Hints and tips:
...“To be clear, this is Kobe [Bryant] laying it up to Shaque [sic] [O’Neal] coming in to crush the backboard. If approved, all cases will be slammed [sic] dunk.”...
...The 41-year-old champion, born in Philadelphia, spent his 20-year professional basketball career playing for the LA Lakers, forming an all-star duo alongside centre Shaquille O’Neal....
...Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat, London; Suzanna Anslow, Surrey, England Polymath 1,055: Roger Forster, Middlesex, England Crossword 16,360: JB Cowperthwait, Florida; Neal...
...Stars such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar swept all before them in the team’s so-called “Showtime” era of the 1980s – as did Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal more than a decade later....
...Even Americans have searched more for Ronaldo this year than for many of their own best athletes, such as Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Shaquille O’Neal....
...The furore capped a bad week for the company after Stan O’Neal, chief executive, stepped down....
...Stan O’Neal stepped down last month after Merrill made $7.9bn in writedowns....
...Also dominating the news was Merrill Lynch, which declined 2.8 per cent to $65.56 after it announced that Stan O’Neal, its chief executive, was stepping down a week after the bank revealed it had taken a...
...The shares rallied strongly yesterday on reports that Stan O’Neal, chief executive, may be on the way out. Bank of America was also in focus this week after it announced 3,000 job cuts....
...Merrill Lynch gained 2 per cent to $67.42 as expectations mounted that Stan O’Neal would announce that he is stepping down as chief executive....
...O’Neal reaches out and shakes my hand as he recites the Hebrew New Year greeting....
...The US brought a relatively weak team to Greece, with the marquee names – Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Garnett and Tracy McGrady – remaining at home for various reasons....
...Both Bryant and centre Shaquille O’Neal were on the roster, the nucleus of a championship squad already in place....
...O’Neal averaged 26 points during the finals, seven fewer than he had averaged in four previous trips to the championship series, and neither Bryant nor any other Laker was able to compensate for O’Neal’s...
...With Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Kevin Garnett and Jason Kidd all sitting this Olympics out, coach Larry Brown is in charge of a squad dangerously short on superstars and experience....
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