Archive for June 1st, 2008
Sonics checklist: Lottery luck (The Oklahoman)
Lottery luck R.C. Buford doesn’t make himself out to be smarter than he is. Fact is, the Spurs’ general manager will be the first to tell you that his team’s four championships since 1998-99 have little to do with the job he or his staff has done. “Our best skill has been being lucky […]
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11:52 p.m.: Muncie man blames theft on lottery addiction (The Herald Bulletin)
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to stealing $3,000 from a group that promotes education claims his addiction to scratch-off lottery tickets led him to steal the money.
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Rep. Hawk to keep trying to pass bill - Proposal would allow schools to use excess lottery funds for capital … (Johnson City Press)
ERWIN — After watching his proposal get defeated in the House by a narrow margin this year, Unicoi County’s state representative will try again in 2009 to convince his colleagues to let local school systems use excess lottery funds for construction projects.
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Lottery con scamming Asian students (TVNZ)
Police are coming under fire for not taking adequate steps to protect Asian students from overseas scams. The latest con is a million-dollar lottery prize rort for which people have to pay so called advance taxes in order to collect.
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Celtics’ turnaround didn’t start on lottery day (Boston Globe)
This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals. The league’s luckiest franchise saw its luck run out — again — in the draft lottery last year, coming up with the worst possible pick and no shot at the megastars slotted 1-2. What the Celtics couldn’t know at the […]
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Celtics’ turnaround didn’t start on lottery day (Lexington Herald-Leader)
This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals. The league’s luckiest franchise saw its luck run out - again - in the draft lottery last year, coming up with the worst possible pick and no shot at the megastars slotted 1-2. What the Celtics couldn’t know at the […]
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Celtics’ turnaround didn’t start on lottery day (The Plain Dealer)
BOSTON (AP) — This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals. The league’s luckiest franchise saw its luck run out — again — in the draft lottery last year, coming up with the worst possible pick and no shot at the megastars slotted 1-2.
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Celtics’ turnaround didn’t start on lottery day (AP via Yahoo! News)
This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals. The league’s luckiest franchise saw its luck run out — again — in the draft lottery last year, coming up with the worst possible pick and no shot at the megastars slotted 1-2. What the Celtics couldn’t know at […]
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Bad luck in lottery leads Celtics on roundabout, but quicker, path back to finals (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
BOSTON - This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals. The league’s luckiest franchise saw its luck run out — again — in the draft lottery last year, coming up with the worst possible pick and no shot at the megastars slotted 1-2.
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Celtics turnaround didn’t just start on lottery day (AP via Yahoo! News)
This is not how the Boston Celtics planned to get back to the NBA finals.
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