Rodrigo Garcia News
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Juventus, AS Roma and Porto agreed to pay a combined 11.1 million euros ($14.6 million) to hire players from Club Deportivo Maldonado, a Uruguayan soccer team for which they never appeared, according to stock-market filings. England’s West Ham took a striker on loan.
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Alberto Contador probably won’t challenge an anti-doping rule that led to the loss of one of his three Tour de France titles because it would take several years, two people familiar with the situation said.
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Alberto Contador’s acquittal for doping is being challenged before a tribunal today with the three-time Tour de France winner’s reputation and as much as $13.5 million in future wages on the line.
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A U.S. federal probe into doping in cycling involving Lance Armstrong’s former team may be slowed by legal hurdles in pursuing the inquiry in Europe, sports lawyers said.
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Spaniards hit by the debt crisis can sideline their sorrows and watch the likes of Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernandez in their local soccer league. Broadcasters say they can’t finance that sort of therapy anymore.
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Alberto Contador’s eight teammates on the Saxo Bank-Sungard squad couldn’t lead him to victory at this month’s Tour de France. Now it’s up to a smaller crew of attorneys to try to save his 2010 title.
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Lisa Falcone is sitting at the head of a conference table, rapping to music by Swizz Beatz and waving her tanned arms above her head. She's meeting with the two employees of her fledgling company, Everest Entertainment. Just outside the room, her husband, Philip Falcone, is running his $9 billion hedge fund, Harbinger Capital, but that doesn't hold her back. She produced the song and sings along as it blasts from iPod speakers on the table: "Come on bitches, get your hands in the air, ugly bitches too, we don't care!"
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Angelina Jolie , Madonna and Sandra Bullock have made tabloid headlines by adopting children. Rodrigo Garcia takes a more sober look at the subject in “ Mother and Child .”
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A stuttering king, a hillbilly hermit, a trapped mountain climber and an Internet entrepreneur are among the varied subjects of my favorite films of 2010.
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David Fincher gives “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” a sharp English-language makeover without losing any of its vivid characters or gloomy Swedish atmosphere.
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