America' Cup: Newport looks set to be the first US World Series venue

12:30 PM Sat 8 Jan 2011 GMT

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Newport?s loss of the America?s Cup final Match races behind them, state leaders and Cup officials went back to the drawing board Friday to try to hammer out a deal to bring pre-regatta races to the City by the Sea. 'Now it?s not a done deal, but I?d say ? we?re probably 75 percent of the way there,' Thomas Ehman, head of Oracle Racing external affairs, said Friday at the State House with Governor Chafee at his side. Ehman said he?s 'confident' the state can complete negotiations with America?s Cup officials in the next couple of weeks, when he hopes ...

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by Providence Journal