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NBA Board of Governors votes to reject Kings relocation to Seattle

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The NBA's Board of Governors voted at a meeting in Dallas on Wednesday to reject an investment group's effort to relocate the Sacramento Kings to Seattle for the 2013-14 season.

NBA commissioner David Stern told reporters that the Board followed the lead of the league's Relocation Committee, which unanimously recommended in April that the relocation bid should not go through.

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Tearing a team away from the community is a tough thing. I am glad the Kings aren't moving. But this also means that the team has to put out a good product or else these talks resurface again.
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Rolando McClain cements status as a bust with early retirement

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He may have been there already, but Rolando McClain guaranteed himself a spot in the conversation over biggest NFL draft busts Wednesday, when the Ravens announced his retirement.

"Rolando let me know that he plans to retire from the NFL," said Baltimore GM Ozzie Newsome, who signed McClain to a non-guaranteed one-year, $700K contract this offseason. "We have placed him on the Reserve/Retired list."

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This is pretty much all on McClain, right? Give some blame on the Raiders for either not researching and scouting him proper or not giving him the structure to succeed. McClain however is his own enemy for this and I hope that he gets his life right and maybe returns to football if he desires. But he needs to fix up whatever is causing him trouble.
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Help The Mavs Design Our Next Uniform !

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The Mavs are going to re-do our uniforms for the 2015-16 season... if we get a unique and original design. What's the best way to come up with creative ideas ? You ask for them. So we are going to crowd source the design and colors of our uniforms.

You know what an NBA uniform looks like. You know what the Mavs colors are for today and the past.  

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Is Mark Cuban serious about this? He let P. Diddy design his team's uniforms once. Now it's in the hands of the fans with no real financial compensation? I don't know about this...
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The umpires in the Astros-Angels game have been disciplined

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Relatively unprecedented. From MLB:

Umpire Fieldin Culbreth, the crew chief in Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, has received a two-game suspension and a fine for the misapplication of Official Baseball Rule 3.05(b) in the top of the seventh inning, Major League Baseball announced today.

The other members of Culbreth’s crew – Brian O’Nora, Bill Welke and Adrian Johnson – have received fines stemming from the same sequence of events ... 

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Finally! Some accountability! But it's still sad that the umpires this week have shown that they are not equipped for this job.
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Umpire Angel Hernandez blows game-tying HR call in Indians-A's game

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Down 4-3 to the Indians in the ninth inning, Oakland shortstop Adam Rosales hit what he thought was a game-tying home run off Cleveland closer Chris Perez. But second base umpire, and crew chief, Angel Hernandez ruled the hit—which struck a railing behind the wall in left field before bouncing back onto the field—a double.

The video replay seemed to show it was indeed a homer, but when Hernandez reviewed the play, he upheld his original ruling, to the shock of Rosales, A's manager Bob Melvin (who was thrown out of the game for arguing the call), and the media.

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Angel Hernandez is going to get it from A's fans when he umpires a game there later this season. Only excuse that this happens is that he didn't have any replay or the TV he was using was standard definition. Regardless, replay doesn't work if people still get it wrong.
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J.A. Happ's injury a reminder of the urgency for head protection for pitchers

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Blue Jays lefty J.A. Happ was hit on the left side of the head by a line drive off the bat of Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Desmond Jennings in the second inning Tuesday night. Though Happ didn't appear to lose consciousness, he was bleeding from the point of impact. After lying still (but not motionless, an important distinction) at the foot of the mound for roughly five minutes while being attended to by emergency medical technicians, he was strapped to an immobilizing backboard and wheeled away on a gurney.

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Now we've had two such incidents in less than a calendar year. I think it's time to seriously consider some kind of protection for pitchers on the mound.
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Regional SI Cover Features Sharp Shooting Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors

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This week’s SI features a look by senior writer Chris Ballard at the top complementary shooters in this year’s playoffs who give elite scorers room to operate and one star—Stephen Curry—who doesn’t need anyone’s help to find room to get off a shot. The regional cover is Curry’s first appearance on an SI cover.

During the Warriors six-game first-round victory over the Nuggets, Ballard says that Curry “appeared to be engaged in one very long, extremely thorough heat check.” (Page 52)

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This has got to be the most Bay Area cover ever. Stephen Curry on the cover. On the top, a story on Bo Jackson, Willie Mays to Yoenis Cespedes. Then on the top right, another story on former Stanford star Jason Collins.
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Forbes names Tim Tebow as most influential athlete in 2013

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Surveys conducted by Nielsen and E-Poll Market Research has found that Tim Tebow is the most influential athlete in 2013, Forbes reported on Monday. Following Tebow on Forbes' list are Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and Derek Jeter as the most influential athletes of 2013.

Tebow, who has over 2.2 million followers on Twitter, appeared in 11 games for the Jets last season and accumulated just 39 yards passing on eight attempts. 

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Man, people are influenced by a guy who didn't do much this past year. I would say he's one of the most talked about, with most of it as part of the media's bringing, but influential? What's he influencing and who is taking it?
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Bloody result of Eric Gryba's hit on Lars Eller sparks controversy

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A hit by Senators rookie defenseman Eric Gryba on Canadiens forward Lars Eller Thursday night resulted in a gory scene on the Bell Centre ice and a controversial cover of the Ottawa Sun.

The result of the hit left Eller bleeding profusely on the ice (see video below). After being removed on a stretcher, Eller spent the night in a hospital being treated for a concussion, facial fractures, dental fractures and facial contusions.

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I do wonder though if the league will start implementing cages on the helmets or not. I know these hits aren't as frequent, but every now and then one major hit comes and it makes me wonder about the safety of the players.