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Ancelotti to leave PSG - report
Paris Saint-Germain's coach Carlo Ancelotti raises the French Championship trophy at the end of their team's French Ligue 1 soccer match against Brest at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Gonzalo ...
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Nadal crushes Federer to win Rome Masters
Spain's Rafael Nadal dominated his 30th meeting with Swiss rival Roger Federer to secure his seventh title in nine years at the Rome Masters on Sunday.Nadal's 6-1 6-3 triumph means he now leads Federer 20-10 in their series, with 13 of his wins coming on clay.Nadal started the event seeded only fifth after losing many of his ATP ranking points during a seven-month absence from the ...
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Serena Nadal cruise to Italian Open titles
Roger Federer by the identical score to win the men's crown and his seventh career championship at the event. The top-ranked American will enter the French Open, which starts next Sunday, on a career-best 24-match winning streak. Williams was coming off consecutive titles in Miami; Charleston, S.C.; and Madrid last week. She didn't drop a set while winning this ...
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Visconti Wins Giro 15th Stage Nibali Retains Overall Lead
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Lyon Close to Champions League Spot After Nice Draw
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Cook Satisfied as England Hit the Ground Running
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Ancelotti to Leave PSG-Report
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American Peter Uihlein wins Madeira Islands Open for 1st career title
SANTO ANTONIO DA SERRA, Portugal - American Peter Uihlein won the Madeira Islands Open by two strokes after shooting a 4-under 68 on Sunday for his first career title in his 16th European Tour event. Uihlein birdied four of his last eight holes for a 15-under total of 273 at the Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra course. It was his third top-10 finish from seven European Tour events this season. ...
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McDowell claims World Match Play title
19 May 2013 Graeme McDowell has become the first Irish winner of the Volvo World Match Play Championship with a hard-fought victory over Thongchai Jaidee in ...
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Serena Williams Beats Azarenka to Win Rome Title
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Moore Broncos put his big blunder behind them
Rahim Moore , the safety whose big blunder led to Denver's heart-wrenching loss in the playoffs four months ago.The Broncos gather Monday for their first full practice since that fateful, frigid night in Denver when Moore ...
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On Basketball Latest Knicks Failure Has Its Roots at the Top
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G-Mac battles back in duel with Jaidee
Phil Casey - 19 May 2013 THONGCHAI JAIDEE quickly claimed the upper hand over Graeme McDowell when the final of the Volvo World Match Play Championship final got under way in Bulgaria ...
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KKR bat Ishant out with illness
Cameron White lost the toss in the last league game of IPL 2013, a match Sunrisers Hyderabad need to win to take the final playoff spot ahead of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Gautam Gambhir immediately decided to bat, with White saying he would have done the same. He put up a brave face saying that Sunrisers had also chased and won at their home ground, but Rajasthan Royals struggled too much in ...
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Pakistan Scotland endure washout
Pakistan's quest for sufficient preparation ahead of their Champions Trophy campaign was hampered on Sunday, when the second and final ODI against Scotland at the Grange Cricket Club Ground in Raeburn Place, Edinburgh was washed out without a ball bowled.Umpires Richard Kettleborough and Ian Ramage eventually inspected conditions at 14:30 local time (13:30 GMT), two hours and 45 minutes ...
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Broad seven-for annihilates New Zealand
Any hopes New Zealand had of reaching a reasonably modest 239-run target were promptly resigned to tatters by seamer Stuart Broad's career-best seven-wicket haul, which afforded England a 170-run triumph on day four of the first Test at Lord's on Sunday.Broad, amid the visitors' collapse to 68 all out, put Tim Southee's 10-wicket match haul for the Kiwis entirely in the ...
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Finch Murtaza Mathews sink Delhi
A standalone half-century from captain Aaron Finch and three wickets apiece for spinner Ali Murtaza and seamer Angelo Mathews were at the fore of the Pune Warriors' 38-run triumph over the Delhi Daredevils in Sunday's Indian Premier League fixture at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium.More to ...
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Hondas Pedrosa wins French MotoGP
Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Sunday from Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in qualifying 24 hours ...
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Serena claims fourth straight title with romp
Justine Henin in the final. That was also the year she won her only title at Roland Garros. Last year in Paris, Williams lost in the opening round of a major for the first time, falling to ...
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Horse racing-Hong Kong horses steal the show in Singapore
By Peter Rutherford SINGAPORE, May 19 (Reuters) - Hong Kong horses swooped to capture the biggest prizes on the Singapore racing calendar on Sunday, Military Attack romping to an easy win in the S$3 million ($2.39 million)SIA Cup and Lucky Nine landing the S$1 million KrisFlyer Sprint. Military Attack made it four wins on the trot after blowing away a top quality field in the main race at ...
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Law Minister Kapil Sibal speaks to Sports Minister Jitendra Singh proposes anti-fixing law
New Delhi : In the wake of controversy over spot-fixing in IPL matches, the Sports Ministry has started holding consultations with the Law Ministry to draft a new law to deal with betting in sports."Yes, I talked to (Sports Minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law Minister Kapil Sibal told PTI in New Delhi today.He said the ...
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Surplus of voter love for Hockey
AUSTRALIANS have declared Wayne Swan a dud treasurer with almost twice as many people trusting his Coalition counterpart Joe Hockey to deliver a budget ...
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Singer mangles national anthem at hockey game
Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Zachary Fucale turns away a shot with the help of defenseman Austyn Hardie as Portland Winterhawks center Brendan Leipsic presses sduring the first period of a junior hockey Memorial Cup game Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Liam ...
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Government mulling a new law to deal with betting in sports
Yes, I talked to (Sports Minister) Jitendra Singh.We will soon draft a new law to deal with the malice of betting," Law Minister Kapil Sibal ...
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Pedrosa on Top With French GP Win
(Reuters) - Spain's Dani Pedrosa claimed top spot in the world championship MotoGP standings when he won his maiden French Grand Prix on a wet Le Mans course on Sunday. The Honda rider took the lead midway through the race to beat Britain's Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) and Spanish rookie Marc Marquez (Honda), who were second and third respectively. Pedrosa has 83 points after the fourth ...
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Memphis needs to become metro city government
The politics involved in discussions on whether or not the city of Memphis and Shelby County should be consolidated into a metropolitan government are often heated and always divisive. The issue is a controversial one with many opinions; one advocacy group believes that the failure to consolidate may hamper the development of city and wider county area.
Memphis and Shelby County are among 31 other pairs of cities and counties in the United States considering consolidation into a metropolitan government, as well as 6 taking steps towards consolidation and a further 43 that have either merged fully or partially. As the county seat of Shelby County, Memphis is the economic, transport and communications hub of the county, the land area of the city alone takes up almost of the entire county. Read more
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