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EU's revised list includes Mauritius among high risk jurisdictions

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:24:00 +0530

Impact on India investments via Mauritius likely to be minimal


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Weather Warnings for South Australia. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

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10/20:44 EST Cancellation Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Wide Bay and Burnett Forecast District.

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Weather Warnings for South Australia - marine areas. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

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Weather Warnings for Tasmania - land areas. Issued by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

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Barcelona’s Samuel Umtiti suffers calf injury in training

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Brighton Covid-19 case highlights challenges of resuming EPL

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EB-Quess contract row: East Bengal players to approach AIFF through players’ body

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Michael Douglas teases Ant-Man 3 update, asks fans to "hang tight"

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:47:00 GMT

Reports state that Ant-Man 3 is in development at Marvel Studios, but the MCU is keeping its plans somewhat guarded.


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Union Minister Babul Supriyo booked by Kolkata police for sharing fake picture on Twitter

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:59:00 GMT

Supriyo has shared the picture on May 8, claiming that if Sinha and Banerjee are together then it "raises many questions".


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PM Modi to meet chief ministers tomorrow via video-conferencing to discuss COVID-19 crisis

By www.dnaindia.com
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:17:00 GMT

Modi is likely to take feedback from the chief ministers of various states to discuss the next stage of the exit from the nationwide lockdown which was imposed on March 24.


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TN: Private bus carrying stranded citizens of Kerala collides with water tanker on Karur-Salem highway, 25 injured

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:08:00 GMT

It is said to be the first road accident in Karur district after the lockdown was announced.


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'Rankings is the keyword': Dimuth Karunaratne wants Sri Lanka to reach top four in Test and ODI

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:13:00 GMT

Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne said that he wants his side to reach the top four spot in both Test and ODI rankings.


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Army planning to introduce IBGs along Pak and China borders: Gen MM Narvane

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:44:00 GMT

An IBG is a mix of artillery, infantry, air defence, tanks and logistics units.


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BJP leader Kapil Mishra accuses Delhi government of hiding COVID-19 deaths

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 13:52:00 GMT

In Delhi, the total number of coronavirus cases has risen to 6,923 with 381 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. 2069 people have recovered, and 73 people died, according to the data published in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare website.


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Mission Sagar: India's helping hand across Indian Ocean during COVID-19 crisis

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:16:00 GMT

This deployment is in line with India's role as the first responder in the region.


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'5 bfs in one...it's my choice': Neha Dhupia celebrates second wedding anniversary with Angad Bedi

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:12:00 GMT

To celebrate their anniversary, the actors went live on their social media channels.


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From calling AB de Villiers his favourite batsman to receiving Test cap from MS Dhoni, KL Rahul answers fans' questions

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:17:00 GMT

Wicket-keeper batsman KL Rahul on Sunday made sure to answer as many questions from fans as he did an 'Ask Rahul' session on Twitter.


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Congress paves way for Uddhav Thackeray to become MLC unopposed, withdraws nominee

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:30:00 GMT

Sena had sent a message to Balasaheb Thorat to withdraw the party's second candidate.


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COVID-19: Mark Wahlberg’s burger chain donating food to frontliners

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Alec Baldwin returns as Donald Trump to congratulate ‘class of COVID-19’ in SNL finale

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Hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr hospitalised in critical condition

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ATP Tour chief Andrea Gaudenzi not ruling out 2020 return

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Holding French Open without fans and later on are options

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NRL 2020: Erin Molan condemns ‘incredibly dangerous’ Holocaust Instagram post, Bryce Cartwright wife - NEWS.com.au

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 07:27:58 GMT

  1. NRL 2020: Erin Molan condemns ‘incredibly dangerous’ Holocaust Instagram post, Bryce Cartwright wife  NEWS.com.au
  2. Gold Coast Titans anti-vaccination: Doctor’s warning over flu jab after NRL players stood down  Gold Coast Bulletin
  3. NRL 2020, news: Bryce Cartwright’s wife hits out in flu shot storm, Instagram post, anti-vaccination players react  NEWS.com.au
  4. NRL: Anti-vaxxers stood down as vaccination debate rages on  news.com.au
  5. 'It's a team sport boys': Cronulla skipper Wade Graham calls out anti-vaxxers  Wide World of Sports
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How five Canberrans are marking Mother's Day in the time of COVID-19 - The Canberra Times

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:00:00 GMT

  1. How five Canberrans are marking Mother's Day in the time of COVID-19  The Canberra Times
  2. Eight Australian mothers share the greatest thing their kids have taught them  ABC News
  3. Mother's Day: Our special mums - your stories  New Zealand Herald
  4. Mother's Day: Jacinda Ardern shares heartwarming message in celebration of her mum  Newshub
  5. Mum, in memory: A Mother's Day Tribute  New Straits Times
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NY to expand testing for poor communities - NEWS.com.au

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:57:46 GMT

  1. NY to expand testing for poor communities  NEWS.com.au
  2. New York to expand coronavirus testing in 'low-income and minority' communities  SBS News
  3. New coronavirus hospitalizations down to lowest number since the lockdown began in New York  Daily Mail
  4. NY's Cuomo Criticized Over Highest Nursing Home Death Toll  The New York Times
  5. One-third of US coronavirus deaths are nursing home residents or workers with one-fifth in New York  Daily Mail
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WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry - ABC News

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:50:54 GMT

  1. WA coronavirus restriction easing not enough for pubs, beauticians, tourism industry  ABC News
  2. Coronavirus crisis: Weekends in Esperance back on the cards  The West Australian
  3. WA's decision to keep its mines open amid coronavirus may have saved Australia's economy | ABC News  ABC News (Australia)
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

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Published On :: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:41:00 +0000

 When her big chance comes, however, she throws it all away to rescue a teenager drowning off the coast of her island home.
Interacting with a human is strictly forbidden in Diana's culture, let alone saving one and hiding them in a cave.

This, however is no ordinary human. Her name is Alia and unbeknownst to her she is a Warbringer, someone who may be responsible for the greatest war ever to befall the human race.

Using a controversial myth as a guide, Alia and Diana set off to end the curse that Alia has become convinced she carries.

she does her best to stand out.
Full of action, sarcastic wit and strong female characters, Wonder Woman: Warbringer is a great teen read for anyone who loves superhero backstories. Bardugo has created a character with real depth that flies off the page, highly recommend this!
Diana is desperate to prove herself. Surrounded by warriors who make every feat of strength and agility look like a cake walk,


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Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham

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Published On :: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000





Mark Twain famously said (or, more likely, famously didn’t say), “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This truth is made clear in Jennifer Latham’s searing young adult novel, Dreamland. What rhymes with all too much clarity in Latham’s story is how our nation continues to fall far short of its aspirational tale of freedom and justice for all. Dreamland is the tale of one city in two different time periods, one historical and one present-day. That city is Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the historical time period is one that has been whitewashed out of too many history books.

In 1921, the city of Tulsa contained a thriving African-American community known as Greenwood. Though Greenwood thrived commercially and culturally, its residents still knew what it was to be the “other.” Will Tillman also knows something of what it means to be “other,” as he is the biracial teenage son of a white father and a mother who is a full-blooded member of the Osage Nation. Working for his father brings Will into contact with the African-American community, albeit in quiet defiance of Jim Crow laws. But his work also brings Will into contact with other members of Tulsa’s white business community, members eager to bring the noxious ideals of the Klan to the forefront of Tulsa’s civic life. Students of history will already know what happened in Tulsa in 1921, but even they will benefit from the historical detail Latham includes in her fictional narrative. What happened in the city remains a national shame, while what happens to Will Tillman and Latham's other characters in 1921 remains a mystery.

In present-day Tulsa, Rowan Chase, herself a biracial teenager with an African-American mother and a white father, finds herself connected to this deadly mystery when the renovation of her family’s home uncovers a skeleton. While Rowan and her friend James seek historical answers, the present starts rhyming in ominous ways, and Rowan is forced to confront the racial tensions that still exist in Tulsa and elsewhere in our nation.

Skillfully switching chapters, narrators, and time eras, Latham convincingly demonstrates how American carnage is not a new phenomenon. The means and methods may have changed, but the racial injustice remains. Latham also convincingly shows how individual acts of courage and conscience can lead to larger positive cultural change, however slow and halting that change may be.


Novels matter—just because they aren't "true" doesn't mean they aren't truth.  And novels like Dreamland push history to rhyme on the truths rather than the myths, helping the arc of justice straighten and move forward, . As Rowan says early in the novel, the stories are there to be told—we just need the living to listen.  Dreamland is a story well worth listening to.


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On behalf of Ballou Library in Washington DC, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

By guyslitwire.blogspot.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:31:00 +0000

The final total of books gifted to Ballou Library via the October Book Fair & Cyber Monday  holiday shopping (which continued all week), comes in just over 200 titles! Thank you so much for buying books and helping to spread the word for this DC high school!


The wish list remains open year-round and there are a ton of great books on it, all of them chosen and approved by Ballou students. These are books the teens want and we so enjoy doing everything we can to get these books to them.

In the coming days I will be moving things around a bit on the list, getting series books together so they are easier to find. (I really really REALLY wish that amazon had "search by title" and "search by author" functions. So frustrating!) And we will, of course, be continuing to assist Ballou to fill its shelves next year and hope that you will return to the list and also help us spread the word about the amazing work done by librarian Melissa Jackson.

Have a lovely holiday folks, and thanks again for all you do to support this high school library.


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How Buildings Learn

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Published On :: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:00:00 +0000


Anyone interested in architecture should read this book by Stewart Brand. Brand won a National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, and is a co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering "the art of the long view." How Buildings Learn features a lot of illustrations and insights about building and buildings. I especially enjoy the comparison of two structures on the campus of MIT:

The legendary Building 20 (1943) was an artifact of wartime haste. Designed in an afternoon by MIT grad Don Whiston, it was ready for occupancy by radar researchers six months later... In an undertaking similar in scope to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb, the emergency development of radar employed the nation's best physicists in an intense collaboration that changed the nature of science. Unlike Los Alamos, the MIT radar project was not run by the military, and unlike Los Alamos, no secrets got out. The verdict of scientists afterward was, "The atom bomb only ended the war. Radar won it." ... Author Fred Hapgood wrote in 1993 of Building 20, "The edifice is so ugly that it is impossible not to admire it, if that makes sense; it has ten times the righteous nerdly swagger of any other building on campus... Although Building 20 was built with the intention to tear it down after... World War II, it has remained... providing a special function... Not assigned to any one school, department, or center, it seems to always have had space for the beginning project, the graduate student's experiment, the interdisciplinary research center.

In a later chapter, Brand describes famous architect I.M. Pei's third MIT building, known informally as the Media Lab and formally as the Wiesner Building:

It may have been my familiarity with MIT's homely, accommodating Building 20 just across the street that made the $45 million pretentiousness, ill-functionality, and non-adaptability of the Media Lab building so shocking to me... Nowhere in the whole building is there a place for casual meetings, except for a tiny, overused kitchen. Corridors are narrow and barren. Getting new cabling through the interior concrete walls - a necessity in such a laboratory - requires bringing in jackhammers. You can't even move office walls around, thanks to the overhead fluorescent lights being at a Pei-signature 45-degree angle to everything else.

The Media Lab building, I discovered, is not unusually bad. Its badness is the norm in new buildings overdesigned by architects...

Brand finishes How Buildings Learn with a list of good books, writing, "They are the texts I would reach for if I was going to work on a building..."


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Saying Goodbye to Guys Lit Wire

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Published On :: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:30:00 +0000

This is the final post for Guys Lit Wire.


We started this site many years ago (I'm honestly afraid to even see how many years), after an online discussion about how teenage boys seemed less willing to browse for books they wanted than teenage girls. (The argument being that if the guys had more easy to find recommendations, they would read more but when they didn't know how to find books on subjects they liked, they just gave up looking.)

So that was what we set out to do (as evident from the site's name): recommend some books that we thought teenage boys would like. This often meant books from a boy POV, or graphic novels that might lure in reluctant readers, or nonfiction that might appeal to specific audiences that don't read a lot but like certain subjects. What all of these books had in common is that one of our many contributors thought it was a good book and deserved some more attention from readers who would probably love it if they knew about it. We certainly hope that all kinds of kids and teens (boys and girls) have picked up a book because of something we posted here.

Beyond that, we also supported several schools and organizations devoted to getting books into the hands of kids who needed them via underfunded library shelves. Cumulatively, over 10,000 books have been bought & shipped due to our efforts. Most recently, for Ballou Sr High School in Washington DC, over 200 books were bought off their wish list by our readers and sent their way at the end of 2017. 

Support for the Annual Book Fair for Ballou will continue, as I take those posts over to my site, Chasing Ray, and continue to host the book fair there. Please follow me on twitter, (@chasingray), for updates on that effort.

Personally, Sarah Stevenson & I would like to thank everyone who was with us on this ride. We are both writing much more heavily now on our own projects and bring an end to GLW with a heavy but grateful heart. Simply put, it is time. All of us at the site are confident however that we accomplished far more here than we ever thought possible. The archives will remain live and there are a ton of great book recommendations to peruse; be sure to check them out. 


Sincerely,

Colleen Mondor & Sarah Stevenson
January, 2018


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Club Brugge vraagt stemming om komend seizoen met 18 clubs af te werken - Het Nieuwsblad

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:39:03 GMT

  1. Club Brugge vraagt stemming om komend seizoen met 18 clubs af te werken  Het Nieuwsblad
  2. De Ketelaere, Doku en Verschaeren, maar ook goudhaantjes van Juventus en Inter: wij gingen op zoek naar de 50 grootste talenten van ons land  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Club Brugge stuurt voorstel rond: 1A met 18 clubs zonder play-offs  sporza.be
  4. Het plan van Club Brugge: 18 clubs in 1A, geen play-offs  VoetbalNieuws.be
  5. Club Brugge stuurt mail naar alle profclubs en legt plan voor 1A met 18 en zonder play-offs op tafel  Het Laatste Nieuws
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IJsland wint virtueel Eurovisiesongfestival, België eindigt ... - De Standaard

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:39:32 GMT

  1. IJsland wint virtueel Eurovisiesongfestival, België eindigt ...  De Standaard
  2. IJsland wint 'virtueel Songfestival', België eindigt vijfde | Eurovisiesongfestival | Showbizz  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. IJsland wint alternatieve Eurovisiesongfestival online, België wordt vijfde  VRT NWS
  4. België vijfde op (virtueel) Eurovisiesongfestival, IJsland w...  Het Nieuwsblad
  5. IJsland wint online Songfestival 'Eurostream 2020', België 5e  songfestival.be
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Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer - Het Nieuwsblad

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:00:00 GMT

  1. Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer  Het Nieuwsblad
  2. Rock-n'-rollpionier Little 'Tutti Frutti' Richard (87) overleden  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Rock 'n' roll-pionier Little Richard is overleden, herontdek zijn grootste hits  VRT NWS
  4. Little Richard drukte zware stempel op de rock-'n-roll  De Tijd
  5. Muzieklegendes over Little Richard: “Als ik zijn muziek beluisterde, kon ik God horen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile - Het Belang van Limburg

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 09:56:00 GMT

  1. Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile  Het Belang van Limburg
  2. Wellense chef Moke Karmaoui overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Limburgse chef Moke Karmaoui (50) overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
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Medium-intensity earthquake strikes Delhi, adjoining areas; 3rd amid Covid-19 lockdown - Hindustan Times

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 09:42:00 GMT

  1. Medium-intensity earthquake strikes Delhi, adjoining areas; 3rd amid Covid-19 lockdown  Hindustan Times
  2. Earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hits Delhi-NCR  Times of India
  3. Earthquake in Delhi: Tremors felt in national capital region  The Financial Express
  4. Magnitude 3.4 Earthquake Strikes Delhi, Epicentre Near UP Border  News18
  5. Breaking news live : Eathquake tremors felt in Delhi, adjoining areas  Times of India
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Will Kansas City's challenging regular season schedule affect its chances to repeat as Super Bowl champions?

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The Kansas City Chiefs will look to repeat as Super Bowl champions in 2020, but their regular season schedule won't offer any concessions.


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Virtual racing wasn’t real – but it made many fans feel real good

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NASCAR will make its return to the track on May 17 at Darlington Raceway – but that doesn't mean fans have been without racing for the past two months.


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NHL execs express mixed feelings over proposal to hold draft early

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:45:24 +0000

There are mixed feelings among executives about the idea, ranging from frustration to begrudging acceptance.


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Yao Ming offers options for restart of Chinese basketball

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Yao Ming offers options for restart of Chinese basketball


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