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| Tennis-Winston-Salem Open men's singles round 2 results Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 08:37 PM PDT Aug 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the Winston-Salem Open Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Tuesday 4-Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat Guillaume Rufin (France) 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 15-Gael Monfils (France) beat Guido Pella (Argentina) 6-2 6-2 Steve Johnson (U.S.) beat 2-Andreas Seppi (Italy) 6-7(5) 6-4 7-5 10-Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukraine) beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spain) 4-6 6-1 6-4 9-Jurgen Melzer (Austria) beat Thiemo de Bakker (Netherlands) 7-5 6-7(4) 4-2 (De Bakker retired) 7-Fernando Verdasco (Spain) beat Tim Smyczek (U.S.) 3-6 6-3 6-3 5-Benoit Paire (France) beat James Blake (U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball results Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 08:27 PM PDT Aug 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the MLB games on Tuesday (home team in CAPS) NY YANKEES 8 Toronto 4 Tampa Bay 7 BALTIMORE 4 NY YANKEES 3 Toronto 2 Colorado 5 PHILADELPHIA 3 Minnesota 6 DETROIT 3 Arizona 5 CINCINNATI 2 NY METS 5 Atlanta 3 LA Dodgers 6 MIAMI 4 TEXAS 4 Houston 2 Washington 4 CHICAGO CUBS 2 Chicago White Sox 2 KANSAS CITY 0 MILWAUKEE 6 St. Louis 3 Full Story | Top |
| Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster': an exile story told through Kung Fu Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 08:03 PM PDT  By Eric Kelsey BEVERLY HILLS, Calif (Reuters) - It was a black-and-white home movie of an old man, diminutive and cancer-stricken, performing Chinese martial arts techniques in a Hong Kong apartment that spurred director Wong Kar Wai to make his latest film, the Kung Fu epic "The Grandmaster." Wong, best known as an auteur of pensive and brooding urban dramas "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love," said he was deeply puzzled by the intentions behind the homemade film of Kung Fu master Ip Man, made days before his death in 1972. ... Full Story | Top |
| World sports diary August 21 - September 17 Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 07:59 PM PDT Aug 21 (Reuters) - World sports diary from August 21 -September 17. - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 TENNIS ATP: Winston-Salem Open (to 24) WTA: New Haven Open, Connecticut (to 24) SOCCER Champions League playoff round, first legs Premier League CRICKET The Ashes England v Australia, fifth test, The Oval, London (to 25) - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 GOLF European Tour: Johnnie Walker Championship, Gleneagles, Scotland (to 25) PGA Tour: Barclays Classic, New Jersey (to 25) SOCCER Europa League playoff round, first legs - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 SOCCER La Liga, Dutch Championship MOTOR RACING Formula ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-New Haven Open women's singles results Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 07:17 PM PDT Aug 21 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the New Haven Open Women's Singles matches on Tuesday Round 2Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) beat 7-Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 7-5 6-3 Klara Zakopalova (Czech Republic) beat Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) 6-4 6-1 Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat 2-Angelique Kerber (Germany) 6-2 6-4 Round 13-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) beat Annika Beck (Germany) 4-6 6-3 6-3 Full Story | Top |
| Australasian tour suffers under PGA Tour heat Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:49 PM PDT By Andrew Both GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - As the heavyweight U.S. PGA Tour revamps its schedule and continues to expand internationally, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the world's other tours to survive, let alone thrive. Nowhere are the problems more acute than in Australia, a proud golfing nation that has produced some of the game's greatest players, including this year's Masters champion Adam Scott and former world number one Greg Norman. ... Full Story | Top |
| Golf-Australasian tour suffers under PGA Tour heat Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:47 PM PDT By Andrew Both GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Aug 20 (Reuters) - As the heavyweight U.S. PGA Tour revamps its schedule and continues to expand internationally, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the world's other tours to survive, let alone thrive. Nowhere are the problems more acute than in Australia, a proud golfing nation that has produced some of the game's greatest players, including this year's Masters champion Adam Scott and former world number one Greg Norman. ... Full Story | Top |
| Rugby-All Blacks to get bigger bonus for retaining World Cup Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:28 PM PDT By Greg Stutchbury WELLINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The All Blacks will each get NZ$150,000 ($119,600) if they retain the rugby World Cup in 2015, a 50 percent increase on their 2011 bonus, according to a new collective bargaining agreement released on Wednesday. The agreement also includes a significant increase in funding for both the men's and women's sevens programmes as the country chases Olympic gold at the Rio Games in 2016. Rugby will make his Olympic return at Rio with the abbreviated version of the game. ... Full Story | Top |
| No positive tests in 2013 Tour de France: UCI Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:25 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The 2013 Tour de France had no positive drug test results, Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) director Francesca Rossi said at a media Open Day in Aigle, Switzerland on Tuesday. Britain's Chris Froome won this year's race, which came under extra scrutiny as it was the first edition being staged since American Lance Armstrong admitted he had cheated his way to seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005. Team Sky's Froome, who had to face the media every day on the Tour, expressed his frustration during the race at being repeatedly questioned about doping in the sport. ... Full Story | Top |
| Cycling-No positive tests in 2013 Tour de France - UCI Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:22 PM PDT LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The 2013 Tour de France had no positive drug test results, Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) director Francesca Rossi said at a media Open Day in Aigle, Switzerland on Tuesday. Britain's Chris Froome won this year's race, which came under extra scrutiny as it was the first edition being staged since American Lance Armstrong admitted he had cheated his way to seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005. ... Full Story | Top |
| Reuters Sports Schedule at 0001 GMT on Wednesday, August 21 Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 05:01 PM PDT Reuters sports schedule at 0001 GMT on Wednesday: - - - - BASEBALL Tigers aim to pad lead in AL Central The Detroit Tigers, who hold a commanding lead in the American League Central, host the struggling Minnesota Twins while the Atlanta Braves, runaway pacesetters in the National League East, visit the New York Mets in two of 16 games on the major league schedule. (BASEBALL-ROUNDUP/, expect by 0430 GMT/12:30 AM ET, 300 words) - - - - NORTH AMERICAN SPORTS Roundups of off-field developments in the major North American professional sports leagues. ... Full Story | Top |
| Three Oklahoma boys charged in killing of Australian student Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:50 PM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Three teenage boys were charged on Tuesday in the killing of an Australian university student in Oklahoma, in what police said might have been a thrill killing. Christopher Lane, 23, of Melbourne, was found dead of a gunshot wound on Friday, according to police in Duncan, Oklahoma, about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City. Charged with first-degree murder are Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, according to the Stephens County District Attorney's office. ... Full Story | Top |
| NBA-National Basketball Association roundup Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:42 PM PDT Aug 20 (The Sports Xchange) - Center Larry Sanders signed a contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. While terms were not disclosed, it is a four-year, $44 million deal, according to multiple reports. Sanders, 24, averaged 9.8 points and 9.5 rebounds in 71 games last season while also finishing second in the NBA with an average of 2.8 blocks per game. Entering his fourth season out of VCU, Sanders is considered an integral part of the Bucks' rebuilding process after they parted with Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis over the offseason. Sanders averaged 27. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball-Major League Baseball roundup Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:39 PM PDT Aug 20 (The Sports Xchange) - Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Ryan Dempster received a five-game suspension and was fined an undisclosed amount for "intentionally throwing at and hitting Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees with a pitch in the top of the second inning of Sunday night's game at Fenway Park". Joe Garagiola Jr., senior vice president of standards & operations for Major League Baseball, announced the penalty in a press release Tuesday afternoon. The suspension begins Tuesday, unless the veteran right-hander opts to appeal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Broncos linebacker Miller to serve six-game ban Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 04:27 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The Denver Broncos will be without linebacker Von Miller, their best defensive player, for the first six games of the season after he was suspended under the National Football League (NFL)'s substance-abuse policy. Miller, a Pro Bowler in 2011 and 2012, will be eligible to return to the Broncos on October 20 against the Indianapolis Colts. "The substances of abuse policy requires everyone to comply with the rules," Miller, 24, said in a statement released on Tuesday by the NFL Players Association. ... Full Story | Top |
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