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After being sent down to the minor leagues in mid-season, pitcher Ivan Nova vowed he would never go back to a life of riding buses to road games again once he got another shot at pitching for the New York Yankees.

No progress was made after four hours of engaging talks between National Basketball Association (NBA) team owners and locked out players on Friday, intensifying fears of a delayed start to the regular season.

Heavy rain forced the suspension of Friday's Major League Baseball (MLB) playoff between the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers, ruining the eagerly-awaited clash between Justin Verlander and CC Sabathia, two of the game's greatest pitchers.

The Tampa Bay Rays, riding high on confidence and form, extended their incredible late season surge to six consecutive wins when they thumped the Texas Rangers 9-0 in the first of their best-of-five division series playoffs on Friday.

Everybody knows what dinosaurs look and sound like. After all, who hasn't seen the Jurassic Park movies.

The rumors that Demi Moore and Ashton Kucher's six-year marriage is on the rocks have become viral on the Internet because of a string of odd tweets.

The Eastman Kodak Co. issued a statement Friday saying it was committed to meeting its obligations, and had no plans to file for bankruptcy protection.

Now after Harris changed her mind just 5 days before the scheduled wedding date of the Playboy founder and the playmate, she is auctioning the engagement ring. The ring is a circle diamond a little over three karats and it's on platinum setting and it has diamonds all around the band as well. It's so pretty, an excited Harris had explained.

A coroner's report released Friday said Taxi and Grease star Jeff Conaway's death May 27 was caused due to major internal infection. The New York-bred actor was 60.

The New York City Wine & Food Festival 2011 is officially under way. Friday night's Meatpacking Uncorked saw participants racing across the meatpacking district sampling food and wine from nearly every local merchant.

A U.S. federal judge dismissed part of a case brought by European bond investors accusing Citigroup Inc. and its directors of misrepresenting or failing to disclose Citi's exposure to toxic mortgage assets and its own solvency.

Now that the wraps are off, Amazon's Kindle Fire is an aggressive play into Apple's iPad market.

The assassination of radical al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, has revived a debate about the limits of the Obama administration's authority to hunt and kill terrorists abroad.

Francona managed the Red Sox for eight seasons.

The Packers' defensive star is out for the season.

The state of California pulled out of multi-state mortgage negotiations with large U.S. banks, dealing a sharp blow to long-running efforts to secure a broad settlement over allegations of lending abuses.

As millions of viewers tuned in to watch the Tiangong 1 space lab launch on China's state-run CCTV, they were treated to a bizarre musical selection: America the Beautiful.

Oscar winning actress Angelica Huston has often played quirky roles in films like The Addams Family and The Royal Tenenbaums. This weekend, the 60 year-old Hollywood star plays her most normal character to date in the cancer comedy 50/50.

The Occupy Wall Street protestors offered a lesson in community organizing on Friday afternoon: if you are trying to increase the size of a demonstration, a rumor that Radiohead will be playing a free show helps.

The mysterious vandal has not come forward

Terry Francona is probably out as Boston's manager.