PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Jake Layman scored 24 points and Archie Goodwin added 23 for the Portland Trail Blazers in a 129-81 exhibition victory over Maccabi Haifa on Friday night.
Portland rested starters Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, but center Jusuf Nurkic played 12 minutes and had 13 points and ...
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NEWCASTLE, England (AP) - Newcastle United has made Spanish midfielder Mikel Merino's loan move from Borussia Dortmund permanent for a reported fee of seven million euros ($8.3 million).
The English Premier League side says the 21-year-old Merino signed a five-year deal until 2021.
Since switching from Dortmund in the offseason, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Salman Rushdie and Patti Smith should have a lot to talk about.
Rushdie, the Booker Prize winning novelist, and Smith, the award winning musician-poet-memoirist, will make a joint appearance Dec. 4 for the 5th annual Chairman's Evening of the MacDowell Colony.
MacDowell, based in New Hampshire ...
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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - One of the four people charged in connection with the shooting death of a former high school football star in Massachusetts has pleaded guilty.
The Telegram & Gazette reports that 19-year-old Qwandre Bath, of Worcester, was sentenced to time served and 18 months of probation after ...
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BALTIMORE (AP) - The story of Baltimore students raising more than $1,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief has gotten the attention of Ellen DeGeneres.
City Springs Elementary/Middle School teacher Wyatt Oroke told The Baltimore Sun that he and the students who organized the fundraiser will be featured Friday on DeGeneres' syndicated ...
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SHANGHAI (AP) - Rafael Nadal tied Andre Agassi for seventh place on the list of all-time Open Era wins when he reached the Shanghai Masters semifinals on Friday.
Topping Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 was his 870th match win. Nadal also improved his win streak to 15 ...
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KOVACICA, Serbia (AP) - In the small Serbian village of Kovacica, Jan Nemcek makes violins the old way - with no machines, only his hands and tools. And with love.
Nemcek's eyes soften as he takes a piece of wood and starts working slowly and patiently, lifting it against rays ...
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