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British athletes receive tickets boost for Games
Tue,17 Apr 2012 05:03 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British athletes will not have to worry about their nearest and dearest missing their moments of glory at the London Olympics. With just 100 days to go until the 2012 Games get underway, governing body UK Athletics said it would buy tickets to ensure British competitors' friends and families can watch every twist and turn. Athletes currently receive two tickets for their first Games appearance through the British Olympic Association, but UKA will now pay for two tickets for every subsequent athletics round. ... Full Story | Top |
Player's dad breaks Alabama's championship crystal football
Tue,17 Apr 2012 01:57 PM PDT
Reuters -  BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The championship dream is intact, but the $30,000 crystal football trophy has been shattered at the University of Alabama. A player's father accidentally broke on Saturday the Waterford crystal football awarded to the Crimson Tide after the team defeated Louisiana State University in January for the national collegiate title, an athletics official said. The team was celebrating A-Day, an intra-squad scrimmage that marks the end of spring training, and trophies were on special display to allow people to take photographs with them. ...
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Court says Arizona can demand voter identification
Tue,17 Apr 2012 01:24 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld Arizona's requirement that voters show identification at the polls, but struck down its requirement that they show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. While agreeing that Arizona was within its rights to require identification at voting places, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded the national Voting Rights Act, or NVRA, superseded the law's requirement that anyone registering to vote in a federal election show "satisfactory evidence" of U.S. citizenship. ... Full Story | Top |
Florida judge in Trayvon Martin case to decide on recusal
Tue,17 Apr 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida judge will decide this week whether to step down from the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Circuit Judge Jessica Recksiedler disclosed last week that her husband's law partner previously had been contacted by Zimmerman seeking representation. Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, on Monday filed a motion asking Recksiedler to recuse herself. ...
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Blackhawks' Shaw banned three games for goalie hit
Tue,17 Apr 2012 12:51 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Chicago Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw has been suspended three games for hitting Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith in Game Two of the Western Conference quarter-final, the National Hockey League said on Wednesday. Smith was playing the puck behind his net during Saturday's game when Shaw raced in and hit him in the head with his left shoulder, sending the Coyotes goalie crashing to the ice. Shaw was assessed a major penalty for charging and a game misconduct in the second period of Chicago's 4-3 overtime road win. ...
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Clijsters to miss French Open on hip injury
Tue,17 Apr 2012 11:09 AM PDT
Reuters - MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - Former world number one Kim Clijsters will miss the French Open after failing to recover from a hip injury, the Belgian said on Tuesday. Clijsters, who plans to retire from professional tennis at the end of the season, has been plagued by numerous injuries throughout her career and decided not to risk aggravating her hip problem by playing on the punishing slow surface. "It's such a pity not to be able to play a last claycourt season. But I can't be fully fit for the French Open (which begins on May 27)," Clijsters was quoted as saying on her website (www.kimclijsters. ... Full Story | Top |
Clijsters to miss French Open with hip injury
Tue,17 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT
Reuters - MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - Former world number one Kim Clijsters will miss the French Open after failing to recover from a hip injury, the Belgian said on Tuesday. Clijsters, who plans to retire from professional tennis at the end of the season, has been plagued by numerous injuries throughout her career and decided not to risk aggravating her hip problem by playing on the punishing slow surface. "It's such a pity not to be able to play a last claycourt season. But I can't be fully fit for the French Open (which begins on May 27)," Clijsters was quoted as saying on her website (www.kimclijsters. ... Full Story | Top |
Murray eases through in Monte Carlo
Tue,17 Apr 2012 10:32 AM PDT
Reuters -  MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - World number four Andy Murray enjoyed a confident start to his claycourt season when he thrashed Serbian Viktor Troicki 6-0 6-3 on Tuesday to reach the Monte Carlo Masters third round. The Scot, who made the semi-finals here last year, broke serve in the first game and never looked back, wrapping up a straightforward victory after 67 minutes when Troicki sent a backhand wide. "It was very good, getting off to a good start in the match," Murray told a news conference. "Sometimes it's close, tight, first set, first match on clay, kind of anything can happen. ...
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RPT-UPDATE 2-Audi to buy superbike maker Ducati for 860 mln euros
Tue,17 Apr 2012 10:12 AM PDT
Reuters - (Repeats with new headline) * Ducati's liabilities well below 200 mln euros -source * Analysts criticise deal as unnecessary sideshow * Audi, Investindustrial may withhold exact price -source BERLIN/FRANKFURT, April 17 (Reuters) - Volkswagen's Audi unit has agreed to buy thoroughbred Italianmotorcycle maker Ducati for about 860 million euros ($1.12billion) including debt, two people familiar with the mattertold Reuters on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
Chanderpaul leads West Indian fightback
Tue,17 Apr 2012 09:55 AM PDT
Reuters - PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Shivnarine Chanderpaul survived a dropped catch to lead a West Indian fightback on the third day of the second test against Australia on Tuesday. Chanderpaul was dropped by Australia captain Michael Clarke at first slip off spinner Nathan Lyon when he was on eight and went to make an unbeaten on 45 at Queen's Park Oval. His stubborn innings helped West Indies reach lunch on 132 for four in their first innings, still 179 runs behind the Australians, who won last week's first test in Barbados. ... Full Story | Top |
Egypt judge adjourns stadium disaster trial
Tue,17 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT
Reuters -  CAIRO (Reuters) - The trial of 61 men over the death of 74 soccer fans in Egypt's worst stadium disaster was adjourned on Tuesday after a rowdy first session that was suspended briefly when dozens of defendants hurled abuse at the judge. Judge Abdel Magid Mahmoud walked out as the defendants jumped on benches in the courtroom's steel cage and waved their fists at the bench, denying any role in the deaths and demanding that the true culprits be punished. "Either we get justice for them or we die ourselves!" the defendants yelled. ...
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Murray eases through in Monte Carlo
Tue,17 Apr 2012 08:50 AM PDT
Reuters - MONTE CARLO (Reuters) - World number four Andy Murray enjoyed a confident start to his claycourt season when he thrashed Serbian Viktor Troicki 6-0 6-3 on Tuesday to book a place in the Monte Carlo Masters third round. The Scot, who reached the semi-finals here last year, broke serve in the first game and never looked back, wrapping up a straightforward victory after 67 minutes when Troicki sent a backhand wide. "It was very good, getting off to a good start in the match," Murray told a news conference. "Sometimes it's close, tight, first set, first match on clay, kind of anything can happen. ... Full Story | Top |
Play underway in test after power delay
Tue,17 Apr 2012 08:48 AM PDT
Reuters - PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - A power outage at Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad led to a bizarre delay to the start of the third day's play in the second test between West Indies and Australia on Tuesday. The two teams walked on to the field ready to play as scheduled but quickly retreated back to the dressing room before a ball was bowled because there was no live television footage. Officials initially said the Australian captain Michael Clarke wanted to delay the start because the decision review system (DRS) was not working. ... Full Story | Top |
Only 17 Kenyans show up for preliminary Olympic trials
Tue,17 Apr 2012 08:47 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's preliminary Olympic trials for the 10,000 metres turned out to be a disappointment when 17 out of the anticipated 31 athletes attended on Tuesday. Kenyan athletics chiefs had planned a trial in the distance running-mad nation to shortlist 15 runners for the Prefontaine Diamond League race in Oregon on June 2, where the best three will bag a berth for July and August's London Olympics. ...
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