2/28/2018: FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit - The Doggy Economic Indicator

Today's Article: FBI wiretaps show Sean Miller discussed $100K payment to lock recruit
From: ESPN.com
Readability Score: 12.0

Wiretapped conversations suggest that the Arizona basketball coach broke rules by helping a star player get lots of cash in exchange for coming to his program. How big is this scandal? What are the issues involved? Have your students use our interactive Google Form worksheet with today's lesson.

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Readability Score: 8.3

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8/18/2017: Therapy animals are everywhere. Proof that they help is not. - Stephen Curry's supermax deal becomes richest in NBA history

Today's Article: Therapy animals are everywhere. Proof that they help is not.

From: The Washington Post
Readability Score: 11.7

A therapy-animal trend grips the United States. The San Francisco airport now deploys a pig to calm frazzled travelers. Universities nationwide bring dogs (and a donkey) onto campus to soothe students during finals. Llamas comfort hospital patients, pooches provide succor at disaster sites and horses are used to treat addiction. 

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Today's Alternate Article: Stephen Curry's supermax deal becomes richest in NBA history
Readability Score: 8.5

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2/17/2017: MLB Plans to Test New Extra-Innings Rule in Rookie Ball - Youth Basketball Team Forfeits, Won't Play Season Without Girl Teammates

Today's Article: MLB Plans to Test New Extra-Innings Rule in Rookie Ball
From: Yahoo
Readability Score: 12.3

While the specifics of the rule are not final, the current plan is to start with a runner on second base in the 10th and every inning thereafter.

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Readability Score: 9.7

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2/7/2017: When Our Memories Are Both Vivid and Wrong - The Basketball Team That Never Takes a Bad Shot

Today's Article: When Our Memories Are Both Vivid and Wrong
From: Wall Street Journal
Readability Score: 10.5

Our ‘flashbulb memories’ of shocking events like the Challenger disaster or 9/11 seem sharp but are almost always inaccurate

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Readability Score: 8.9

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5/16/2016: From Coal To Code: A New Path For Laid-Off Miners In Kentucky - 3 Reasons Why Stephen Curry Had the Best NBA Season Ever

Today's Article: From Coal To Code: A New Path For Laid-Off Miners In Kentucky
From: NPR
Readability Score: 10.2

All over eastern Kentucky, you see cars and pickup trucks with black license plates proclaiming the owner is a "friend of coal."

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Readability Score: 8.4

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2/23/2016: The $100 Bill Could Be Endangered - How a Rule Made Basketball Unrecognizable in Nevada

Today's Article: The $100 Bill Could Be Endangered (10.3)
From: Wall Street Journal

The last time the U.S. clamped down on large-denomination bank notes was 1969, when the Fed and Treasury discontinued issuance of $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills.

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1/27/2016: Evidence of Suspected Tennis Match-Fixing Revealed - How the N.B.A. 3-Point Shot Went From Gimmick to Game Changer

Today's Article: Evidence of Suspected Tennis Match-Fixing Revealed (12.6)
From: BBC

Secret files exposing evidence of widespread suspected match-fixing at the top level of world tennis, including at Wimbledon, can be revealed by the BBC and BuzzFeed News.

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Today's Alternate Article: How the N.B.A. 3-Point Shot Went From Gimmick to Game Changer (6.2)

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1/4/2016: How a Breakaway Region of Somalia Hopes to Build a New Country - At 6 Feet 1, He's Raising the Art of the Dunk to Another Level

Today's Article: How a Breakaway Region of Somalia Hopes to Build a New Country (13.2)
From: Washington Post

By the afternoon, more goats than cars are to be found on the unpaved, sunblasted streets of Berbera...

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