Tag: basketball
member name: Con Chapman
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March 04, 2008 02:12 PM EST --
AUSTIN, Texas. New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the bar by which her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination should be judged in a speech to supporters last night, . . .
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July 27, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
News item: NASA allowed astronauts to fly drunk. Associated Press
GROUND CONTROL: Shuttle Commander, this is Houston, do you read me?
Van Morrison
SHUTTLE COMMANDER: You, my-y, Brown . . .
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November 11, 2008 08:49 PM EST --
CHICAGO. As he makes the transition from candidate to the White House, President-elect Barack Obama is finding that his life has changed dramatically, mostly for the better.
"Take . . .
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January 23, 2009 08:37 AM EST --
WASHINGTON, D.C. In his second full day on the job, President Barack Obama yesterday signed Executive Order no. 2 of his administration, lifting the ban on smoking in federal buildings and protecting . . .
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July 09, 2007 07:10 PM EDT --
KNOB NOSTER, Missouri. Pro basketball scouts and agents have been flocking to this small town in central Missouri for months now, making for crowded conditions at the Motel 6 on State Highway 50. . . .
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February 09, 2009 09:40 AM EST --
PHOENIX. It's been three years since the National Basketball Association adopted its "business casual" dress code in an effort to combat the league's "gangsta" . . .
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February 13, 2009 07:57 AM EST --
PHOENIX. It's All-Star Weekend, and I've come here with Father William Kilkenny and the boys of St. Brigid's CYO Bombers all the way from Brighton, Mass. as part of the NBA's . . .
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February 16, 2009 11:59 AM EST --
CHICAGO. As the newly-installed President of the Society of American Structural Engineers, Armand Tuttle says he's realized a childhood dream. "When I was a little boy, I was . . .
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November 06, 2008 08:57 AM EST --
I was reading the paper last night when a friend--whom I will refer to simply as "Mad Dog" because he likes to make an illegal sports bet from time to time--called.
"You've got . . .
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January 25, 2009 06:14 PM EST --
When a sportswriter is at a loss for a figure of speech that will capture the essence of an act of particular athletic grace, he will often reach down into his laptop bag and pull out a manila folder . . .
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December 13, 2007 09:38 AM EST --
We do so many defensive drills in practice that we do them in our sleep. Man, I come home putting the press on my woman, denying her the ball. It's sad, man.
Boston . . .
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July 26, 2007 03:16 PM EDT --
NEW YORK. Barry Bonds has courted controversy in a variety of ways over the course of his career, but he underestimated the force of the reaction he's received after he called HBO announcer Bob . . .
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November 14, 2006 11:22 AM EST --
Before he perfected the sport of "Basket Ball", James Naismith experimented with several other indoor games, including "Hylo Ball" and "Scruggy Ball". Associated . . .
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January 29, 2007 03:32 PM EST --
NEW YORK. Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor, better known as "Prince" Charles, left tongues wagging among pro basketball scouts after a private work-out in Harlem today.
Parker . . .
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February 20, 2008 07:21 AM EST --
NEW YORK. Encouraged by the success of its business-casual dress code in reforming the league's "hip-hop" image, NBA officials today announced that they will push for a "tattoo . . .
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March 10, 2009 09:06 PM EDT --
T he Harvard men's basketball program is being investigated for recruiting violations.
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March 18, 2009 07:47 AM EDT --
SAN DORITO, California. Like many college presidents, Norman van Dorn of San Dorito State College wouldn't mind the publicity that comes with a winning sports program. "You look at . . .
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March 30, 2009 07:47 AM EDT --
Hello sports fans. I'm sitting out on the balcony of the Vatican, having my morning espresso, going over the sports page of L'Osservatore Romano. Let me tell you, I don't like . . .
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October 11, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
NEW YORK. The National Basketball Association today announced a league-wide effort to increase minority participation in the sport by funding an initiative to be known as the "Campaign for . . .
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January 22, 2007 07:58 AM EST --
NEW YORK. An altercation between Los Angeles Lakers' center Kwame Brown and a man outside a night club last week has NBA officials' worried that birthday-related violence may set back . . .
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