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Calhoun lifts Royals over Ravens

Christ the King senior Omar Calhoun was talking to reporters on Friday night, after his team’s victory at St. Raymond HS in the Bronx, when Royals coach Joe Arbitello walked past. “You know he’s overrated,” Arbitello said with a chuckle.

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More Super intrigue over Peyton saga

INDIANAPOLIS — The Peyton Manning Super Bowl week saga added another chapter on Friday when his agent made it clear that the four-time NFL MVP will play at some point in the future. Tom Condon told several media outlets that Manning wants to play again after his doctors medically cleared him this week.

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Cancer charity confronts backlash over grant cuts (AP)

FILE - In a Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 file photo, Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 over its decision to cut breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood.  Komen's top leaders, inclluding Brinker, in their first news conference since the controversy erupted, denied Planned Parenthood's assertion that the decision was driven by pressure from anti-abortion groups.  (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)AP – The renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday over its decision to cut breast screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen’s local affiliates are openly upset, including all seven in California, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest.


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2 dead in Egypt street clashes over soccer riot (AP)

Egyptian protesters stand on a cement block barrier separating the interior ministry from Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Egyptian police fired tear gas Thursday at thousands of demonstrators outside the Interior Ministry protesting the security forces' failure to prevent a soccer riot that killed more than 70 people.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP – Police shot and killed two protesters in Suez, Egypt, early Friday, a health official said, the first to die in clashes that erupted around the country after a riot at a soccer stadium killed 74, as sports violence spiraled into a new political crisis for Egypt.


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At PSU, tension over ouster, then grief for JoePa (AP)

Candles on the steps of Old Main on the Penn State University campus spell out 'Joe' in remembrance of former football coach Joe Paterno during a memorial service on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in State College, Pa. Paterno died Sunday at the age of 85 after battling lung cancer. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)AP – Anguished by an unthinkable scandal that shook a university and tarnished the proud football program, many in the Penn State community rallied around a common cause.


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Yemen’s president leaves for US, hands over power (AP)

Protestors react after receiving the news of the departure of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh from Sanaa to Oman in Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 22, 2012. A spokesman for Yemen's embattled president says Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the country for the Persian Gulf country of Oman. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for any “shortcomings” during his 33-year rein.


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Obama, GOP back in tussle over oil pipeline (AP)

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, center, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., right, and  Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, to discuss President Barack Obama's decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – President Barack Obama and Congress are back where they were before Christmas, locked in an election-season tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.


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