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New York Yankees president Randy Levine, left, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, center, and Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano pose for a photo at the MLS headquarter in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The New York Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Yankees, Man City to co-own Major League Soccer expansion team in New York

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

NEW YORK — Hoping their baseball success will translate to titles in another sport, the Yankees are combining with English power Manchester City to own a Major League Soccer expansion team in New York that will start play in 2015. The team, the 20th in a league that has doubled in size in two decades, will be called New York … 0

New England Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola heads back onto the field after running a route during a team practice in Foxborough, Mass., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Patriots notebook: Danny Amendola among nine new receivers on roster

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

FOXBOROUGH — Tom Brady dropped back and threw a pass. Danny Amendola ran to where he expected it to be. It was a painful connection. “He darted me in the chest with one ball,” the Patriots receiver said Tuesday. “I was like, ‘wow, this guy can really wing it.’” Amendola and New England’s … 0

In this artist drawing provided by the San Francisco 49ers, the proposed 49ers stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. is shown. NFL owners will vote on the sites of the 50th and 51st Super Bowls on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at their spring meetings. The San Francisco area, where the new stadium is being built in Santa Clara, and South Florida are competing for the the 50th edition, to be held in February 2016. The loser in that bidding will go against Houston to host the 51st game the following year.(AP Photo/San Francisco 49ers) NO SALES

The 50th Super Bowl goes to San Francisco Bay Area

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

BOSTON — The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built. That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game. And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded the … 0

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The Laprade's game is kept in a box covered with pictures of their family that ran in the local papers. Custom trivia game reveals generations of Laprade family lore
Left, Dawud Lubieddin's things are laid out where a bench used to be on Main Street Northampton. Lubieddin talks with Abd Lomax of Northampton. City removes benches in bid to curb loitering
Terry Mollner, left, Eileen Spira and Susan Bellak, all with Stakeholders Capital, pose outside their office on Main Street in Amherst with a utility box on the corner of Dickinson Street they were inspired to have painted with a quote of Emily Dickinson, whose homestead is just across the street behind them. The work was painted by Ezzell Floranina. KEVIN GUTTING Amherst downtown artwork honors Emily Dickinson
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