Barry Jackson

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"The Jazz on Tuesday traded rookie point guard Eric Maynor and veteran forward Matt Harpring's expiring contract to Oklahoma City for the rights to a forward from Germany who has never played in the NBA. The cost-cutting trade will save more than $10 million for the Jazz, who are well in excess of the NBA's team payroll salary cap and luxury-tax threshold. 'It's good for Oklahoma City, because they get a good young player (in Maynor),' Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor said today. 'And it's good for us, because it allows us to address our financial situation. Basically the reason we did that was to relieve ourselves of some luxury-tax responsibilities ... and to do that we had to give up an asset,' he added. 'It was a difficult decision. We're disappointed that we had to do that, but in these economic times we saved a great deal of money and we're able to be aggressive, still, going forward.' The trade -- essentially a salary dump of Harpring's burdensome contract, at the cost of 22-year-old Maynor -- reduces Utah's roster count from 14 to 12. But the Jazz do plan to get back to the league-required minimum of 13 by adding another point guard in the near future. They have two weeks to do so." Read More

"Ron Artest was back in Chicago, playing against the team that drafted him in 1999 and returning to the place where he went astray almost a decade ago, in his own words, as the losses started to pile up for the Bulls. Windy City hospitality? The Lakers forward was asked by a reporter before Tuesday's game whether he stopped by the liquor store that he frequented before games while with the Bulls. 'Not in this environment,' he said, after defending his character by saying the Lakers -- the 'world champions,' he emphasized -- had enough interest to sign him during the off-season. 'This is a basketball environment.' Artest recently acknowledged drinking at halftime of NBA games earlier in his career." Read More

When the pressures of picking grapes and getting it in barrels hits hard at harvest time, how do some winemakers relax? Read More

"It did get over pretty quickly," first-year Eagle coach Clarence Baldwin, a 1991 East graduate, said. Read More

A 62-year-old man was airlifted from the scene of a head-on crash late Monday morning on the Mauricetown Bypass Bridge with "unknown internal trauma," according to state police. Read More

The U.S. ambassador to Japan on Monday urged Tokyo to honor a deal to relocate a U.S. military base on Okinawa, as pressure grew on the government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to force the Americans off the island altogether. Read More

A PAINTING of Malvern during a thunderstorm by the celebrated artist Dame Laura Knight is going up for sale in London later this month. Read More

The Panthers have a new management team in place as Cliff Viner (far left) and Stuart Siegel were named the new co-chairmen of the Panthers. Read More

"Playing their most complete game of the young season, the Cavs looked like a cohesive, deep and tough unit in dismantling the Orlando Magic, 102-93 Wednesday night. LeBron James picked up right where he left off last time the teams played, scoring a season-best 36 points with eight rebounds and four assists. But the rest was far from the same. The preface is this: It is early, the Magic were missing two of their key players including one of their stars in Rashard Lewis and Orlando was playing on the second night of a back-to-back while the Cavs had four days off. All of those factors impacted the game on some level. But here is the core of the night: The Cavs never played the Magic this effectively for more than a single quarter last season, the addition of Shaquille O'Neal instantly seemed to affect the matchup with Dwight Howard and the Cavs now have won five of their last six games as they continue to show development." Read More