Lawrence Ready for the Top of the Heavyweight Division
(FEB 25) With very few top American Heavyweights in recent years, a new name is ready to crash the party and influx some life into what many boxing insiders say is the lowest time in American Heavyweight boxing.
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Punjab Games to begin tomorrow
Ludhiana, Feb 27 (PTI) The city is all geared up for the inaugural ceremony of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Punjab Games at Guru Nanak stadium, here tomorrow.
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Cricket-World Cup, Group B standings
Cricket World Cup Group B standings on Tuesday.
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Cricket fans suffer ticket problems
Cricket fans seeking seats for the World Cup semi-finals and final have encountered frustration after “unprecedented” demand caused the official supplier to take tickets off sale.
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Pennridge Adult Evening School now accepting registrations for spring 2011
The Pennridge School District’s Adult Evening School is now accepting registrations for the spring semester. Choose from among dozens of courses, including Ballroom & Latin Dancing, AARP Driver Safety, Home Inspections, Tennis, Volleyball, Basketball and Bellydancing.
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Cardio tennis comes to Sutton
Last week Sutton Churches Tennis Club completed three Cardio Tennis sessions it had been holding for the previous six weeks with thanks to funding from PlaySport London: Free Sport campaign.
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Mario Ancic retires from tennis at 26 with bad back
SPLIT, Croatia – Mario Ancic will turn his focus from tennis to law after a back injury and illness forced him…
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Overtime goal lifts Carondelet over San Ramon Valley in NCS Division I girls soccer final
Stribling’s OT goal lifts Carondelet over San Ramon Valley
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Celli rises to TOPS
WILMINGTON – A few Wilmington residents head to Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday night to attend the US Youth Soccer National Workshop and Awards Gala this weekend. At that event, US Youth Soccer will announce the winner of the 2010 TOPSoccer Buddy of the Year award. The award honors a role model who creates a fun learning experience as a mentor, advocate, coach or administrator.
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Historic CIFâPlayoff game ends in tough 2-1 loss
Tom ConnollySpecial to the Sun The Kern Valley girl’s soccer team endured a four-hour bus ride Feb. 15 en route to its first ever CIF playoff game and nearly pulled off a big upset.
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Win advances Selma boys soccer to semifinals
The Selma varsity boys soccer team kept its season alive with a 5-1 home victory over McLane in the quarterfinals of the Division 4 playoffs Feb. 18. The second-seeded Bears advanced to face third-seeded Kerman at home in the semifinals Feb. 22. (Results not available at press time.) With No. 1 seed Mira Monte losing to Arvin in the quarterfinals, Selma is now the highest remaining seed and will …
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SSCB reign supreme as National Games draw to a close
Tapan MohantaRanchi, Feb 26 (PTI) A Sharath Kamal and Madhurika Patkar walked away with the last two gold medals on offer on the concluding day but the Services Sports Control Board reigned supreme with a whopping 70 golds as the much-delayed and controversy-ridden 34th National Games came to an end here.Services topped the charts in shooting, rowing, canoeing and kayaking as they rounded up …
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Julaton stakes WBO crown
MANILA, Philippines – After Nonito Donaire Jr., Fil-Am boxing champion Ana ‘The Hurricane’ Julaton takes her turn to make the country proud as she stakes her World Boxing Organization (WBO) super-bantamweight title against American Franchesca Alcanter this Friday (Saturday, Manila time).The 10-round championship bout dubbed `The Return of the Hurricane’, will be beamed live from the Craneway …
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Injury-hit Kiwis take day off from practice session
Ahmedabad, Feb 27 (PTI) Faced with injury woes and struggling to hit the right notes in the ongoing World Cup, the New Zealand cricket team today took a day off from their scheduled practice session at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, here.
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Way to go Sachin, tweets Omar
Srinagar, Feb 27 (PTI) Sachin Tendulkar”s fine century in the World Cup match against England today has left Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, an ardent fan of the champion batsman, delighted.”If there is a better sight on a cricket pitch than Tendulkar in full flow, I haven”t seen it yet,” Omar wrote on micro-blogging site Twitter soon after the batsman scored his 47th OODI …
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Tennis: Lady Knights overwhelm East Hall, 5-0
OAKWOOD — The Johnson girls tennis team blanked East Hall 5-0 on Wednesday in Oakwood. The Lady Knights won without dropping a set, as Cady Nix took a 6-0, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles. Maggie Turner also won 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 singles and Ryleigh Shannon won 6-0, 6-3 at No. 3 singles.
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National table tennis trials come to San Jose, where the game is a smash
This weekend, San Jose is the center of the table tennis world, and that’s no accident. With ping-pong palaces sprouting at a furious rate across the South Bay — Milpitas alone has five table tennis clubs within a three-mile radius — this was the logical place to hold the trials for the United States’ men’s and women’s national teams.
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Premier League soccer round-up and briefs: David Beckham, Manchester United and Arsenal
David Beckham has promised LA Galaxy fans they will see the full benefit of his recent training stint with Tottenham Hotspur. Beckham has just returned to the MLS side after six weeks training with Spurs as he recovers from a long term ankle injury.
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Cyclone Winds: QHS Soccer Star Haley Womack pledges Iowa State
Chris Duerr is KHQA’s Sports Director. This isn’t the first time a Big 12 Soccer coach has trolled the Gem City waters fishing for goal scoring talent….
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Premier League soccer round-up and briefs: David Beckham, Manchester United and Arsenal
David Beckham has promised LA Galaxy fans they will see the full benefit of his recent training stint with Tottenham Hotspur. Beckham has just returned to the MLS side after six weeks training with Spurs as he recovers from a long term ankle injury.
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Thursday’s Canada Games highlights
ALPINE SKIING Ski Wentworth The super-combined female and male events are being held at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. BADMINTON Canada Games Centre Nova Scotia faces Quebec at 9 a.m. in mixed team competition. BOXING Halifax Forum Nova Scotia could advance four athletes to the gold-medal bouts with semifinal tilts starting at 7 p.m. CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Ski Martock The 15-kilometre men’s event starts at …
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Acosta, Rios weigh in
From the Palms in Las Vegas for tomorrow night’s Top Rank card televised on Showtime: After making weight and a lengthy staredown, WBA Lightweight Champ Miguel Acosta and challenger Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios” traded theatrics before a rowdy crowd.
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Bangladesh v Ireland: Cricket World Cup 2011 match report
Ban (205) beat Ire (178) by 27 runs Hosts Bangladesh resurrect their World Cup campaign with narrow victory over Ireland in front of some 25,000 boisterous fans.
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Cricket: Strauss hopes Dutch trouble deceives India
NAGPUR (India) — England captain Andrew Strauss hopes his side’s unconvincing start to the World Cup will lull co-hosts India into a false sense of security for the blockbuster clash on Sunday.
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