PAYING DEARLY: The Wizards tried in vain to find a way to shut down LeBron James, who said he could have been seriously injured in a particularly hard foul
LeBron James scored 30 points and passed out 12 assists — both game highs — to power the Cleveland Cavaliers past Washington 116-86 on Monday in a National Basketball Association playoff game.

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Deron Williams scored 22 points and the Utah Jazz defeated Houston 90-84 on Monday to seize a 2-0 lead in their National Basketball Association (NBA) first-round playoff series.

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Olympic and world champion Laure Manaudou was reduced to tears on Monday after suffering her first defeat in the 400m in nearly four years at the French national championships.

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Australian rower Sally Robbins missed selection for the Beijing Olympics yesterday, ending her attempt to redeem her controversial performance at the Athens Games four years ago.

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Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot won his fourth Boston Marathon crown in overwhelming fashion on Monday, while Ethiopian Dire Tune captured the closest duel in the race’s history by just two seconds.

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Time caught up with old stagers Gustavo Kuerten and Carlos Moya at the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday as Andy Murray and Sam Querrey struck a double blow for the next generation.

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PLAYOFF SERIES: Montreal goaltender Carey Price stopped 25 shots as the Canadiens shut out Boston, while Alex Ovechkin lifted the Capitals past the Flyers
Carey Price got his second shutout and Andrei Kostitsyn scored twice to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 5-0 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday in the deciding game of their first-round playoff series.

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South Africa coach Carlos Alberto Parreira resigned on Monday to return to Brazil to be with his family and ill wife, leaving the national team in disarray just two years before the country hosts the 2010 World Cup.

“It is heartbreaking to not have done this job until the end,” a somber-looking Parreira told a news conference. “My family needs me, especially my wife. They need me to be near her, together with her. So after 36 years of marriage, I cannot say no.”

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When Danica Patrick finally got her first win, it was late on a Saturday night back home in the US — not exactly ideal timing for one of the most historic victories in motorsport.

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Now that there's no playoff pressure, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies with relative ease.

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George Gillett Jr is firing another salvo in his dispute with Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks over control of the club, inviting officials from a Dubai consortium seeking to buy the club to yesterday’s Champions League clash with Chelsea.

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