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Some Muggles Too Pudgy for Harry Potter Ride

(June 23) -- When most people get in line at Orlando, Fla.'s new Harry Potter theme park, they're worried about the wait -- not their weight. But according to some Harry Potter lovers, pudgy muggles -- those who weigh about 265 pounds or more -- are getting tossed from line at the most-hyped ride in Universal Studios'...

Playoff Talking Points: The Future Is Cloudy

No one with a wife and kids, or the need to eat leafy greens, has time to watch all this basketball. But we do. So, as a service to the public, here are the Playoff Talking Points you need to fake it at the water cooler:• Anything Goes: I have no idea what's going to happen tonight, and neither to do you. Ordinarily,...

Bynum Interested in Being Team USA Center of the Future

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Centers are hard to find. It's the case in the NBA as well as with USA Basketball. But the Los Angeles Lakers' Andrew Bynum, who has a shot to be this decade's second-best center after Orlando's Dwight Howard, would like to help. Bynum turned down an invitation to be with USA Basketball in preparation for...

Dwight Howard Wins NBA's Defensive Player Award

ORLANDO, Fla. -- In an announcement that will come as no surprise, the NBA will start its post-season awards recognition Tuesday by naming Magic center Dwight Howard the Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. Howard, 24, led the NBA in blocked shots (2.78), rebounding (13.2) and field goal...

Magic Will Roll -- Or Fall -- With Vince Carter

ORLANDO, Fla. -- At the start of practice Friday -- in a mundane, two-on-two, pick-and-roll drill he has run a thousand times in his career -- veteran Vince Carter surprised everyone by cutting loose with a dunk so emphatic, so focused, that it shook the goal, looking like something he did a decade ago in a...

DwightHoward News From the Web

05/26/12 NBA Trade Talk: Deron Williams and Dwight Howard to... Source: Bleacher Report I won't bore anyone with a long write-up in this article.
05/26/12 Jeff Van Gundy rips Orlando Magic for handling of Stan... Source: Sporting News Whether he was standing up for his brother, Stan Van Gundy, or just ripping the Orlando Magic for bad behavior, NBA color analyst Jeff Van Gundy let the team that fired his brother have it.
05/25/12 Report: Jeff Van Gundy slams Magic CEO after brother's... Source: FOX Sports Jeff Van Gundy lashed out at the Orlando Magic Friday, labeling the team's top executive as clueless about basketball and accusing him of lying about the motives behind his brother's firing.
05/25/12 Dwight Howard picking Thunder over Spurs Source: NBC - WOAI News 4 - San Antonio TX It is the most highly anticipated playoff series matchup as the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder get set to face this Sunday in San Antonio.
05/25/12 NBA Draft Lottery 2012: Brooklyn Nets Banking on Draft... Source: Bleacher Report Let's go back to the 2003 NBA Draft lottery, where the fate of many of the league's worst franchises, including the Memphis Grizzlies , hung in the balance.