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• Dolphin hunting protests at Japanese embassy in Britain

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy here Wednesday against what they called the country's "appallingly cruel" hunting of dolphins. Campaign groups claim Japan kills 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises for food each year in hunts which receive far less attention than the country's highly...

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• Disgruntled Dolphin Taylor to miss training camp

  - 2008-05-21

  MIAMI, Florida AFP — Tony Sparano, preparing for his first season as head coach of the Miami Dolphins, already has an unhappy player to contend with in defensive end Jason Taylor. Sparano said Wednesday that Taylor, who has demanded to be traded, won't be attending the team's training camp....

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• Dolphins sign blocker Long as top draft pick

  - 2008-04-22

  MIAMI AFP — University of Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long has agreed to terms on a five-year contract with the Miami Dolphins that will make him the top pick in Saturday's National Football League Draft. The deal will bring the Dolphins, an NFL-worst 1-15 last season, a powerful blind-side...

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• Dolphin rescues stranded whales: conservation official

  - 2008-03-11

  WELLINGTON AFP — A dolphin guided two stranded whales to safety after human attempts to keep the animals off a New Zealand beach failed, a conservation official said Wednesday. "I've never heard of anything like this before, it was amazing," Conservation Department officer Malcolm Smith said. The actions...

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• Dolphins dump general manager after 1-15 finish

  - 2007-12-31

  MIAMI AFP — Miami Dolphins general manager Randy Mueller was fired Monday, a day after the National Football League club completed a dismal 1-15 season with a 38-25 loss to Cincinnati. Mueller had served in the job since June of 2005 but lacked the power over personnel choices until...

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• Dolphins officially net "Big Tuna"

  - 2007-12-20

  MIAMI AFP — Bill Parcells, who guided the New York Giants to two Super Bowl titles as a coach, signed on as executive vice president of football operations for the struggling Miami Dolphins on Thursday. Parcells, who was apparently close to a similar deal with the Atlanta Falcons earlier...

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• Sfaxien recover to reach African Confederation Cup final

  - 2007-10-06

  PRETORIA AFP — Club Sportif Sfaxien of Tunisia qualified for the African Confederation Cup final Saturday after coming from behind to beat Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1 at Super Stadium. Veteran Zimbabwe-born striker Peter Ndlovu gave Sundowns a 10th-minute lead they held until the closing stages when Chadi Hammami and Blaise...

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• British, Norwegian royals remember dead from sea tragedy

  - 2007-05-31

  LONDON AFP — Britain's Prince Charles and Queen Sonja of Norway paid tribute Thursday to eight Norwegians thought to have perished when their vessel capsized in freezing waters last month. The pair, accompanied by Charles's wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, were speaking as they opened the Shetland Museum and...

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• Soggy throng delights in Prince's Purple Rain performance

  - 2007-02-05

  MIAMI AFP — Mother Nature supplied the showers, but leave it to Grammy Award winning performer Prince to provide the Purple Rain. The American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member delighted the sold-out Super Bowl crowd of 75,000 at Dolphin Stadium with a medley of songs including the...

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• Saban leaves Miami for US college job

  - 2007-01-03

  MIAMI, United States AFP — Nick Saban has left the National Football League's Miami Dolphins to take a head coaching position with a US college gridiron team. Saban has decided to accept an offer to coach at the University of Alabama. Terms were not disclosed on Wednesday, but the school...

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