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Bridge card-game lessons begin Sunday
The Richmond Bridge Association will start beginner classes next Sunday at The Bridge Center. Instructor Ed Kinlaw, who used to travel to play at bridge tournaments, said the card game’s appeal is that it is very social. “We’ve had three couples meet and get married through our classes,“ Kinlaw said. The association started lessons in 2001.
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Monthly card games fill ‘need ... to get together’
It started in November with Shirley Mallon and eight friends playing cards in a clubhouse room in the Las Brisas section of Bernardo Heights.
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Alabama's candidates for governor take differing views on bingo
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Nearly every type of gambling would be legal in Alabama -- including card games, sports betting, craps and roulette -- if two contenders for the state's top job were to get their way.
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Panathinaikos beats Asteras 1-0
Panathinaikos extended its lead at the top of the Greek league to five points on Sunday after defender Loucas Vyntra scored the winner in a 1-0 victory at Asteras. The Athens club has 61 points from 26 games, while second-place has PAOK has 56 after losing 2-0 to crosstown rival Aris on Sunday. Defending champion Olympiakos is third with 54 points and also stumbled at the weekend, being held to ...
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Tough times lead to change of tune for card club critics in San Jose
Some former gambling critics are silent or supportive of expanding card room gambling to raise tax money amid huge deficits. Vote: Should San Jose let clubs expand?
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Cricket: Black Caps Chappell Hadlee report card
tvnz.co.nz's cricket reporter Max Bania runs the ruler over the Black Caps following their Chappell-Hadlee series defeat to Australia
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PRINCETON: PU women on the dance card
Courtney Banghart had been a part of Ivy League championship teams as a player and an assistant coach.
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New York Knicks' Tracy McGrady misses his old self as he's forced to sit on sidelines late in games
You don't have to be Tracy McGrady to know that his surgically-repaired left knee is hurting more than a little. Now, 22 days into his Knick career, the one-time high-flying perennial All-Star who made a name for himself by attacking the basket has been r.
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Beckham is likely out of World Cup
David Beckham will like likely miss the World Cup after tearing his Achilles tendon.
AP source: Beckham to miss World Cup
David Beckham will miss the World Cup and most if not all the Los Angeles Galaxy season after tearing his left Achilles' tendon Sunday while playing for AC Milan.
NKoreans helping to spruce up World Cup stadiums
North Korean laborers are working on football stadiums across South Africa, including the venue where their national team will play Ivory Coast in June in its first World Cup appearance since 1966. Some 1,000 construction workers from reclusive North Korea, which maintains strict control on its citizens' travels, have been sent to help renovate stadiums across South Africa, the Seoul-based...
AP: Beckham out of World Cup after tearing Achilles' tendon
David Beckham's dream of becoming the first English player to appear in four World Cups looks to be over after he tore his left Achilles' tendon in AC Milan's 1-0 win over Chievo. The former England captain injured himself in the closing minutes of the match Sunday.
AP source: Beckham to miss World Cup
David Beckham will miss the World Cup and most if not all the Los Angeles Galaxy season after tearing his left Achilles' tendon Sunday while playing for AC Milan. His international career for England is all but over. It remains to be seen how much he'll have left for the Galaxy and Major League Soccer.
Oregon's Eaton breaks heptathlon world mark
Oregon senior Ashton Eaton broke Dan O'Brien's heptathlon world record at the NCAA indoor track and field championships.
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