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Deals of the Hour / June 10, 2010, 10:11 pm

Spain's Imagina enters animation

ANNECY -- In a welcome boost to Spain's toon industry, Imagina Intl. Sales, Spain's top TV/movie sales house, is entering animation. Created 2007 by the merger of Spain's Arbol Group and Mediapro, Imagina, which kicked ... (Source: Variety 2010-06-11T05:07:33Z)

Davis produces 18 off bench as Celtics top Lakers to pull even in Finals; Kobe scores 33

BOSTON (AP) Four NBA titles, with a chance at a fifth, and two more Western Conference championships that were followed by losses in the finals. Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Kobe Bryant and Derek ... (Source: NBA 2010-06-11T04:10:17Z)

Cuban Dissidents Cheer Bill to End US Travel Ban

Seventy-four Cuban opposition activists — including the island's best-known blogger and a hunger striker who has garnered worldwide attention — signed a letter Thursday cheering proposed legislation that would lift ... (Source: ABC News 2010-06-11T04:38:55Z)

Feel violated? Profligate Trojans more fraudulent than fabled

Football Camelot was a fraud. We were fooled. Lane Kiffin and quarterback Matt Barkley face an uncertain future at Southern Cal. (Getty Images) It was a wild ride while lasted, but it turns out watching Southern ... (Source: CBS Sports 2010-06-11T05:07:33Z)

Shatel: There are no villains in the conference realignment story

It's not you. It's me. If and when the time comes for Nebraska to bid adieu to the Big 12, that old heartbreaker line might come in handy. People are looking for villains in this breakup scene. There are none. There's no ... (Source: Omaha World-Herald 2010-06-11T04:38:55Z)

Red-hot Dodgers and Angels make big jumps before big series

Since the morning of May 7 no city has enjoyed better baseball than Los Angeles. Though the Angels and Dodgers both spent at least five days in last place in April, that all turned around in the second week of May. From ... (Source: CNN Sports Illustrated 2010-06-11T05:00:23Z)

USC ordered to vacate wins, gets bowl ban, docked 30 scholarships

LOS ANGELES -- The NCAA threw the book at storied Southern California on Thursday with a two-year bowl ban, four years' probation, loss of scholarships and forfeits of an entire year's games for improper benefits to ... (Source: CBS Sports 2010-06-11T04:31:45Z)

China New Borun Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

SHOUGUANG, China, June 10 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China New Borun Corporation (NYSE: BORN; "Borun" or the "Company"), a leading producer and distributor of corn-based edible alcohol in China, today announced that ... (Source: Yahoo Finance 2010-06-11T03:48:48Z)

Glen 'Big Baby' Davis leads Celtics over Lakers in Game 4 of NBA Finals

BOSTON — The Celtics have tied up the NBA finals, and they owe it more to "Big Baby" than the Big Three. Backup Glen "Big Baby" Davis scored half of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Celtics ... (Source: Detroit Free Press 2010-06-11T04:03:07Z)

NBA Finals notebook: Celtics bench is the difference in Game 4

Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Derek Fisher may have been the hero in Game 3 of the NBA Finals for the Lakers but don't underestimate the contribution of the team's bench. LA's reserves combined to shoot 9-of-11 from the ... (Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer 2010-06-11T04:38:55Z)

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