Feb 03
Freshman Kevin Love had 26 points and 11 rebounds for his 13th double-double and No. 5 UCLA routed Arizona 82-60 on Saturday night for its 20th victory of the season.
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Feb 03
Adam Emmenecker saw an opportunity to step out of his established role as a playmaker, and he took it.
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Feb 03
LEADING Queensland jockey Stathi Katsidis has been charged with possessing illegal drugs and driving with an excessive alcohol limit.
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Feb 03
After fading late in its previous three Missouri Valley Conference games, Creighton closed with a flurry Saturday to snap its three-game losing skid with a 65-63 win over Wichita State.
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Feb 03
The only loss on Meza-Clay’s resume came back in May 2006, after he was halted in eleven rounds by Edner Cheery. Trying to square the books on national TV, Meza-Clay never took a step back but rather just kept firing leather and stepping inside Aiken’s power punches.
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Feb 03
Arthur Blank, owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, wants his sports operation to expand outside of American football and Major League Soccer is high on his list. Blank said ‘he is “actively looking at” bringing a Major League Soccer expansion team to Atlanta. He described it as “in the exploratory stage” and said the team would need a soccer-specific stadium. “We’re out looking at stadium sites right now … in a variety of places,” he said.’
Blank brings a lot of what league officials want to the table. He is rich (worth about $1.3 billion), has strong sports connections to the local community (owns the Falcons and came close to owning baseball’s Atlanta Braves) and has a good business history (he was co-founder of Home Depot). In addition, the Deep South is the one region of the country where MLS is completely absent. Since Atlanta is the largest market in the region and ninth-largest metro area in the nation, it has the size needed to make the team a success.
Obviously this is still in the early stages, but if Blank can find a solid stadium site and come up with a way to deal with the hot summer weather (perhaps ask Dallas about this), he might be in the running sooner rather then later.
Labels: Arthur Blank, Atlanta, MLS, MLS expansion, Stadium
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