eight-limbed version of Miss Cleo who correctly predicted the outcome of every Germany match — and the tournament final — in the 2010 World Cup. Well, now there’s a new German soccer oracle: Nelly the elephant. The prognosticating pachyderm has been predicting the outcome [...]

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July 13, 2011, 3:35 PM ET The U.S. didn’t need a miracle against France in its Women’s World Cup semifinal, just a few more doses of its trademark never-say-die attitude. And now the Americans are moving on to their first final since 1999. They prevailed 3-1 on Wednesday, but the scoreline didn’t come close to [...]

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Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 6:21 PM Former Nets and UNLV power forward Armen Gilliam died Tuesday after playing a pickup game of hoops at the LA Fitness gym in Bridgeville, Penn. He was 47. The former Rebel star played for the Nets for three seasons from 1993-1996, appearing in all but four games during that [...]

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07/2/11 10:41 AM ET Petra Kvitova fought her way to an impressive two set win against the 2004 Wimbledon champion, Maria Sharapova. The 21-year-old Czech overpowered the 3-time grandslam champion Sharapova, despite the fact that the Russian hadn’t given up a set until today. This is Kvitova’s first grand slam win. Kvitova’s 6-3, 6-4 victory [...]

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Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:41 pm As unlikely as it sounds, objects falling from the skies could save your life. Granted, you may not think that getting clocked upside the head with that tiny dimpled sphere sounds like a good time, and in truth, it’s not. But for Chris Logan of West Chester, Pa., a [...]

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June 27th, 2011  11:56 AM ET [Updated at 11:56 a.m. ET] Less than two hours after her sister went down in straight sets at Wimbledon, Venus Williams suffered the same fate. Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova, the tournament’s No. 32 seed, beat the No. 23-seed Williams 6-2, 6-3 in the fourth-round match. [Posted at 10:34 a.m. ET] [...]

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Fri Jun 24 09:26pm EDT When the NCAA mandated that metal bats perform more like wood bats in college baseball this season, what happened Friday afternoon at the College World Series may not have been what it had in mind. During the eighth inning of the Florida-Vanderbilt game, Gators sophomore catcher Mike Zunino snapped his [...]

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Fri Jun 24 09:26pm EDT When the NCAA mandated that metal bats perform more like wood bats in college baseball this season, what happened Friday afternoon at the College World Series may not have been what it had in mind. During the eighth inning of the Florida-Vanderbilt game, Gators sophomore catcher Mike Zunino snapped his [...]

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