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The St. Louis Rams and the San Diego Chargers have been green-lit for a move to Los Angeles.

The National Football League’s 32 team owners voted Tuesday to give the Rams approval to move to Los Angeles for the 2016 season, and the Chargers the option to join them within the next year, several sources told CNNMoney.

By the terms of the deal, the Rams have been given the go-ahead to move to a new stadium in Inglewood, the site they had initially proposed, effective immediately, the sources said.

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Protesters block the streets in Berkeley, Missouri on Wednesday, Dec. 24. over the death of Antonio Martin, who was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly pulled a gun on Tuesday,

Dec. 23.

Tia Carrie is as sweet a teenage girl as you can image.

Nothing about her — not her big smile wired with colorful braces, or her florescent pink sweatshirt and elaborately dressed hair — would make you think she is angry.

But she is “damn angry.”

It showed on Wednesday night only when the 1

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DE Michael Sam was a seventh-round draft pick by the Rams.
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Michael Sam is no longer attached to an NFL team and none of them appear to want to pick him up because his sexual orientation causes too much distraction, claims a Buffalo Bills star.

Offensive lineman Eric Wood goes on, more specifically, to blame the media for focusing on the personal life of the NFL’s first openly gay draft pick.

‘Blame that on espn,’ Wood tweeted in response to Sam’s inability to find an

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Supporters: More than a hundred people gathered on Sunday to support St Louis, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson, who shot dead black teen Michael Brown earlier this month in Ferguson

Supporters of the St Louis policeman who killed a black teenager have rallied in the city in the first public show of support for the officer.

At the rally, attended by around 150 people, protesters walked around wearing specially printed T-shirts which were sold for $7 with a police shield on which was the

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St. Louis, Missouri, rapper Thi’sl.
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Christian rapper Thi’sl, a St. Louis, Missouri, native, knows firsthand about the racial tensions that have plagued his city for decades. It is that same dark cloud of racial unrest that overshadows the recent police killing of an 18-year-old black man in nearby Ferguson. Calling for justice while trumpeting a peaceful response, Thi’sl also says it is time for the church to step up and face the fact that U.S. Christianity has its own fester

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While most sports fans recognize Mark Clayton as a wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams, another community recognizes Clayton as founder and CEO of MyChristianT.com, a hip apparel brand with Christian messages.

 

During this NFL lockout, Clayton is busy furthering the brand he founded in 2010, with the goal of finding a place where faith meets fashion, both in trendy apparel and online social networking.
"Spreading the word of Christ has been my mission in any season," said Clayton, "but being
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