Sacramento Kings move to Seattle not happening

DALLAS (AP) 5/16/2013

The Kings are staying in Sacramento, and Seattle will have to wait for another NBA franchise.

As for the ownership question that has kept the Kings in limbo for years, Commissioner David Stern wants it settled now.

League owners voted Wednesday to follow the recommendation of their...

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Heat rally past Bulls to advance, 94-91
Miami Heat's Chris Bosh (1) drives to the basket as Chicago Bulls' Jimmy Butler, right, defends during the first half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Miami. At left is Bulls' Carlos Boozer. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

MIAMI (AP) 5/16/2013

The tape around Dwyane Wade's right knee was soaked with sweat and beginning to loosen, so he headed to the locker room to get the joint re-wrapped during the fourth...

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Dodgers beat Nationals 3-1 in Greinke's return
Los Angeles Dodgers starter Zack Greinke pitches to the Washington Nationals in the first inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

LOS ANGELES (AP) 5/16/2013

Zack Greinke returned early from the disabled list, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' offense is starting to pick up.

The last-place Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals 3-1 on Wednesday night for their fourth...

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Blackhawks edge Red Wings 4-1 in series opener

CHICAGO (AP) 5/16/2013

Maybe it was the extra rest, or another raucous crowd at the United Center. Maybe it was just the resumption of one of the NHL's biggest rivalries.

Whatever it was, the Chicago Blackhawks finally found that extra gear they talked about for days.

Johnny Oduya and Marcus Kruger scored in the third period, Corey...

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NBA owners reject Sacramento Kings move to Seattle

DALLAS (AP) 5/16/2013

The Kings are staying in Sacramento, and Seattle will have to wait for another NBA franchise.

As for the ownership question that has kept the Kings in limbo for years, Commissioner

 

David Stern wants it settled now.

League owners voted Wednesday to follow the recommendation of their relocation committee and reject an aggressive bid to move the Kings, and Stern promptly

 

announced that he hoped to have a deal in place in 48 hours with a group that wants to buy the team from the Maloof brothers.

"And now we think that because the...

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Column: Notre Dame not chicken, just greedy

(AP) 5/16/2013

Brady Hoke was talking the way football coaches do, the way university presidents can't. Imagine, if you will, the snickering in academia if Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, a biochemist by trade, accused her counterparts at Notre Dame of chickening out on a science fair.

Might as well go all the way and tell them their pocket protectors are two pens shy of a full load.

But when you're the football coach at Michigan you

 

can say pretty much anything you want to say - as long as you beat Ohio State more often than not, that is. So when Hoke suggested the other day - perhaps only half-jokingly - that Notre Dame was chickening out by abandoning its football rivalry with the Wolverines, a lot of Michigan faithful could only smile and nod in agreement.

"They're still going to play Michigan State, they're going to play Purdue, but they...

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Grizzlies edge Thunder 88-84, reach 1st West final
Oklahoma City Thunder forward Serge Ibaka reacts to missed shot during the first half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball playoffs Western Conference semifinal against the Memphis Grizzlies, in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) 5/16/2013

With their trademark grit-and-grind mentality, the Memphis Grizzlies are making history for a franchise with little prior...

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