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Indian American Vivek Ranadive buys US basketball team

Indian American software magnate Vivek Ranadive, who has become the first person of Indian descent to become the owner of a major US basketball team, plans to build the Sacramento Kings into a global brand. "It's going to be exciting," he told the USA Today after securing an agreement to buy 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family for a National Basketball Association (NBA) ...
Indian-headed group buys Sacramento Kings NBA team

A day after NBA owners rejected Sacramento Kings' move to Seattle, the Maloof brothers, owners of the franchise, have agreed to sell the basketball side to a Sacramento-based group headed by Indian Vivek Ranadive. Ranadive, who is a software billionaire, will purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof family in a deal that is expected to be announced later Friday, reports ESPN. The 65 ...
Bling Ring stole Miranda Kerrs underwear

Miranda Kerr is the latest celebrity to be revealed as a target of the Hollywood Bling Ring. The Bling Ring was a group of teenagers with a penchant for breaking into celebrity homes and stealing expensive and exclusive belongings. In an interview with Vanity Fair, writer Nancy Jo Sales, who first immortalized the fame-crazed teens in a magazine story, reveals that the fresh-faced robbers were ...
I consider myself to be a romantic says Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper, who has been linked to a number of hot Hollywood beauties, has admitted that he considers himself to be a romantic. The 'Silver Linings Playbook' star said that he loves the company of a great woman, and thinks a relationship works best when both partners have a certain ease in the way they relate to each other, the Mirror reported. He said that there's a level of harmony that ...
Kate Bosworth obsessed with cooking shows

Hollywood actress Kate Bosworth is obsessed with cooking shows and says her specialty is "sausage ragu". "I love all of the cooking shows like 'Chopped' and 'Top Chef'. I've just started to learn in the last couple of years and I love it," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Bosworth as saying. "My specialty is a sausage ragu, it takes about six or seven hours to cook. That's almost my mini-vacation, ...

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Rebecca [DVD]

The relationship between brashly independent movie producer David O. Selznick and auteur director Alfred Hitchcock began with Rebecca. Both men were dynamic thinkers and bullheaded control freaksit is amazing in retrospect that they managed to work together on four movies, which also included Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and The Paradine Case (1947). As film sch ... ...

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Giants drop seesaw affair with Rockies

Posey's solo homer inches the Giants closer DENVER -- The first career grand slam Madison Bumgarner allowed was indeed unique, given its reverberations. Jordan Pacheco's bases-loaded drive off Bumgarner broke a fifth-inning tie that carried the Colorado Rockies to a 10-9 victory Friday night over the Giants. Not only did Pacheco slam the door on the Giants, but he also halted ...
Giants Minor League coach Torres dies at 61

DENVER -- The Giants issued a statement Friday saying that Victor Torres, a batting coach and instructor in the club's player development department, died Wednesday in Florida at age 61. Torres spent five seasons between 2007 and last year as hitting coach for the Arizona Rookie League Giants. He also coached for one season, 2008, at the club's Double-A Connecticut affiliate. Torres ...
Pair of late homers power As past Royals Shields

KC@OAK: Rosales belts a go-ahead solo homer to left OAKLAND -- Adam Rosales and Josh Donaldson each hit solo home runs as the Oakland Athletics surged late for a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night. Rosales led off the eighth with his second home run of the year, a shot that landed halfway up the staircase beyond the left-field fence. A's starter Jarrod Parker threw ...
Calif. doctor who promised cancer cure gets prison

LOS ANGELES – A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an herbal supplement could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases. U.S. District Judge Robert Timlin sentenced 58-year-old Christine Daniel on Friday. He also ordered her to pay about $1.3 million. Daniel was found guilty of 11 ...
MLB Colorado 10 San Francisco 9

Jordan Pacheco hit a grand slam homer and drove in five runs Friday, giving Colorado enough of a cushion to pull out a 10-9 win over San Francisco. Pacheco's home run came during a five-run fifth and he also drove in a run with a ground out in the second. Colorado took a 10-4 led through six innings and fought off a Giants' rally that ran out of steam ...

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CA to improve 'pay, conditions' for Oz women cricketers to 'boost professionalism'

Australian women cricketers are set to take a major leap towards professionalism after Cricket Australia's (CA) expected announcement of a major improvement in pay and conditions for female players next week when it unveils the women's Ashes squad.

The success of the national team the Southern Stars and the sacrifices women make to play domestic and international cricket, will also be acknowledged at an official celebration of the women's game in Sydney, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

Indian-born Australian cricketer Lisa Sthalekar, who retired after the Stars' World Cup triumph in February, said that the team is getting closer to realizing the hope of calling cricket their profession.

Sthalekar, who has witnessed the evolution from battling to cover costs, to modest contracts, to semi-professionalism, said that CA have realised that they need to pay the women players appropriately for the time and effort they put into the game.

Stating that the women's team has been concerned for a number of years about the standard of the national league in view of the fact that players leave after the age of 25, Sthalekar said that the new proposals will lengthen careers and make the players train hard, instead of working or studying full-time. ...