LONG WAIT: Sinon starter Tsai Chung-nan had his first win in nearly two injury-plagued years as Tseng Hua-wei's homer proved decisive in Douliou
By Paul Huang
Long balls played a huge role in the Sinon Bulls' pair of wins over the Chinatrust Whales at Douliou as they kept pace with the league-leading Macoto Cobras to trail them by only two-and-a-half games with less than 10 games remaining in the first half of the season.

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World Champion Lin Dan suffered a shock defeat to Lee Chong Wei in the men's singles but China still easily beat Malaysia 4-1 to top Division 1 Group A at the Sudirman Cup World Team Championships yesterday.

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ROCKY ROLLED: The defending champion became the latest high-profile player to lose to relatively unknown opposition when he crashed out to 121st-ranked Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Defending champion Lleyton Hewitt was sent crashing out of Queen's by French qualifier Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round on Wednesday.

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POT VS KETTLE?: Australian forwards coach Michael foley said tighthead prop B.J. Botha routinely bored in on the opposing hooker to gain an illegal advantage at scrum time
The Wallabies have accused South African strongman B.J. Botha of cheating in scrums ahead of tomorrow's Tri-Nations rugby Test in Cape Town, reports said.

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Lewis Hamilton has burst onto Formula One unlike any rookie before him.

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Maria Sharapova will face fast-rising Austrian Tamira Paszek for a place in the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament here after sweeping US qualifier Liliana Osterloh aside 6-4, 6-0 on Wednesday in her first grass court outing of the year.

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Third seed James Blake admitted he served as well as he had ever done to beat second-round opponent Russian Evgeny Korolev and book his quarter-final spot at the ATP Halle tournament on Wednesday.

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`WIDELY KNOWN': Peter Nuerurer told `Sport-Bild' that several of his players at Schalke 04 had used the banned stimulant Captagon during the 1989/ 1990 season
Former Bundesliga coach Peter Nuerurer admitted on Wednesday he saw players take a banned stimulant in the 1990s and claims the practice was not unsual in German soccer at that time.

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SUCCESS STORIES: New York's Mike Mussina earned his first win since May 9 while elsewhere Wes Helms hit his first homer of the season for the Phillies
Mike Mussina pitched into the eighth inning, Alex Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 25th homer and the New York Yankees beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-2 to extend their season-high winning streak to eight games on Wednesday.

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Skateboarding -- with creative assistance from cycling's international governing body -- appears headed for the Olympics in a bid to make the 111-year-old Games more attractive to a younger audience.

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GOING AWOL: The Mexicans were helped by two sendings off, while two Cuban players reportedly defected before their side's 5-0 defeat at the hands of Honduras
Carlos Salcido scored off a corner kick in the 60th minute to help Mexico beat Panama 1-0 on Wednesday and advance to the Gold Cup quarter-finals.

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Most of Haiti's under-17 national soccer team apparently deserted the squad during an airport stopover in New York hours before a planned Wednesday trip to South Korea to prepare for the U17 World Cup.

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Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is "heading toward" suspending Yankees slugger Jason Giambi next week if he does not cooperate with the steroids investigation by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, USA Today reported on its Web site early yesterday.

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