ON TOP OF THE WORLD: Two second-half goals were enough to give the Germans victory but goalkeeper Nadine Angerer also played a big part in their win
Germany tamed Brazil yesterday to win the World Cup final 2-0 with goals from Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr making them the first nation to successfully defend their title.

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The US put their goalkeeping row behind them with an emphatic 4-1 win over Norway to claim the World Cup's third spot yesterday.

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GOALS GALORE: While Arsenal and Manchester United won, Chelsea slipped up at Stamford Bridge and Portsmouth won the highest scoring Premier League game ever
Robin van Persie consolidated Arsenal's lead at the top of the Premier League as the Dutch striker's goal clinched a 1-0 win at West Ham on Saturday.

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Lewis Hamilton won a wet-and-wild Japanese Grand Prix yesterday to move to the verge of the Formula One title with two races to go after his main rival and McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso crashed out of the race.

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Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record yesterday, winning the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 4 minutes, 26 seconds.

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Top seeded Venus Williams beat Russia's Maria Kirilenko 6-3 1-6 6-4 in the final of the Korea Open yesterday.

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Phil Mickelson showed Woody Austin how to stay dry, and the Americans blew the International team out of the water on Saturday in the Presidents Cup to build the largest lead in seven years.

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ISLAND STYLE: The Pacific Islanders gatecrashed Wales captain Gareth Thomas' 100th Test celebrations by winning a thrilling match and qualifying for the quarters
Prop forward Graham Dewes scored a 77th-minute try and Fiji beat Wales 38-34 in one of the all-time great Rugby World Cup matches on Saturday to progress to the quarter-finals and send Wales home.

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Chris Paterson kicked all 18 points to steer Scotland to an 18-16 win over Italy on Saturday and into the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals.

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The Wallabies will take one positive out of an ugly World Cup win over Canada: It would be hard for them to get worse.

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Inter Milan beat 10-man AS Roma 4-1 on Saturday to take sole possession of the Italian league lead.

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Thierry Henry scored a sensational hat-trick, his first league goals for Barcelona, as they knocked rivals Real Madrid off the top of the table with a crushing 4-1 win over Levante on Saturday.

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Bayern Munich are now four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga as the Miroslav Klose-Luca Toni double-act struck again to seal a 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.

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SERVICE RESUMED: John Maine finished with 14 strikeouts and Lastings Milledge, Ramon Castro and Luis Castillo all hit home runs as New York thrashed the Marlins
John Maine flirted with the first no-hitter in Mets history before allowing an infield single to Paul Hoover with two outs in the eighth inning, and New York snapped out of its September doldrums by routing the Florida Marlins 13-0 in a fight-filled game on Saturday.

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The NHL opened its season on the banks of the River Thames, and as far as the Los Angeles Kings were concerned, this was hockey country.

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BIG TROUBLE: Giant Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev said he thought the crowd reaction may have had something to do with his opponent being smaller than him
Nikolai Valuev won an unanimous decision on Saturday against Canada's Jean-Francois Bergeron in his first fight since losing the WBA heavyweight title.

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By Paul Huang
The Chinatrust Whales rallied from four down to top league-leading President Lions 6-5 in Sinjhuang on Saturday night.

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Kelly Pavlik rallied from a second-round knockdown to stop fellow American Jermain Taylor in the seventh round on Saturday and claim Taylor's World Boxing Council middleweight title.

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