Disgraced former athletics star Marion Jones was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for lying about taking steroids in a scandal that cost the sprinter her five Olympic medals.

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Andy Roddick won his third consecutive title at Kooyong yesterday and said he'd happily exchange them all for one at the Australian Open.

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Philipp Kohlschreiber showed scant regard for Juan Carlos Ferrero's fight back up the tennis rankings when he beat the former world No. 1 in straight sets to win the Auckland Open yesterday.

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By Paul Huang
Overcoming a 14-point, first half deficit, the Taiwan Mobile Leopards defied all the odds by edging past the table topping Yulon Dinos 79-77 at the Taipei County Sport Complex on Friday evening to snap a two-game losing skid.

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South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock announced his retirement from international cricket following the second day's play against the West Indies on Friday.

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BEST START: In Cleveland, LeBron James made a career-high 19 rebounds against Charlotte, while in New Orleans, Bobby Jackson made seven 3-pointers against the Heat
Boston recorded its 30th win from just 34 games to tie a franchise record with an 86-77 victory over New Jersey in the NBA on Friday.

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The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the NBA said the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out. This will be the first time since 1982 the league has sent teams back on the court for a replay.

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Alex Ovechkin's big week got even better on Friday when the super scorer received his second straight selection to the NHL All-Star game.

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Major League Baseball (MLB)launched a department of investigations on Friday, a permanent branch of the commissioner's office responsible for looking into drug use in the sport.

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Dallas Cowboys leading receiver Terrell Owens returned to practice Thursday for the first time since suffering a high ankle sprain on Dec. 22, but remains uncertain for today's playoff game.

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Nikolai Zherdev scored twice in the last 6 minutes -- one on a highlight-reel move that provided the go-ahead goal -- as Columbus beat St Louis 6-4 in the NHL on Friday.

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South Korea's K.J. Choi doubled his lead to two shots on Friday with a five-under par 65 in the second round of the US$5.3 million Sony Open.

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RUNS IN SHORT SUPPLY: Mohammad Ashraful top-scored for Bangladesh with 35 as the tourists' batsmen crumbled in the face of the New Zealand pace attack
New Zealand were firmly in command of the second Test against Bangladesh at the end of the first day yesterday, trailing by only nine runs on the first innings with seven wickets in hand.

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Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange produced a near flawless slalom performance to grab victory in the World Cup super-combined event in Wengen, Switzerland, on Friday.

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Explosive opener Virender Sehwag made a strong case for a Test recall with a typically swashbuckling century on the final day of India's three-day tour match against an Australian Capital Territory XI yesterday.

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FEELING AT HOME: Three other South Africans, Warren Abery, Charl Coetzee and 20-year-old rookie Tyrone Ferreira, are lying in joint third position
South Africa's Mark Murless closed off his second round of 68 with an eagle-three at the 18th hole on Royal Johannesburg's East course on Friday to take the halfway lead on nine-under-par 133 in the Joburg Open.

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Harry Redknapp has decided to stay at Portsmouth, spurning an offer from Newcastle to replace Sam Allardyce.

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