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Dodgers sale: 3 bidders, $1.5 billion price seen
Tue,27 Mar 2012 05:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Major League Baseball owners sent the Los Angeles Dodgers sale into its final innings, approving three bidders for an auction that is expected to start in New York Wednesday morning and produce a record bid for the famed franchise, sources said. Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is expected to choose from among the three bidders, most likely by April 1, in what is expected to be a final bid of around $1.5 billion, according to two sources with knowledge of the bidding. ...
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Athens champion Hamm retires
Tue,27 Mar 2012 05:13 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Paul Hamm, the only American man to win the Olympic all-round gold medal, announced his retirement from gymnastics on Tuesday.
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Djokovic and Nadal punch quarter-final tickets
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  KEY BISCAYNE, Florida (Reuters) - World number one Novak Djokovic and second ranked Rafa Nadal moved into the quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open with straight set victories on Tuesday. Djokovic, a 7-5 6-3 winner against Richard Gasquet, had a game on his hands in the opening set when he was broken in the fourth game by a fine backhand winner from the Frenchman. The Serb, the defending champion, broke back in the sixth only to face break point in the ninth game, but three times he held firm and was able to emerge with the set. ...
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Schools, jobs seen key to prevent repeat of English riots
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:07 PM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Schools that fail to teach children to read and write should face fines to improve an inadequate education system, a panel set up to draw lessons from riots that swept England's cities last year said on Wednesday. The panel's report, presented to Prime Minister David Cameron, said there were half a million "forgotten families" who "bump along the bottom" of society and urged the government to develop a strategy to help them turn their lives around. ...
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Barcelona reach Final Four as Maccabi edge closer
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:21 PM PDT
Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - Barcelona became the first team to reach this season's Euroleague Final Four when Tuesday's 67-56 win at Unics Kazan put them 3-0 up against the Russian side in their best-of-five playoff series. Last year's runners-up Maccabi Tel Aviv took a 2-1 lead against holders Panathinaikos Athens after grinding out a 65-62 home win over the Greek side in front of a fervent crowd in the Nokia Arena. Barcelona, the 2010 winners, had won the opening two games in their Palau Blaugrana last week. ... Full Story | Top |
Top Canada minister faces second ethics probe
Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:51 PM PDT
Reuters -  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's industry minister, found guilty of an ethics violation last week, is being formally investigated for possible wrongdoing in a second case and faces opposition allegations of inappropriate behavior in a third. Christian Paradis, who handles some of the government's most sensitive files, may be turning into a political problem for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose Conservatives came to power in early 2006 promising more accountability in government. ...
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Motor racing-Massa heads for Maranello as pressure mounts
Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:37 PM PDT
Reuters - March 27 (Reuters) - Ferrari's Felipe Massa ripped up histravel plans and headed to his team's Maranello factory insteadof home to Brazil after failing to score any points in the firsttwo races of the Formula One season. Massa, who has not stood on the podium since 2010, finished15th in Sunday's rain-hit Malaysian Grand Prix won by Spanishteam mate Fernando Alonso. In the Australian season-opener the weekend before inMelbourne he had retired. Speculation has mounted that Massa could be replaced atFerrari well before the season is out but team boss StefanoDomenicali has been publicly ... Full Story | Top |
Formula One to raise $1bn in loan refinance: source
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:34 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Shareholders in motor racing group Formula One (F1) are raising $1 billion from a loan refinancing which will be paid into a holding company for future dividends and acquisitions, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The funds, which were on the company's balance sheet, will be paid into holding company Delta Topco and will be used by shareholders for a range of purposes, the person said. The $2.27 billion loan, which refinances $2. ...
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Shevchenko battles injury and coach for Euro
Tue,27 Mar 2012 09:27 AM PDT
Reuters -  KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Andriy Shevchenko is battling a series of niggles but still hopes to end his international career on a high by appearing at Euro 2012 - if his coach picks him. The former AC Milan and Chelsea striker, a hero of Ukrainian soccer for more than a decade, will quit the national side after his country co-hosts the Euros with Poland in June just three months before he turns 36. ...
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Row over Italian Cup final venue escalates
Tue,27 Mar 2012 09:15 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The Italian Cup final between Juventus and Napoli on May 20 still has no venue after a row between the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) and Serie A over the use of Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Serie A rubber-stamped a decision on Monday to host the final as usual in Rome but Gianni Petrucci, head of CONI which owns the Olimpico, was annoyed that the league had not officially asked him so he has blocked its use. "For us the matter is closed, they'll have to think of another stadium," Petrucci told ANSA on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
Saints' Payton talking to Parcells, may appeal ban
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:55 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - New Orleans coach Sean Payton will talk to Bill Parcells about coaching the Saints this season while he considers appealing his one-year suspension by the National Football League (NFL), he said on Tuesday.
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Motor racing-Di Resta encouraged by Perez podium
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:22 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW DELHI, March 27 (Reuters) - Paul Di Resta believes ForceIndia could match Sergio Perez's surprising Malaysian Grand Prixpodium if circumstances go their way this season. Perez finished second for Sauber at rain-lashed Sepang onSunday to become the first Mexican driver in 41 years on theFormula One podium. He could have won had he not run wide withfive laps to go while chasing Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. ... Full Story | Top |
Milan rule out defensive approach against Barca
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:26 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - AC Milan have discarded the possibility of adopting a defensive approach when they face free-scoring Barcelona in their Champions League quarter-final, coach Massimiliano Allegri said Tuesday. Milan's city rivals Inter Milan, at the time led by Jose Mourinho, managed to beat Barcelona over two legs two seasons ago with the help of ultra-cautious tactics but Allegri implied that was not his team's style. ...
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