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Sweden Storms Into World Hockey Final
MOSCOW, May 18 (R-Sport) - Sweden reached the world hockey championship final on Saturday as two goals from Dallas Stars wing Loui Eriksson propelled the eight-time champion to a 3-0 semifinal win over an ill-disciplined Finland. Sweden went ahead at 10:33 in the first period with Ilari Melart off the ice for cross-checking; Eriksson converting Henrik Sedin's assist. The same combination ...
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Sexton intrigued by OGara move
Leinster fly-half insisted he is looking forward to working with O'Gara when he moves to Paris next season. O'Gara, 36, has turned down the offer of a contract extension ...
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Eight unheralded NHL contributors in second round of playoffs Brandon Sutter Derick Brassard etc.
Fred Kfoury/Icon SMI They are the players whose national ink comes in thimbles, not barrels. They get the occasional "attaboy" mention, but after most games they are otherwise left alone by the folks holding microphones or notepads. Among teammates and hardcore fans, however, they receive appreciative nods, not unlike the quiet but skillful drummer in the band with the superstar ...
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Cult of Hockey Which goaltender should start for Team Canada at the Sochi 2014 Olympics
Less than a year away from the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics, there is no clear consensus choice for the role of starter for Canada's Olympic team. The incumbent starter has been reduced to the backup role on his own team, the man he supplanted is in the twilight years of a legendary career, and the young third-stringer with a Stanley Cup ring has imploded in the playoffs in four ...
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Division 2 North and South baseball rankings
Here is the last regular season baseball poll for Division 2 North and South. We will put the next one of the day of the tournament pairings (a week from next Tuesday). Records are through Friday and if there are any discrepancies, please do not hesitate to let me know ...
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Serena Williams Extends Streak to Advance to Final in Rome
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Bayern Edge Past Gladbach 4-3 Schalke Grab Fourth Spot
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An Inconvenience for Colsaerts as He Loses to McDowell
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Pacers not saying whether Hill to play vs. Knicks
New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, left, fouls Indiana Pacers guard George Hill during the second half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, in Indianapolis on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael ...
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Li gets better of Ding at table tennis worlds
PARIS (AFP) - Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia knocked off top seed and title-holder Ding Ning in a thrilling contest to reach the final of the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris on Saturday.Third seed Li had reduced Ding to tears after pipping her to the Olympic crown in London last August, and there was more heartbreak for the world number one as Li this time triumphed in the French capital ...
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Bayern Defender Badstuber Tears Cruciate Ligaments Again
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Staal Avoids Surgery to Repair Damaged Knee
(Reuters) - Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal will not require surgery to repair knee ligament damage sustained while playing for Canada at the ice hockey world championships, the National Hockey League team said on Saturday. Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford said on the team's website that a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test revealed a third-degree sprain of the medial ...
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Buccaneers poor defending aids Maritzburg victory
The visitors twice came from behind and snatched the winner in injury time to stun the Buccaneers, relegating the Soweto giants to third place in the final standings. Pirates had controlled the game throughout, but poor defending saw them lose at Orlando Stadium on Saturday. Tlou Segolela, called up to the Bafana Bafana squad this week, opened the scoring for the Buccaneers in the 18th minute ...
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England steadily build lead
England held a lead of 116 runs at tea on day three of the first Test at Lord's, sitting on 91 for two after the New Zealand bowlers removed both openers in the afternoon session.The Black Caps had been all out for 207 earlier in the day, and then dismissed Alastair Cook and Nick Compton after lunch. But the time tea came, Joe Root (28) and Jonathan Trott (25) were comfortably set.The Kiwis ...
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Evans loses time to Giro leader Nibali
Cadel Evans lost more than half a minute to overall leader Vincenzo Nibali on the 14th stage of the Tour of Italy but remains in second ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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McDowell earns Colsaerts revenge
18 May 2013 Graeme McDowell finally got the better of Nicolas Colsaerts in the Volvo World Match Play Championship, despite a remarkable escape from an unsavoury hazard by the defending ...
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Orb favored to win Preakness set up Triple Crown run
Matthew Stockman/Getty Images BALTIMORE (AP) -- Everything's a go for Orb. The Kentucky Derby winner was in a playful mood the day before the Preakness, making faces for photographers between nibbles of grass outside his stall at Pimlico Race Course. "He's really settled in well. He seems to be energetic about what he's doing so I couldn't be more ...
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Crosby Pens sink Sens lead 2-0
The Ottawa Senators couldn’t beat the Pittsburgh Penguins even when they managed to keep Sidney Crosby off the score sheet in Game 1. So you can imagine how well things went when Sid went off for a hat trick in Game 2. Crosby’s three-goal game, his first in more than two years, paced Pitsburgh to a 4-3 win over the Senators Friday night. The Pens now own a 2-0 lead with the series ...
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Cricket England v New Zealand Day Three - Afternoon session report
New Zealand made early inroads into England's batting after lunch as Trent Boult got Alistair Cook to drive rather loosely at a wide one and he was caught well by a diving Dean Brownlie at third slip. Neil Wagner struck in the very next over, producing an excellent piece of bowling to dismiss England's other opener Nick Compton. Wagner, steaming in, used the natural slope of the ...
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N.B.A. Playoffs
About a week before the playoffs, Knicks point guard Raymond Felton, who had never been on a team that won a playoff series before this season, his eighth in the N. B. A., thought he needed extra time on the court. So he sent a text message to his shooting coach, Ivorie ...
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Santambrogio Takes Giro Stage 14 Nibali Extends Lead
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Sweden beats Finland to reach hockey worlds final
STOCKHOLM - Sweden reached the final of the ice hockey world championship by beating fellow co-host and rival Finland 3-0 on Saturday.Dallas Stars forward Loui Eriksson scored Sweden's first two goals on power plays, with both assisted by twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin.Henrik Sedin then added Sweden's third into an empty net in the final minute.Sweden's Jhonas Enroth made ...
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Marina Stuetz Is Starting Early and Moving Fast
The Austrian teenager Marina ...
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Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball
Such is the imperfect urban landscape of playground basketball, what many consider the truest expression of the sport. It's basketball without referees, coaches or sneaker deals. Anyone can play, so long as they call ...
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Kentucky River needs annual clean up
The Kentucky River is a major source of tourism, recreation, beauty and drinking water for the state. Around 16% of the state population gets their drinking water from the Kentucky River, most notably Lexington, which relies primarily on the river for drinking water, as well as a number of smaller towns and cities.
In total, 700,000 of us live in municipalities that draw their water from the river. The river is important then, and requires regular cleaning due to the amount of waste materials that regularly find their way onto its banks. Read more
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