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A peaceful protest against the killing of a 29-year-old man in Tottenham degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars and trashing a shopping mall.

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The Houston Astros are, in the words of an old Merle Haggard song, headin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell.  They're not just last in their division, and not just last in the National League.  They're last in all of baseball.

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One day after he learned he had been fired, Tiger Woods' longtime caddy is speaking publicly with his feelings about his former employer.  Let's just say Steve Williams is not happy.

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In her first public statement regarding the tragedy, Jenny Stone, the widow of the firefighter who fell to his death at a Texas Rangers game last week, thanked the Rangers organization, and said that Rangers star Josh Hamiliton remains her son's favorite player.

Her husband, Shannon Stone, who was attending the game with their six-year old son Cooper, was trying to catch a ball tossed to him by Hamilton when he tumbled over the railing at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

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The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The city was named the Olympics' host in a Wednesday announcement in Durban, South Africa.

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The most decorated pitcher in Major League Baseball history goes on trial today in Washington, and the outcome could make him one of the most disgraced players in baseball history.

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Sportscaster Nick Charles has died of bladder cancer at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 64.

As CNN’s first sports anchor, his work with Fred Hickman on the nightly-roundup show ‘Sports Tonight’ sometimes drew a larger audience than even that of sports network ESPN.

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I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm Canadian - but the behavior exemplified after Wednesday night's hockey game makes me a little embarrassed to admit that I lived in Vancouver for over five years.

After a historic win on enemy territory, the Boston Bruins became the 2011 Stanley Cup Champions, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in game seven on Wednesday night.

The crowd erupted minutes after the win in a malicious manner - smashing windows, looting and torching police cars, dumpsters and anything else in their sight on the downtown streets.

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