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Wednesday, October 3, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

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News: UPDATE 4-Baseball results Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years UPDATE 1-Baseball-Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years PREVIEW-Soccer-Nothing sheepish about Ba's threat to United Baseball-Tigers' Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years Oakland A's beat Rangers for AL West crown Baseball-Oakland A's beat Rangers for AL West crown Reuters Sports Schedule at 0001 GMT on Thursday Oct 4 Union protests NBA's new flopping penalties UPDATE 1-NBA-Union protests NBA's new flopping penalties UPDATE 3-Baseball results UPDATE 4-Cricket-Pietersen makes peace with ECB, commits to 2015 UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ronaldo rampant as Real crush Ajax 4-1 WRAPUP 2-Soccer-Ronaldo scores hat-trick as big spenders flop RPT-UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ronaldo rampant as Real crush Ajax 4-1 UPDATE 4-Baseball results Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:37 PM PDT Reuters - Oct 4 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the MLB games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS) Atlanta 4 PITTSBURGH 0 WASHINGTON 5 Philadelphia 1 CHICAGO CUBS 5 Houston 4 OAKLAND 12 Texas 5 NY Mets 4 MIAMI 2 SEATTLE 12 LA Angels 0 NY YANKEES 14 Boston 2 Chicago White Sox 9 CLEVELAND 0 TORONTO 2 Minnesota 1 TAMPA BAY 4 Baltimore 1 Colorado 2 ARIZONA 1 LA DODGERS 5 San Francisco 1 Full Story Top Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:19 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Miguel Cabrera became the first player in 45 years to win Major League Baseball's Triple Crown after finishing the 2012 season on Wednesday leading the American League in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. The Detroit Tigers slugger, who had a .330 batting average, 44 home runs and 139 RBI, is the first player to win the award since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera hit one more home run that Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton and New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson and drove in 11 more runs than runner-up Hamilton. ... Full Story Top UPDATE 1-Baseball-Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:13 PM PDT Reuters - (Adds details) Oct 3 (Reuters) - Miguel Cabrera became the first player in 45 years to win Major League Baseball's Triple Crown after finishing the 2012 season on Wednesday leading the American League in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. The Detroit Tigers slugger, who had a .330 batting average, 44 home runs and 139 RBI, is the first player to win the award since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera hit one more home run that Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton and New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson and drove in 11 more runs than runner-up Hamilton. ... Full Story Top PREVIEW-Soccer-Nothing sheepish about Ba's threat to United Wed,3 Oct 2012 07:00 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Alex Ferguson has had nine months to come up with a plan to combat the threat of Demba Ba and how Manchester United cope with the red-hot Newcastle United striker on Sunday (1500 GMT)could define their Premier League season. The Senegalese bullied United's injury-hit backline in Newcastle's 3-0 victory on a windswept night at St James' Park in early January, and will surely be licking his lips at the thought of testing a defence who have been uncharacteristically sloppy so far. ... Full Story Top Baseball-Tigers' Cabrera first Triple Crown winner in 45 years Wed,3 Oct 2012 06:39 PM PDT Reuters - Oct 3 (Reuters) - Miguel Cabrera became the first player in 45 years to win Major League Baseball's Triple Crown after finishing the 2012 season on Wednesday leading the American League in batting average, home runs and runs batted in. The Detroit Tigers slugger, who had a .330 batting average, 44 home runs and 139 RBI, is the first player to win the award since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. (Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue) Full Story Top Oakland A's beat Rangers for AL West crown Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:54 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The Oakland Athletics capped a Cinderella season by completing a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers with a 12-5 home victory on Wednesday that gave them Major League Baseball's American League (AL) West title. The A's, who trailed two-time defending AL champion Texas by 13 games in June before battling back into the race, answered a five-run scoring burst by the Rangers in the third inning with six runs in the fourth and never relinquished the lead. ... Full Story Top Baseball-Oakland A's beat Rangers for AL West crown Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT Reuters - Oct 3 (Reuters) - The Oakland Athletics capped a Cinderella season by completing a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers with a 12-5 home victory on Wednesday that gave them Major League Baseball's American League (AL) West title. The A's, who trailed two-time defending AL champion Texas by 13 games in June before battling back into the race, answered a five-run scoring burst by the Rangers in the third inning with six runs in the fourth and never relinquished the lead. ... Full Story Top Reuters Sports Schedule at 0001 GMT on Thursday Oct 4 Wed,3 Oct 2012 05:01 PM PDT Reuters - Reuters sports schedule at 0001 on Thursday (times GMT): - - - - SOCCER Cristiano Ronaldo hit a hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-1 win at Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday on a bad Champions League night for big spending trio Zenit St Petersburg, Paris St Germain and Manchester City, who failed to win between them. ... Full Story Top Union protests NBA's new flopping penalties Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) plans to file a grievance and unfair labor practice charge after the league announced an anti-flopping rule in a bid to curb the number of simulated fouls. The NBPA's decision was in response to the National Basketball Association (NBA) statement earlier on Wednesday that players who flop on the court in an effort to fool game referees into calling undeserved fouls on opposing players will be fined. ... Full Story Top UPDATE 1-NBA-Union protests NBA's new flopping penalties Wed,3 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT Reuters - * Union says monetary penalty is inappropriate * Repeat offenders could face $30,000 fine, suspension (Updates with union reaction) Oct 3 (Reuters) - The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) plans to file a grievance and unfair labor practice charge after the league announced an anti-flopping rule in a bid to curb the number of simulated fouls. ... Full Story Top UPDATE 3-Baseball results Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - Oct 3 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the MLB games on Wednesday (home team in CAPS) Atlanta 4 PITTSBURGH 0 WASHINGTON 5 Philadelphia 1 CHICAGO CUBS 5 Houston 4 OAKLAND 12 Texas 5 NY Mets 4 MIAMI 2 Full Story Top UPDATE 4-Cricket-Pietersen makes peace with ECB, commits to 2015 Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - * England batsman agrees process for reintegration * Pietersen signs new central contract with ECB * Apologises again to team, fans and governing body (Adds Strauss quotes) COLOMBO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Batsman Kevin Pietersen has committed to playing for England in all three forms of the game until at least 2015 after making peace with the England and Wales Cricket Board in a row over "provocative" text messages. ... Full Story Top UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ronaldo rampant as Real crush Ajax 4-1 Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - * Portuguese nets first Champions League treble * Benzema scores spectacular overhead kick * Jose Mourinho's side top Group D on six points (Writes through with quotes, details, adds byline) AMSTERDAM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A rampant Cristiano Ronaldo scored his second hat-trick in four days and Karim Benzema netted a spectacular overhead kick to fire Real Madrid to a crushing 4-1 win at Ajax Amsterdam in Champions League Group D on Wednesday. ... Full Story Top WRAPUP 2-Soccer-Ronaldo scores hat-trick as big spenders flop Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:22 PM PDT Reuters - (Adds details) BERNE, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo hit a hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-1 Champions League win at Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday but big spending trio Zenit St Petersburg, Paris St Germain and Manchester City failed to win. Ronaldo's treble, his second in four days following a three-goal blast in La Liga at the weekend, was complemented by a brilliant Karim Benzema bicycle kick as Real went top of Group D with six points from their two opening games. ... Full Story Top RPT-UPDATE 2-Soccer-Ronaldo rampant as Real crush Ajax 4-1 Wed,3 Oct 2012 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - (Repeats, no change to text) * Portuguese nets first Champions League treble * Benzema scores spectacular overhead kick * Jose Mourinho's side top Group D on six points AMSTERDAM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A rampant Cristiano Ronaldo scored his second hat-trick in four days and Karim Benzema netted a spectacular overhead kick to fire Real Madrid to a crushing 4-1 win at Ajax Amsterdam in Champions League Group D on Wednesday. ... Full Story Top

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