SUBWAY SHOWDOWN: The National Leaguers took the opener of the series between Big Apple teams and have beaten their rivals three times in four games
Oliver Perez outdueled Roger Clemens, giving the New York Mets a badly needed 2-0 victory on Friday and stopping the Yankees' winning streak at nine.

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By Paul Huang
Jeremy Hill needed no help from his bullpen in claiming his third win of the season, going the distance for the Macoto Cobras in their 3-1 win over the La New Bears at Sinjhuang on Friday night to maintain the Cobras' lead in the standings at two-and-a-half games.

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French Open champion Rafael Nadal suffered a rare taste of defeat as unseeded Nicolas Mahut knocked him out of Queen's in the quarter-finals on Friday.

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Daniel Carter scored three tries among 29 points as World Cup favorite New Zealand beat a defiant Canada 64-13 in a one-off rugby Test yesterday.

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Japan won a tense playoff against Singapore to replace relegated Thailand in division one of the Sudirman Cup world mixed team badminton championships on Friday.

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SIR BEEFY: Botham reached his sporting peak in the summer of 1981, virtually winning the Ashes single-handedly in what has become known as `Botham's Test'
Ian Botham, the English allrounder who destroyed Australia on the pitch and raised millions for children's cancer charities off it, is now "Sir Beefy."

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Chelsea and Newcastle United were among five Premier League clubs named on Friday in an official report into alleged irregularities in soccer transfer payments.

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Tonga registered their first win in the Pacific Nations Cup rugby championship when they staged a second half revival to beat Fiji 21-15 at Churchill Park yesterday.

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Philipp Kohlschreiber upset third seed James Blake 6-4, 6-3 on a slippery court on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Gerry Weber Open.

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SURVIVOR: The Argentine was the only player at even par after two rounds, took a one-shot lead over Bubba Watson and caused Phil Mickelson to miss the cut
Argentina's Angel Cabrera birdied his final hole on Friday to seize the halfway lead in the US Open on an Oakmont course that humbled golf's best, including Tiger Woods.

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The San Antonio Spurs are champions everywhere but in US television ratings. The Spurs were too good for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but still considered too boring to be appreciated.

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday signed government guarantees required by FIFA for candidates to stage the World Cup.

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In his upcoming book, Tour de France champion Floyd Landis claims the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) spent so much money in an obsessive mission to nail him for drug violations that it passed on prosecuting other cases.

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Now that he's 18, Freddy Adu is eligible to fulfill his dream of playing in Europe.

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