Ken Marantz Daily Yomiuri Sportswriter
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With his duties for country successfully completed, new Ethiopian star Kenenisa Bekele figured it was time to run for himself. Bekele ran a blistering final lap to win the men&#39;s 10,000 meters in an Olympic
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Game-by-game report: Can Nadal stop Federer from making it five in a row? Follow the action with Mike Adamson
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Picked-up pieces while remembering that Len Bias died 21 years ago yesterday: Peter Chiarelli underwhelms us. His first coaching hire was a dud, and now he's apparently going to sell us on Claude Julien when most Bruins fans would prefer Mike Milbury. Charlie Jacobs underwhelms us, also. There appears to be a conscious effort to purge all things Harry Sinden ...
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Baseball&#39;s nondenominational scheduling has placed the Los Angeles Dodgers&#39; first baseman in a ponderous dilemma. If he is to honor the holiest of Jewish holidays - Yom Kippur â-e could miss two games
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From the book, &quot;The Rivals&quot; by the baseball writers of the Boston Globe and New York Times, published by St. Martin's Press.
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The strange, mystical adventures of Daisuke Matsuzaka continue. Japan's megastar, who was anointed as a favorite son in this foreign town because of his array of mesmerizing pitches, his tantalizing potential, and his role as one of the X factors in negating the surging New York Yankees, remains impossible to predict.
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Today, I&#39;m just going to list off some things that I&#39;m thankful for in the world of sports ... First off, I am thankful for the fact that every sports writer gets to write a &quot;things I&#39;m thankful for in the world of sports&quot; piece on Thanksgiving.
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A selection of the best sports photography from the past week
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Newsday is reporting that the New York Yankees have reached an agreement to acquire Randy Johnson. We have a correspondent working the story and will have a full report in the near future.
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Denver Post sports writer Adam Thompson posts his Nuggets Mailbag every other Wednesday for the duration of the NBA season on DenverPost.
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By ARIZONA DAILY STAR  Match-play event puts marana in bright spotlight  Work crews began cleaning up the Tangerine Road underpass at Interstate 10 last week as part of preparations for next month's Accenture World Match Play Championship in Marana.
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In most sports, there are athletes built for the long haul, and those who dazzle in quick, mercurial bursts. Track and field has distance specialists and sprinters. Baseball has starting pitchers, setup men, and closers. Based on anecdotal evidence collected from 40-odd years immersed in sports literature, I suspect sportswriters fall into roughly the same categories. Like the starting pitcher who is awkwardly relegated to the bullpen, some writers aren't a great fit for every project. Lars Anderson, author of "Carlisle vs. Army," is a case in point.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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ANAHEIM, California (Ticker) - Kendry Morales&#39; dream of playing in the major leagues is almost a reality. The 21-year-old Cuban defector signed a six-year contract on Wednesday with the Anaheim Angels, general manager Bill Stoneman announced.
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What you saw last night were coming attractions. Pitching coach John Farrell offered a primer on Daisuke Matsuzaka's repertoire, one that only was given partial exposure in his two-inning, 25-pitch performance at City of Palms Park.
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The sports world is giving New Yorkers more than their usual quotient of agita recently.
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OTSU (Japan): World number-one Annika Sorenstam shot into the history books with a solid nine-stroke victory in the Mizuno Classic yesterday, becoming only the second player to win an LPGA event four years in a row.