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Boudia leads US team for world championships
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Olympic gold medalist David Boudia leads a team of 15 American divers who will compete at the world championships in Barcelona, Spain, in July.The team was selected during trials that ended Monday at Florida State's Morcom Aquatics Center.Boudia easily qualified on the men's 10-meter platform, the event he won at the London Olympics last summer with an upset of the ...
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Club Makers Hit Back at Rule Banning Anchored Putters
(Reuters) - Golf club makers Ping and Cobra Puma Golf hit back on Tuesday at a rules change that will ban the anchoring of putters. The ban, announced on Tuesday, will take effect on January 1, 2016. It does not apply to equipment and golfers will be able to use belly and broomstick putters. They will not, however, be allowed to anchor the club against their body for their putting ...
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Gophers baseball Troy Larson put off med school for last chance at NCAA tournament
When Troy Larson graduated from the University of Minnesota 12 months ago, he had a big decision to make. He could fulfill his dream of attending medical school or come back for one more season of baseball with the Gophers. Larson, an Academic All-American in 2012, chose baseball, hoping to take one last trip to the NCAA tournament. To do that, the Gophers (30-20) will have to make a run in ...
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Cricket Vettoris return a gamble
Sport's history is littered with dramatic comebacks from hiatuses. Daniel Vettori might only be graduating into that camp - he retired and resurrected himself to play one-day international cricket in the Champions Trophy, not tests - but any return to Headingley on Friday will still be welcome. The 34-year-old wasn't part of the original tour squad but that was more on the basis of injury ...
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Fognini Stakhovsky Mathieu advance at Nice Open
Fabio Fognini overcame a sloppy first set to beat Italian countryman Marco Cecchinato 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday in the first round of the Nice Open.Fognini, seeded sixth, won just three points on his opponent's serve in the first set, but bounced back to break him twice in the second set and three more times in the third. Fognini next faces Santiago Giraldo or wild card Gael Monfils.Sergiy ...
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Is next year a rebuilding year for the Gophers
This is Amelia Rayno's second season on the Gophers' basketball beat. She learned college basketball in North Carolina (Go Tar Heels!), where fanhood is not an option. In 2010, she joined the Star Tribune after graduating from Boston's Emerson College, which sadly had no exciting D-I college hoops to latch onto. Amelia has also worked on the sports desk at the Boston Globe and ...
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McCarville Lindsey Moore out of todays game
Neither center Janel McCarville (sprained left ankle) nor guard Lindsey Moore (sore calf) will play today for the Lynx in their preseason finale against Connecticut today at Target Center. The good news, though, is that neither should be out for ...
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Tiger Woods to play again in Notah Begay charity event at Turning Stone Resort
VERONA, N.Y. - Tiger Woods is returning again to play a charity event hosted by Notah Begay III, his former teammate at Stanford. Woods will play in the NB3 Foundation Challenge in late August at Turning Stone Resort's Atunyote (ah-DUNE'-yote) Golf Club. It'll be his fourth appearance in the six years Begay has hosted the event, a fundraiser that targets health issues facing ...
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Deduno to start for Twins on Friday
Deduno helped lead the Dominican Republic to the World Baseball Classic title this spring but suffered a strained groin and has been on a rehab assignment in Rochester. He was the winning pitcher in WBC starts against the United States and Puerto Rico, the latter coming in the final game of the tournament. He will take Pedro Hernandez' spot in the rotation, and was chosen ahead of Kyle ...
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Wilshere moving on from injuries
Jack Wilshere hopes the latest operation on his troublesome ankle will prove the last as he looks to recover full fitness for both club and country next ...
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Al Habsi set for surgery
Aston Villa in the final game of the season, his first match in eight, and he is to undergo an operation in order to be fit for the start of next season.A spokesman for the former Bolton keeper said: "Ali ...
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PFA investigating Sunderland fines
21 May 2013 Professional Footballers' Association chief executive Gordon Taylor has confirmed the union has been contacted by Sunderland players about their manager Paolo Di Canio and that it is investigating the recent fines issued by the ...
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Judge leads 1000 Guineas charge
21 May 2013 Just The Judge, narrowly denied by Sky Lantern in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, is among 18 remaining entries for the Etihad Airways-sponsored Irish version at the Curragh on ...
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Olympic ruled out of Curragh bid
the Curragh this weekend but that has now been shelved as Hannon has decided the race will come too soon.Hannon will still be represented by Havana Gold and Van Der Neer, who performed with credit in the French and English Guineas respectively."There are only 12 days between the two Classics, and we have decided that Olympic Glory needs a bit more time," Hannon told his website, ...
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ECB sets ambitious trophy targets
On a domestic level, the ECB has set a target of increasing domestic attendances across the three formats by 200,000 by 2017. The target is a part of their new strategic plan, called "Champion Counties" for 2014-17, which was announced at Lord's on ...
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CSK bat Tendulkar misses out again
In the parallel IPL world, the toss went ahead as scheduled, and Chennai Super Kings won it. MS Dhoni decided to bat first in the first qualifier, and reported that Albie Morkel was fit and ...
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Chennai bat first against Mumbai
The Chennai Super Kings won the toss and chose to bat first in the first IPL semi-final, with the Mumbai Indians making a number of changes and playing without the injured Sachin Tendulkar.The Little Master injured his hand a few matches ago and is not fit to play, leaving Aditya Tare and Dwayne Smith to open the batting. Mitchell Johnson and Pragyan Ojha are also included.The Super Kings, ...
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Lets not get carried away Mr Saker
England bowling coach David Saker can never be accused of failing to back his players, and is always effusive in his praise of them, though it's often to a degree that encourages exclamations of, "LOL, he's kidding, right?"After James Anderson's superb display against New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's, Saker made the comment that Anderson had 'more ...
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Botham Jimmy will destroy my record
Former England all-rounder Sir Ian Botham has backed James Anderson to beat his Test wicket-taking record by a large margin, and says he can't thing of anyone else he'd rather see achieve the feat.Botham is England's leading wicket-taker with 383 Test scalps, and Anderson recently passed the 300 mark, only the fourth Englishman to do so. Botham was thrilled for the Lancashire ...
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Academy forward Jordan Morris on U.S. U-20 roster for pre-World Cup tournament
made the squad. The U.S., grouped with Colombia, Congo DR and host France, will be in action starting May 28 in Toulon, France, as both preparation for this summer’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey and one last evaluation toward that final roster. Morris, a Mercer Island native, is one of three academy players nationwide to make the team and had starred in a training camp earlier this year ...
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Windsor Park upgrade could extend dominance of most financially powerful football club - court hears
Expectations are high as Microsoft is due to unveil the latest generation of its Xbox console in Redmond, Washington - after Sony's dispiriting launch of the new PS4 back in February (a tweaked controller design was on display but little ...
Jakarta Digest
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Jakarta water issues a reflection of bad planning.
Jakarta residents have little access to fresh water from the city’s water system, a reflection of bad planning on the part of city management rather than a lack of funds.
An article posted on the Jakarta-Indonesia-Urban blog reflects a serious situation facing the capital city of the country, “Already there is more waste water generated and dispersed today than at any other time in the history of our planet: more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people.” This is a statement on the world situation, but it hits uncomfortable close to home for many Jakartans, in fact, almost a majority of them. Read more
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