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Steve Ballmer is officially the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. The team says the sale closed Tuesday after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise.

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Embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling is speaking out for the first time since the NBA slammed him with a lifetime ban. In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Sterling apologized for racist remarks caught on tape, but says he's "not a racist."

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LOS ANGELES (AP)-- The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following outrage over a decision he later reversed to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights. Leon Jenkins was to honor Sterling later this month, but rescinded that offer Monday after a recording surfaced over the weekend on which Sterling disparaged black men. In a letter to the national leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Jenkins wr...