Ten-man South Korea clinched third place in the Asian Cup, and thereby won automatic qualification for the 2011 event, with a penalty shootout victory over Japan yesterday.

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Brazil's Jorvan Vieira will quit as Iraqi national coach after their Asian Cup final with Saudi Arabia today and is in talks to take over from Dutchman Pim Verbeek at South Korea.

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BY PAUL HUANG
The 2007 International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asian Championship started in Tokushima, Japan, yesterday with Taiwan topping Syria 99-60 in the all-important opener.

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England struggled to 169 for seven while India paceman Zaheer Khan took 50 for three on the opening day of the second Test at Nottingham on Friday.

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LONGBALL: San Francisco tied a season high with four homers, including a shot by Ray Durham and back-to-back smashes by Pedro Feliz and Bengie Molina
Barry Bonds hit his 754th home run to move within one of Hank Aaron's career record as San Francisco beat Florida 12-10 on Friday.

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By Paul Huang
Shen Yu-jeh pitched six-and-one-third innings of shutout ball and Carlos Villalobos drove in a pair of runs to pace the Chinatrust Whales past the Brother Elephants 4-0 win to give the Whales a two-game sweep in Sinjhuang on Friday evening.

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Nearly nine hours after he began play, Canada's Frank Dancevic reached his first ATP semi-final by rallying to defeat Russian Igor Kunitsyn 6-4, 7-6 (3) in a rain-plagued match in the Indianapolis Championships on Friday.

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Olympic and world champions Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh of the US defeated Germany's Helke Claasen and Antje Roeder to secure a semi-finals berth at the beach volleyball world championships on Friday.

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OBSTACLE COURSE: The Tour took another odd twist when Sandy Casar hit a dog. Cadel Evans also had an unexpected encounter when he smacked into a spectator
Battered by scandal and doping embarrassments, the Tour de France might actually have stumbled upon a sliver of good news.

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Birmingham City boss Steve Bruce insists he will not be forced into signing Chinese players by prospective new owner Carson Yeung.

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Five golds in athletics helped Cuba recover second place in the medals table ahead of host Brazil at the Pan American Games on Friday.

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Vijay Singh patiently worked his way up the leaderboard, leaving playing partner Mike Weir behind again in the Canadian Open on Friday.

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Rafael Benitez shrugged off concerns over new-look Liverpool's firepower after they failed to find the net in the Asia Trophy loss to Portsmouth.

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