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Saturday, February 18th, 2012

Join us from the Garden tonight as we provide live coverage of all the Lin-sanity as the struggling New Orleans Hornets come to Broadway to face Jeremy Lin and the streaking Knicks (Corey Sipkin/Daily News):
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Tags: Hornets Nest Bmx, Hornets Nest Cake, Hornets Schedule
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Occasionally, a wail of despair rang through the air, but mostly they stood in silence. Throughout the day yesterday, thousands of fans of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl made their way to the ice hockey team's stadium to pay their respects, their faces set grimly in expressions of shock. They carried bunches of red carnations and lit candles ...
Tags: Air, crash, day, despair, Forum, hockey, Lokomotiv, stadium, Yaroslavl, yesterday
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Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Serena Williams might not be the highest-ranked tennis player in the world, but at 3-to-2, odds are in her favor as the U.S. Open commences. Still, other tennis stars aren& 39;t far behind her -- mainly Maria Sharapova, whose odds are at 5-to-1.
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Tags: aren, Associated, favor, French, Open-winner, player, press, Sharapova, tennis, world
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011

LeBron James, right, driving to the basket against New Jersey's Brook Lopez, scored 31 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and had seven assists in the Heat's 108-94 thumping of the Nets in Newark. Miami clinched the Southeast Division with the win.
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Tags: basket, Brook, game, heat, LeBron, Lopez, Nets, right, time, win
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

The league is coming off one of its more fan-friendly campaigns, riding the wave of excitement created by the Miami Heat's traveling all-star team of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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Tags: Bosh, Dwyane, excitement, Finals, heat, League, LeBron, season, team, wave
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Monday, August 29th, 2011

By now, anyone who knows anything about college basketball knows Mitch McGary can play. At 6-foot-10 and 250 pounds, the Chesterton, Ind., native and Brewster Academy (N.H.) power forward was already a hot name inside ...
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Tags: afternoon, Anyone, anything, basketball, Championship, college, round, Saline, shot, Tuesday
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Saturday, August 27th, 2011

(CNN) -- Maria Sharapova headed the pack as four of the top 10 seeds at the Western and Southern Open advanced to the third round of the Cincinnati event with wins on Tuesday.
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Tags: CNN, event, finalist, Lindner, pack, round, seed, Tuesday, Western, year
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011

>> LADY BRONCHOS GET SILVER: Odessa High School's volleyball team swept three consecutive matches Saturday to win the Silver Division title of the Nita Vannoy Memorial in the Central High School gym.
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Tags: ball, Bronchos, Greenwood, High, Lady, Saturday, school, team, title, volleyball
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011

As a Miami Heat fan, few things can be more frightening than the potential that Dwyane Wade(notes) will play overseas during the lockout. Well, that possibility appears to be developing into a reality now that Chris Bosh& 39;s(notes) and Wade& 39;s agent, Henry Thomas, has told the Miami Herald that both are 'open' to playing ...
Tags: agent, Dwyane, fan, heat, Herald, lockout, NBA, possibility, potential, reality
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011

While Mike D'Antoni and the New York Knicks were one of the most formidable teams on offense last season, finishing with the second best offense in the NBA, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done on the other side of the floor if they expect to contend for an NBA title.
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Tags: access, amount, floor, Knicks, NBA, offense, season, side, title, work
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