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AUBURN, Ala. (CBB/Newsfeed) — Auburn has dismissed two basketball players and suspended a third indefinitely. Coach Tony Barbee said Friday that Cedrick McAfee and Josh Langford were kicked off the team for violating team rules and Noel Johnson is suspended. Barbee says Auburn has no further comment. Langford averaged 5.2 points and 2.1 rebounds as a sophomore. McAfee was redshirted last season. Johnson is a Clemson transfer who played in 19 games and started three last season after becoming eligible following the fall semester. He averaged 2.1 points and 1.5 rebounds. Center Willy Kouassi and forward Bernard Morena have left [...]

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MIAMI (NBA/Newsfeed) – Knicks rookie guard Iman Shumpert will miss the rest of the postseason after tearing a left knee ligament in the third quarter of New York’s Game 1 loss to the Miami Heat on Saturday. The Knicks announced Shumpert also tore his lateral meniscus. Surgery will be scheduled in New York and Shumpert is expected to miss approximately six to eight months. Shumpert, who started the final 17 games of the regular season after Jeremy Lin had knee surgery, was bringing the ball up the right sideline and tried to dribble behind his back when he pulled up [...]

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BARCELONA (ATP/Newsfeed) – Rafael Nadal became the first player in the Open Era to win two tournaments seven times after beating David Ferrer 7-6 (1), 7-5 in Sunday’s Barcelona Open final. The second-ranked Nadal’s 21st straight victory on clay followed up his eighth straight win in Monte Carlo, as Nadal won the 10th all-Spanish ATP final for a 48th career win. The sixth-ranked Ferrer lost his fourth Barcelona Open final to Nadal, who saved 12 of 15 break points for a 34th straight victory at Barcelona. Nadal skipped toward the net in celebration after hitting a backhand winner on match [...]

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NEW YORK – Chris Kreider fidgeted with the black lid he was donning, the chapeau handed out to the New York Rangers player of the game after each Broadway Blueshirt victory. “It’s a little small,” he admitted. Unlike his impact, which has been huge. The headpiece he was wearing is known inside the New York Rangers dressing room as The Broadway Hat, which was purchased by Brad Richards during the team’s early season trip to Europe to honour the guy who makes the biggest splash in the course of a win. At this rate, Kreider might be keeping the thing [...]

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NEW YORK (NFL/Newsfeed) – The Mel Kipers of the world thought the Seahawks reached when they took pass rusher Bruce Irvin in the first round. The Rex Ryans of the world thought it was a great pick. We’ll trust the Ryans on this one. After Seattle took Irvin, the Seahawks got a call from Jets headquarters. New York “good-naturedly” cursed at the Seahawks for taking the guy they planned to draft one pick later, according Len Pasquarelli of the SportsXchange. Irvin was also believed to be on the short list of candidates in Chicago, Green Bay, and San Francisco. One [...]

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Budapest (F1/Newsfeed) – McLaren’s Jenson Button will drive through the heart of Budapest on Tuesday. Button will be in action on a specially-constructed 1.6-kilometre street course in the Hungarian capital as part of the ‘Raise Your Game Weekend’ event, which has been arranged by McLaren’s title sponsors Vodafone. A children’s folk dancing group from Debrecen will perform for Button before he takes to the track, which will see him pass near several iconic locations including the Chain Bridge and the Parliament. He’ll then field questions from the crowd before meeting the Hungarian Olympic water polo team. “I’m very excited to [...]

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(CFB/Kercheval) – Just days after CBSSports reported that Conference USA was close to adding UT-San Antonio, a former 1-AA program that is supposed to be headed for the WAC, more reports are surfacing that the Mountain West is also on the verge of plucking more teams from its beleaguered western athletic counterpart. The San Jose Mercury News and the Salt Lake Tribune report that San Jose State and Utah State are indeed close to joining the Mountain West, with the former article indicating an invite could come for the Spartans this week for the 2013-14 season. If/when this becomes official, [...]

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(CFB/Kercheval) – Just days after CBSSports reported that Conference USA was close to adding UT-San Antonio, a former 1-AA program that is supposed to be headed for the WAC, more reports are surfacing that the Mountain West is also on the verge of plucking more teams from its beleaguered western athletic counterpart. The San Jose Mercury News and the Salt Lake Tribune report that San Jose State and Utah State are indeed close to joining the Mountain West, with the former article indicating an invite could come for the Spartans this week for the 2013-14 season. If/when this becomes official, [...]

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