Russell Advances to Final Despite a Lackluster Effort
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HOUSTON, Aug. 24 -- The announcer was calling Gary Russell Jr.'s name, saying he was going to the championship round of the Olympic trials, but the fighter did not wear a smile. Nobody smiled. Among the USA Boxing people who held him as one of their best hopes for the Beijing Olympics, everyone did...
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WEST Indies may just have what it takes to make it to the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. Going into the second semi-final of the Championship, the West Indies have played with a quiet assurance which has been lacking for a long time.
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Though both the red and blue groups at the ATP Masters Cup this week have the best players in the world, there is no question that the blue group is the weaker of the two -- if there is such a thing.
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âSugarâ Shane Mosley made all of the necessary adjustments from the first fight, but still managed to come up short as consensus junior middleweight champion Ronald âWinkyâ Wright earned
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PARIS -- Roger Federer will face American Michael Russell in the first round of the French Open, the only Grand Slam tournament he hasn't won.
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This was the event Michael Phelps didn't really need to compete in if his goal was to win eight golds. He probably would have had a better chance somewhere else.
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Gary Russell Jr. avenges his earlier loss to Roberto Marroquin, setting up another bout between the two on Sunday for a berth in the Beijing Olympics.
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Ron Siler had just taken a beating, and now it seemed like the whole US boxing team was down for the count. Fighters weren&#39;t following directions, medal hopes were slipping
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ATHENS -- With Mardy Fish leading two sets to one against an opponent who seemed to be weakening and perhaps coming up lame, the gold medal match was his to lose yesterday.
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Jenson Button set himself a target of winning the final race of the season after again falling just short in yesterday&#39;s Japanese Grand Prix.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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World number one Roger Federer wasted no time in completing a 6-4 6-2 6-4 win over American Michael Russell in his opening French Open match on Tuesday.
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11.15.04 - By JB Reather â-reather@Battle for Supremacy? Battle for Mediocrity was more like it. With four heavyweight bouts on the card, I naively expected to see at least one exciting fight in this heavyweight smorgasbord.
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The Americans could have used him on Sunday when Spain won the best-of-five final 3-2. It was Spain&#39;s second title, which kept the United States from adding to its record total of 31.
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ATHENS -- I saw a game that featured, with only the slightest expansion of our basic concepts, fast breaks, fouled in the act of shooting, sneakaways, pivotmen, turnovers, weaves, give-and-gos, lookaway passes, backward bounce passes, skip passes, a penalty shot, a backdoor play, and great shot blocking worthy of a Russell or a Roy.
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Vitali Klitschko proved too strong for Danny Williams as he retained his world championship crown in Las Vegas last night. Williams vowed to continue boxing despite being outclassed by Klitschko.
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Much has been made of the extent to which domestic matches such as this one prepare Celtic for the rigours of the Champions League, with the verdict rarely particularly flattering to Scotlandâs less glamorous clubs.