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Miguel Cabrera hits 3 HRs but Tigers fall 11-8 in Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas - Miguel Cabrera never had a night like this last season when he won baseball's first Triple Crown in 45 years.And it still wasn't enough to get the Detroit Tigers a win.David Murphy put Texas ahead for good with a three-run home run just over the wall in right field in the sixth inning, and the Rangers spoiled the second three-homer game of Cabrera's career with ...
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Cricket Bowlers Not Batters Lead Hyderabad to Playoffs
It did not take long for Sunrisers Hyderabad, the newest of the India Premier ...
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F1 Tire Changes to Be Less Dramatic Than Feared
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England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes
LONDON (Reuters) - England secured the convincing victory over New Zealand they demanded in the first test at Lord's but question marks remain over the make-up of their team for the Ashes series against Australia starting in ...
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Moyes set to meet United squad
Moyes was due to meet United players and staff at Carrington for the first time in order to outline his plans for the future.Although he does not officially start work until July 1, realistically, that start date is impractical as United head on tour on July 10 and return to pre-season training before then. Moyes will also have to decide which areas of the present squad he needs to improve. It ...
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McDowell moves up in rankings
Thongchai Jaidee , ranked 49th, to win what was his second title in his last three events.There was no change among the top six in the rankings, ...
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What the papers say England v NZ Lords
England won the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's by 170 runs, and some pundits felt the margin was flattering for England, given their poor batting, while the focus was mostly on the fast bowlers.An hour of play on day four, where Stuart Broad demolished New Zealand's batting order by taking seven for 44, dominated the papers on Monday, with praise and despair at his erratic ...
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Nadal back to fourth in tennis rankings
Seven-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal has climbed back to fourth in the world tennis rankings after beating Roger Federer in the Rome ...
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Pulse beat Mystics in trans-Tasman netball
Central Pulse have kept alive their faint play-off hopes with a convincing 63-48 win over Northern Mystics in their trans-Tasman netball league ...
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Lowe to Join Mercedes F1 Team in June
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Thurston says Leichhardt wanker chant ok
He's not one of rugby league's Immortals yet but North Queensland star Johnathan Thurston wears the "wanker" tag from opposition supporters as a badge of honour. He revealed the slight - frequently used against Queensland icon and Immortal Wally Lewis during his playing days - was a crowd favourite when he visited Leichhardt Oval, which Thurston will do again when the ...
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British Embassy in China establishes countdown clock for London Olympics
British Embassy in China established a countdown clock at the ambassador's residence here on Wednesday to mark the one-year countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games. "The final countdown will begin. An exciting year of outstanding sporting and cultural events in Britain will set the stage for the greatest (sport) show on earth next summer," said ambassador Sebastian Wood. Zuo ...
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Ghana slips in FIFA world rankings
Ghana dropped further three places in the latest FIFA world ranking, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced here on Wednesday. A statement on the website of the country's footbal association said Ghana had slipped three places to 36th position in the world ranking from the previous 33rd position it was ranked in last month, on the world stage, while ranking 3rd on the continent ...
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Francis calls Yao Ming pioneer in bridging basketball cultures
Three-time All-Star and former Houston Rockets guard Steve Francis on Tuesday called retired center Yao Ming a "pioneer" in bridging the U.S. and Chinese basketball cultures, and said he would like to join Yao in training Chinese youngsters to play basketball if possible. The 30-year-old Yao made his retirement official last week, telling a packed news conference in his hometown ...
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Swans focus on momentum not AFL hoodoos
Sydney coach John Longmire doesn't like talking about hoodoos whether he breaks them or not.The Swans finally broke one of the AFL's longest losing streaks on the way to their grand final win last year - an 11-game reverse to Collingwood that stretched over seven seasons - but Longmire said that victory will be of no consequence when the teams face off in round-nine action at the MCG ...
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Sorry hockey fans. Canada’s NHL woes can’t be blamed on the loonie
As we gaze upon another Stanley Cup playoffs with the sad, forlorn eyes of a nation whose teams are mostly already eliminated, we have to wonder how the elusive hand of economics has deceived us once again.Of the seven National Hockey League teams based in Canada, only four made the playoffs at all. After a couple of first-round defeats, the Ottawa Senators are now the lone Canadian team still ...
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SA to ban live sports betting ads on TV
South Australian television screens will no longer show advertising for live odds betting during sports broadcasts. Premier Jay Weatherill said live odds betting on television and its prominent inclusion during sports coverage was a blight on the sporting landscape. "It's staggering how much match-day broadcast time is being devoted to sports betting and live odds - it's become ...
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India mulls spot-fixing law after arrests
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is mulling a law to deal with the issue of spot-fixing in sport following last week's arrest of cricketers and bookmakers, government officials said on ...
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Football transfer rumours Carlos Tevez to Juventus or PSG
So that's that, then. With just the Champions League and Championship play-off finals to look forward to and no significant summer soccer jamboree on the horizon apart from the European Under-21 Championship, Under-20 World Cup, Confederations Cup, Women's Euro 2013 and the Copa Libertadores, the football landscape is looking a ...
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Waugh questions immature Warner
Former batsman Mark Waugh has questioned the left-handed David Warner's maturity, after breaching Cricket Australia's code of conduct.Warner, currently with the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League, was reported on Sunday - and is alleged to have breached rule six, regarding "unbecoming behaviour". The rule stipulates that "players and officials must not at any ...
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Coach Slutsky may get his wish after CSKAs title win
MOSCOW (Reuters) - CSKA Moscow coach Leonid Slutsky, who dreams of having one of his players naming a child after him, may get his wish after leading the army club to their first Russian title since ...
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Eagle Wellingham to miss 5-7 weeks of AFL
Sharrod Wellingham's wretched injury run this year has continued, with the West Coast midfielder set to miss up to seven weeks due to a serious ankle injury.A pre-season trampoline mishap that caused major damage to his right ankle grounded Wellingham for the first five rounds of the AFL season.But the former Magpie was dealt another blow in Friday night's win over North Melbourne when ...
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Indigenous footballer Winmar sad at racism
AFL great Nicky Winmar is sad to see Indigenous players still being abused 20 years after he made his symbolic stand against racism in sport. Winmar, who is in poor health, was speaking on a rare trip back to Melbourne to help celebrate the league's Indigenous round. Central to the celebration is an iconic picture taken of Winmar after the Saints' round-four win over Collingwood ...
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Panthers thrive in NRL under Cleary
Penrith NRL centre Lewis Brown believes coach Ivan Cleary is slowly recreating the success he had with the Warriors at the rejuvenated Panthers. Written off as wooden spoon certainties at the start of the season, Cleary has masterminded three wins from the past four games with an injury-hit side. After producing the shock result of the season by beating premiers Melbourne in round nine, the ...
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Tigers bank on bonding to fix NRL season
Utility Braith Anasta says the Wests Tigers are banking on some much-needed team bonding to help turn around their disastrous NRL season. On the back of a seven-game losing streak, the Tigers have headed into camp at Kiama on the NSW south coast as they attempt to lift themselves off the bottom of the ladder. Anasta returns from a groin injury for Friday's night match against North ...
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Asia's largest ever infastructure project
The Trans-Asian Railway has been faltering since it was first proposed in the 1960s by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (ESCAP). Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s the project was hindered by political instability, the wars in Indochina, the reticence of China and a subsequent lack of finance in Asia for mega-projects of this kind.
Now, however, with China emerging as the number two most dominant economy in the world, the project to link two major continents (Asia and Europe) is finding its feet once more and the Chinese are looking into investment opportunities, with some aspects of the project, such as the several thousand kilometers that pass through Thailand, being slated for possible construction in 2013. Read more
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