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BASKETBALL
Nov 8, 2022
NBA star Dwight Howard to play in Taiwanese league
Howard, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 NBA draft, will join the year-old professional league and compete against teams including the Kaohsiung Aquas and the TaiwanBeer HeroBears.
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BASKETBALL
Apr 12, 2022
Dream select Kentucky's Rhyne Howard No. 1 overall in WNBA draft
The Dream sent two first-round picks to the Mystics in order to position themselves to draft Howard, a three-time first-team All-American during her time with the Wildcats.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 5, 2019
Ron Howard frames Pavarotti story through arias for new documentary
Director Ron Howard did not know much about opera, but he understands drama when he sees it, and Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti's life was packed with it.
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 28, 2018
Obic Seagulls rout IBM Big Blue to defend Pearl Bowl title
Skyler Howard celebrated his Tokyo Dome debut with the MVP-winning performance that guided the Obic Seagulls to back-to-back Pearl Bowl championships.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 21, 2017
Hasheem Thabeet's massive size proving to be problematic with referees
"When I'm at the helm, I cover the whole realm," legendary rapper Rakim professed in "Remember That."
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CULTURE / Books
Jun 24, 2017
'Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push For Global Power': Waking up to China's dream of holding court
By now, even the most casual observer of goings on in Asia will have noted the aggressive geopolitical maneuvering of China, a country news outlets have taken to calling "resurgent."
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 27, 2017
Constant blaming of referees is becoming farcical
Lunch with a former Premier League referee was going well until the chat about his forthcoming holiday was interrupted by another customer. "You didn't give Arsenal a penalty in 2011 against Manchester United. It was nailed on. You cost us three points," he told my lunch companion.
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BASKETBALL / NBA / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Jan 10, 2017
Magic try to compete without franchise centers of past
"Go big or go home" has been a recurring theme for the NBA's Orlando Magic.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2016
'Inferno': Tom Hanks can hold up a franchise
Times will change and tides will always turn, but there's one thing you can count on: movies starring Tom Hanks.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 28, 2016
When it comes to the Beatles, we'll never let it be
The Beatles' career as a live band came to a — literally — screeching halt in August 1966, when on their final American tour, the howling of frenzied female fans became so deafening they could no longer hear themselves play. Author Tom Wolfe, describing a San Francisco stadium gig, wrote of "great sheets of scream like sheets of rain in a squall ... and that sound he thinks cannot get higher, it doubles, his eardrums ring like stamped metal with it until suddenly Ghhhhwoooooowwww, it is like the whole thing has snapped ... a writhing, seething mass of little girls."
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 30, 2016
Pierce to work for Heat during Summer League
For Japan hoop followers, the Miami Heat will have a familiar face helping out during the upcoming Las Vegas Summer League.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 28, 2016
Nintendo plans to sell Mariners majority stake
Nintendo of America is planning to sell its majority interest in the Seattle Mariners, the company announced Wednesday.
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BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 19, 2016
Rockets lacking in many areas, will likely deal Howard
One of the theories about the Houston Rockets this season, one of the Western Conference preseason title favorites who reached the season's halfway mark at about .500, has been the proof their analytics rage isn't the answer to success.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 2, 2015
Mochi is making a sweet turn outside Japan
Vivien Wong and her brother Howard are pinning their future on a Japanese favorite that is beginning to gain popularity elsewhere.
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CULTURE / Stage
Sep 22, 2015
'Top Hat' musical takes film classic to happy new heights
"There may be trouble ahead / But while there's moonlight and music /
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BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2015
Oil slump dooms Glomar, CIA spy ship built to raise Soviet sub, to scrapheap
A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2015
Bryce Dallas Howard kicks her high heels up in 'Jurassic World'
Typical: You spend $150 million on your effects-heavy summer blockbuster, and all people want to talk about is a character's choice of footwear. When "Jurassic World," the long-gestating sequel to the original "Jurassic Park" trilogy, opened internationally in June, the film's producers probably weren't expecting the media to focus on the shoes worn by its star.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2015
Hirai predecessor Stringer sees Sony turnaround taking hold
Sony Corp. President and CEO Kazuo Hirai is getting a vote of confidence from predecessor Howard Stringer in his effort to turn around the electronics maker.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2015
Starbucks urges baristas to talk about race
The initiative by Starbucks Chief Exercutive Howard Schultz urging baristas in the U.S. to engage customers in conversation about racial inequality hasn't gone over well.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 5, 2014
Sabotage: 'One of Schwarzenegger's bleakest, most violent films'
I owe Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cinematically speaking, he shaped part of my youth and set the gold standard for what male muscles should look like. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was my secret bible. For a while, I was deeply interested in guys who wore leather and rode Harley-Davidsons (preferably a Fat Boy, like Schwarzenegger rode in T2).

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