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College baseball roundup Seton Hill 1 win away from World Series
Seton Hill took advantage of an NCAA Division II-record 12 hit batsmen, including a D-II record five in one inning, and trounced top-seeded Millersville, 12-2, on Saturday night to remain unbeaten in the Atlantic Region ...
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Shady Side Academy tennis falls short in PIAA title bid
HERSHEY -- When Shady Side Academy defeated North Allegheny to win the WPIAL Class AAA boys tennis singles title, it needed three come-from-behind three-set victories to dispatch the ...
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Lake Brantley tops Durant for 4th state baseball title
Lake Brantley's Zach Krider, right, is congratulated by Tate Blackman after scoring during the Patriots' 8-3 state-final victory against Plant City Durant. (Jim Rassol, South Florida Sun ...
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Super delay sustainable Hockey
THE coalition is denying its proposed rein on superannuation will mean a six-figure retirement sting for workers. The government says Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's plan to delay superannuation contributions harks back to the 1990s when then prime minister John Howard's intention to delay a systematic increase to retirement funding morphed into its scrapping. "You would remember ...
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Sports Briefing | Golf Keegan Bradley Holds Lead at Byron Nelson
Keegan Bradley overcame two early bogeys and maintained his lead at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Tex., with a two-under-par 68 in the third round. Bradley has a one-stroke lead over Sang-Moon Bae. ¶ Chella Choi shot her second straight six-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead over Jessica Korda and Anna Nordqvist after the third round of the Mobile Bay L. ...
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Roundup Late-Inning Outbursts Lift Rays and Angels
Matt Joyce hit a go-ahead two-run double in a six-run ninth inning that lifted the Tampa Bay Rays to a 10-6 victory over the Orioles on Saturday, ending ...
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UR suspends head baseball coach and assistant
University of Richmond head baseball coach Mark McQueen and assistant coach Tag Montague did not coach in Saturday's regular-season finale against Virginia Commonwealth at The ...
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Reusse Staples pride runs deep for in-demand NBA assistant
Dave Joerger, an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies and possible NBA head-coaching candidate, starred at Staples-Motley and Moorhead ...
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Tampa Bays late goal beats United FC
It seems like nothing is going right for Minnesota United FC lately. Two weeks ago, they allowed a late goal against Carolina that gave them a tie instead of a win. Last week, they lost to the last-place team in the league. And Saturday against the Tampa Bay Rowdies, things went wrong again - at the worst possible time. Keith Savage scored in the 90th minute for Tampa Bay, giving the Rowdies a ...
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Gophers baseball team secures spot in Big Ten tournament at Target Field
The Gophers baseball team secured the fourth seed in this week’s six-team Big Ten tournament at Target Field with a 2-0 victory over Illinois on Saturday at Siebert Field. Lefthander D.J. Snelten (5-1) pitched eight shutout innings in the Gophers’ regular-season finale, and Billy Soule picked up his ninth save by getting three outs in the ninth. Ryan Abrahamson had two hits and the ...
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Sports Briefing | Hockey Sweden Tops Finland and Advances to World Hockey Championship Final
Sweden reached the final of the world championships by beating its fellow co-host and rival Finland, 3-0. Dallas Stars forward Loui Eriksson scored ...
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FIBA best Europe basketball player stabbed in Belgrade restaurant
Predrag Danilovic, president of the Partizan Basketball Club of Serbia and former Yugoslav international player, was stabbed in a Belgrade restaurant after a confrontation with other guests, reported Radio Television Serbia (RTS).Danilovic was hospitalized early Saturday morning with wounds to his stomach, head and hands. Hospital officials said Danilovic is in stable condition after surgery to ...
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North Korean pair wins historic mixed doubles title at table tennis worlds
DPR Korea's Kim Hyok Bong and Kim Jong claimed the mixed doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here on Saturday.This is the first individual title at the world championships that was won by a non-Chinese player or pair since it was last held in Paris 10 years ago. China has cleanswept all titles since.The two Kims defeated Lee Sangsu and Park Yongsook of South Korea in the ...
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McCarthy throws shutout for 1st victory of year
MIAMI - Paul Goldschmidt homered twice, tied his career high with four hits and drove in four runs to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Miami Marlins 9-2 Friday night.Eric Chavez homered and also had four hits, and Gerardo Parra and Martin Prado had three hits apiece for Arizona, which had 16 hits in all and won its third straight game.Trevor Cahill (3-4) won for the third time in four ...
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Oxbows Preakness win provides a different kind of history
Bill Frakes/SI BALTIMORE -- Watching Kentucky Derby champion Orb labor his way to a fourth-place finish in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, it was impossible not to feel the emotion rush out of dilapidated Pimlico Race Course. The sport has been waiting 35 years for a Triple Crown winner, and it will now have to wait at least one more. Can anyone possibly be surprised when a horse comes up ...
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Finals talk taboo for NSW Waratahs
The NSW Waratahs are refusing to talk finals football despite continuing on their impressive roll towards the Super Rugby playoffs with a gritty win over the stumbling Brumbies. NSW's 28-22 triumph earned the Waratahs three straight wins for the first time in three years, bumped the Brumbies off the top of the ladder and raised the possibility of three Australian sides qualifying for the ...
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Minichiello hails Pearces big-game play
Sydney Roosters captain Anthony Minichiello says NSW halfback Mitchell Pearce is a proven big-game player who is hitting ominous form ahead of next month's State of Origin opener. Pearce was the architect as Sydney extended their winning streak to five after beating North Queensland Cowboys on Saturday night, laying on the final pass for both tries in a grinding 12-8 win. Minichiello was ...
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Beckham given proper sendoff in final home game
PARIS -- David Beckham hugged his teammates with tears in his eyes, then walked off the pitch to a standing ovation -- for the last time in front of a home crowd at a soccer game. A clearly emotional Beckham was mobbed by his teammates on the field when coach Carlo Ancelotti decided to substitute him in the 81st minute of a 3-1 win over Brest on Saturday, giving him a customary sendoff in his ...
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McGaughey says it just wasnt Orbs day
1 of 4. Trainer Shug McGaughey (L) looks on as Kentucky Derby winner Orb gets a post-workout bath after a little track work in preparation for the upcoming 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, May 16, ...
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Column Hard Work Gets Lukas a Record
The old guy still gets up crack-of-dawn early. Not because D. Wayne Lukas has something left to prove, or anything more to gain. He already has it all: Fame, fortune, a bronze plaque in the Hall of Fame and -- after lightly-regarded Oxbow stunned Orb on Saturday at the Preakness -- he has the top spot in the Triple Crown trainer's record book, too, passing "Sunny Jim" ...
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IPL Game-changing cops of Delhi Police who busted cricket scandals
Betting is illegal in India, but Indians are compulsive gamblers, willing to wager thousands of crores on anything from the outcome of cricket ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Mauro Santambrogio Wins 14th Stage of Giro dItalia
Mauro Santambrogio of Italy won the 14th stage of the Giro ...
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Roundup Arroyo and Reds Master the Phillies
Bronson Arroyo pitched five-hit ball for seven and two-thirds innings, and Joey Votto was 4 for 4 with a homer for visiting Cincinnati in its 10-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday. Arroyo (4-4) struck out six and allowed one runner to reach third in winning his third straight start against Philadelphia. He was 1-7 in his first 10 games against the Phillies, but he ...
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Saunders starts checking items off Wolves to-do list
CHICAGO – Fresh on the job, Flip Saunders, the Timberwolves’ new president of basketball operations, worked the room when NBA executives, coaches, scouts and 60 prospects in the June draft gathered in Chicago for three days last week. And it was a big room. By day in a sprawling four-gym complex on the city’s rough west side, the Wolves’ former coach renewed old ...
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Carpenter Slays IndyCar Giants to Win 500 Pole
(Reuters) - Ed Carpenter upstaged IndyCar's biggest names and teams on Saturday to grab pole for the 97th Indianapolis 500. Carpenter, IndyCar's only owner/driver, delivered the big surprise on Pole Day at Indianapolis Motor Speedway clocking a four-lap average speed of 228.762 mph in his Chevrolet powered Dallara around the sprawling 2.5 mile oval. Rookie Colombian Carlos Munoz was ...
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Oliver the special gorilla
Oliver, a 21-year-old gorilla at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, has been to New York, Tennessee, Georgia and most recently Ohio. He is well-travelled because he is special for a number of reasons, and because of these reasons, he is also difficult to socialize, which is so important to his development and the survival of his species.
Oliver, the newest edition to the Western lowland gorilla population at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, is an extremely well-travelled primate; he’s probably seen more of the country than many humans. Read more
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