Los Angeles
Lakers blaming one another after Game 4 loss to Thunder
During Oklahoma City's final possession Saturday night, Kevin Durant went one-on-one against Metta World Peace, spotting up right over the Lakers' enforcer and draining what turned out to be the game-winning trey. The Los Angeles Lakers are quite painfully learning that leaning on Kobe Bryant entirely to close out games is a broken model. The [...]
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Fox News
May 19, 2012: Police observe protesters in Chicago, on the sidelines of the …
City authorities investigating whether hackers shut down Chicago's city and police sites. A protester pounds out a beat on a newspaper stand as they block traffic while marching through the city during a demonstration Friday, May 18 2012, ahead of this weekends' NATO summit in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex More than a thousand protesters have [...]
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CNN
Priscilla Chan: New doctor turned Mrs. Zuckerberg
MARCUS WOHLSEN, AP This photo provided by Facebook shows Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto, Calif., Saturday, May 19, 2012. Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday. He and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan have tied the knot. The Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer [...]
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Los Angeles
Kevin Durant slows Kobe Bryant before stopping the Lakers
Thunder forward Kevin Durant forces Lakers guard Kobe Bryant into a difficult shot in the fourth quarter of Game 4 on Saturday night at Staples Center. (Stephen Dunn / Getty Images / May 19, 2012) By Sam Farmer Kevin Durant might be listed at 6-feet-9, The Thunder's gritty performance and Kevin Durant's final shot (as [...]
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Reuters
Chicago braces for largest anti-NATO protest
More than a thousand protesters have flooded downtown Chicago on the second day of demonstrations against the upcoming NATO summit. A few skirmishes took place with police using batons on activists. More than a thousand protesters have flooded downtown Chicago on the second day of demonstrations against the upcoming NATO summit. A few skirmishes took [...]
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Politico
Mark Zuckerberg gets married to Priscilla Chan
He and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan have tied the knot. The Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer announced on the social network: "Mark Zuckerberg added a life event to May 19, 2012 on his timeline: Married Priscilla Chan. Barely 24 hours after his IPO, 28-year-old Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zukerberg married longtime girlfriend, 27-year-old [...]
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New York Dai
Protesters swarm Chicago for NATO summit
More than a thousand protesters have flooded downtown Chicago on the second day of demonstrations against the upcoming NATO summit. A few skirmishes took place with police using batons on activists. When the owners of the Chicago Board of Trade wanted to expand trading from 17 hours to 22, normally sedate agricultural organizations did imitations [...]
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ESPN
Kevin Durant's late 3 breaks tie, gives Thunder 3-1 lead over Lakers
They overcame a Los Angeles lead, with a huge 3-pointer by Kevin Durant in the final minute putting the Thunder ahead for the win. The Spurs are as close as they can be to sending the Clippers away for good after Los Angeles squandered a second-half AP LOS ANGELES — Kevin Durant stood above the [...]
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USA TODAY
Thunder deny Lakers, take 3-1 series lead
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / May 19, 2012) By Ben Bolch The less Matt Barnes plays in the playoffs, the better for the Lakers? The Lakers' two biggest victories of the postseason heading into Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinal series LOS ANGELES (AP) — If the Los Angeles Lakers can just [...]
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Midland Dail
No racehorse compares to Secretariat and the 1973 Belmont
And based on the performance of Peslak and Platt in the ECT final, these were two true studs, perhaps Secretariat vs. Seattle Slew. And wasn't it ironic tha. BHUBANESWAR: The secretariat building here is all set to draw a portion of its power needs from solar energy soon. The Odisha Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA), [...]
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