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 Capitals Sign Teenage Center Backstrom |
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Tuesday, May 22 2007 @ 09:28 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The Washington Capitals have signed center Nicklas Backstrom to a three-year entry-level contract beginning next season, the team said Monday.
The 19-year-old Backstrom was the fourth overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and has represented Sweden in two World Championships. He has been the leading scorer for Brynas in the Swedish Elite League each of the past two seasons.
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| NBC Defends Horses-Over-Hockey Decision |
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Tuesday, May 22 2007 @ 09:27 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
NBC Sports defended its decision to cut off Saturday's telecast of the Buffalo Sabres-Ottawa Senators playoff game just as it moved into overtime in favor of the Preakness Stakes.
The network received criticism in the blogosphere and from some viewers for its decision to forgo the final minutes of the game to cover the Preakness from a Baltimore racetrack. A network spokesman said Monday that there was not much NBC could do: It was contractually obligated to carry Saturday's Preakness telecast.
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| LeBron Passes Up Last Shot, Pistons Win |
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Tuesday, May 22 2007 @ 09:26 AM CDT 2 commentsMost Recent Post: 11/08 10:55PM by stadia8122
The Detroit Pistons scraped a 79-76 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Auburn Hills on Monday to draw first blood in their Eastern Conference finals series.
Chauncey Billups nailed a three-pointer late in the final quarter to clinch the win, his arching shot with less than two minutes to play, edging the Pistons ahead at 78-76 in a wild last frame that saw the lead change hands eight times.
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| Giambi Tells Baseball to Apologize for Drug Problems |
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Friday, May 18 2007 @ 09:42 AM CDT 1 commentsMost Recent Post: 11/10 08:10AM by injunct7010
New York Yankees slugger Jason Giambi says Major League Baseball should apologize to the public for its widespread performance-enhancing drug problem.
Claiming he's likely been tested for performance-enhancing drugs more often than anyone, Giambi told USA Today in a story on its Web site Friday that the apology is long overdue.
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| Mets Score Five in Ninth to Top Cubs 6-5 |
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Friday, May 18 2007 @ 09:41 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The New York Mets cranked out five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to score a dramatic 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.
The Mets poured from the dugout to celebrate Carlos Delgado's two-run single off Chicago reliever Scott Eyre, which gave New York their biggest ninth inning comeback since 1999.
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| LeMond Accuses Landis Camp of Blackmail |
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Friday, May 18 2007 @ 09:40 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Triple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond rocked the doping hearing into current champion Floyd Landis on Thursday when he revealed he had been sexually abused as a child and that the Landis camp had used that information to try and prevent him testifying.
LeMond told the panel he had received an anonymous menacing phone call the night before he was due to testify and that he later traced the number to Landis's business manager Will Geoghegan.
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| Pistons Win Game 6, Finish Off Bulls |
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Friday, May 18 2007 @ 09:40 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The Detroit Pistons eased into the Eastern Conference finals with a 95-85 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday, clinching their best-of-seven semi-finals series by a 4-2 margin.
Guard Richard Hamilton top-scored for the Pistons with 23 points and Chauncey Billups added 21, including a perfect 14 points from the free-throw line, as Detroit advanced to the conference finals for a fifth straight year.
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| Favre Now Expected to Attend Packers Minicamp |
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 09:22 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Packers quarterback Brett Favre has changed his mind and now is expected to attend the team's mandatory minicamp this weekend, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
The person, who requested anonymity because neither side planned to officially announce Favre's intention to attend, said Favre is now expected to be present when the three-day minicamp opens in Green Bay on Friday.
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| Beijing Vows Cleaner, Stable City for Olympics |
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 09:21 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
China's capital faces a host of problems preparing for the 2008 Olympic Games, but its top official pledged on Thursday the city would be stable, cleaner and more civilized.
"From beginning to end, stability must be our number one political task," Beijing's Communist Party boss, Liu Qi, who outranks the mayor, told more than 730 delegates at the opening of the city's party congress, held once every five years.
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| Lab Technician Denies Landis Leak to Paper |
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 09:19 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
A laboratory technician has denied leaking information to French newspaper L'Equipe about Tour de France champion Floyd Landis testing positive for doping.
Cynthia Mongongu, an analytical chemist at Chatenay-Malabry laboratory outside Paris, was asked under cross-examination on Wednesday whether she had spoken to the newspaper after Landis's back-up 'B' samples were re-tested in April.
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| Nets Avoid Elimination With Ugly Victory |
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 09:18 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The New Jersey Nets staved off elimination with an 83-72 road victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday, the win pulling them back to 3-2 in their Eastern Conference semi-final series.
Jason Kidd had 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Nets, who led by 22 points in the third quarter. Vince Carter added 12 points and 10 assists.
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| Bowen's Late 3 Gives Spurs Game 5 Win |
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 09:18 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The San Antonio Spurs moved to the brink of the Western Conference finals with an 88-85 road victory over a depleted Phoenix Suns on Wednesday.
The Suns missed the contribution of suspended duo Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw, but kept the game tight until Bruce Bowen's three-pointer with 36 seconds remaining broke an 81-81 tie as the Spurs moved 3-2 ahead in the semi-final series.
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| Earnhardt Docked 100 Points, Crew Chief Fined, Suspended |
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 09:35 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s split from DEI was already a soap opera. Cheating allegations have now made it a scandal.
Earnhardt was docked 100 points Tuesday, and crew chief Tony Eury Jr. was fined $100,000 and suspended six races for an illegal modification to the Car of Tomorrow at Darlington Raceway.
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| Mavericks' Nowitzki Wins NBA MVP Honors |
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 09:34 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player on Tuesday, the first European player to win the award.
The MVP award capped a roller-coaster campaign for Nowitzki, a versatile seven-foot German who played brilliantly during the season but poorly during the Mavericks' colossal playoff collapse.
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| Bulls Top Pistons 108-92 to Force Game 6 |
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 09:32 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The Chicago Bulls are going home - to play another game. The Bulls made shots, stops and got to almost every loose ball against the Detroit Pistons. Suddenly, it's a series.
Ben Gordon scored 28 points and the hot-shooting Bulls beat Detroit 108-92 Tuesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, pulling to 3-2 in the series.
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| Jazz Advance, End Warriors' Run in Five |
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Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 09:31 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
The Utah Jazz eliminated the Golden State Warriors from the playoffs on Tuesday with a 100-87 victory in Game Five of the Western Conference semi-finals.
The Jazz sealed the series 4-1 before an exuberant home crowd, setting up a Western final with either Phoenix or San Antonio, who are tied at 2-2.
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| Bears to Convert Hester From CB to WR |
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Tuesday, May 15 2007 @ 10:54 AM CDT 1 commentsMost Recent Post: 10/30 07:50AM by test04838
Devin Hester is taking his game-breaking skills to the Chicago Bears' offense.
Hester set an NFL record last year for kick returns for touchdowns, and he started off the Super Bowl with a 92-yard kickoff runback for a touchdown. He rarely played on anything but special teams, though, and when he did, it was as a cornerback.
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| Raptors' Bryan Colangelo Voted Top Exec |
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Tuesday, May 15 2007 @ 10:53 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Toronto Raptors President and General Manager Bryan Colangelo was named Monday the NBA's Executive of the Year, the second time he has won the award.
Colangelo joined the Raptors on February 28, 2006, after 15 years with the Phoenix Suns and began building the roster around 6-foot-10 All-Star forward Chris Bosh.
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| Landis Begins Arbitration Hearing |
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Tuesday, May 15 2007 @ 10:53 AM CDT 0 comments Post a comment
Floyd Landis, winner of last year's Tour de France, kicked off his 10-day doping hearing on Monday with a denial that he had doped himself and criticism of testing procedures in cycling's top race.
Landis's attorney Maurice Suh said in his opening statement that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) was so determined to prove Landis guilty that they had turned the case into a "holy mess."
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