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Zondeki retires from all cricket
Johannesburg – Cape Cobras and former South African bowler, Monde Zondeki, 30, has decided to call an end to his cricket career following persistent back injury ...
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HBOs Real Sports looks at KY Thorougbred breeding industry
The HBO program Real Sports sent a reporter to Kentucky recently to profile the statee Thoroughbred breeding industry. According to The Courier-Journal, the Bernard Goldberg segment Out to Stud will recount the recent death of the legendary sire Storm Cat and take stock of how the recession has impacted the industry. The show, hosted by Bryant Gumbel, initially airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. on HBO, ...
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Fan Outfitters sports clothing chain sold to Indy company
Fan Outfitters, a Lexington-based chain of sports clothing stores that includes two Louisville locations, has been sold to an Indianapolis company for an undisclosed price. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Lids Sports Group, a subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Genesco Inc. that operates more than 1,000 retail stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, is the new owner. Fan ...
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Manly Storm draw 10-10 in golden point
Defending NRL champions Melbourne and Manly have played out a 10-10 draw after golden point failed to separate the arch-rivals at AAMI Park.Neither side could get the field goal they desperately sought to claim the win.The Storm had three attempts, as did Manly, but couldn't find the target and were forced to settle for the draw in another absorbing match between the two teams.Manly looked ...
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Maki Greening’s face a testament to playoff winning hockey
Ottawa Senators' Colin Greening acknowledges the cheers of the crowd after being named the first star in Game 3 of their NHL Eastern Conference semi-final playoff game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Ottawa May 19, 2013. (CHRIS ...
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Premier League Clubs End-Of-Season Report
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Lowe Reunited With Hamilton at Mercedes
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Taiwan make history by claiming men’s doubles title at World Table Tennis Championships
May 19 - Taiwan's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan claimed a stunning victory in the men's doubles final at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris to take the country's first ever gold medal in the history of the event. The seventh seeds went in as huge underdogs against the Chinese top seeds Hao Shuai and Ma Lin but in a thrilling clash, the duo prevailed in six ...
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We knew what win meant - Koscielny
20 May 2013 Laurent Koscielny insists the Arsenal players knew exactly what was at stake if they had failed to beat Newcastle and missed out on another shot at the Champions ...
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Former South Africa fast bowler retires
Former South Africa fast bowler Monde Zondeki has announced his retirement from first-class competition.Zondeki, who has not played international cricket since 2008, has been nursing a chronic back injury - and hadn't represented his provincial union, Western Province, this year."The prognosis by his doctors is that Monde has multiple level degenerative changes in his lumbar spine and ...
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New Zealand call up Vettori
The veteran Daniel Vettori has been called up to New Zealand's squad for the second Test against England at Headingley next week.Vettori, who has not played international cricket since September 2012 due to an Achilles tendon injury, will act as cover for fellow slow bowler Bruce Martin, who tore a calf muscle during the first Test."It looks like Bruce is probably touch and go for that ...
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Miguel Cabrera hits 3 HRs but Tigers fall 11-8 in Texas
ARLINGTON, Texas - Miguel Cabrera never had a night like this last season when he won baseball's first Triple Crown in 45 years.And it still wasn't enough to get the Detroit Tigers a win.David Murphy put Texas ahead for good with a three-run home run just over the wall in right field in the sixth inning, and the Rangers spoiled the second three-homer game of Cabrera's career with ...
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Cricket Bowlers Not Batters Lead Hyderabad to Playoffs
It did not take long for Sunrisers Hyderabad, the newest of the India Premier ...
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F1 Tire Changes to Be Less Dramatic Than Feared
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Suns Smith is latest AFL knee victim
Gold Coast ruckman Zac Smith is the latest player to have his season cut short as part of a plague of serious knee injuries that has swept the AFL.The Suns announced on Monday that the 23-year-old will need a reconstruction after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee during Saturday's win over the Western Bulldogs.Smith hurt his knee in an innocuous incident ...
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England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes
LONDON (Reuters) - England secured the convincing victory over New Zealand they demanded in the first test at Lord's but question marks remain over the make-up of their team for the Ashes series against Australia starting in ...
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Moyes set to meet United squad
Moyes was due to meet United players and staff at Carrington for the first time in order to outline his plans for the future.Although he does not officially start work until July 1, realistically, that start date is impractical as United head on tour on July 10 and return to pre-season training before then. Moyes will also have to decide which areas of the present squad he needs to improve. It ...
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McDowell moves up in rankings
Thongchai Jaidee , ranked 49th, to win what was his second title in his last three events.There was no change among the top six in the rankings, ...
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What the papers say England v NZ Lords
England won the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's by 170 runs, and some pundits felt the margin was flattering for England, given their poor batting, while the focus was mostly on the fast bowlers.An hour of play on day four, where Stuart Broad demolished New Zealand's batting order by taking seven for 44, dominated the papers on Monday, with praise and despair at his erratic ...
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Nadal back to fourth in tennis rankings
Seven-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal has climbed back to fourth in the world tennis rankings after beating Roger Federer in the Rome ...
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Pulse beat Mystics in trans-Tasman netball
Central Pulse have kept alive their faint play-off hopes with a convincing 63-48 win over Northern Mystics in their trans-Tasman netball league ...
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Lowe to Join Mercedes F1 Team in June
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Thurston says Leichhardt wanker chant ok
He's not one of rugby league's Immortals yet but North Queensland star Johnathan Thurston wears the "wanker" tag from opposition supporters as a badge of honour. He revealed the slight - frequently used against Queensland icon and Immortal Wally Lewis during his playing days - was a crowd favourite when he visited Leichhardt Oval, which Thurston will do again when the ...
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British Embassy in China establishes countdown clock for London Olympics
British Embassy in China established a countdown clock at the ambassador's residence here on Wednesday to mark the one-year countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games. "The final countdown will begin. An exciting year of outstanding sporting and cultural events in Britain will set the stage for the greatest (sport) show on earth next summer," said ambassador Sebastian Wood. Zuo ...
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Ghana slips in FIFA world rankings
Ghana dropped further three places in the latest FIFA world ranking, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced here on Wednesday. A statement on the website of the country's footbal association said Ghana had slipped three places to 36th position in the world ranking from the previous 33rd position it was ranked in last month, on the world stage, while ranking 3rd on the continent ...
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Denmark's Russian relationship
Danish relations with Russia have existed for several centuries, with the first recorded diplomatic relations dating from 1493, when King Hans and Ivan III signed a treaty aimed at planning an offensive against Sweden and Lithuania. Since then the relations between the two countries have grown closer, frayed, become tense, reconciled and stagnated at different points throughout the history of their respective political development.
Denmark and Russia have always been economically and politically important to one another though. Denmark, since the end of the Cold War, has acted as a bridge between the east and west, and during much of the tumultuous politics of the post-war and Cold War period, remained largely neutral in many affairs concerning Russia. In 1939 the country refused to support measures to expel Russia from the then-League of Nations, and resisted attempts by Nordic countries to set up a defense alliance for the region. Read more
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