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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
NEW YORK, April 21 (UPI) -- Oklahoma City Thunder Coach Scott Brooks has been named NBA coach of the year by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters, the league said Wednesday.
Brooks took the Thunder to a 50-32 record this season, a 27-game improvement that garnered the team its first playoff appearance since 2004-05 when it was known as the Seattle Supersonics.
The panel gave Brooks 71 first-place votes. Milwaukee's Scott Skiles was second while Nate McMillan of Portland finished third in the voting.
Brooks got the most of the NBA's youngest roster in his first full year at the helm. He was named interim Thunder coach early in the 2008-09 season and earned the permanent job just before the end of the season.
Oklahoma City lost to the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday in their Western Conference quarterfinals series, putting them down 2-games-to-none.
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BOSTON, June 1 (UPI) --
A team effort led by Kevin Garnett overcame a one-man show by LeBron James Friday and the Boston Celtics held on to defeat Miami 101-91.
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LOS ANGELES, June 1 (UPI) --
Dick Beals, known as the voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer, died at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, Calif., his friend told the Los Angeles Times.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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