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  • Mets' Wright has stress fracture in back, will sit

    Mets third baseman David Wright has a stress fracture in his lower back that is expected to keep him out a couple weeks, though the team is awaiting a second opinion before deciding whether to put him on the disabled list.


  • Sports Briefs

    Derek Boogaard's family has donated his brain to researchers who will check for damage that might have resulted from his career as an NHL enforcer.


  • NHL's Boogaard brain donated for trauma research

    Derek Boogaard is being remembered as an NHL tough guy who had the characteristics of a "teddy bear."


  • Author Gaiman amused by Minn. GOP leader's slam

    A best-selling author is reacting with amusement to a Minnesota GOP leader who called him "a pencil-necked little weasel."


  • Sports Briefs

    Chris Paul had 33 points, 14 assists and seven rebounds, and the New Orleans Hornets pulled away down the stretch, stunning the two-time defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers with a 109-100 victory in their playoff opener Sunday.


  • Chris Brown

    Tuning In to TV

    Chris Brown has apologized for his destructive tantrum on "Good Morning America" earlier this week, Associated Press reports. He explained he was surprised that his 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna was brought up during his interview and said he needed to "let out steam" after getting upset.


  • FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2004 file photo, Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide listens to a journalist's question during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Rumors of Aristide's return have circulated in Haiti for weeks. Aristide built a following among the country's poverty-stricken population as a priest-turned-activist, among the leaders of the 1986 movement to oust the despotic Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He became Haiti's first democratically elected leader in 1990 but was toppled a few months later by a military junta. He was ousted a second time, in the 2004 rebellion and flown into exile in South Africa. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

    Danny Glover in South Africa for Aristide

    Actor Danny Glover arrived in South Africa on Thursday to escort former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide home, the politician's lawyer said.


  • Vikings' Cook says argument led to arrest

    Minnesota Vikings cornerback Chris Cook says he did not pull a gun on a neighbor during an argument that led to his arrest.


  • Fans look on as trainers and coaches try to revive Fennville High School basketball player Wes Leonard after the Michigan star player  collapsed after making a game-winning layup in overtime against Bridgman, in Fennville, Mich. , Thursday night, March 3, 2011. Leonard later died.  (AP Photo/The Holland Sentinel, Dennis Geppert)

    A perfect shot, a perfect season, then heartbreak

    One moment: a perfect shot to end a perfect season. The star player, just 16, lifted off the floor in celebration. Teenagers triumphant, crowds cheering, the district playoffs ahead, the future open wide.


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