Sports: Sanchez wins 400 hurdles
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ATHENS, Greece The Dominican Republic has its first Olympic gold medal. Felix Sanchez won the men&#39;s 400 meter hurdles in 47-point-63 seconds.
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Freddy Sanchez kept his hot August going with a grand slam and five RBIs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended the Cincinnati Reds' six-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory Tuesday in a doubleheader opener.
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ATHENS, Greece - Gail Devers failed once again in the Olympic 100-meter hurdles, falling to injury just steps into her first race. Devers, 37, who has three world championships in the event, pulled up short and screamed as she slid under the first hurdle Sunday...
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Fani Halkia (2nd r) celebrates as she wins the womenâs 400-meter hurdles final at the main Olympic Stadium last night. The Greek runner clocked 52.
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Greece's Fani Halkia thrills the Athens crowd with victory in the 400m hurdles.
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In just his 13th major-league start, rookie Anibal Sanchez ends the longest no-hit gap in major league history Wednesday night as Florida tops Arizona, 2-0.
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THE Americans have done it again. Just two days after making a clean medal sweep in the men&#39;s 400 metres, Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams and Justin Gatlin clinched 1-2-3 placings in the 200m.
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Great Britain's Matthew Pinsent claims his fourth Olympic gold as the men's coxless four triumph in a photo finish.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- That blur speeding through Indy was Tyson Gay. Running on a wet track, with the wind blowing in his face, Gay completed one of the most impressive sprint doubles in the sport's history yesterday.
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Freddy Sanchez had two hits while becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates' first National League batting champion in 23 years, and Xavier Nady's third hit of the game drove in the only run in a 1-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.
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As the American sliced to victory in Tuesday night&#39;s final of the women&#39;s 100-meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics, a crash early in the race had taken out two of her main rivals.
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Tony Batista homered twice to reach 30 this season, Livan Hernandez pitched another complete game and the Montreal Expos beat the New York Mets 6-1 Tuesday night before just 3,839 at Olympic Stadium.
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ATHENS In her semifinal, Fani Halkia had run the fastest women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles in Olympic history. After the final on Wednesday night she ran what might have been the slowest victory lap.
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A night after Florida's Anibal Sanchez pitched the major leagues' first no-hitter in more than two years, the Marlins couldn't stop giving up hits. Ryan Howard hit his 54th home run &#151; his 10th in 15 games &#151; and Chris Coste, Chase Utley and Jeff Conine also homered in the Philadelphia Phillies' 14-8 victory Thursday night.
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Thirteen days after undergoing knee surgery, world champion Jana Pittman made a remarkable comeback Saturday morning by winning her preliminary heat of the women&#39;s 400-meter hurdles.
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Featherweight Raynell Williams defeats Khedafi Djelkhir and middleweight Shawn Estrada defeats Artur Zlatopolski to give the United States a 4-0 record at the world championships.
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Jerome Williams pitched seven solid  innings in his first start in two months to help the San  Francisco Giants beat the Padres 4-1 in San Diego on Thursday.