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Baseball Coach donates kidney to player. by GOOD.is: Kevin Jordan is a 19-year-old freshman baseball player at Wake Forest University. He’s also afflicted with a disease called antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody vasculitis, a degenerative disorder that can lead to kidney failure. When Jordan couldn’t find any donor matches in his family, his coach, 42-year-old Tom Walter, … Read more
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College graduation gap within football players widers. by Diverse Education: A study released Monday focuses attention on team statistics of a different sort: A racial breakdown of the rate at which the members of their team rosters earn a degree. The study—titled Keeping Score When It Counts: Assessing the 2010-11 Bowl-bound College Football Teams – Academic … Read more
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Yemen terror tensions ease as host of Gulf Cup by New York Times: This decaying port city, near the heart of Yemen’s deadly Qaeda insurgency, may seem an odd place to host an international soccer tournament. Yet there they were, tens of thousands of … Read more
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Seminoles snap 6-game skid against Gators Associated Press, ESPN The day could not have gone any better for Florida State. The 22nd-ranked Seminoles put the brakes on a six-year losing streak against archrival Florida with a 31-7 victory Saturday and moments afterward slipped into next week’s Atlantic Coast Conference championship game with a big boost … Read more
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BC Eagles hold Syracuse for an 11th straight bowl appearances ESPN Freshman tailback Andre Williams rushed for 185 yards on a school-record 42 carries and scored one touchdown in place of injured star Montel Harris, Nate Freese kicked three field goals, and Boston College beat Syracuse 16-7 on Saturday. It was the fifth straight win for the … Read more
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sports: San Francisco Giants win the World Series 3-1
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Sports: NBA Bans Shoe from 2010-2011 season
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sports: NBA will whistle more techs for ‘overt’ gestures
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sports: Ron Artest tackles mental-health awareness
