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7/1/2009 11:52 PM
BETHESDA, Md. -- It's not often that a player is bold enough to challenge Tiger Woods on the golf course. Rarer still is when it happens during a pro-am round from one of his amateur partners.
"That still puts me 1 up," Dallas Cowboys quarterbac ...
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7/1/2009 11:51 PM
ATLANTA -- Jair Jurrjens allowed his first hit with two outs in the seventh inning on a night the Atlanta Braves finally gave him some run support, beating the reeling Philadelphia Phillies 11-1 on Wednesday.
Jurrjens (6-6) began the night with ...
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7/1/2009 11:51 PM
PARIS -- For Lance Armstrong to win an eighth Tour de France, he will not only have to beat the best rider in the world - his teammate and rival Alberto Contador - he will also need to master an innovative course with a grueling last week that includ ...
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7/1/2009 11:50 PM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Roger Federer neutralized Ivo Karlovic's huge serves Wednesday to reach the Wimbledon semifinals and move a step closer to a record 15th Grand Slam championship. Two-time finalist Andy Roddick, Andy Murray and Tommy Haas complet ...
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7/1/2009 11:49 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State says it's unfair to take wins off the individual records of football coach Bobby Bowden and other coaches and athletes who had no role in an academic cheating scandal.
In an appeal to the NCAA Wednesday, the un ...
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7/1/2009 11:49 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A judge issued a temporary injunction on Wednesday to lift Jeremy Mayfield's drug suspension, leaving the NASCAR driver free to race at Daytona this weekend.
U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen concluded the "likelihood of ...
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7/1/2009 12:07 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina is installing a state-of-art grass field and drainage system at Gamecock soccer's Stone Stadium.
The renovations are expected to be completed by August and cost about $462,000, according to athletic administrator Kevin ...
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7/1/2009 12:06 AM
WASHINGTON -- The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding the Bowl Championship Series. It's the second time this year that Congress is shining a light on the polarizing system college football uses to crown ...
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7/1/2009 12:06 AM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Former drivers Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip are two of the 25 nominees for the first NASCAR Hall of Fame induction class.
NASCAR released the two names Tuesday ahead of the announcement of all nominees Thursday night.
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7/1/2009 12:05 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Venus and Serena Williams are one round away from meeting in another Wimbledon final.
Five-time champion Venus overpowered Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 6-2 on Tuesday, and two-time winner Serena followed her into the semifinals ...
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7/1/2009 12:05 AM
CLEMSON -- Clemson's football coaches are in their new offices.
The school said Tuesday that head coach Dabo Swinney and his staff began inhabiting their new digs in Clemson's WestZone complex at Memorial Stadium.
Clemson began the $70 mill ...
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7/1/2009 12:05 AM
NORFOLK, Va. -- Michael Vick's revised bankruptcy plan would funnel more of his future pay to his creditors and ensure that they receive a portion of his earnings even if the suspended NFL star doesn't return to the league.
Vick attorney Paul Ca ...
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7/1/2009 12:04 AM
ATLANTA -- Martin Prado singled in the winning run in the 10th inning to finish with a career-best four hits and four RBIs, helping the Atlanta Braves beat Philadelphia 5-4 on Tuesday night for their first home win over the Phillies since 2007.
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6/30/2009 12:11 AM
ATLANTA -- Chipper Jones discovered a tiny problem during a stint in the batting cage, the sort of thing that only a hitter of his caliber would notice.
Then he went out and hit his first homer in nearly three weeks.
Jones' opposite-field s ...
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6/30/2009 12:10 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Centre Court fans applauded Roger Federer's latest win at Wimbledon. And they really roared for the roof.
Five-time champion Federer advanced to the quarterfinals on a day Wimbledon went indoors. Some 90 minutes after Feder ...
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6/30/2009 12:10 AM
PINEHURST, N.C. -- Aaron Stewart walked onto the 18th green at Pinehurst's No. 2 course on Monday and allowed himself a peek at the imposing figure standing near the clubhouse.
Yes, his dad was watching.
The late Payne Stewart still casts a ...
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6/29/2009 12:26 AM
JOHANNESBURG -- Brazil's "Beautiful Game" came alive in the second half Sunday with three comeback goals in a 3-2 win over the upstart United States in the Confederations Cup final.
Luis Fabiano scored two of the goals and Lucio added the third in ...
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6/29/2009 12:26 AM
ATLANTA -- Rookie Tommy Hanson threw six scoreless innings despite a bout with the flu, and homers by Chipper Jones and Garret Anderson carried the Atlanta Braves past Boston 2-1 on Sunday, preventing a Red Sox sweep.
Pitching dominated the weekend ...
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6/29/2009 12:26 AM
CHARLESTON — Reliever Pat Venditte is bringing his two-armed skills to Tampa.
The Charletson RiverDogs said Saturday their switch-pitching closer was promoted to the Yankees advanced Class A team. Venditte uses a specially designed, six-fingered ...
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6/29/2009 12:25 AM
EUGENE, Ore. -- It takes something pretty special these days to surprise Shawn Crawford, a veteran with a load of hardware back home and even more memories in his head.
Something like, say, winning a national championship in 2009.
The 31-year-old ...
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6/29/2009 12:25 AM
LOUDON, N.H. -- Teenager Joey Logano became the youngest winner in the history of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Sunday, winning the rain-shortened race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The precocious 19-year-old rookie came back from a crash that pu ...
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6/29/2009 12:24 AM
CROMWELL, Conn. -- Kenny Perry shot 63 Sunday to finish with a tournament-record 258 and win the Travelers Championship by three strokes over Paul Goydos and David Toms.
The 48-year-old Perry, who led after each of the first two rounds, trailed by ...
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6/27/2009 11:47 PM
WIMBLEDON, England -- As a tyke growing up in Marietta, Ga., Melanie Oudin would watch Venus and Serena Williams on TV and tell anyone who would listen that she was going to play at Wimbledon, too, one day.
Who knew she'd be right? And do so well, ...
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6/27/2009 11:47 PM
LOUDON, N.H. -- Blame the tough racetrack, the Car of Tomorrow or simply circumstance. Whatever the reason, there have been no repeat winners in the last four years of NASCAR Sprint Cup racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
If that trend holds, G ...
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6/27/2009 11:46 PM
CROMWELL, Conn. -- Paul Goydos birdied five holes on the back nine Saturday and held a one-stroke lead over Kenny Perry after the third round of the Travelers Championship.
Goydos' 28-foot putt from off the green on the 16th highlighted a third-rou ...
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6/27/2009 11:46 PM
LOUDON, N.H. -- Kyle Busch figured out a way to win again in NASCAR's Nationwide Series.
After two straight frustrating runner-up finishes in the second tier series, Busch passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Joey Logano near the end of the Camping Wor ...
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6/27/2009 11:46 PM
LOUDON, N.H. -- At least a handful of the drivers racing in today's NASCAR Sprint Cup race in New Hampshire will be thinking about another race here in September.
The second race of the season on the 1.058-mile oval will be the start of the 10-race ...
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6/27/2009 11:41 PM
ATLANTA -- Who would've envisioned this: Tim Wakefield joining Roger Clemens in the Boston record book?
The 42-year-old knuckleballer pitched six scoreless innings to beat the Atlanta Braves 1-0 Saturday, a worthy performance for the game that tied ...
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6/27/2009 11:40 PM
EUGENE, Ore. -- If only they were all this easy.
LaShawn Merritt and Sanya Richards made their 400-meter races look like strolls around the track Saturday, each cruising to titles at the U.S. championships.
With no Jeremy Wariner in the field, Me ...
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6/27/2009 11:35 PM
ATLANTA -- John Smoltz woke up in his own bed, made pancakes for the kids, took a dip in the pool, then headed to the ballpark.
That's where things got a little strange.
"I can't help but think about all the times I drove in here, walked through ...
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6/27/2009 12:23 AM
MONTREAL -- The New York Islanders kept everyone guessing, including John Tavares himself, right up until they made the high-scoring center the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NHL entry draft.
The Islanders chose Tavares, an 18-year-old junior star with the ...
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6/27/2009 12:23 AM
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina athletic director Eric Hyman received a five-year contract extension on Friday, tying him to Gamecock sports until 2015.
There won't be a raise, but the move gives Hyman a mandate to continue revamping South Carolina's at ...
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6/27/2009 12:22 AM
JOHANNESBURG -- If the underdog U.S. men's team is going to win its first FIFA final by stunning another powerhouse, the Americans know they'll need some tough defense to go with the energy they're suddenly showing.
The United States, still elated ...
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6/27/2009 12:22 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Lo and behold, Roger Federer actually lost a set at Wimbledon on Friday.
Not a match, mind you, just a set, which in and of itself counts as news. Dating to the start of the 2003 tournament, after all, Federer is 43-1 at the A ...
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6/27/2009 12:21 AM
CLEVELAND -- Former Cleveland Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius sued the team and the Cleveland Clinic on Friday, saying the team misrepresented the cleanliness of its training facility and blaming doctors with negligence over a staph infection in his r ...
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6/27/2009 12:21 AM
Hedo Turkoglu's run with the Orlando Magic appears to be over.
A day after the Magic acquired Vince Carter from the New Jersey Nets, Turkoglu's agent said Friday that he sent a notice to Orlando earlier this week that his client will opt out of his ...
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6/27/2009 12:21 AM
LOUDON, N.H. -- Jimmie Johnson hasn't hit his stride -- yet.
Despite getting off to a solid start in his quest for a record fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup championship, things haven't gone exactly the way Johnson would like.
"I'm real happy wi ...
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6/27/2009 12:20 AM
ATLANTA -- Josh Beckett threw seven more scoreless innings against the Braves and David Ortiz homered, leading the first-place Boston Red Sox past slumping Atlanta 4-1 on Friday night.
Beckett (9-3) has faced the Braves twice in the past seven days ...
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6/27/2009 12:20 AM
Floyd Mayweather's return to boxing is back on, although the new date won't make things any easier for him against hard-hitting Juan Manuel Marquez.
The former pound-for-pound king, who was slated to fight Marquez next month at the MGM Grand in Las ...
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6/27/2009 12:19 AM
NEW YORK -- Jess Jackson wasn't sure how much Rachel Alexandra's stirring victory against the boys in the Preakness took out of her, so he wound up keeping the superstar filly out of the Belmont Stakes.
Three weeks later, Jackson will finally see w ...
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6/26/2009 12:16 AM
WASHINGTON -- Whether it was nerves, rust or age - or a combination of the three - John Smoltz had a rough debut inning for the Boston Red Sox.
The 42-year-old right-hander allowed four of the first five batters to score before settling down in ...
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6/26/2009 12:15 AM
CHARLOTTE -- North Carolina's most famous basketball star turned to archrival Duke in hopes of giving the Charlotte Bobcats the boost they need to reach the playoffs for the first time.
The Michael Jordan-led Bobcats selected shooting guard Gera ...
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6/26/2009 12:13 AM
NEW YORK -- On a day of head-turning trades around the NBA, the Los Angeles Clippers made the obvious choice to start the draft.
The Clippers selected Blake Griffin with the No. 1 pick Thursday night, grabbing the only player considered a sure t ...
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6/26/2009 12:12 AM
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball is cooperating with a federal investigation into where Manny Ramirez got the performance-enhancing drug that resulted in his 50-game suspension.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is checking whether a doctor i ...
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6/26/2009 12:12 AM
ATLANTA -- The Hawks acquired guard Jamal Crawford from the Golden State Warriors on Thursday for guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton, hours before the NBA draft.
Crawford, who had his differences with Golden State coach Don Nelson, provides the ...
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6/26/2009 12:12 AM
CROMWELL, Conn. -- Kenny Perry shot a 61 to tie the course record and take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Travelers Championship on Thursday.
Perry, who has finished in the top-10 seven times at this tournament, shot a 29 on the f ...
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6/26/2009 12:10 AM
PARKERSBURG, Iowa -- When a fatal tornado ripped through the rural Iowa town Ed Thomas called home, the local football coach became the driving force behind rebuilding. As a trusted and active church member, he encouraged the tiny community to have f ...
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6/26/2009 12:09 AM
WIMBLEDON, England -- Venus Williams ambled onto sun-splashed Court 1 at Wimbledon on Thursday, a slight hitch in her step and an odd-looking wrap around her left knee. White tape here, brown tape there.
Good thing the five-time Wimbledon champi ...
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