Jepkosgei in 800m heaven
COMMONWEALTH GAMES:
Janeth Jepkosgei sprinted past Kenia Sinclair and world champion Maria Mutola in the final meters to win her first major international title
Janeth Jepkosgei caused an upset in the 800m, beating former Olympic and three-time world champion Maria Mutola, who ended up in third place yesterday at the Commonwealth Games.
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Love leads as Woods struggles
Davis Love III steered clear of trouble on the TPC at Sawgrass with seven birdies inside 10 feet for a 7-under 65 on Thursday, earning him a share of the first-round lead at the Players Championship with dinner partner Jim Furyk.
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Tigers upend Blue Devils
AMERICAN BASKETBALL:
LSU eliminated top-seeded Duke from the NCAA Tournament as the UCLA Bruins stunned third-seeded Gonzaga 73-71 in regional action
It was not Louisiana State's Big Baby who thwarted top-seeded Duke on Thursday, but the Tigers' big freshman Tyrus Thomas, who made one significant play after another in the final minute to lead fourth-seeded LSU to a 62-54 upset of the Blue Devils in an NCAA tournament regional semifinal.
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Trashers edge Devils with overtime goal
Peter Bondra scored 1:03 into overtime to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 6-5 win over New Jersey on Thursday night and a four-game season sweep of the Devils.
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NCAA's leading scorers now out of running
By William Rhoden More than ever, the road to the Final Four is wide open. But the subtext of this college basketball season has become who will win -- who should win -- the Naismith player of the year award: Duke's J.J. Redick or Gonzaga's Adam Morrison?
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Ichiro Suzuki breaks out of shell
PRO BASEBALL:
Leading Team Japan to the World Baseball Classic title days earlier, Suzuki rejoined his American teammates , but his mind was still in Japan
Ichiro Suzuki returned to the Seattle Mariners a changed man.
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Writer Gene Scott of `Tennis Week' dies at Mayo Clinic
Gene Scott, who served tennis for a half-century as a world-ranked player, tournament director, player agent, author and, perhaps most significant, the founder, publisher, editor and iconoclastic columnist of Tennis Week magazine, died Monday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was 68 and lived in New York.
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Chen Chin-fong hits first CPBL homer
By Paul Huang In just his second game as a La New Bear in Taiwan's Super Baseball League, Chen Chin-fong recorded his first home run to help his team beat the President Lions 7-6 in Kaohsiung on Wednesday.
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