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The NBA Summer League has announced that for the first time it will feature a "format that includes preliminary games followed by a single-elimination tournament where a champion will be crowned." Summer League play begins July 12 in Las Vegas, with the championship game set for July 22 (AP, 5/1).

The Int’l Rugby Board today announced that London’s Olympic Stadium “will host four matches at the 2015 Rugby World Cup” (REUTERS, 5/2).

The Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Association said that it “revoked simulcast approval for Calder Casino & Race Course” on April 30 when the two parties “failed to agree on a purse contract” (BLOODHORSE.com, 5/1).

Tag Heuer is running a full-page ad in today’s N.Y. Times that features tennis player Maria Sharapova with her Formula 1 steel & ceramic watch with diamonds (THE DAILY).

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