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Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team
Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. "It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) ...
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Indian-headed group buys Sacramento Kings NBA team
A day after NBA owners rejected Sacramento Kings' move to Seattle, the Maloof brothers, owners of the franchise, have agreed to sell the basketball side to a Sacramento-based group headed by Indian Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive, who is a software billionaire, will purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family in a deal that is expected to be announced later Friday, reports ESPN. The 65 ...
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Mario Williams ex alleges suicide-talk texts
Mario Williams isn't any closer to getting back his $785,000 diamond engagement ring from his former fiancee, Erin Marzouki. And Marzouki's attorney, Tony Buzbee, upped the ante on Friday by releasing a series of text messages he said were between his client and Williams that indicate how despondent the player was over their breakup in November. Without going into detail, Buzbee said ...
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Watson motivated by US defeats
United States captain Tom Watson intends to take a ruthless approach to selecting his pairings during the 2014 Ryder Cup.Watson is motivated by the chance to turn around his country's recent struggles in the biennial fixture. Europe's come-from-behind victory at Medinah on the final day in 2012 was their seventh win in the last nine, a record that irks Watson. He told Sky Sports: ...
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Nicklaus tribute to Venturi
Jack Nicklaus led the tributes to former US Open champion Ken Venturi, who has died at the age of 82 just days after being inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.Venturi, who had been hospitalised the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia and an intestinal infection, passed away on Friday afternoon in California. He won the 1964 US Open at Congressional despite playing with ...
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The Jane Austen Book Club
While it certainly helps to be familiar with the works of Jane Austen and to be able to distinguish between, say, Elizabeth Bennett and Marianne Dashwood, it is not a perquisite to enjoying screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Robin Swicord's romantic dramedy T ... ...
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Ed Fountaine’s Stakes Spot Plays
chased a swift early pace and finished third last out in the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes on Derby Day against a better bunch than he faces here. He’s 10-for-12 in the money going six furlongs, and gets Joel Rosario in the saddle for the first ...
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Richards’ fall to 4th line stunning justified
Blog: Slap Shots BOSTON - It isn’t Alex Rodriguez batting eighth in the order in the 2006 playoffs, because seriously, what else could be? Other than, that is, Rodriguez being pinch-hit for and then benched entirely in the playoffs six years later.But it is Brad Richards being benched and demoted to the fourth line, not once, not twice, but game after game after game in the playoffs, and ...
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Reyes on Team ’Spin
Jordany Valdespin may not have many allies in the Mets organization, but he’s got one with the Blue Jays.Jose Reyes visited his Blue Jays teammates in The Bronx last night while still rehabbing a severely sprained left ankle and said he was still behind his former protege Valdespin, who has been at the center of numerous controversies with the Mets - most recently when he flipped his bat ...
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Byrd’s peg to plate saves day
CHICAGO - Marlon Byrd was expecting a close play at the plate and knew he had to make a strong throw.To the right fielder’s surprise, Darwin Barney was in the next zip code as the ball arrived into catcher John Buck’s glove in the eighth inning yesterday at Wrigley Field.The throw beat Barney to the plate by 15 feet and the Cubs’ bid at scoring the tying run on David ...
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Pettitte falls into DL ‘trap’
Andy Pettitte is the latest disabled list casualty after the Yankees decided to shelve him for 15 days with a strained left trapezius muscle.Though the Yankees don’t believe it’s a significant problem, it’s already the second time this season the 40-year-old has had to deal with a muscular injury, so Pettitte will consider altering the bullpen sessions he does between ...
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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
Angie Gregg
Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Hilton Hotel Auckland, New Zealand
Promoted as 'The Boutique Hotel completely surounded by water', the Hilton Auckland is indeed in a unique location, right at ...
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