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'Underappreciated' Thornton a handful these playoffs

Edit Toronto Sun 17 May 2016
Nothing else during their National Hockey League playoff game mattered at that moment ... Louis Blues’ captain, to fight? The way Thornton fought Anaheim Ducks’ captain Ryan Getzlaf during a 2009 playoff series, the way he wanted to fight Vancouver Canuck Ryan Kesler at the start of the Western Conference final in 2011 ... Louis is one of the most penalized teams in the league, regular season and playoffs....

Benson wins a court round in future of sports franchises

Edit The Miami Herald 17 May 2016
Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson has won a round in federal court in his fight to leave ownership of his NFL and NBA team to his wife, rather than his ......

Flintridge Prep, Crescenta Valley, St. Monica Academy baseball get first-round home playoff games

Edit The Los Angeles Times 17 May 2016
The Rebels, Falcons and Crusaders have another mutual link, as the three ......

Bengals running back Hill won’t let fumble define him

Edit Springfield News-Sun 17 May 2016
... his fumble at the end of the wild-card playoff loss to Pittsburgh and the backlash that ensued....

Defense is something the Red Wings have to address

Edit Detroit news 17 May 2016
Detroit — There are many areas on the Red Wings that need improving. But one spot that needs special attention is the defense. It’s a unit that began the season well but gradually, as the long regular season extended into the playoffs, it became a trouble spot ... “Is there a fix from outside? I don’t know ... “Do we have stars? I don’t know ... “Philly, that game, with the uncertainty of the playoffs, I was really soaking in that game ... Age. 26 ... Age....

Immigration 'cost UK £16.8 billion in 2014-15', claims Migration Watch

Edit Belfast Telegraph 17 May 2016
Share Go To. But the analysis suggested that immigrants who had arrived in the UK since 2001 from the EEA had little net impact on the public finances - because the £2.8 billion cost of people from the 10 newest, mainly former Soviet-bloc, members of the European Union was balanced by a £2.8 billion contribution to the Exchequer from other European migrants ... The report said ... Migration Watch chairman Lord Green of Deddington said ... ....

Lil Kim now in mediation over foreclosure of Alpine mansion

Edit NJ dot com 17 May 2016
Last year, the bank asked a Bergen County judge to place Lil Kim in default ... Real estate records also show she soon bought a townhouse in Englewood for $450,000, which she sold for $785,000 in 2005, shortly before she was sentenced to a year in prison for lying to a federal grand jury about her friends' involvement in a 2001 shooting outside a New York radio station.  ... Sabathia and Tracy Morgan ... Ep. 34 ... ....

Moscot progressing in Triple-A rehab

Edit MLB 17 May 2016
CLEVELAND -- Reds right-hander Jon Moscot had what appeared to be a successful rehab assignment start on Sunday for Triple-A Louisville. Moscot threw 69 pitches over five innings vs. Columbus with two earned runs, two hits, three walks, four strikeouts and one homer allowed ... "A two-run homer in the fifth was really the only damage ... Mark Sheldon has covered the Reds for MLB.com since 2006, and previously covered the Twins from 2001-05 ... ....

Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' wins Man Booker fiction prize

Edit Business Insider 17 May 2016
LONDON (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction Monday with "The Vegetarian," an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences ... Research firm Nielsen Book says the British market for translated fiction almost doubled between 2001 and 2015 — but still accounts for just 1.5 percent of all fiction sales ... More from Associated Press. ... ....

Man-On-Man To Become Cardinals' Long Snapper (Arizona Cardinals)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. Arizona Cardinals). When the Cardinals rookies eat meals at the team facility, Kameron Canaday and Daniel Dillon sit together, and when they head back to the team hotel, the two are roommates. They have become friends, but their days as teammates have a shelf life ... Both have accepted it ... 'I'm going to beat myself out or he will beat himself out ... Trey Junkin (1996-2001), Nathan Hodel (2002-2008) and Leach ... Jones' plan was simple....

Sheffield Wednesday seal play-off final spot after battling past Brighton (PFA - Professional Footballers' Association)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. PFA - Professional Footballers' Association). Ross Wallace stunned Brighton for the second time in four days as Sheffield Wednesday moved another step closer to the Premier League ... Yet Chris Hughton's side threatened to wipe out Wednesday's lead in the space of a frantic opening half hour ... Original documenthttps.//www.thepfa.com/news/2016/5/16/sheffield-wednesday-seal-playoff-final-spot-after-battling-past-brighton ... (noodl....

Toronto Raptors beat Miami Heat in 7th game, progress to Conference finals

Edit Indian Express 16 May 2016
Kyle Lowry (7) drives the ball defended by Tyler Johnson (8) in the second round of NBA Playoffs ... Toronto moved into the NBA conference finals for the first time in ... The closest Toronto had come to reaching the last four of the NBA playoffs was in 2001 when the Raptors lost to Philadelphia as Vince Carter’s buzzer beater shot rimmed out....

Thunder: The origins of small ball

Edit The Oklahoman 16 May 2016
The Warriors won the 2015 NBA title taking a small-ball lineup to the extreme ... The spread-out game was pioneered decades earlier by Don Nelson, who from 1977-2010 coached 31 years and won an NBA-record 1,335 games ... Those Warriors made the playoffs four times in six seasons but never reached a conference final ... Those Mavs made the playoffs four straight years, 2001-04, and won four series ... Those Suns never reached the NBA Finals....
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