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Sagna targets title with Arsenal
Sagna, 30, is entering into the final season of his current deal at the Emirates Stadium, but is in talks over an extension. Manager Arsene Wenger has been promised significant funds to build a squad capable of mounting a sustained title challenge after they pipped Tottenham to fourth place and a potential Champions League place. France international Sagna has no doubts Arsenal can be ...
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Manu Spurs ponder how they lost Game 6
Manu Ginobili was thinking about so many things as he sat with his chin in the palm of his hand staring down at the stat sheet on the table before him. He looked as if he were staring at a bill he couldn't afford to pay. "We were a few seconds away from winning the championship," he said. "And we let it go." The Spurs' 103-100 overtime loss in Game ...
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Ed OBannon v. NCAA Whats at stake
case currently pending in the Northern District of California. This cavalcade of J.D.s will pack a courtroom in Oakland, Calif., on June 20 to argue whether the O'Bannon case should go forward as a class action lawsuit. SI.com legal analyst Michael McCann ...
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Brazil World Cup protests National security force deployed to ensure Confederations Cup is not disrupted
A national security force will be deployed to five of Brazil's major cities to ensure the Confederations Cup football tournament is not disrupted by the widespread protests that have swept the ...
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Group gives $100K for sports complex
The Daily Journal reports The Bailey & Wood Financial Group donated the money to help pay for somewhere between 700 and 1,000 visitor-side seats. The money will also be used to build a pole barn for baseball and softball teams. In return, the financial company will get non-exclusive advertising on the scoreboards. The deal was accepted by the Clark-Pleasant school board Tuesday ...
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Tiger out of ATT National due to strained elbow
on his website Wednesday that he will not play in the tournament he hosts, the AT&T National, due to a left elbow strain. "I was examined after I returned home from the U.S. Open, and the doctors determined I have a left elbow strain," Woods said.Woods said that he suffered from mild discomfort in his elbow before the US Open at Merion last week but he further injured the elbow ...
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Kirsten Leaves South Africa No Wiser About Choke Habit
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Woods to Rest Elbow Skip ATT National
Tiger Woods' sore left elbow will keep him out of competition until the British Open. Woods says on his website that he had his left elbow checked out when he returned home from the U.S. Open at Merion. He says doctors found a strain to his left elbow and advised him to take a few weeks off for rest and ...
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Anzhi Banned From Playing at Home in Europe Once Again
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Rose Running on Adrenaline After US Open Victory
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Wawrinka downs Lorenzi in 2 sets to advance
Second-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 7-6 (8) Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Topshelf Open on the grass courts of Rosmalen.The Italian never managed to seriously threaten Wawrinka's serve until the 12th game of the second set, when he broke the Swiss to force a tiebreak.He then fought off three match points before finally succumbing 10-8 to the No. ...
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Sports Queens Revive Hopes
Mombasa Region 2-0 in a tough girls' hockey match to revive their hopes of reaching a respectable position in the ongoing Pepsi National Secondary Schools Championships at Nakuru Boys High ...
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In Chicago the Blackhawks nickname isnt a big issue
The University of North Dakota's ongoing Fighting Sioux controversy may be in its final stages. In Chicago, where the hometown hockey team is playing in the Stanley Cup Finals, the Blackhawks nickname has not aroused the same passions, according to a Chicago Tribune story. According to John ...
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Serena Williams Says She Is Sorry After Steubenville Rape Case Comments
Serena Williams says she's reaching out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position." In a statement released through her agent Wednesday, Williams says: "What was written - what I supposedly said - is insensitive and hurtful, and I by no ...
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Forlan Eyes 100th Uruguay Cap in Key Game Against Nigeria
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Sa Pinto Quits as Red Star Coach
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Istanbul 2020 hoping Mediterranean Games and FIFA Under-20 World Cup will help get bid back on track
June 19 - Turkish officials behind Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be hoping for the chance to get their campaign back on track when the Mediterranean Games opens tomorrow in Mersin. After more than two weeks of rioting the situation has remained relatively calm since the weekened when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cleared the protestors who had ...
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Hockey Inglis strike enough for Black Sticks
The New Zealand men's hockey team are through to the last four at the World League semifinal tournament in Rotterdam after a 1-0 win over Spain today. The key moment came midway through the first half, from a brave, full length dive and stab into the Spanish net from close range by striker Hugo Inglis. The Black Sticks produced a stout-hearted display during which they came second in ...
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Tennis Serena gives rape victim a serve
Serena Williams says in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that, while not blaming the victim in the Steubenville rape case, "she shouldn't have put herself in that position". The comment is made in one paragraph of a lengthy story posted online yesterday about Williams, a 16-time Grand Slam title winner who is ranked No 1 heading into Wimbledon, which starts next week. Two players from ...
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Hockey Black Sticks to take on Olympic victors
History is about to repeat, albeit in a different setting, for New Zealand when they play Olympic champions the Netherlands for a place in the World League hockey final in Rotterdam tomorrow morning. The last time the women played the Dutch was in the Olympic semifinal in London last August. A thriller ended in tears for the Black Sticks as a 2-2 draw - and having had chances to win in ...
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England Ease Into Final as South Africa Choke Again
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Sri Lanka play India in second semi-final
Sri Lanka and India clash in Cardiff to determine who will play England in the final of the Champions Trophy limited overs cricket ...
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Tomic loses focus but still wins
Bernard Tomic says he's building in confidence for Wimbledon after surviving a huge lapse in concentration to reach the Eastbourne ATP quarter-finals.Tomic admits he got ahead of himself in blowing a huge lead before grinding out a 6-2 5-7 7-6 (7-4) win over Frenchman Julien Benneteau at the grass-court event on England's south coast on Wednesday.After winning his first match in almost ...
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England beat South Africa by seven wickets
England's cricketers have beaten South Africa by seven wickets to qualify for the final of the ICC's Champions Trophy limited overs ...
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ABC Hernandez rental car to be searched
Investigators searched Aaron Hernandez's home Tuesday in connection with the death of a man who police said was an associate of Hernandez and now plan to search a rental car registered to ...
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Olympics may be Dubai's next goal
Dubai is famous for being ambitious, sometimes to its detriment, but mostly to its advantage. It was ambition that made it the city the way it is now. For some, the recent announcement of a possible Olympic bid may seem overly optimistic, but what are Dubai’s chances realistically?
Dubai does nothing half-heartedly. Fifteen years ago, Dubai was just another city in the Gulf, there was nothing particularly special about it, apart from the fact that, for western workers, it was an attractive location because of the lack of income tax, but this it had in common with many other GCC cities. Read more
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