Images of the Day

Providence's Ryan Gomes attempts to score against Wake Forest's Eric Williams during the Preseason National Invitational Tournament at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. Gomes scored 24 points in the 79-67 loss.

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ESPN Oh Boy Oberto Redfish Cup tournaments have become popular.

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Emmitt Smith, the NFL's career rushing leader, has 658 yards on 181 carries this season Ñ sixth in the National Football Conference.

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Passengers waiting to fly to their holiday destinations from Gainesville Regional Airport on Wednesday watch as a US Airways Express flight unloads. The packed passenger waiting areas were overwhelmed as full flights kept standby passengers grounded and airport workers busy.

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Spc. Kevin Pleasant, left, and Spc. Bryan Johnson, both from Fayetteville, N.C., share a laugh as they finish their Thanksgiving dinner at Forward Operating Base Cobra in Iraq on Thursday.

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Ingolf Haas, a fourth-generation clockmaker in Schonach, Germany, shows a cuckoo clock Wednesday. For every cent the U.S. dollar drops on currency markets, life gets harder for cuckoo clockmakers in Germany's Black Forest. Their best customers are Americans enchanted by the hand-carved oak leaves, birds and stags on their creations. But the weakening dollar has boosted the price tag by some 30 percent in dollar terms over the past two years, which has hurt sales.

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Featured soloists LeDarius Thomas and Emily Rollo will be performing at the "Holiday Traditions" concert at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday. The event is put on for the community by Alachua County's most talented teen musicians.

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