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High School QB Drowns Star Football Player Shak Persheys Death Sparks Mourning
(Photo: Reuters/Sean Gardner) A high school QB has drowned on Thursday, just weeks before he was set to graduate.The tragedy has stunned the boy's North Carolina high school colleagues, who are now mourning the death of the promising quarterback.QB Shak Pershey was swimming with a group of friends when he went missing at about 7 p.m. local time on Thursday night, according to WNCT. His ...
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Analysis - Bayern triumph has origins in bitter 2012 defeat
Bayern Munich's players celebrate with the Champions League Trophy after defeating Borussia Dortmund in their Champions League Final soccer match at Wembley Stadium in London May 25, 2013. REUTERS/Eddie ...
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Hockey Canada bans body-checking for peewee players across the country
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Hockey Canada has voted to remove body-checking from peewee hockey across the country.Spokesman Andr Brin says the motion passed Saturday at a meeting in Charlottetown, with only Saskatchewan voting against banning body-checking.Brin says the board of directors has agreed to develop a body-checking standard for coaching to be implemented in the 2014-'15 hockey ...
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NBA reviews Wades elbow on Pacers Stephenson
Lance Stephenson 's head is one of the strangest basketball plays that I've ever seen. A lot is left to interpretation when it comes to Wade's intent on the play during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night. Did he intend to clobber Stephenson in the side of the head with his elbow as he ran up the floor in transition? Was he jumping to avoid Stephenson and ...
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Pitt awaits NCAA Tournament fate after loss to Notre Dame in Big East baseball
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Pittsburgh committed five errors, two in the final inning, and took a disappointing exit from the Big East Tournament, falling, 3-2, to Notre Dame in 10 innings at Bright House ...
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Red Sox Rally for 4 in 8th to Beat Indians 7-4
Pinch-hitter Mike Carp drove in the tying run with an eighth-inning double and then scored on a double by Dustin Pedroia as the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 7-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday. The Red Sox scored four times off reliever Vinnie Pestano (1-1), who took over with Cleveland leading 4-3 in the eighth. Pedro Ciriaco doubled and scored the tying run when Carp ...
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End of the line Alamo Heights rallies to stun Calallen baseball team in regional semifinal
Michael Zamora/Caller-Times Calallen's Lee May Gonzalez pitches against Alamo Heights Friday, May 24, 2013 at Fairgrounds Field in Robstown. A four-run lead in the seventh inning wasn't enough for Calallen's baseball team to avoid another gut-wrenching result in the regional semifinal ...
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Duke beats Cornell to advance to lacrossee final
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - David Lawson scored the winning goal with 6:35 left in the fourth quarter to lift Duke to a 16-14 victory against Cornell in the NCAA lacrosse semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday.Duke (15-5) advances to Monday's championship to play the winner of the other semifinal between Syracuse and Denver.The Blue Devils are in the finals for the first time since 2010, ...
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Ky. Busch wins 7th Nwide race at Charlotte
Kyle Busch dominated at Charlotte Motor Speedway again Saturday, racing to his sixth Nationwide Series victory of the season and record seventh career win at the track.Ten years and a day after his Nationwide debut, Busch won for the record 57th time in the series.Also the Truck Series winner at the track last week, Busch started on the front row and led 186 of the 200 laps. But he needed to ...
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Hamilton Angels beat Royals 7-0 for 7th straight
Josh Hamilton and Hank Conger homered to back Billy Buckner's first major league win since 2009, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 7-0 on Saturday for their seventh straight ...
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Bayerns Robben Mandzukic score second-half goals
Alex Grimm/AP LONDON (AP) -- Arjen Robben scored in the 89th minute to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over German rival Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final Saturday, ending four years of frustration for his team in Europe's biggest tournament. Robben ran onto Franck Ribery's backheeled flick in the penalty area and put the ball past goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller ...
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Robben gets redemption as Bayern Munich wins Champions League
Arjen Robben, a winger but always in the center of things. We saw by turns the worst, the best, the worst and finally the best again of the brilliant Dutch midfielder. It is ever thus with Robben. In the first half, he had golden chances on two occasions but failed to convert as Dortmund keeper Roman Weidenfeller stoned Robben twice, bringing back memories of similar Robben chances in the 2010 ...
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Openly gay Rogers joins Los Angeles Galaxy
U.S. midfielder Robbie Rogers (16) is pulled down by Mexico defender Gerardo Torrado during the second half of their friendly soccer match in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 10, ...
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Indy 500 tightens security in wake of Boston bombings
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Security at Sunday's Indianapolis 500 will be ramped up as race officials of one of the year's biggest one-day sporting events respond to last month's deadly Boston Marathon ...
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Superb Robben goal seals Bayern victory
By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - Bayern Munich overcame the heartbreak of losing two Champions League finals in three seasons by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in a memorable all-German clash on Saturday to become European champions for the ...
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French Open comes too soon for the young lions of New Tennis
A little while ago in Paris, John McEnroe shook his head and spluttered when the name Ernests Gulbis was mentioned as a young player who might one day break the grip ...
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Gay rolls to New York 100m win
Keeping warm and healthy was the priority for athletes at the New York stop in the Diamond League series in preparation for the IAAF world ...
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Tyson Gay wins Diamond League sprint in New York
Tyson Gay of the U.S. (L) leads the field winning his men's 100 meters semi-final heat at the Diamond League Adidas Grand Prix in New York, May 25, 2013. REUTERS/Gary ...
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Albert Montanes wins Nice ATP event
Albert Montanes of Spain clinched his sixth ATP title by defeating French wild-card entry Gael Monfils 6-0 7-6 (7-3) in the final of the Open de Nice on Saturday.The match was interrupted by rain at 4-0 in the first set, but that didn't seem to bother Montanes, who broke for a 3-1 lead in the second and looked set to cruise toward victory.But Monfils, a former top-10 player whose 2012 ...
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Cameron Burrell wins 100 at NY meet where dad set mark
NEW YORK - For a moment, Cameron Burrell couldn't remember the year his dad won here. Was in 1990? Was that the year his father Leroy set the 100-meter world record on Randall's Island? No, 1991, ...
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NBA reviewing Wade elbow to Stephensons head
Heat guard Dwyane Wade threw an elbow to the head of Pacers guard Lance Stephenson (left) during the fourth quarter of Game 2. (Issac Baldizon/Getty Images) The NBA is reviewing Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade’s elbow to the head of Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson during Friday’s Eastern Conference Finals Game ...
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Matches to watch on Day 1 of French
Roger Federer’s usual brilliance, as well as the play of challenger Pablo Carreno-Busta, is reason enough to watch his first-day match. (Clive Brunskill/Getty ...
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Orioles use long ball to KO Dickey Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles can attest to that. Baltimore looks to continue its home-run barrage Saturday afternoon against R.A. Dickey and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Orioles (26-22) took over the major league lead in home runs with a season-high four in Friday's 10-6 victory. They have hit at least three homers in four straight games - going deep 13 times during that span - and have multiple ...
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Cult of Hockey Shawn Horcoff is still an important player for the Edmonton Oilers
2013 Edmonton Oilers in Review: Shawn Horcoff There was a nice moment, midway through the season, when Shawn Horcoff wasn't a whipping boy. With him on the shelf with injury, the team had floundered, but upon his return things improved dramatically. General manager Steve Tambellini praised his leadership and a players only meeting was cited by many as a turning point for the team. During ...
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Yanks Granderson placed on DL with broken pinky
Curtis Granderson on the 15-day disabled list Saturday, after he fractured the pinky on his left hand Friday. Granderson had played in just eight games after missing the first six weeks of the season due to a broken forearm. Brennan Boesch was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take his place on the roster. Granderson was batting .250 with one home run prior to the injury. He is ...
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Rhode Island offshore wind farm contraversey
There is division in the ranks over a wind farm planned for construction off Block Island, while officials in the state government have accused future surveys for potential new sites of lacking in scope.
Deepwater Wind is becoming a controversial name in Rhode Island over plans to build an off shore wind farm just off the coast of Rhode Island. While not as controversial as Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that caused the mess in the Gulf of Mexico, the renewable energy plans of Deepwater Wind are certainly raising some hackles. Read more
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