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APNewsBreak: Yanks, Man City to own NYC MLS team

This March 31, 2011 file photo is an overall view of Yankee Stadium in New York during an opening day baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees. The Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees are going into the soccer business.

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10 recommendations for Wagner’s 200th birthday

This undated photo shows German composer Richard Wagner. The 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth is May 22, and the world's opera houses and symphony halls are filled with his music this year along with the compositions of Giuseppe Verdi, whose 200th birthday is Oct. 10. (AP Photo/Trinquart, File)

The 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth is May 22, and the world’s opera houses and symphony halls are filled with his music this year along with the compositions of Giuseppe Verdi, whose 200th birthday is Oct. 10.

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Conductor James Levine returns from 2-year absence

Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine leads the MET Orchestra in a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The Sunday, May 19 concert by the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall will mark Maestro Levine's first public performance in more than two years after being sideline by a spinal injury. The concert will be broadcast live on SIRIUS XM Channel 74 and streamed on the Met's Web site (metopera.org) beginning at 2:55 p.m. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Marty Sohl)

NEW YORK (AP) — James Levine rolled onto the Carnegie Hall stage in his black motorized wheelchair and into a 6-by-6-foot mechanical podium constructed by the Metropolitan Opera.

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Klinsmann envisions Donovan return _ just not now

NEW YORK (AP) — Jurgen Klinsmann envisions Landon Donovan returning to the U.S. national team. He’s just not sure when.

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