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Lawrence: Frenzy won’t happen next year

If you’re as sick of the free agency as we are, a solution is on the way. Next July, you won’t hear a word about free agency. The only sound coming out of the NBA will be doors slamming shut on all 29 arenas, and then padlocked, as owners begin a lockout.

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Year of the political woman redux? Looks that way (AP)

Meg Whitman, right rear, the Republican nominee for governor of California, applauds as Carly Fiorina speaks after winning the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from California, at a post-primary election celebration in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, June 9, 2010.  (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP – It’s looking like a new “year of the woman” in politics. Eighteen years after a few glass ceilings were broken, hundreds of female candidates have set their sights on Congress, governorships and state legislatures, and a significant number racked up big wins in Tuesday’s primaries. Republican women, in particular, served notice to the old boys of the party.


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Harper: This could be the year of Cano

Is this the year Robinson Cano wins the batting title that many baseball people have predicted for him?Is this the year Cano conquers his final hurdle as a hitter and delivers consistently in the clutch? Is this the year he wins the first of many Gold Gloves in his future?

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Stocks climb a day after biggest drop in a year (AP)

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, May 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP – Stocks turned higher a day after posting their biggest drops in more than a year.


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Deadliest day this year for US in Afghanistan (AP)

Afghan policemen and US soldiers cordon off an area after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday May 18, 2010. A suicide car bomber attacked the heavily fortified Afghan capital early Tuesday, killing at least 12 people including five foreigners, officials said. (AP Photo)AP – A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a U.S. convoy Tuesday, killing 18 people, including six troops — five Americans and a Canadian — in the deadliest attack on NATO in the Afghan capital in eight months.


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Foreclosures down 2 percent from last year (AP)

A woman takes a brochure detailing how homeowners can make their mortgage payments more affordable at the Fannie Mae booth set up at the Housing Rescue Fair, part of the National Urban League's Economic Empowerment Tour, in Dallas, Texas June 13, 2009. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiAP – Millions of Americans are still likely to lose their homes in the coming years, but the foreclosure crisis is finally showing signs of subsiding.


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Iraq boosts security after deadliest day this year (AP)

Iraqis react to an explosion in Hillah Iraq in this image taken from TV Monday May 10, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a textile factory in Hillah  Monday  in a crowd that gathered after two cars bombings at the same spot in the worst of a series of attacks killing tens of people across Iraq, the deadliest day this year. (AP Photo/APTN)  **  TV OUT  **AP – Iraqi forces beefed up checkpoints, conducted house-to-house searches and rifled through cars Tuesday looking for suspects behind a devastating string of attacks across the country that killed 119 people a day earlier.


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