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Finals are whole new world for Knicks, Spurs

SAN ANTONIO — For a few hours on Tuesday, the San Antonio Spurs and New York Knicks held practices on a floor that had the NBA Finals logo painted at midcourt. They did interviews with the logo as a backdrop. They saw finals mentions basically everywhere they looked. It might have seemed normal. It wasn't. This stage — the NBA Finals — is new to just about everyone on the Spurs and Knicks rosters, meaning very few players on either side can have any real idea of how the moment will seem tonight when the 80th title series in league history gets underway in San Antonio. They have ...

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SOAR meeting SOAR Chapter 4-1 will not be meeting today, Thursday. A calendar item was incorrect.

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Stanley Cup Final begins tonight

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rod Brind'Amour knows the exact moment he realized the Carolina Hurricanes could be Stanley Cup contenders. "Eight years ago," he said. That was when Brind'Amour took over as coach, beginning a journey of making the playoffs every year and falling short of the final each ...

It’s on us to choose how to use freedom

Coincident with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence is the 250th anniversary of the publication of "The TheNations." The full title of Scotsman Adam Smith's book, published in 1776, is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." One might say that in that one year 250 years ago, the American Declaration of Independence provided the road map for political freedom and Adam Smith's book provided the road map for economic freedom. The result was a great new achievement in the history of human ...

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