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Watch the Florida Republican debate with us

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Republican candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will have their final debate before Florida’s primary Thursday night in Jacksonville. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer will moderate the event in front of an audience at the University of North Florida. Gingrich has asked that the audience be allowed to participate. At Monday’s debate in [...]

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Downtown Miami Baseball Stadium

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Our idea has been bouncing around since 2003 and we are happy to see that by putting it freely up in the ether something might actually come of it. Today (9/15) the Miami Herald ran a story about the proposed downtown Marlins stadium. Glenn Straub, owner of the Miami Arena, is being sued by a [...]

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Awards update – Norwich, CT – The Bulletin

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Off the bye week and with eight games in the books for many teams, the award picture is shaping up. The Rotary Lombardi Award had its semifinalists voted on this week. Those names will be released soon. But in the meantime, let’s see what else is happening. DISCOVER ORANGE BOWL COURGAE AWARD DALLAS —Miami's Mike [...]

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Man O' War Stings Halt Diana Nyad's Cuba-Florida Swim : The Two-Way : NPR

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Diana Nyad, the 62-year-old endurance athlete, has given up her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. The cause: painful man o' war stings, which medics warned could be life-threatening. Nyad's Twitterstream announced the news just after posting the 67-mile mark: @diananyad: After over 40 hours of swimming and two Portuguese Man-of-War stings, Diana ended [...]

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Miami Hurricanes' NFL touchdown streak unmatched in college annals

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MIAMI — It has not been an easy few weeks for University of Miami football fans. Just when they had rallied behind gung-ho coach Al Golden and were wearing their Canes gear with pride again, along came disgraced former booster Nevin Shapiro to spoil the party. Now the program is under a cloud of suspicion [...]

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CBC-TV fantasy 'Camelot' seeks Canadian audience after being cancelled in US

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TORONTO – CBC-TV says it's confident its upcoming fantasy drama "Camelot" can conjure up a Canadian following despite an inauspicious debut in the United States that effectively killed the series. The sprawling Canada-Ireland co-production debuted south of the border in March, where it garnered mixed reviews and respectable ratings. Nevertheless, specialty channel Starz said in [...]

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Quinn, Kelly linked to mayor's job

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By Ray O'Hanlon Now that Anthony Weiner's New York ambitions have turned to dust attention is turning increasingly to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "Eying a bid for New York mayor in 2013, the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, raised a robust $1.3 million in the first half of this year, outpacing all of [...]

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How Art Collectors Can Negotiate Like Pros

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In the Miami Herald, there is an article titled "Generous Collectors Leaving a Legacy of Fine Art," by Lydia Martin. it tells how Herb, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, have collected an extensive art collection over the last forty-five years, which has until lately been stored in their one bedroom apartment in new [...]

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2011 NBA Playoffs: Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics Game 1 Preview

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NBA Playoff Predictions: Miami Heat Over Boston Celtics in Six Games This is why Danny Ainge traded Kendrick Perkins for Jeff Green. The Boston Celtics knew that the road to championship no. 18 would go through Miami, and they were dead on. Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are no spring chickens, and the team needed someone who could come in and [...]

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College FB notebook: Gruden appears out of Miami's search for coach

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MIAMI – It appears Jon Gruden isn't as interested in the University of Miami as the school's fans and boosters are in him. Miami athletic director Kirby Hocutt met with Gruden in Tampa early Wednesday morning. But according to several Miami sources, a job offer was not made. It was purely an exploratory conversation. according [...]