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    LOS ANGELES — Thirty years ago, Snoop Dogg was sipping on gin and juice, with his mind on his money and his money on his mind. These days, the Long Beach-based rapper and business man is running a company that sells gin and juice products, with his mind apparently on college football. Introducing the newly renamed "Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl presented by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop," which will ...

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    Jim Larrañaga, Lon Kruger, Fran Dunphy and Dianne Nolan are this year's recipients of the Joe Lapchick Character Award. This is the 16th year the award will be presented to those who have shown the character traits of Lapchick, who coached at St. John's and with the New York Knicks. The quartet will be honored at a luncheon on Sept. 24 in New York. Larrañaga has spent the last 53 years coaching in college since he got his start as an assistant at Davidson College in 1971.

    CHICAGO — A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon you’re talking real money. The late Sen. Everett Dirksen may not have said exactly that, but he repeatedly raised that concern about spending tax dollars. For reference, $1 billion is more than the budgets of the Chicago Park District, Cook County Forest Preserves and Greater Chicago Food Depository combined. Annual spending for Chicago ...

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