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Brown, Van Gundy Unhappy About NBA Star Treatment

This just in: NBA superstars are granted preferential treatment by referees, and the league's coaches are biased toward their own teams. In other news, the holiday season has gotten off to a bad start for Tiger Woods. Tell me something I don't know. However, it was surprising to hear Charlotte Bobcats coach Larry Brown...

Knicks Interested In Bobcats' Augustin

The New York Knicks are interested in Charlotte Bobcats point guard D.J. Augustin, according to a report in the New York Daily News. The teams play each other Tuesday night, when the Knicks go for their fifth straight win and sixth in seven games. But New York, by all accounts, remains unsatisfied with point guard Chris...

NBA Collects $120K from Brown, Bobcats

Earlier this week, the NBA fined Washington's Gilbert Arenas $25,000 for refusing to speak; today, it fined Larry Brown and the Bobcats a combined $120,000 for Brown talking too much. Brown hasn't been happy with the NBA's replacement referees all preseason, and his frustration boiled over on Monday when he was ejected...

Larry Brown Wishes the Game Were More Up-Tempo

In a Charlotte Observer story this morning, Bobcats coach Larry Brown tells beat writer Rick Bonnell that certain NBA rules have strangled the game's beauty. Brown most recently blew up at a replacement referee who wouldn't look him in the eye, but the coach is now putting on the pose that the game is not entertaining fans...

Larry Brown, Replacement Refs Don't Mix

An hour before the Phoenix Suns were set to play their first preseason game of the year, I asked the team's head coach, Alvin Gentry, how he felt about the prospect of replacement referees calling the games. His response?"You think I'm touching that one?" Gentry joked. "You want to see the memo I got from the...

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06/02/12 Norfolk posts warmest spring on record Source: Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk VA April showers didn't only bring May flowers to the city this spring.
06/01/12 Two Indiana Counties Find New 911 System Come in Under... Source: TMCnet How often does a call center project come in under budget?
05/31/12 North Ridgeville elementary students face switch Source: The Chronicle-Telegram - Elyria OH About 50 children will change schools this fall because of staffing cuts that eliminated teaching positions at two elementary schools.
05/31/12 if the San Antonio Spurs had not won the 1997 lottery,... Source: The Daily Fix - The Wall Street Journal The NBA will hold this year's lottery in New York City, instead of its traditional location in New Jersey, which ... well, let's face it: They could hold it in your backyard and if you felt a raindrop, you would go inside and watch it on TV.
05/31/12 Board approves 911 call center deal Source: The Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne IN Fort Wayne and Allen County officials learned Wednesday that the long-awaited project to update the city-county 911 call center should cost several million dollars less than expected.