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Sagan three-peats at Tour of California
Tue,15 May 2012 05:58 PM PDT
Reuters -  LIVERMORE, California, May 15 - Peter Sagan extended his overall lead in the Tour of California when he won Tuesday's third stage in a sprint finish, completing a rare hat-trick of stage wins in North America's most prestigious cycling event.
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Sagan makes in three in a row at Tour of California
Tue,15 May 2012 04:51 PM PDT
Reuters - LIVERMORE, California, May 15 - Peter Sagan extended his overall lead in the Tour of California when he won Tuesday's third stage in a sprint finish, completing a rare hat-trick of stage wins in North America's most prestigious cycling event. Full Story | Top |
U.S. set for battle to top London medal table
Tue,15 May 2012 04:47 PM PDT
Reuters -  DALLAS (Reuters) - The United States Olympic Committee's media summit wrapped up on Tuesday with no bold predictions but plenty of expectations as American athletes again look to top the medal table in London.
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Obama teases Beckham over his underwear ads
Tue,15 May 2012 04:41 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama poked fun at one of sport's biggest stars at the White House on Tuesday, remarking that British soccer player David Beckham had a knack for combining athletic prowess with commercial appeal. The quip came as the president congratulated Beckham and his teammates on the Los Angeles Galaxy, who defeated the Houston Dynamo last November to clinch the 2011 Major League Soccer Cup. "It is a rare man who can be that tough on the field and also have his own line of underwear," Obama said with a smile to laughter from the audience. ...
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Women's soccer team eyeing revenge in London
Tue,15 May 2012 04:34 PM PDT
Reuters -  DALLAS (Reuters) - After an agonizing loss to Japan in last year's World Cup final, the U.S. women's soccer team is determined to rebound by winning a third consecutive Olympic title in London this year. "We want nothing more than a gold medal and we're going to do anything we possibly can to get on that podium at the end and receive that gold medal around our necks," U.S. midfielder Carli Lloyd said at the U.S. Olympic Media Summit on Tuesday. The U.S. ...
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Witness was furious with Clemens over son, handed over evidence
Tue,15 May 2012 04:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fury that ace pitcher Roger Clemens made his son's chronic illness public prompted the star witness in Clemens' perjury trial to hand over stashed medical waste to agents probing drug use in baseball, the witness testified on Tuesday. Brian McNamee, Clemens' former trainer, said he fell out with Clemens in January 2008 when the former pitching star played a 17-minute tape of a phone call with McNamee at a Houston news conference. ...
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Bulls' Rose to miss 8-12 months with knee injury: doctor
Tue,15 May 2012 03:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose could be out of action for an entire year while he recovers from surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament, the doctor who performed the procedure said on Tuesday. Rose, a three-time All-Star who was named the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Most Valuable Player last year, suffered the knee injury in Chicago's opening playoff game last month. Doctor Brian Cole, who performed the operation on Saturday, told a news conference Rose was facing a lengthy break from the game. ...
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Djokovic returns to form with Tomic win in Rome
Tue,15 May 2012 03:41 PM PDT
Reuters -  ROME (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic was back on top form as he brushed aside rising Australian talent Bernard Tomic 6-3 6-3 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters on Tuesday. While Andy Murray narrowly avoided defeat on his 25th birthday and there were struggles for Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova in the women's event, Djokovic looked every inch the world number one on his way to a confident victory. ...
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Cavaliers' Irving named NBA's rookie of the year
Tue,15 May 2012 01:17 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving was named the National Basketball Association's (NBA) rookie of the year in a landslide victory after leading all first-year players in scoring, the league said on Tuesday. The 20-year-old Irving, taken first overall in the 2011 NBA Draft, averaged 18.5 points and 5.4 assists in 51 games playing for a Cavaliers team that went 21-45 last season and finished with the fourth-worst record in the league. "It was a great season, I had such an amazing time," the Australian-born Irving said at a news conference. ...
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New York student wins appeal, can compete on girls hockey team
Tue,15 May 2012 01:05 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state student will be allowed to play on his school's girls field hockey team after an athletic commission on Tuesday reversed an earlier decision barring him from participating because he had become too proficient at the sport. Keeling Pilaro, 14, will receive a waiver to join the girl's team at Long Island's Southampton High School for a third year after winning an appeal before county athletics officials, lawyers and school representatives said. ... Full Story | Top |
Five Indian players suspended on corruption
Tue,15 May 2012 10:32 AM PDT
Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) - Five uncapped Indian cricketers have been provisionally suspended following allegations of corruption in the lucrative Indian Premier League, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday. The Indian cricket board has also ordered a probe into the accusations, made by a local television channel. "The president BCCI has immediately appointed Ravi Sawani (former head of ICC anti-corruption and security Unit) as the commissioner to make a preliminary enquiry," the BCCI said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Rodriguez roars to stage win and overall lead
Tue,15 May 2012 10:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - Spanish overall contender Joaquim Rodriguez used his trademark uphill surge to blast away from his rivals and claim Tuesday's 10th stage win and the overall lead in the Giro d'Italia. Rodriguez darted clear of a pack of favorites 150 meters from the agonizingly steep summit finish in the heart of Assisi's old town. Poland's Bartosz Huzarksi finished runner-up, two seconds behind, with Italy's Giovanni Visconti in third. ...
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Gourcuff in France preliminary Euro squad, Kaboul out
Tue,15 May 2012 09:35 AM PDT
Reuters -  PARIS (Reuters) - France coach Laurent Blanc called up playmaker Yoann Gourcuff when he completed his preliminary squad for the European Championship finals with a set of home-based players on Tuesday. Tottenham Hotspur centre back Younes Kaboul, who had been included in the preliminary list of overseas-based players, was ruled out with a serious knee injury. Kaboul's knee injury flared up during Tottenham's final Premier League game against Fulham on Sunday. "He's not fit to play in the Euro," said Blanc. ...
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Tymoshenko appeal to be heard during Ukraine's Euro 2012
Tue,15 May 2012 09:31 AM PDT
Reuters -  KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine, threatened with a political boycott of the European soccer championship it co-hosts next month over the jailing of opposition politician Yulia Tymoshenko, on Tuesday put off a ruling on her appeal until the tournament is under way. The European Union has condemned Tymoshenko's abuse-of-office conviction last October and her seven-year prison sentence as politically motivated. It has called for her release and shelved landmark association and free trade deals with Ukraine over the issue. ...
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