Spaniard Wins World Monopoly Championship
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TOKYO - A Spanish lab technician needed only two hours to amass a small real estate fortune and drive a Norwegian mutual fund manager's railroad empire into bankruptcy to capture the World Monopoly Championship on Saturday.    Antonio Zafra Fernandez, 36, of Madrid pumped his fist in the air after he bested Norwegian Bjorn Andenaes of Oslo in the beloved board game to take home the $15,140 prize - equal to the amount of play money in a Monopoly set...
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A singles victory Sunday sent Spain into the December Davis Cup finals against the United States. Rafael Nadal beat French player Arnaud Clement 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 to clinch a berth in the finals for the Spanish team.
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Phil Taylor beats Mark Dudbridge 7-4 to win the Ladbrokes World Championship in Purfleet.
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Spain&#39;s Anabel Medina Garrigues eliminated Paola Suarez in the top-seeded Argentine&#39;s opening match at the US$225,000 (euro176,000) SEAT Open, rallying to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday and reach the quarterfinals.
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The retailer has a winning formula.
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Spain's Rafael Nadal won his first ATP singles title Sunday, beating Argentina's Jose Acasuso 6-3, 6-4 in the final at the Idea Prokom Open.
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SHANGHAI  - Argentine Guillermo Canas crushedGermany's Lars Burgsmuller 6-1 6-0 to win the Shanghai Open onSunday.
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Argentina's Guillermo Canas won his third title of the year Sunday with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Germany's Lars Burgsmuller at the Shanghai Open.
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GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L won a   partial victory on Wednesday in its bid to stop Spanish drug   wholesalers from re-exporting its medicines at high premiums.
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Paul Casey routs Shaun Micheel, 10-and-8, to win the World Match Play ChampionshipÃÂ byÃÂ the largest margin in the event's 43-year history.
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Ian Poulter of England won the Volvo Masters on Sunday, beating Sergio Garcia with a par on the first playoff hole. Garcia missed a 3-foot putt on the final hole of regulation that would have given the Spaniard the victory.
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Ireland was the proud winner on Saturday of the 2006 World Oyster Opening Championship, beating off competition from 17 other countries to open 30 oysters in the fastest time.
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Spain could have tanked its game against New Zealand, thereby eliminating European rival Serbia-Montenegro from medal contention. Instead, the Spaniards came to play Monday and won 88-84, knocking New Zealand out and keeping the defending world champions in medal contention.
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Either Sergio GarcÃ­a or Miguel Ãngel JimÃ©nez could become the first Spaniard since Seve Ballesteros to win the British Open.
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The familiar tokens from the Monopoly board game are getting a modern Â and, some might say, mercenary Â makeover.
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Argentina&#39;s Guillermo Canas won his third title of the year Sunday with a 6-1, 6-0 rout of Germany&#39;s Lars Burgsmuller at the Shanghai Open.
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Guillermo Coria displayed his growing  maturity on fast surfaces with a swift 6-2, 6-4 first-round  victory over local favorite Raemon Sluiter at the World Indoor  Tennis Tournament Monday.