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Sports Briefing | Pro Basketball: Pistons Fire Curry After One Season

Jun. 30, 2009
The first-year coach Michael Curry became the latest Detroit Pistons coach to be fired after the team stumbled to a sub-.500 record and a first-round exit from the playoffs. Joe Dumars, the president of basketball operations, had said Curry would return after the Pistons were swept by Cleveland...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler