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In that continent, there are entire leagues like - the Chinese and South Korean -- that have had to be shut down for months while mass arrests were conducted before the sports could continue.

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The company delivers mobile news alerts, sports scores and fantasy sports updates from mass media brands.

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Kraft grew up in an observant Jewish family in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Mass. and as a boy was a fierce sports fan.

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