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Randolph struggles, Grizzlies routed in Game 1
Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Memphis Grizzlies have lost the opener in each round of this year's playoffs, but not like this. Tony Parker had 20 points and nine assists, and the San Antonio Spurs made a franchise postseason-record 14 3-pointers in routing Memphis 105-83 on Sunday in the Western...
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Boychuk breaks Game 2 tie, Bruins top Rangers 5-2
Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013
BOSTON (AP) — Claude Julien wanted his Bruins to play more aggressively in the third period. The Boston coach got his wish with the help of some shaky defense by the New York Rangers. A rare rough day for goalie Henrik Lundqvist certainly helped, too. Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic scored in...
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Spurs rout Grizzlies 105-83 in West finals opener
Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference finals resembling the past champions who've been there so many times before. The Memphis Grizzlies looked like the first-timers still trying to adapt to their first conference finals appearance. Tony Parker had 20 points...
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Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) -- Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one death....
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Syrian troops push into strategic rebel-held town
KARIN LAUB
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterranean coast. With the...
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Pakistan repeats vote in Karachi despite killing
ATIF RAZA
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party. Khan blamed Zahra Shahid's killing...
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Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians
JOSEF FEDERMAN
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim arrangement. Finance Minister Yair Lapid's assessment, delivered in...
