BY PAUL HUANG
Tilson Brito's league-leading 25th homer of the season sparked a 13-hit attack that propelled the President Lions past the Brother Elephants for a 9-4 triumph in Tainan and their sixth straight win on Thursday evening.

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Members of the Chilean soccer team fought with police and security officers after a semi-final loss at the Under-20 World Cup tournament.

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Dilhara Fernando grabbed a career-best haul of 4-24 to script Sri Lanka's 70-run victory over Bangladesh in the opening one-day international yesterday.

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US swimmers won three more gold medals, US player Eva Lee won two more badminton titles to claim a trio and Brazilian Thiago Pereira won a third gold in the pool in highlights of the Pan American Games on Thursday.

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Annika Sorenstam outlasted 62nd-seeded Katherine Hull in 20 holes on Thursday, prevailing in hazy, humid conditions in the first round of the Women's World Match Play Championship.

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Sergio Garcia improved by 24 strokes over his last British Open at Carnoustie. An 18-year-old amateur made it through an entire day without a bogey. And a guy known more as a team player put himself right in the thick of things.

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FRENCH HOPES OVER: Christophe Moreau crashed in Thursday's hot ride to Montpellier, ending his challenge and French hopes for a winner this year
As the Tour de France winds on toward the end of its second week, the stages are often more about the big losers than the big winners.

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The All Blacks and Wallabies line up today in an all-or-nothing Tri-Nations finale, a showdown which the All Blacks see as a perfect dress rehearsal for the rugby World Cup.

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Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss shared a solid second-wicket stand for England on Thursday before India took three wickets in the last session to reclaim some control by stumps on the opening day of the first Test.

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Vietnam's Austrian coach Alfred Riedl has called on his team to play like men and not boys in today's Asian Cup quarter-final against Iraq.

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GUTSY: While James Blake secured his first quarter-final berth at the Countrywide Classic, Rafael Nadal survived an injury scare to make the quarter-finals in Stuttgart
James Blake started fast and finished strong. He struggled in between before serving three straight aces to close out a 6-0, 1-6, 7-5 win over Paul Goldstein in the second round of the ATP Countrywide Classic on Thursday.

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