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A sellout crowd of 70,728 packed into Reliant Stadium, Houston, for the annual MLS All-Star game as the best players from Major League Soccer took on a Manchester United side in the highest attended MLS All-Star game since the first All-Star game after the league’s inception in 1996. |
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World number one Tiger Woods has confirmed that he will defend his title at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational next month at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. |
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In addition to being a monster presence in the middle of the field, Antonio Gates also has one of the safest pairs of hands in the NFL, a fact that has been recognized by the San Diego Chargers who have rewarded Gates with the biggest contract ever given to an NFL tight end. |
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After sitting on the shelf throughout the offseason waiting for a team to pick him up, Terrell Owens is finally back in the National Football League. |
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Swiss Tennis star Roger Federer has announced he is to work with Pete Sampras’s former coach Paul Annacone, in the hope he can reclaim the top spot in the world rankings. |
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Golfer Tiger Woods remains the world's top earner in sport for the seventh successive year with £59.6m (90.5m) despite a 10% reduction in his income, in light of his extra-marital affairs. |
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A very lengthy hearing in the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday featured a discussion about the HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. |
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After the resounding success of the GX Magazine launches in China and the United States earlier this year, we are very proud to announce our two newest products: GX France and GX Italia. |
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European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie has named Thomas Bjorn, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley as his vice-captains. |
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Chris Johnson’s agent has confirmed that the running back and the Tennessee Titans have agreed a revised deal that will ensure he will report back for duty with the rest of the team for their training camp. |
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After the hearing was postponed on Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee finally met on the Wednesday to discuss Rep. Barney Frank's proposed bill H.R. 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act. |
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With the regulation of online poker a hot topic this week in America, Poker Players Alliance (PPA) chairman Alfonse D’Amato voiced his opinion in support of poker players in the United States. |
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In what was one of the more unusual tournament formats, Richard Bakovic outlasted an enormous field to win the championship of the Commerce Casino's Million Dollar Guaranteed event. |
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With the November Nine now set in stone and the World Series of Poker winding down for a few months, the bookmakers have now set the odds for the biggest table of the year. |
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Much like politics and sport, poker and politics have become blood brothers in recent months, and the trend seems to be set to continue. |
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The poker community has uncovered super-use cheating and multi-accounting scandals in the past, and now members of the poker community have uncovered a bot ring at PokerStars. |
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A hearing on Barney Frank’s bill to license and regulate the internet gambling industry has been scheduled for Wednesday the 21st of July in the House Financial Services Committee. |
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The final November Nine have been determined in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event. After an arduous and eventful eight days of play spread over two weeks, nine players left the WSOP all still in with a chance to win poker’s most prestigious tournament. |
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The bubble has burst at the World Series of Poker 2010 Main Event, and it was American Tim McDonald who busted out in 748th, one shy of the money mark. McDonald receives a free entry into the WSOP 2011 Main Event, worth $9,263 less than the prize he would have received for outlasting just one more player. |
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In a major overhaul for Season 9, the World Poker Tour (WPT) has brought back Kimberley Lansing. |
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American Daniel Jacobs and Russian Dmitry Pirog face off in a classic whose unbeaten record has got to go, east versus west showdown for the WBO middleweight belt. |
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With the trade deadline now only just over 24 hours away, the baseball hot stove is getting warm quickly with a flurry of trades on Thursday evening. |
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Team officials have announced the initial round of cuts from the USA Basketball squad looking to win the FIBA World Championship for the first time since 1994. |
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What happens when an irresistible force meets and immovable object? Well on Saturday, fight fans get to find out when the eagerly anticipated rematch of the 2009 fight of the year between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz takes place. |
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Buster Posey is having a rookie season unlike anybody expected when he was called up from triple A, to the Giants, on 29th May. He is currently hitting .366, and on Tuesday extended his hitting streak to 20 games, tying the 2010 MLB season's best, set by Milwaukee OF Corey Hart, in early July |
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Matt Garza threw the Tampa Bay Ray's first ever no hitter last night, during their 5-0 shutout of the Detroit Tigers, at Tropicana Field. |
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Traditionally this is the time when clubs with winning ambitions either look to pick up a player they believe will propel them to the post season, or losing clubs look to recoup money from star players, who would otherwise leave in the summer for nothing. |
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Alex Rodriguez heads off to Cleveland today still searching for the elusive home run to take him over the astronomic baseball hurdle of 600 home runs, and to the promised land, of baseball immortality. |
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Jimmie Johnson will start as the clear favourite for the Brickyard 400 on Sunday, looking for his seventh win of the season as he continues to chase down current NASCAR standings leader, Kevin Harvick. |
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It's the worst kept secret in the NBA that Chris Paul has long been unhappy with state of the New Orleans Hornets franchise. |
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Assassin's Creed II is a third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the second video game installment of the Assassin's Creed series and is a direct sequel to the 2007 video game Assassin's Creed. The gameplay is a mixture of action, stealth and platforming. |
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Six years after its birth, the car that created the luxury sport saloon segment continues to receive accolades from the general public, automobile aficionados and the media. Maserati has decided to celebrate its success with a superlative version, which blends the elegance and sporty stylishness of the brand's flagship, thanks to the combination of highly refined details, handcrafted finishes and features with a decidedly sporty flair. |
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James Cameron, director of the two biggest grossing films of all time, Avatar and Titanic, is set to start a new venture after annoucning plans to collaborate with NASA to make a film about Mars in 3D.
Cameron is helping to develop a 3D camera which will be launched to the red planet next year to film a documentary. |
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The planet of Pandora is a dusty wasteland, overrun with bandits and bloodthirsty wild creatures. So why would anyone want to go there? The reason is The Vault: a rumoured hoard of fantastic riches, left behind by an advanced alien culture. And so the fortune hunters come. |
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The Lexus LFA
This fire breathing, thoroughbred super car, capable of over 200 mph has been seven years in the making having undergone numerous changes throughout its conception in the quest for automotive perfection.
Reliable, comfortable and reasonably priced are not words usually associated with supercars. Then again nor is Lexus. Yet this could all be set to change with the launch of the LFA. For this could be the first ever Lexus that hasn't just broken the mould of uninspiring leather-clad luxury, it has smashed it to pieces and eaten it for breakfast. |
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Anyone going deep in a poker tournament will realise the importance of maintaining focus throughout the entirety of play, as losing concentration for just a moment will mean an early exit and a failure to land the lucrative prize. One way of keeping focused is to listen to music, story books, podcasts or even the complete works of William Shakespeare, in which case you'll want to invest in a decent pair of headphones, just like these... |
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The film "The Hurt Locker" received 6 out of the 9 Oscars it was nominated for, compared to Avatar which only won 3 of them.
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) became the first woman in Oscar history to win the "Best Director" award. Will her ex-husband, James Cameron (Avatar), ever forgive her? |
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David cage, the creator, director and all-round god of Heavy Rain is, frankly, a nutter. This is a guy who, at points in his career, has had to sleep under his desk as the time constraints of scriptwriting have simply been too much to go home. Subsequently, Heavy Rain is undoubtedly a game that has the ability to leave you aghast at exactly how much effort has been driven into it by Cage and his team. |
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The highly-anticipated CityCenter project is finally open in Las Vegas and poker fans have been turning out in their thousands to check out the 24-table poker room in the new Aria Casino.
CityCenter officially opened its doors to the public on December 16 and, within minutes of setting up shop, players were lining up for the poker games. Dealers were eager to pitch the first cards of the night, waitresses were ready to take drink orders and rows of bright slot machines were asking to be played. |
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Yesterday, February 2, at 5.30 pm in Los Angeles, actress Anne Hathaway and the president of the Hollywood Academy of Arts and Science announced the nominees for this year’s Oscars.
Now is a great time to start betting on who or what film will win the Oscar in each category. This year we have ten candidates for the best film category, instead of five.
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