TEUTONIC TALENT: Silvia Neid's side set up a semi-final clash with either China or Norway in Tianjin on Wednesday after they proved too good for North Korea
Defending champions Germany powered into the women's World Cup semi-finals yesterday with a 3-0 win over North Korea.

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World Cup favorites the United States cruised into the semi-finals with a 3-0 victory yesterday over England.

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SOUTH AFRICA 30, TONGU 25
Ruan Pienaar scored two tries Saturday for South Africa to win 30-25 over Tonga and ensure it will top Group A at the Rugby World Cup.

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Jelena Jankovic ended the eight-match Asian win streak of Lindsay Davenport, halting the American's career comeback 6-3, 7-5 to reach the final of the China Open yesterday.

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BACK TO BASICS: New Chelsea boss Avram Grant has written to the Israeli FA asking to enroll in a coaching course as a matter of urgency
Avram Grant, appointed Chelsea's manager after Jose Mourinho's shock departure on Thursday, lacks the required coaching qualification to run a Premier League club.

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South Korea's Ted Oh hung on to a narrow one-stroke lead at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters with local star Lu Wen-teh in hot pursuit after the third round yesterday.

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Japan's Takao Suzuki posted his second win in two days to give the home side a 2-1 lead over Romania in the Davis Cup World Group playoff in Osaka yesterday.

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ASTERISK: Although dogged by steroid suspicions, Bonds has hit 28 home runs this season to reach a career 762, but he will have to find another club to play for next year
Barry Bonds is finished in San Francisco after this year.

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Kevin Everett was transferred on Friday to a Houston, Texas, hospital to begin the next phase of his rehabilitation, less than two weeks after the Buffalo Bills tight end sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury.

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At New York, Taiwan's Wang Chien-ming (王建民) pitched seven strong innings, but Gregg Zaun homered in the 14th inning to give Toronto the win after the Blue Jays blew a four-run lead in the ninth.

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BY PAUL HUANG
Pan "Du Du" Wei-luen set a new Chinese Professional Baseball League record for consecutive victories by pitching the President Lions to a 3-0 shutout over the Brother Elephants in Tainan on Friday for his 15th straight win.

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WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev on Friday pulled out of his Oct. 6 title defense against Samuel Peter, citing a back injury.

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ALL TO PLAY FOR: If the World Cup hosts can beat Georgia and earn the bonus point four tries would give them, they will definitely reach the quarter-final stage
"We're back" was the message coming out of the French camp after their vital 25-3 World Cup victory over Ireland at the Stade de France on Friday, but there was realism that the hardest has yet to come.

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PAINFUL LOSS: Taiwan's No.1 women's tennis player struggled with a back problem during her defeat in a quarter-final clash in Kolkata on Friday
Second-seeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia defeated Taiwan's eighth-seeded Chan Yung-jan 6-4, 6-1 on Friday to enter the semi-finals of the WTA Tour's Sunfeast Open.

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Coach Ilie Tabua takes umbrage at suggestions Fiji are storing up for an all-or-nothing tilt at Wales by fielding a drastically weakened team for today's Rugby World Cup encounter with Australia.

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Coach Frank Hadden confirmed the worst fears of Scotland supporters. He's sacrificing a win to the rampaging All Blacks.

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Sweden and Germany rallied on Friday to ensure their Davis Cup semi-final matches will be decided on the final day.

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