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| Baseball results Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:29 PM PDT Aug 31 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the MLB games on Friday (home team in CAPS) Philadelphia 6 CHICAGO CUBS 5 NY YANKEES 8 Baltimore 5 NY Mets 3 WASHINGTON 2 PITTSBURGH 5 St. Louis 0 TORONTO 3 Kansas City 2 DETROIT 7 Cleveland 2 (7 innings) BOSTON 4 Chicago White Sox 3 ATLANTA 2 Miami 1 Minnesota 3 TEXAS 2 LA Angels 5 MILWAUKEE 0 Seattle 7 HOUSTON 1 COLORADO 9 Cincinnati 6 San Francisco 1 ARIZONA 0 Full Story | Top |
| Cricket-New Zealand batsman Guptill to have ankle surgery Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:21 PM PDT WELLINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Batsman Martin Guptill needs an ankle surgery and has been ruled out of New Zealand's tour to Bangladesh in October, the country's cricket board said on Saturday. New Zealand physiotherapist Paul Close has advised the 26-year-old to undergo an operation next month for the right ankle injury he has been carrying for the past year. "The recovery from the ankle operation will mean Guptill will miss the Bangladesh tour with a possible return for the tour to Sri Lanka in November," New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hewitt stuns Del Potro at U.S. Open Friday, Aug 30, 2013 09:06 PM PDT  By Julian Linden NEW YORK (Reuters) - Australia's Lleyton Hewitt won an absorbing late-night thriller against Juan Martin Del Potro at the U.S. Open on Friday to move into the third round. In a battle between two former U.S. Open champions, the veteran Australian came out on top after more than four hours, winning 6-4 5-7 3-6 7-6 (2) 6-1, in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament. Del Potro, who stunned Roger Federer to win the 2009 U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-Hewitt stuns Del Potro at U.S. Open Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:56 PM PDT (Adds details, quotes) By Julian Linden NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Australia's Lleyton Hewitt won an absorbing late-night thriller against Juan Martin Del Potro at the U.S. Open on Friday to move into the third round. In a battle between two former U.S. Open champions, the veteran Australian came out on top after more than four hours, winning 6-4 5-7 3-6 7-6 (2) 6-1, in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament. Del Potro, who stunned Roger Federer to win the 2009 U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Baseball-Highlights of Friday's Major League Baseball Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:53 PM PDT Aug 30 (The Sports XChange) - Highlights of Friday's Major League Baseball games - - - - Pirates 5, Cardinals 0 Garrett Jones could not have picked a better time to break out of his slump as the first baseman went 3-for-4 with his 100th career home run and four RBIs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-0 whitewash of the St. Louis Cardinals. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hingis serves up double disappointment on return Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:49 PM PDT  By Will Swanton NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two matches. Two full houses. Two losses. Martina Hingis proved she could still put backsides on seats in her return to the U.S. Open on Friday, even if her service game recalled more the struggles of the past than the triumphs. Hundreds of spectators were shut out of Court 17 for the 32-year-old's cameo in the women's doubles but her return to grand slam tennis, also incorporating an appearance in the mixed event, was blighted by a pair of defeats. Sixteen years after winning her only U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-Hingis serves up double disappointment on return Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:28 PM PDT By Will Swanton NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Two matches. Two full houses. Two losses. Martina Hingis proved she could still put backsides on seats in her return to the U.S. Open on Friday, even if her service game recalled more the struggles of the past than the triumphs. Hundreds of spectators were shut out of Court 17 for the 32-year-old's cameo in the women's doubles but her return to grand slam tennis, also incorporating an appearance in the mixed event, was blighted by a pair of defeats. Sixteen years after winning her only U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-U.S. Open men's singles round 2 results Friday, Aug 30, 2013 08:26 PM PDT Aug 31 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the U.S. Open Men's Singles Round 2 matches on Friday Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) beat 6-Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) 6-4 5-7 3-6 7-6(2) 6-1 9-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) beat Ivo Karlovic (Croatia) 7-5 7-6(8) 6-4 Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) beat 17-Kevin Anderson (South Africa) 6-2 6-2 6-2 Evgeny Donskoy (Russia) beat Peter Gojowczyk (Germany) 6-3 6-4 3-6 4-6 6-3 3-Andy Murray (Britain) beat Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) 7-5 6-1 3-6 6-1 Florian Mayer (Germany) beat Donald Young (U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Noise no problem as Murray reaches third round Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:15 PM PDT  By Will Swanton NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andy Murray entered the U.S. Open determined to enjoy every moment but there were times in his second-round triumph over Leonardo Mayer on Friday when all the old frustrations, aggravations and self-admonishment returned. The defending champion dropped a set but still lodged a 7-5 6-1 3-6 6-1 victory over the Argentine slugger, finishing strongly in a typically electrifying atmosphere at a packed Louis Armstrong Stadium. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-Noise no problem as Murray reaches third round Friday, Aug 30, 2013 07:09 PM PDT (Writes through with quotes) By Will Swanton NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Andy Murray entered the U.S. Open determined to enjoy every moment but there were times in his second-round triumph over Leonardo Mayer on Friday when all the old frustrations, aggravations and self-admonishment returned. The defending champion dropped a set but still lodged a 7-5 6-1 3-6 6-1 victory over the Argentine slugger, finishing strongly in a typically electrifying atmosphere at a packed Louis Armstrong Stadium. ... Full Story | Top |
| Young American legacy of Williams sisters emerges Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:43 PM PDT  By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - The legacy of the championship years of the Williams sisters is beginning to emerge, with 10 American women now ranked in the top 100 and members of the younger set beginning to knock on the door of grand slam success. Tennis great Chris Evert sees major hardware within reach, while U.S. Tennis Association chief of player development Patrick McEnroe and U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez agree that U.S. women's tennis is once again very much on the rise. On Friday, 20-year-old Sloane Stephens beat Jamie Hampton in a third-round U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tennis-Young American legacy of Williams sisters emerges Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:37 PM PDT By Larry Fine NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The legacy of the championship years of the Williams sisters is beginning to emerge, with 10 American women now ranked in the top 100 and members of the younger set beginning to knock on the door of grand slam success. Tennis great Chris Evert sees major hardware within reach, while U.S. Tennis Association chief of player development Patrick McEnroe and U.S. Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez agree that U.S. women's tennis is once again very much on the rise. On Friday, 20-year-old Sloane Stephens beat Jamie Hampton in a third-round U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Spain seeking lift with Madrid's 2020 'austerity bid' Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:29 PM PDT By Iain Rogers MADRID (Reuters) - For a sports-obsessed country in the grip of a debilitating recession and stained by allegations of political corruption, winning the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games in Madrid is exactly the tonic Spain needs. At least that is what government and bid officials are arguing as they attempt to convince International Olympic Committee (IOC) members the capital deserves to stage the world's biggest and most expensive sporting event instead of Istanbul or Tokyo. ... Full Story | Top |
| IOC top job up for grabs as VP Bach eyes win Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:20 PM PDT By Karolos Grohmann (Reuters) - The departure of International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge after 12 years with his sure hand on the tiller marks the end of an era for the global sports organization, and sees six candidates vying to replace him on September 10. Rogge, a Belgian surgeon, who took over from Juan Antonio Samaranch in 2001, steered the IOC through the reputation-damaging 2002 Salt Lake City Games bribery scandal fallout, and oversaw the organization's trend-bucking financial growth as the economic crisis of the late 2000s bit into sports revenues. ... Full Story | Top |
| IOC session new stage on Buenos Aires bidding journey Friday, Aug 30, 2013 06:18 PM PDT By Luis Ampuero BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine Jose Zubiaur, one of the 13 members of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's first International Olympic Committee in 1894, would no doubt have been thrilled to see his home city of Buenos Aires host the body's 2013 congress. Compatriot Gerardo Werthein, a current member of the IOC and president of the Argentine Olympic Committee, is the latest holder of that baton and a key mover in obtaining the 2018 Youth Olympic Games for his city. ... Full Story | Top |
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