TOUGH TIMES: LeBron James refused to surrender but it would take one of the greatest comebacks in US sports history to secure basketball's biggest prize for Cleveland
The San Antonio Spurs, playing their best defense when it matters most, moved to the brink of a fourth NBA title in nine years on Tuesday by edging Cleveland 75-72.

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Singapore took a step closer to promotion to the top division at the Sudirman Cup World Team Championships yesterday with a vital 3-2 win over Taiwan in Division 2.

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NO EASY TASK AHEAD: The course for the US Open championship, which starts today, is strewn with potentially tricky bunkers and expansive rolling greens
Tiger Woods will seek to join a who's who of champions produced by Oakmont when the US Open golf championship returns to the fabled course today.

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Asia's young guns, led by Chinese star Liang Wenchong, have shown their talent can go as far as their driving abilities after a sparkling first half of the Asian Tour season.

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Spain's soccer federation said on Tuesday that it could do little to stop so-called "motivational payments" allegedly paid by one club to another to beat certain opponents, which are illegal.

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FIFA has undertaken a worldwide study to examine whether players from various ethnic populations have different naturally occurring testosterone levels.

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WINNING ONCE MORE: The Taiwanese pitcher, whose only previous victory came over the Mets last September, allowed just five hits and one run in seven innings
Wilson Betemit, Matt Kemp and winning pitcher Kuo Hong-chih homered off John Maine on three consecutive pitches as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Mets 4-1 on Tuesday to hand the slumping National League East leaders their eighth loss in nine games.

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Weaving around icy boulders and scrambling to avoid sliding down the snow-covered mountainside, Bolivian President Evo Morales and his staff played a soccer match on Bolivia's highest peak on Tuesday, gleefully thumbing their noses at FIFA's ban on high-altitude games.

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Tim Henman's Wimbledon preparations were left in tatters on Tuesday after the former British No. 1 slumped to a first round defeat at Queen's at the hands of Croatian teenager Marin Cilic.

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DaMarcus Beasley scored twice as the US beat El Salvador 4-0 on Tuesday, finishing group play at the CONCACAF Gold Cup with three victories and heading to the quarter-finals as the only team not to have conceded a goal.

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HOSTILITIES COOL: Troubled golf star John Daly and his wife Sherrie had asked a court in Memphis for protection against each other
John Daly and his wife called a truce on Tuesday after dueling court claims of drunken rampage, knife-wielding and sexual assault.

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