PITTSBURGH – Sidney Crosby called the Pittsburgh Penguins’ shot on their overtime goal to win Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. A hockey prophet. The Babe Ruth of puck. Yeah, not so much, said Crosby. “I call 25 faceoffs a game. So I got 24 wrong tonight.” But he orchestrated the play. He instructed […]
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BDL’s 2015-16 NBA Finals Preview: Warriors vs. Cavaliers
For two defending conference champions with precious little roster turnover from last season, there has been a remarkable amount of change in the clubhouse for these two squads. To start, the coaches that manned the sidelines all the way back in October when things tipped off won’t be standing much, or at all, during this […]
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Philippines’ Duterte denounced for defending killing of some journalists
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine media groups denounced President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday for saying journalists were being killed because they were corrupt and “you are not exempted from assassination if you are a son of a bitch”. Duterte’s comments about extrajudicial killings, calling bishops “sons of whores” and a joke about a murdered rape victim […]
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Man beaten and held in closet by East Cleveland police gets $22 million
(Reuters) – A jury awarded $22 million to an Ohio man who sued the city of East Cleveland and police officers after he was beaten while handcuffed and placed in a storage closet for four days, a lawyer said on Wednesday. [restrict] Arnold Black, a 48-year-old black man from Maple Heights, Ohio, sued East Cleveland […]
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After 5 days, no clues about missing boy in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — The search for a boy who disappeared after his parents left him behind in a Japanese forest as punishment pushed into a fifth day on Thursday, but with no clues to his fate. Yamato Tanooka, 7, has been missing since Saturday after his parents made him get out of their car as […]
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Chinese President stresses ‘friendly’ ties to N. Korea envoy
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the importance of “friendly relations” to a visiting North Korean official Wednesday, after the envoy reportedly told Chinese officials Pyongyang would continue its internationally condemned nuclear programme. Xi told top North Korean party official Ri Su-Yong in Beijing that “China places great value on the friendly cooperative relationship” with its […]