Zwiesler Arrives in Time To Watch Stay Close Win
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Five-year-old gelding Stay Close holds off favorite Jungle Fighter by a nose Saturday to win the $100,000 John D. Schapiro Memorial Handicap in a photo-finish at Laurel Park.
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Last week Andre Stolz was considering coming back to Australia from the US early. He was frustrated with his progress, or rather lack of it, in 2004 and with little likelihood of a start at next week&#39;s event
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Tony Azevedo whizzed a last-second shot past Croatian goalkeeper Frano Vican to give the American water polo team a 7-6 victory in its tournament opener yesterday.
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Fuzzy Zoeller birdied the final two holes for a 7-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday with Ron Streck in the Senior Players Championship.
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With an all-out dive and a spectacular catch, Ryan Freel showed everyone that his Cincinnati Reds plan to stay close in the NL Central race.
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PIRAEUS, Greece -- It was a good two hours after FIFA president Sepp Blatter put an Olympic gold medal around the neck of US forward Abby Wambach and the significance of winning the final hadn&#39;t truly sunk in yet.
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Germany&#39;s new coach Juergen Klinsmann will seek to extend his unbeaten run to three in a friendly against Iran on Saturday but a smouldering dispute between his goalkeepers has put a damper on his spirits.
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Steve Stricker has an outside chance of making the Ryder Cup. That's OK with him, especially since he was in danger of being out of the pro ranks not long ago.
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YOKOHAMA - Germany spoiled Zico&#39;s Christmas as second-half goals from Miroslav Klose and Michael Ballack gave the 2002 World Cup finalists a comfortable 3-0 win in an international friendly at International Stadium Yokohama on Thursday.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova didn&#39;t show the form that saw her win the US Open, but she was good enough on Wednesday to win her opening round-robin match at the WTA Tour Championships against an erratic Vera Zvonareva.
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Justin Leonard knows what the previous two Bob Hope Chrysler Classic champions went on to accomplish, although he isn't phoning in his coat size to Augusta just yet.
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Andre Stolz of Australia celebrates after winning the Michelin Championship in Las Vegas. Photo: AP. Struggling Australian rookie Andre Stolz secured his future on the US PGA Tour with a surprise victory in
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The most consistent rider in cycling, Erik Zabel (Germany), once again had to settle for a second place as he was beaten by Oscar Freire in the final sprint of the Elite Men&#39;s Road Race in Verona yesterday.
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Oakland Hills' place in golf history was secure before the Ryder Cup arrived.
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The gallery's fevered anticipation was rewarded at 1:30 p.m. yesterday when Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods approached the first tee for the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship. Never mind that, at the time, neither was leading the tournament.
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BAR, waiting for a ruling on Jenson Button&#39;s future, hope to crown their most successful Formula One season with a first win on Sunday.
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Werner Eschauer of Austria and the qualifier Steve Darcis of Belgium advanced to the final of the Dutch Open yesterday in Amersfoort, Netherlands. Neither one has played for an ATP title before. Darcis, ranked 297th, upset the second-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, and Eschauer defeated Robin Haase, 6-4, 6-4, in the semifinals.At the clay-court Palermo Open in Italy, the 18-year-old Agnes Szavay reached her first career final by beating Sara Errani, 7-6 (0), 6-1, in the semifinals. Szavay, seeded eighth, will face the second-seeded Martina MÃ¼ller in the final today. MÃ¼ller defeated Karin Knapp, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.At the Western & Southern Financial Group Womenâs Open in Mason, Ohio, Akiko Morigami earned her second berth in a final in three years by outlasting the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. She will play the top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the final today. Chakvetadze advanced with a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 win over the third-seeded Sania Mirza.