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yes, mobile phone apps.
• The stakes are highest for sports shoe and apparel giants Nike and adidas, who are wrestling for dominance of the soccer market.
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Encore: LeBron James returns to Cavs to bring championship-starved city first title since '64
• CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James returns older, more mature. He's got a little less hair, and a ton more experience.
• Like anyone, he changed in four years.
• The NBA's biggest star left four summers ago on poor terms, despised by fans who burned his jersey and scorned by an owner who felt betrayed. Cast as a villain, James was on a mission to win an NBA title -- "not just one, not two, not three ... " -- in Miami with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and he got two rings.
• James has come back home to do something bigger, to do something no one has done for nearly 50 years. He wants to do something that would stamp his legacy and just maybe separate him from basketball's immortals.
• He wants to deliver a championship -- to Cleveland, the city where sports heartbreak is as predictable as cold winters.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2014. There are 172 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.
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• On this date:
• In 1543, England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
• In 1690, forces led by William of Orange defeated the army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
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