The Mets, meanwhile, have likely lost for the year star pitcher Johan Santana to shoulder surgery and have injury questions hanging over other players.
Abrams, the director of Star Trek and creator of the television show Lost, will be the man behind the camera on the next Star Wars film, Episode VII.
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Abrams, the creator of Lost and director of the new Star Trek films, is reportedly set to direct the next Star Wars movie.
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But that year marked a stark line of demarcation in the sport's evolution, as Gola and the Explorers lost to the University of San Francisco and its star, Bill Russell.
Priaulx got off to a good start in race two but lost the lead to Swiss star Menu on lap three.
"I'd be very surprised if I was playing in Paris, " the British star, who lost in the quarterfinals in Madrid last week, told reporters following his match against Spain's Marcel Granollers.
Rising star Golding lost the first set to the ninth seed but dug deep to claim a 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory on Court 12.
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Obama may be re-elected, but he is no longer believed to be the change-agent he was in 2008, and the rock star politician aura has lost much of its shine.
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Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, is on board to write an entry in the new Star Wars trilogy, and may also serve as a producer as well.
But not all critics were so fulsome in their praise of The Avengers star, whose films include Lost in Translation and the recently released Hitchcock film.
High flyers like Singapore's Creative Technology and Hong Kong infrastructure star Hopewell lost ground to the stock bears.
Last season without an all-star on the roster, Denver lost in the first round to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Despite the rejected book proposals, the discouraging auditions and the lost elections, many a man or woman still looks in the mirror and sees a star.
Simpson lost a motion Tuesday to delay the former football star's deposition in a wrongful death suit filed by the family of murder victim Ronald Goldman.
The Showtime thriller's British star Damian Lewis lost out to Bryan Cranston, who was named best actor in a drama series for AMC's crime drama Breaking Bad.
The release should help WoW compete with its newer big-budget rival, Star Wars: The Old Republic, which lost about a quarter of its subscribers between February and April.
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It is one reason why the Five Star Party was strongly supported by the "lost generation" of younger voters who find themselves shut out of the employment market by a older, protected group of middle-aged and older workers.
But Toulon soon lost their own star as Wilkinson was helped from the pitch.
The increased demands help to explain how the two most recent American commanders in Afghanistan, among the most respected four-star officers of their generation, lost their jobs.
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The Knicks lost Game 1 by 33 points in a game in which star Carmelo Anthony made three of his 15 shots.
Woodson lost his chance to coach the Eastern Conference in the All-Star game Sunday when Miami's victory in Toronto gave Erik Spoelstra the nod.
Texas, as course, lost Vince Young, who was their star and leader in the Rose Bowl game, that classic Rose Bowl game, last year.
Detroit lost its ninth straight and fell to 2-13 since the All-Star break.
Li Ning, the sportswear company named after the Chinese Olympic star whose shares have been hammered recently amid tough competition, lost another 10% yesterday after it posted its 2010 financial report yesterday.
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The 2011 All-Star ended a six-start winless stretch in which he had lost his last two outings and gone 0-3.
Adding a sixth gold star to the famous yellow and green jersey will be difficult -- Brazil lost to Netherlands at the quarterfinal stage at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa -- but not impossible, Ronaldo says.
Then all the hope and promise of combining two of the most dynamic players of the last decade (Nash and Bryant) is lost, and the Lakers look foolish for chasing short-term aspirations with an aging star that was past his prime.
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No. 6 Li Na , who became Asia's first grand slam singles champion at Roland Garros at the French Open, in 2011, lost to Radwanska in the final of the Sydney International last week, but the Chinese star opened up in Melbourne with a 6-1 6-3 triumph against Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan.
Shortly after he became a minor media star, Mr. Kiriakou lost his job in business intelligence at Deloitte, the global consulting firm he joined after leaving the C.
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